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Two Reasons Why Babies Develop Food Allergies by Hannah Joy on  April 21, 2021 at 5:14 PM Babies born by a C-section to mothers of Asian descent are eight times more likely to develop peanut allergy by age three, reveals a new study. Researchers have found a causal link between caesarean section birth, low intestinal microbiota and peanut sensitivity in infants, and they report the effect is more pronounced in children of Asian descent than others, in a recently published pap...

Ways to Reduce Food Waste and Promote Healthy Eating by Hannah Joy on  April 15, 2021 at 5:06 PM Food waste has drastically increased in the last few years. Therefore, its necessary to follow few strategies to reduce food waste, reveals a new study. Food waste and obesity are major problems in developed countries. They are both caused by an overabundance of food, but strategies to reduce one can inadvertently increase the other. A broader perspective can help identify ways to...

The Neurology Behind Bad Food Experiences by Anjanee Sharma on  February 14, 2021 at 4:25 PM Researchers from Sussex, UK, believe that bad food experiences might be leading to a switch in our brain, thereby impacting our future eating habits. Using sugar-loving snails as models, They found this by using snails that love sugar as their models. It is widely common that a negative experience with food usually leads to reluctance in eating that particular food again. Snails like...

Food Labels on Infant and Toddler Products can be Hard to Navigate by Hannah Joy on  February 8, 2021 at 2:37 PM Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, published by Elsevier. Researchers compared products for infants and toddlers, examining aspects of vegetable and fruits contributing to the ingredient lists. They reviewed, for example, whether the vegetable or the fruit in the product was a puree or a powder, and where it was listed among the ingredients and product na...

Overactive Food Quality Control System Triggers Food Allergies by Colleen Fleiss on  January 14, 2021 at 11:03 PM An expanded explanation for the rise of food allergies -- the exaggerated activation of our food quality control system, a complex and highly evolved program designed to protect us against eating harmful foods has been proposed by four Yale immunobiologists. The presence of unnatural substances, including processed food, or environmental chemicals, such as dishw...