Nutrition Society Blogs

This month's Paper of the Month is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled ‘Evaluating the healthiness of chain-restaurant menu items using crowdsourcing: a new method'.

This month's Paper of the Month is from British Journal of Nutrition and is entitled ‘Predicted

This month's Paper of the Month is from Nutrition Research Reviews and is entitled ‘The role of emotion regulation in childhood obesity: implications for preve

Technological advances bring new opportunities for scientific research to aid our understanding of human mechanisms.  This enables researchers and practitioners to build on traditional methods using different assessment tools to advance research and give the most appropriate advice to patients. 

The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for March is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled: ‘Local spatial

The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for February is from Proceedings of the Nutrition Society and is entitled

Each year at the Summer Conference, we invite PhD students to submit an abstract for the Postgraduate Competition.  Winners are invited to present their research to the audience in the main lecture theatre as well as having their work published in Proceedings of the Nutrition Society (PNS) journal.

Introduction 

During 2016 you will see changes and improvements to our website. Within this blog post I will provide an overview of the project and how it will improve the way the Society is able to communicate to members and how members and the public can communicate with, and access information, from the Society.

This month’s featured paper is from the Nutrition Research Reviews and is entitled ‘Energy restriction and potential energy restriction mimetics’.  The authors discuss the effects of energy restriction and how it may influence the processes of aging.

This month’s featured paper is from the Journal of Nutritional Science and is entitled ‘Television viewing and food intake during television viewing in normal-weight, overweight and obese 9- to 11-year-old Canadian children: a cross-sectional analysis’.  The authors consider the impact that watching television can have on childhood obesity.

Background

To understand dietary patterns, the quality of data collected is vitally important.  Sometimes that biscuit in a meeting or square of chocolate in front of the TV is eaten unconsciously therefore wouldn’t be recorded using traditional dietary data collection methods.  This unconscious eating is a relatively new phenomena thought to be created by the food environment and has become known as ‘