Controversies Surrounding High-Protein Diet Intake: Satiating Effect and Kidney and Bone Health

Human safety controversies surrounding nitrate and nitrite in the diet.

Nitrate and nitrite are part of the human diet as nutrients in many vegetables and part of food preservation systems. In the 1950s and 1960s the potential for formation of nitrosamines in food was discovered and it ignited a debate about the safety of ingested nitrite which ultimately focused on cured meats. Nitrate impurities in salt used in the drying of meat in ancient times resulted in impr...

Effect of high-fat diet, surrounding temperature, and enterostatin on uncoupling protein gene expression.

Nonshivering thermogenesis induced in brown adipose tissue (BAT) during high-fat feeding is mediated through uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1). UCP2 is a recently identified homologue found in many tissues. To determine the role of UCP1 and UCP2 in thermoregulation and energy balance, we investigated the long-term effect of high-fat feeding on mRNA levels in mice at two different ambient temperatures...

The Satiating Effect of NUTRALYS® Pea Protein Leads to Reduced Energy intake in Healthy Humans

As the global obesity epidemic and its related noncommunicable diseases, continue to be a major public health issue [1], the food industry is increasingly being encouraged to contribute to the alleviation of the obesity burden through product reformulation and the development of the next generation of foods [2]. One strategy involves increasing the satiating power of foods and beverages, reduci...

Controversies surrounding evolutionary psychology

Diet, nutrition, and bone health.

Osteoporosis is a debilitating disease that affects many older people. Fragility fractures are the hallmark of osteoporosis. Although nutrition is only 1 of many factors that influence bone mass and fragility fractures, there is an urgent need to develop and implement nutritional approaches and policies for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis that could, with time, offer a foundation f...