This is an email I received from a reader, Tom Petrie, that I think is worth sharing. I have not had time to research it myself, but if I had or was at risk for type I diabetes, I would check it out and share it with my physician:
AJCN Jan, 2012 featuring your skeleton
MondayJan 2,2012
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American Jrnl of Clinical Nutrition JAN, 2012-Nutrition treats for a fabulous 2012
FIRST SNACK: 1. Thanks to Bruce Ames for folate increase – Folate fortification reduces neural tube defects 20-80%
J Nutr, Jan 2012
SundayJan 1,2012
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-Read the summaries with links below. Here’s the headlines-very brief for holiday time:
Ideas for New Year’s Resolutions from Nutrition Investigator
FridayDec 30,2011
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Based on reading the Fall/Winter Linus Pauling Institute Newsletter, here’s a few validated nutritional resolutions for the New Year.
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Save and share for every pregnancy
MondayDec 12,2011
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Nutrition Investigator recommends you print and save this to share with anyone you ever know who plans to get pregnant. – website with links at
American Jrnl of Clinical Nutrition Dec, 2011
SaturdayDec 10,2011
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Read the summaries after the headlines.
HOLIDAY FEASTING 1. A kind alum shares: Harvard University writes: Pay attention to the protein package. Fish, poultry, and beans are your best bets. 2. Drinking soda causes heart disease.
SO MUCH FOR IN UTERO AND NEONATES and kids: Stay tuned for The Power of Programming: how in utero and neonate nutrition controls most health and disease throughout your life – being sent within a few days – This is astonishing stuff that ought to be required reading before pregnancy. 3. Nutrient requirements to optimize neonatal growth. Any failure to ensure the provision of a mix of nutrients appropriate for the needs at that particular time risks constraining one or another aspect of this complex process. 4. Folic acid/multivitamin reduces pre-term birth and 75g birth weight gain in Hungary.5. Entire life of health depends on first month of post-natal growth, after that it is mostly genetics. 6. Higher choline intake builds better brains. There’s plenty of choline in eggs that goes to mother’s milk. 7. Kid’s behavioral troubles at age 10 are associated with lack of fish oil in utero and as neonates. 8. During childhood and mid-life, eating more vitamin A and milk, and less red and processed meats, reduce your colorectal cancer risk. 9. USDA Protein requirement for children should be much higher.
J Nutr, Dec 2011
ThursdayDec 1,2011
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Read my summaries below these headlines. Links go to published journal abstracts.
Nutrition Investigator offers thanks
TuesdayNov 22,2011
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I am thankful you are being conscious of what you put in your body in the coming year. Here’s some morsels to savour in anticipation of Thanksgiving in the States:
How much protein can you safely eat for your diet?
TuesdayNov 15,2011
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We are fortunate to have many distinguished nutrition researchers who read what I announce at Nutrition Investigator. Despite good intention and research, I make mistakes, and am deeply grateful for corrections, in this case from Australia. I had been asked how much protein was safe in a high protein diet, and gave the answer found at a US government website. Our reader sent one that appears much better and more thoroughly documented. He wrote:
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Response to reader questions – calcium and protein
FridayNov 11,2011
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Respond to nut reader question about J Nutrition Nov 2011:
Dear Roc, Besides weight loss, garlic has the added advantage of keeping vampires at bay. Please tell me, is there such thing as too much protein? And where do we get calcium if not in milk?
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