NEWS
Veganuary
https://veganuary.com/veganuary-2021-hits-record-breaking-sign-ups/
Eating disorders
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50969174
https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/news-events/news/paediatricians-warn-parents-be-alert-signs-eating-disorders-over-holidays
Microbiome
https://joinzoe.com/post/nature-microbiome-discoveries
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-01183-8
Diets changing over time
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/ndns-results-from-years-9-to-11-2016-to-2017-and-2018-to-2019
OBESITY: THE IMPACT OF COVID-19
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- Robinson E, Boyland E, Chisholm A et al (2020). Obesity, eating behavior and physical activity during COVID-19 lockdown: A study of UK adults. Appetite. doi:10.1016/j.appet
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- BBC (2020). COVID: How Marcus Rashford’s campaign changed free school meals. (Online). Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-53053337. Accessed 2nd December 2020
- Rundle AG, Park Y, Herbstman JB et al (2020). COVID‐19-related School Closings and Risk of Weight Gain Among Children. Obesity, 28: 1008-1009. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.22813
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THE IMMUNE SYSTEM AND NUTRITION
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- Kuroda K, Okumura K, Isogai H and Isogai E (2015). The human cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide LL-37 and mimics are potential anticancer drugs. Frontiers in oncology, 5, p144
- Berry DJ, Hesketh K, Power C and Hyppönen E (2011). Vitamin D status has a linear association with seasonal infections and lung function in British adults. British Journal of Nutrition, 106(9), p 1433-1440
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- Merzon E, Tworowski D, Gorobovski A, Vinker S, Cohen AG, Green I and Finkel-Morgenstern M (2020). Low Plasma 25(OH) vitamin D level is associated with increased risk of COVID-19 infection: an Israeli population-based study. The FEBS Journal 287 p 3693-3702
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- Wang L and Song Y (2018). Efficacy of zinc given as an adjunct to the treatment of severe pneumonia: A meta‐analysis of randomised, double blind and placebo‐controlled trials. The Clinical Respiratory Journal, 12(3), p 857-864
- Read SA, Obeid S, Ahlenstiel C and Ahlenstiel G (2019). The Role of Zinc in Antiviral Immunity. Adv Nutr 10: 696-710
- Broome CS, McArdle F, Kyle JA, Andrews F, Lowe NM, Hart CA, Arthur JR and Jackson MJ (2004). An increase in selenium intake improves immune function and poliovirus handling in adults with marginal selenium status. The American journal of clinical nutrition, 80(1), p 154-162
- Zhang J, Taylor EW, Bennett K, Saad R and Rayman MP (2020). Association between regional selenium status and reported outcome of COVID-19 cases in China. Am J Clin Nutr 111, p 1297-1299
- Moghaddam A, Heller RA, Sun Q, Seelig J, Cherkezov A, Seibert L, Hackler J, Seemann P, Diegmann J, Pilz M and Bachmann M (2020). Selenium deficiency is associated with mortality risk from COVID-19. Nutrients, 12(7), p 2098
- Laursen RP, Hojsak I (2018). Probiotics for respiratory tract infections in children attending day care centers: a systematic review. Eur J Pediatr 177: 979-94
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- McDonald D, Hyde E, Debelius JW, Morton JT, Gonzalez A, Ackermann G, Aksenov AA et al. The American Gut Consortium, Knight R (2018). American Gut: an open platform for citizen science microbiome research. mSystems 3: e00031-18. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems .00031-18
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TIREDNESS AND FATIGUE: CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED WITH COVID-19
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- Early Symptoms of COVID-19. Accessed December 09 2020. https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/early-covid-signs
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- WHO-China Joint Mission. Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). 2020. https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-china-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf
- Van der Linden D. National Guidance During Recovery from COVID-19. Accessed December 09, 2020. https://european-nutrition.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Nutritional-guidance-during-recovery-from-COVID-19.pdf
- van’t Leven M, Zielhuis GA, van der Meer JW, Verbeek AL, Bleijenberg G. European Journal of Public Health. Fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome-like complaints in the general population, 2010:20:251–257. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckp113
- Zabetakis I, Lordan R, Norton C, Tsoupras A. Nutrients. COVID-19: The Inflammation Link and the Role of Nutrition in Potential Mitigation. 2020:12:1466. doi:10.3390/nu12051466
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- Shintaro Hojyo, Mona Uchida, Kumiko Tanaka, Rie Hasebe, Yuki Tanaka, Masaaki Murakami, and Toshio Hirano (2020). How COVID-19 induces cytokine storm with high mortality. Published online 2020 Oct 1. doi:1186/s41232-020-00146-3
ACUTE EATING DISORDERS
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- Robinson P and Jones WR (2018). MARSIPAN: management of really sick patients with anorexia nervosa. BJ Psych Advances, 24(1), 20-32
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LOW-CARB AND CALORIE DIETS AND THEIR ROLE IN TYPE 2 DIABETES
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- NHS (n.d.). Low calorie diets to treat obesity and Type 2 diabetes. [online] available from https://www.england.nhs.uk/diabetes/treatment-care/low-calorie-diets/ [18/11/2020]
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- Diabetes UK (2020) Eating Disorders and Diabetes [online] <https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/emotions/eating-disorders> [16/10/2020]
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FEEDING THE SPECIAL NEEEDS INFANT
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