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Policy Progress in Using Economic Policy Instruments to Improve Nutrition: Challenges and Opportunities

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Economic policy can be a powerful instrument to influence food environments and support improved diets and health. Over the past 20 years, the use of fiscal policy to improve diets has increased dramatically. This paper reviews the trajectory of policy change, and explores the ways in which research has informed three different dimensions of ...
Anne Marie Thow
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The Relationship Between Sweeteners and Metabolic Diseases

Turkish Journal of Agriculture: Food Science and Technology, 2017
Sweeteners that sugar substitute is a food additive that provides a sweet taste like that of sugar while containing significantly less food energy. Some sugar substitutes are produced by nature, and others produced synthetically.
Nildem Kızılaslan
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Artificial sweeteners in a large Canadian river reflect human consumption in the watershed. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Artificial sweeteners have been widely incorporated in human food products for aid in weight loss regimes, dental health protection and dietary control of diabetes.
John Spoelstra, Sherry L Schiff, Susan J Brown   +2 more
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A 2 year retrospective study of vegan patients and their pregnancy outcomes in a tertiary level Irish hospital

International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Recent previous studies have revealed outcomes of higher risk of low birth weight, small for gestational age, and pre‐eclampsia for vegan pregnant women compared to other diets. This review examined if patients with vegan diet in our tertiary hospital had similar outcomes.
Mona Abdelrahman, Siofra Maher, Stephen W. Lindow, Michael P. O'Connell   +3 more
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Symbiotic Germination Technique of an Endangered Epiphytic Orchid Dendrobium sinominutiflorum: A Promising Conservation Application 濒危附生兰科植物勐海石斛 (Dendrobium sinominutiflorum) 的共生萌发技术:一种具有应用前景的保护策略

Integrative Conservation, EarlyView.
We developed an effective ex‐situ conservation approach for an endangered orchid species, Dendrobium sinominutiflorum. A compatible fungal strain Tulasnella sp. was obtained by using in‐situ seed baiting technique. The Symbiotic germination with Tulasnella sp. significantly promotes seed germination and seedling growth.
Han‐Xiao Huang, Lu Tang, Xiang‐Wan Yu, Yin‐Ling Luo, Peng Chen, Yun‐Hong Tan, Yan Luo   +6 more
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The impact of artificial sweeteners on the metabolic syndrome

Journal of Education, Health and Sport
Introduction: Metabolic syndrome is a wide-spread disease that affects even 30% of Polish population. The mentioned syndrome consists of: glucose intolerance, obesity, dyslipidaemia and high blood pressure.
Filip Czyżewski, Alicja Baranowska, Katarzyna Baranowska, Kinga Filipek, Jakub Kawka, Michał Muciek, Sebastian Mrugała, Waldemar Mrugała, Bartosz Skierkowski, Natalia Zalewska   +9 more
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Artificial sweeteners

Nutrafoods, 2012
Low-calorie sweeteners are authorised food additives in the European Union (EU). The safety of these sweeteners has been evaluated in accordance with internationally agreed principles for the safety evaluation of food additives. In the EU, the European Commission’s Scientific Committee for Food (SCF) was the scientific guarantor for the safety of food ...
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Determination of Cyclohexylamine in Various Artificially Sweetened Foods and Artificial Sweeten

Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL, 1969
Abstract Procedures for the determination of cyclohexylamine in various dietetic products (carbonated beverages, dry beverage bases, canned fruits, fruit juice drinks, liquid and dry weight control formulations, and food sweetener preparations) and in sodium and calcium cyclamates have been developed. Recoveries were as follows: dietetic
Richard H White, Barbara A Klimeck, Thomas Fazio, John W Howard   +3 more
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Non‐Nutritive Artificial Sweeteners Aspartame and Acesulfame‐K Ameliorate Metabolic Dysfunction‐Associated Steatotic Liver Disease in Male Ldlr−/− Mice

iNew Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aspartame and acesulfame‐K are commonly used non‐nutritive artificial sweeteners, but their impacts on cardiovascular disease and metabolic dysfunction‐associated fatty liver disease (MASLD) are unclear. In this study, we evaluated the impacts of aspartame and acesulfame‐K on MASLD and atherosclerosis in male Ldlr−/− mice fed an AMLN diet ...
Jingjing Xu, Xiaohua Jiang, Jianping Weng, Suowen Xu   +3 more
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The Impact of Genetic Polymorphisms on Genotoxicity (DNA Damage) Among Children Exposed to Environmental Mutagens: A Systematic Review

Journal of Applied Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children, as a particularly vulnerable group, are more susceptible to these mutagens due to their developing immune systems, higher physiological vulnerability, and increased exposure through behaviors like outdoor play and hand‐to‐mouth activities. This review aims to investigate the relationship between these environmental exposures, genetic
Thiago Guedes Pinto, Daniel Vitor de Souza, Gabriel Carvalhal de Aguiar, Ana Claudia Muniz Renno, Patricia Ramos Cury, Jean Nunes dos Santos, Rogerio Aparecido Dedivitis, Daniel Araki Ribeiro   +7 more
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