Browsing Waterloo Research by Subject "Diet"

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Correlates of whole-blood polyunsaturated fatty acids among young children with moderate acute malnutrition

Yameogo, Charles W.; Cichon, Bernardette; Fabiansen, Christian; Rytter, Maren Johanne Heilskov; Faurholt-Jepsen, Daniel; Stark, Ken; Briend, André; Shepherd, Susan; Traore, Alfred S.; Christensen, Vibeke Brix; Michaelsen, Kim F.; Friis, Henrik; Lauritzen, Lotte (BioMed Central, 2017-07-13)

Background: Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) has been associated with low polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) status. However, investigations regarding PUFA status and correlates in children with moderate acute malnutrition ...
Global land use implications of dietary trends

Rizvi, Sarah; Pagnutti, Chris; Fraser, Evan; Bauch, Chris T.; Anand, Madhur (PLOS One, 2018-08-08)

Global food security and agricultural land management represent two urgent and intimately related challenges that humans must face. We quantify the changes in the global agricultural land footprint if the world were to ...
Phosphate toxicity and tumorigenesis

Brown, Ronald B.; Razzaque, Mohammed S. (Elsevier, 2018-04-01)

In this article, we briefly summarized evidence that cellular phosphate burden from phosphate toxicity is a pathophysiological determinant of cancer cell growth. Tumor cells express more phosphate cotransporters and store ...