{"id":10168,"date":"2019-04-15T14:13:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T13:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bantuat.org\/?p=10168"},"modified":"2020-10-22T16:07:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T15:07:50","slug":"nutrition-evidence-database-alert-dietary-diversity-and-health-outcomes-in-collaboration-with-the-journal-nutrients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/nutrition-evidence-database-alert-dietary-diversity-and-health-outcomes-in-collaboration-with-the-journal-nutrients\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutrition Evidence Database Alert – Dietary Diversity and Health Outcomes in Collaboration with the Journal ‘Nutrients’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NUTRITION EVIDENCE ALERT<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

SENT IN COLLABORATION WITH\u00a0NUTRIENTS\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\"Nutrients<\/a><\/div>\n

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\u201cVariety’s the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour\u201d said English poet William Cowper in\u00a01785.\u00a0Fast-forward 234 years and, although in a\u00a0different\u00a0context, that quote is still as current as is relevant.<\/p>\n

For this edition of the Nutrition Evidence Alert,\u00a0we have focused on the benefits of dietary diversity, highlighting\u00a053\u00a0randomised controlled trials<\/a>\u00a0that illustrate how the popular concept of “eating the rainbow” has positive ramifications on human health.\u00a0Our indexing team has also worked hard on\u00a036\u00a0plain language summaries on this very subject<\/a>\u00a0which we hope you will find useful.<\/p>\n

In addition to sharing our work on this\u00a0exciting subject,\u00a0\u00a0this month I am delighted to announce that we have partnered with the prestigious\u00a0journal\u00a0Nutrients<\/a>\u00a0for this alert. My thanks to Nutrients’ Managing Editor Leo Jiang at\u00a0MDPI\u00a0<\/strong>for\u00a0facilitating this\u00a0collaboration, which we are celebrating with specially curated\u00a0editorial picks by\u00a0acclaimed scientist and author Dr Deanna Minich on her favourite subject:\u00a0dietary diversity and health outcomes<\/strong>.\u00a0Deanna has just become an\u00a0Editorial Board<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0member at\u00a0Nutrition Evidence,\u00a0so I would like you to join me in welcoming her to the team.<\/p>\n

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Meet The\u00a0Editor: Dr Deanna Minich\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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“Hello! I\u2019m Deanna. I’m a researcher \/\u00a0clinician and educator\u00a0in nutrition and lifestyle medicine. I have published\u00a0several books \u00a0where I’ve focused on\u00a0translating\u00a0complex science about health properties of colours in\u00a0foods into plain English so that everyone can benefit from “full spectrum health.”\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Deanna Minich is a clinician \/ researcher with a unique approach to healthcare that pays as much attention to the person’s emotional state as it does to physiological changes. She has an academic background in nutritional science, including a Master\u2019s Degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Illinois at Chicago (1995), and a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences (Dissertation: Essential Fatty Acid Absorption and Metabolism) from the University of Groningen in The Netherlands (1999).<\/p>\n

In conjunction with her academic degrees and extensive teaching experience at university level, Dr Minich has served on the Institute of Functional Medicine\u2019s Nutrition Advisory Board and curriculum committee, and has worked along Dr Jeffrey Bland at the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute. She is both a Fellow (F.A.C.N.), a Certified Nutrition Specialist (C.N.S.) through the American College of Nutrition and has over fifteen years of experience working in the food and dietary supplement industries. In addition, Deanna spends her time as a Board member for the American College of Nutrition and as adjunct faculty at the University of Western States. She is the author of six books on nutrition, wellness, and psychology, and is passionate in helping others to live well using therapeutic lifestyle changes.<\/p>\n

These are Dr Minich’s editorial picks on dietary diversity and health:<\/strong><\/p>\n