17 Dec 2021 Nutrition Evidence Alert – December 2021 – Top Picks of this year’s research
Welcome to the December edition of the Nutrition Evidence Alert.
Well, what a year it has been. Following in the ‘footsteps of giants’ such as Miguel Toribio-Mateas was always going to be challenging! Despite what we have faced this year with COVID-19, NED has come on leaps and bounds. A new Editorial Board was formed, to continue the development of NED as the UK’s first scientific database of nutrition and lifestyle medicine research (see https://www.nutrition-evidence.com/editorial-board ). Our focus has been on delivering a nutrition-specific resource to inform nutrition and other healthcare practitioners, academic researchers, policy-makers and students through access to high-quality, evidence-based research to support clinical decision-making. As part of this our Editorial Board has been shaping a specialised algorithm to improve database search returns. A central focus for this year was to increase our team of NED reviewers, to provide on-going expert considerations to specific research papers and areas of current interest to inform both the public and practitioners alike. With this in mind, I am very much looking forward to the collection of expert reviews, expert opinion pieces and (new for 2022) NED ‘Talks’ to help bring to life an evidence-based approach to nutrition for everyone to benefit from.
Thank you to the wonderful NED team for your hard work and on-going contributions this year. Happy Xmas and here’s to 2022.
Justin Roberts, Editor-in-Chief
These are our top picks of research from 2021 alerts:
How and why weight stigma drives the obesity ‘epidemic’ and harms health. in BMC medicine, 2018
A Scientific Perspective of Personalised Gene-Based Dietary Recommendations for Weight Management in Nutrients. 2019
What is the best diet for cardiovascular wellness? A comparison of different nutritional models. in International journal of obesity supplements, 2020
COVID-19: Unique public health issues facing Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. Current problems in cardiology. 2020
Intellectual disability and nutrition-related health in EMBO molecular medicine. 2020
The Impact of COVID-19 Stay-At-Home Orders on Health Behaviors in Adults. in Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.). 2021
Long COVID: An overview in Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome. 2021
Breakfast Skipping, Body Composition, and Cardiometabolic Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials. in Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), 2020
Intake and adequacy of the vegan diet. A systematic review of the evidence in Clinical Nutrition. 2021
Nutrition in Menopausal Women: A Narrative Review. in Nutrients. 2021
Probiotic supplements and bone health in postmenopausal women: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. in BMJ Open. 2021
Gut Microbiome and depression: how microbes affect the way we think. Cureus. 2020
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