Publications by authors named "D Raubenheimer"
Early childhood is a key opportunity to establish healthy eating behaviors and prevent future non-communicable diseases associated with poor diets. How to effectively intervene in the system of the many determinants influencing children's dietary intake remains unclear. This scoping review aimed to map the determinants of nutrition and eating that have been addressed in early childhood nutrition interventions and identify which of these improve dietary intake.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Dietary macronutrients significantly impact cardiometabolic health, yet research often focuses on individual macronutrient relationships. This study aimed to explore the associations between dietary macronutrient composition and cardiometabolic health.
Methods: This study included 33,681 US adults (49.
Nutrition is a complex and contested area in biomedicine, which requires diverse evidence sources. Nonhuman primate models are considered an important biomedical research tool because of their biological similarities to humans, but they are typically used with little explicit consideration of their ecology and evolution. Using the rhesus macaque (RM), we consider the potential of nutritional ecology for enriching the use of primates as models for human nutrition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Geometric Framework for Nutrition and Its Application to Rodent Models.
Annu Rev Anim Biosci
November 2024
Rodents have been the primary model for mammalian nutritional physiology for decades. Despite an extensive body of literature, controversies remain around the effects of specific nutrients and total energy intake on several aspects of nutritional biology, even in this well-studied model. One approach that is helping to bring clarity to the field is the geometric framework for nutrition (GFN).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArticle Synopsis
- The global obesity epidemic is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors, with diet playing a key role in weight gain.
- Ongoing debates focus on whether sugar, fat, or both contribute significantly to rising obesity rates, leading to different theories like the "Carbohydrate Insulin Model" and "Energy Balance Model."
- Recent research highlights the importance of understanding how dietary components interact, suggesting that factors like protein can affect calorie intake and metabolism, which may help resolve conflicting views on obesity and inform new interventions.