Photo-Oxidative Stability of Aqueous Model Systems Enriched with Omega-3 Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid-Rich Microalgae as Compared to Autoxidative Stability.

Several species of microalgae are promising as an alternative source of omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 LC-PUFA). Photoautotrophic species show the greatest potential, since incorporating them into food products leads to oxidatively stable products; however, the presence of photosensitizers could reduce the shelf-life due to the appearance of photo-oxidation on exposure to light. This study investigated the oxidative impact of illumination for aqueous model suspensions enriched with (phototrophic microalgae─containing potential photosensitizers) and (heterotrophic microalgae─lacking photosensitizers) during storage for 28 days at 37 °C.

[The time of our lives].

Prior to the industrial revolution in the mid-1800 s, the modal lifespan for humans was somewhat less than 75 years. Natural life expectancy was approximately 35 years, with a high child mortality rate strongly contributing to this low figure. At that time, natural life expectancy of someone aged 75 was 6 years, whereas the current life expectancy of, for example, a 75-year-old French woman is 14.

The future of smoking-attributable mortality: the case of England & Wales, Denmark and the Netherlands.

Aims: We formally estimate future smoking-attributable mortality up to 2050 for the total national populations of England & Wales, Denmark and the Netherlands, providing an update and extension of the descriptive smoking-epidemic model.

Methods: We used smoking prevalence and population-level lung cancer mortality data for England & Wales, Denmark and the Netherlands, covering the period 1950-2009. To estimate the future smoking-attributable mortality fraction (SAF) we: (i) project lung cancer mortality by extrapolating age-period-cohort trends, using the observed convergence of smoking prevalence and similarities in past lung cancer mortality between men and women as input; and (ii) add other causes of death attributable to smoking by applying a simplified version of the indirect Peto-Lopez method to the projected lung cancer mortality.

Success has many fathers, failure remains an orphan.

Was the sharp upturn of life expectancy in the Netherlands partly due to increased health care funding for the elderly? I argue that there is nothing unusual to the increasing life expectancy since the beginning of the twenty-first century, and that there is no observable relationship with changed health care funding whatsoever. What was highly unusual was the rather dramatic lagging of Dutch life expectancy between 1980 and 2000. The reasons of this failure remain clouded in mystery.