Reducing animal-based food production and consumption due to environmental issues and undergoing upcoming changes in food dietary patterns is pushing European society to search for new protein sources. Consuming macroalgae (seaweed) is one of the possible solutions, and it is an exciting alternative for both sustainability and consumers' health. The aim of this work, implemented under the EU-FORA fellowship programme, was to evaluate the current and projected consumption of macroalgae in terms of possible beneficial and detrimental effects on consumers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: COVID-19 profoundly impacted First Nation peoples. Historically, records of on- and off-reserve vaccine delivery have been fragmented. For the first time in Canada, we aimed to describe complete immunization rates, on- and off-reserve vaccine delivery, for COVID-19 in Alberta, Canada among First Nations on-reserve.
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December 2024
Not much is currently known about disturbances in insulin signaling and glucose transport in leukocytes of women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) during and after pregnancy. In this study, the expression of insulin signaling (, , and and glucose transporter (, and )-related genes in the leukocytes of 92 pregnant women was assayed using quantitative RT-PCR. The cohort consisted of 44 women without GDM (NGT group) and 48 with GDM (GDM group) at 24-28 weeks of gestation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study analyzed the effects of thermal pre-treatments such as convective drying (P-CD), water (BL_W), and microwave blanching (M_BL) and osmotic enrichment pre-treatments with juices from pomegranate (PG), chokeberry (CH), and sea buckthorn (SB) on microwave-vacuum-dried (MVD) carrot properties. Convective drying (CD) and freeze-drying (FD) were used as a comparative method. The dry matter content and water activity of MVD carrots were varied, but in many cases, the values were comparable to those of FD-dried carrots.
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