Early adolescent food routines: A photo-elicitation study.

Early adolescence (ages 10-14) encompasses a critical transition period in which food and nutrition decisions are shifting in important ways. Food routines are food-based activities that repeat across days, weeks, seasons, or lives. Examining routines can provide insight into how individuals are influenced in food choices.

Choline: The Underconsumed and Underappreciated Essential Nutrient.

Choline has been recognized as an essential nutrient by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academies of Medicine since 1998. Its metabolites have structural, metabolic, and regulatory roles within the body. Humans can endogenously produce small amounts of choline via the hepatic phosphatidylethanolamine -methyltransferase pathway.

A combined gene expression and functional study reveals the crosstalk between N-Myc and differentiation-inducing microRNAs in neuroblastoma cells.

MYCN amplification is the most common genetic alteration in neuroblastoma and plays a critical role in neuroblastoma tumorigenesis. MYCN regulates neuroblastoma cell differentiation, which is one of the mechanisms underlying its oncogenic function. We recently identified a group of differentiation-inducing microRNAs.

Relationship of social roles and nutrition beliefs to fat avoidance practices: investigation of a US model among Danish women.

Objective: This study was designed to investigate the associations among women's social roles, their nutrition beliefs, and their dietary fat avoidance practices. Role theory and prior qualitative research among US women provided the theoretical framework.

Design/subjects: A random-sample mail survey (76% response) was used to gather information on the usual pattern of dietary fat use, nutrition beliefs, and social positions of Danish women aged 30 to 60 years.