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In the face of the climate emergency, the Scottish Government is aiming to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045 and to reduce emissions by 75% by 2030 and 90% by 2040. It has been estimated that the food supply chain is responsible for 20% of global carbon emissions. Changing our diet is now…
Diets high in protein and red meat might be problematic in terms of gut health, especially when carbohydrate intake is low
Dietary protein is efficiently digested in the human small intestine. The consumption of high-protein diets leads to more protein escaping digestion and additional protein will be transported…
One of our deputy directors, Baukje de Roos, recently traveled to Hyderabad, India, to attend the 100-year centenary of the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), which is the premier nutrition research Institute in India funded through the Indian Government, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Throughout its long history, NIN…
On Wednesday 6th March 2019 Karen Scott visited the Barony Mill to assist in dehulling and flaking and flouring some barley that has been grown to use in a human intervention study run from the Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen.
This particular barley variety was grown at the James…
Globally we have an increase in ageing populations. In the UK in 2016, 18% of the population was aged 65 years or older (1), this is estimated to increase to nearly a quarter of the population by 2046. Add to this that normal ageing is associated with a gradual decline…
Chrononutrition is the study of the human circadian clock in the context of nutrition, metabolism, energy balance and health. Chrononutrition could challenge many of the assumptions surrounding energy balance and body weight regulation.
Body clocks are critical to our relationship with food. The master “clock” in the hypothalamus part of…
At Food Matters Live the latest research, development and innovation for health and weight wellness will be discussed. Ageing well and the role of diet & lifestyle medicine is a hot topic amongst healthcare professionals, the food sector and academia. There is growing evidence that dietary protein has an important…
Alan Walker is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, UK, studying the intestinal microbiota and its interactions with the host’s diet. In this interview, Alan discusses his research interests, earlier studies of the ways contaminants can affect microbiome analyses, the excitement of experiments going well, and why science…
Do you ‘eat to live’ or ‘live to eat’? Our appetite, or the desire for food, is an important signal for eating, but this isn’t fixed and can change as we age. Eating most of our calories in the evening may also be linked to obesity.
As our lifestyles have…
Since we have realized that we carry around more microbial than human cells and that these microbial inhabitants are important to maintain our health, searching for the bacterial species that are implicated in causing disease has become the holy grail of microbiology. However, to understand which bacteria are unnaturally present…
