Oats, health benefits
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Oats, health benefits

Approx reading time 8 mins - fact checked ✔️ Oats (Avena sativa) is a cereal grain widely cultivated for human consumption (25%), with animal feed (75%) as the most common form of use. The European Union ranks as the top oat producers, with approximately one third of the world’s oat supplies, however, oats (1%) ranks sixth in world grain producers, with corn (40%), wheat (29%), rice (20%), barley (6%) and sorghum (3%) leading the way. Nutritional propertiesWhen it comes to nutrition, oats certainly pack a punch.…......
November 21, 2020Posted inNutrition, RecipesTags: , ,
Nutritonal genomics
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Future insights on nutritional genomics

Approx reading time 8 mins - Fact checked ✔️ Diagram showing the relationship between nutrition and gene expression The pathogenesis of chronic disease appears to be a complex, multi-factorial and individual interplay between genetics, environmental, lifestyle and dietary interactions (1), influencing epigenetic gene expression (2).  Darwin proposed that natural selection depended on variation, genetic heritability and the adaptation premise, with the ability to adapt dependent on evolutionary fitness and reproductive success, with the view to pass on genetic information to successive generations (3), while evolutionary biology identified three major…......
October 23, 2020Posted inGenomics, NutritionTags: , , , , , , ,