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Pre- and probiotics for allergy prevention: time to revisit recommendations?We discuss how the choice of probiotic strains, timing and duration of administration can critically influence the outcome due to different effects on immune modulation and gut microbiota composition
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Astrofood, Priorities and Pandemics: Reflections of an Ultra-Processed Breakfast Program and Contemporary Dysbiotic DriftThe United Nation, recognizing the importance of nutrition as a part of the challenges faced by humanity, and declared 2016-2025 the decade of nutrition.
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Down to Earth: Planetary Health and Biophilosophy in the Symbiocene EpochAdvances in science have illuminated the role of the “ecological theatre”—the total living environment—in human health
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“Food faddists and pseudoscientists!”: Reflections on the history of resistance to ultra-processed foodsThe term 'ultra-processed food' emerged in the 1980s, mostly used in reference to highly-processed convenience foods and snacks, often energy-dense, poor in nutrients, and inclusive of various synthetic additives such as emulsifiers, colors, artificial sweeteners, and/or flavor enhancers.
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Effects of pregnancy and lactation prebiotics supplementation on infant allergic disease: A randomized controlled trialIngestion of prebiotics during pregnancy and lactation may have immunomodulatory benefits for the developing fetal and infant immune system and provide a potential dietary strategy to reduce the risk of allergic diseases. We sought to determine whether maternal supplementation with dietary prebiotics reduces the risk of allergic outcomes in infants with hereditary risk.
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Real time monitoring of respiratory viral infections in cohort studies using a smartphone appCohort studies investigating respiratory disease pathogenesis aim to pair mechanistic investigations with longitudinal virus detection but are limited by the burden of methods tracking illness over time. In this study, we explored the utility of a purpose-built AERIAL TempTracker smartphone app to assess real-time data collection and adherence monitoring and overall burden to participants, while identifying symptomatic respiratory illnesses in two birth cohort studies.
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Direct infant UV light exposure is associated with eczema and immune developmentThis study is the first to demonstrate an association between greater direct UV light exposures in early infancy with lower incidence of eczema
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Early Nutrition as a Major Determinant of 'Immune Health': Implications for Allergy, Obesity and Other Noncommunicable DiseasesA better understanding of nutritional programming of immune health may lead to dietary strategies that reduce the burden of many inflammatory diseases
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World Allergy Organization-McMaster University Guidelines for Allergic Disease Prevention (GLAD-P): PrebioticsDevelop evidence-based recommendations about the use of prebiotics in the prevention of allergy
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Elevated IL-5 and IL-13 responses to egg proteins predate the introduction of egg in solid foods in infants with eczemaElevated egg-specific Th2 cytokine responses were established prior to egg ingestion at 4months and were not significantly altered by introduction of egg