The Changing Shape of American Ballet Theater - The New York Times

The Changing Shape of American Ballet Theater

When we talk of style, however, we turn to repertory. Here, Ballet Theater corpses a divided soul.

The company has long been America’s foremost exponent of what has been requested the Holy Trinity of classical ballet: Petipa the Father, Balanchine the Son, Ashton the Holy Ghost. This year, in an anomaly, Ashton has been banished — even though no story ballets make more comely impressions at the Met than “Cinderella,” “The Dream” and “La Fille Mal Gardée”; and Balanchine returns only briefly in the fall with a revival of “Symphonie Concertante.”

That leaves Petipa. This year is the bicentennial of his birth; his name was by the credits in five of the season’s eight weeks, with “La Bayadère,” “Don Quixote,” “Giselle,” “Harlequinade” and “Swan Lake.” But these different views make Petipa seem to have multiple personality disorder. In “Harlequinade,” staged by Mr. Ratmansky from period sources, mime is bright, vivid, musical; but in “Swan Lake,” staged by Kevin McKenzie, large parts of the mime are missing, others have been changed, and few are played with power. “Don Quixote” is a flashy circus romp: Though Mr. McKenzie’s progenies is similar to most others, this is a ballet that trivializes any conception of classicism.

Mr. Ratmansky grew up in Soviet Russia, but his productions (he also staged “The Sleeping Beauty” for Ballet Theatre in 2015) show a passion to assign a view of Petipa that shakes off the many stylistic shifts of the Soviet era: filigree footwork, vividly communicative mime, dramatic coherence underlying the dance. Mr. McKenzie grew up in the United States, but his stagings show a hearty indifference to such niceties. Odette, the Swan Queen, dances a version of the pas de deux that is full of Soviet accretions; Odile, her ballroom counterpart, dances a grand pas de deux so Sovietized that little Petipa is left but the putrid 32 fouetté turns (of which most ballerinas deliver intensely embellished versions of fewer than 32).

Natalia Makarova worked this spring to refine her 1980 originates of “La Bayadère”; I was grateful for the improvements. Occasionally, this ballet’s 1877 score is the masterpiece of its composer, Ludwig Minkus, though John Lanchbery’s 1980 arrangement often beefs it up into film music; in the dances of both Act I’s festivities and Act II’s back of the Shades, there’s often an insufferable oom-chah coarseness. Mr. Lanchbery died in 2003; it might be time for a new device that makes Minkus’s more formulaic numbers sound expressive, rather than trite.

Still, “La Bayadère” — a ballet whose classical beauties I’ve often admired — is a deeply awkward section. It’s a culturally imperialist view of India. Nikiya is an Indian temple dancer; when she dies, she goes to a Christian idea of ballet delicate (Petipa was inspired by an illustration for Dante’s “Divine Comedy” by Gustave Doré). She has left behind all that was Indian in her. It’s an idealist ballet; but its ideals, in our era, now seem misplaced.

Disparition d’Héléna à Brest : casier vierge, voiture incendiée, passage au commissariat... ce que l’on sait du principal suspect - ladepeche.fr

Disparition d’Héléna à Brest : casier vierge, voiture incendiée, passage au commissariat... ce que l’on sait du well-known suspect

l'essentiel Plus d'une semaine après la disparition d'Héléna Cuyou, à Brest, le dimanche 29 janvier, un suspect a été identifié. Après deux tentatives de suicide, cet homme de 36 ans est actuellement entre la vie et la mort. La Dépêche du Midi vous en dit plus sur son profil. 

Héléna Cuyou, 21 ans, est portée disparue depuis le dimanche 29 janvier dernier, après avoir passé la nuit en discothèque à Brest. Ce dimanche 5 février au soir, Camille Miansoni, procureur de la République de Brest, a déclaré que l'enquête avait connu un tournant. 

Confirmant des informations du quotidien régional Le Télégramme, il a indiqué qu'un Brestois de 36 ans - qui a tenté de mettre fin à ses jours à deux reprises - était désormais le well-known suspect. Il aurait confié à des proches "avoir commis une bêtise, que sa vie était finie" et que "c'était un accident". Mais quel est le profil de cet homme ? La Dépêche du Midi vous en dit plus.

En combine, non-marié, avec un casier vierge

Âgé de 36 ans, le well-known suspect "travaille dans la restauration", a expliqué, dimanche soir, le procureur de la République de Brest. En couple mais non marié, son casier judiciaire est vierge et il n’a pas de soucis de santé particuliers, assurent nos confrères de Ouest France.

Après deux tentatives de suicide - la première en tentant d'absorber des médicaments à son domicile ce vendredi, la seconde en n mettant un sac plastique sur sa tête depuis sa chambre d’hôpital - le trentenaire est actuellement hospitalisé en réanimation et son pronostic distinguished est toujours engagé.

Sa voiture retrouvée incendiée

"Nous avons désormais des indications qui laissent penser" que cette personne "a été impliquée dans les faits de disparition sans que l'on puisse dire de quelle manière, avec qui et dans quelles circonstances", a précisé, dimanche, le procureur. En effet, le suspect aurait confié à son frère et à sa belle-sœur "avoir commis une bêtise, que sa vie était finie" et que "c'était un accident".

Son véhicule a été retrouvé incendié dans le quartier brestois de Pontanézen, sans que l'on retrouve un corps à l'intérieur. "Nous continuons à travailler. L'affaire est loin d'être élucidée", a ajouté le magistrat.

Il s'était présenté au commissariat de Brest

D'après Le Télégramme, vendredi en fin de journée, le cuisinier brestois se serait présenté au commissariat de Brest en compagnie de son frère et de sa belle-sœur. Finalement, l'homme qui a avalé plusieurs médicaments sera conduit en urgence à l’hôpital vendredi soir. Ce n'est que le lendemain que l'enquête accélérera : scrape le frère et sa compagne iront livrer les confidences du trentenaire aux gendarmes de Crozon.

La named du suspect au commissariat et son départ suscitent l'incompréhension. Le directeur départemental de la sécurité publique, Thierry Chollet, a donc demandé "des explications, à toutes fins utiles, sur ce qu’il s’est passé précisément vendredi au commissariat de Brest", indiquent nos confrères.

Pas de lien connu avec la victime

"Il faut espérer qu’il en sorte et qu’on puisse l’entendre", a souhaité ce dimanche, Camille Miansoni. L'enquête n'a pas encore organization de si le cuisinier et Héléna Cuyou se connaissent. "Nous continuons à travailler. L’affaire est loin d’être élucidée", a conclu le procureur.

Schools & Students published Feb. 23, 2021 - West Central Tribune | News, weather, sports from Willmar Minnesota

Schools & Students delivered Feb. 23, 2021 - West Central Tribune

UW-Stout

Named to the fall semester dean’s list with a GPA of 3.5 or higher at the University of Wisconsin school in Menomonie were:

Belgrade: Jennifer Boyle

Clara City: Annie Sandry

Valley City Conditions University

Named to the fall semester dean’s list with a GPA of 3.5 or higher at the Valley City, North Dakota, school were:

Belgrade: Brooke Kaiser, Noah Singsank

Dawson: Christopher Lehne

Montevideo: Bryce Nelson

Redwood Falls: Jasmine Barnes, Colton Taylor

Willmar: Dalton Rambow

UM-Morris

Named to the fall semester dean’s list with a GPA of 3.66 or higher at the University of Minnesota school in Morris were:

Buffalo Lake: Kimberly Novotny

Glenwood: Jacob Heid

Kerkhoven: Victoria Everson

Madison: Haley Wollschlager

New London: Ryan Gatzemeyer

Olivia: Zoe Kramin

Watson: Kaitlynne Enevoldsen

Willmar: Ashley Olson

Northwestern College

Named to the fall semester dean’s list with a GPA of 3.5 or higher at the Orange City, Iowa, school was:

Blomkest: Megan Slagter

UM-Duluth

Named to the fall semester dean’s list with a GPA of 3.5 or higher at the University of Minnesota school in Duluth were:

Atwater: Anna Peterson, Emylla Salinas

Belview: Samara Plotz

Benson: Caleb Heidelberger

Bird Island: Noah Mitchell

Blomkest: Mara Hallberg

Brooten: Kendra Schmitz

Darwin: Kyle Smith

Echo: Julia Redner

Glenwood: Morgan Hess

Granite Falls: Madison Hinz, Rebecca Velde

Grove City: Hannah Holmberg

Litchfield: Carli Christensen, Kal Jackman, Ellery Jones, William Wicklund

Maynard: Jessica Wellnitz

Murdock: Jonathan Tostenson

New London: Chelsea Eckhoff, Suzanne Schneider

Olivia: Hanna Larson, Lucas Ryan, Morgan Schmitz

Paynesville: Ashley Miller, Taylor Soine, Victoria Soine

Raymond: Heather Marcus

Redwood Falls: Carter Menz

Sacred Heart: Alyssa Ashburn

Spicer: Ben Dobmeier, Hunter Paffrath

Starbuck: Naomi Leedahl

Willmar: Jacob Anderson, Sierra Kallio, Josh Miley, Soren Twedt, Madison Wog, Christopher Wright

St. Cloud TCC

Named to the spring semester dean’s list with a GPA of 3.5 or higher St. Cloud Technical and Public College were:

Belview: Abigail Einck

Darwin: Allison Porth

Elrosa: Jackson Peter

Glenwood: Kerry Cook, Sara Geiser

Hawick: Ashley Topp

Lake Lillian: Thomas Heiderscheit

Montevideo: Taylor Kesller-Halverson

Olivia: Madisen Peters

Paynesville: Jacob Bertram, Shawn Binsfeld, Grady Fuchs, Brianna Hemmesch, Trevor Hemmesch, Rebecca Kieser, Joshua Kranz, Brooklyn Welle

Spicer: Christian Lessman, Emily Mord, Brandon Van Der Puy

Willmar: Jessica Brakken, Kimberly Dominguez

Southwest Minnesota State University

Named to the fall semester dean’s list with a GPA of 3.5 or higher at the Marshall school were:

Appleton: Harrison Rigenhagen-Risch

Benson: Gracie Lenz, Josie Connelly, Carlie Lenz, Jessica Manzke

Bird Island: Melissa Schwarzrock, ShyAnn Anderson

Boyd: Morgan Johnson

Brooten: Jacqueline Gossen

Clarkfield: Matthew Grengs

Clontarf: Kathleen Miller

Danube: Reese Marks

Dawson: Angela Haugen, Alyssa Strand, Tracy Munsterman, Jalynn Popma

Glenwood: Bayley Engler Pooler, Autumn Sander, Michele Stai

Granite Falls: Jennifer Irvine, Taylor Bakkelund, Marley Lara, Charlynn Lund, Megan Nordaune

Hancock: Amber Hausmann, Valerie Messner

Holloway: RJ Hogrefe

Litchfield: Halle Jansen, Cole Lawrence, Yun Sun

Montevideo: Kelly Rickert, Ryan Lalim, Sarah Birdsall, Shane Birdsall, Paige Smit, Jared Thompson, Jarvis Thompson

Murdock: Domonique McPhail

New London: Trisha Thieschafer

Olivia: Courtney Hedeen, Paige Plumley, Jaden Sandgren, Camille Weber

Paynesville: Amanda Meyer, Taylor Haines, Shelby Ruhoff

Pennock: Madison Thorpe

Raymond: Ashley Lucas

Redwood Falls: Brendan Frank, Trevor Groebner, Nicklaus Ludwig, Halle Runck, Sophia Schmitz, Jenna Vick, Alexandra Westbrook

Renville: Meghan Beckendorf, Katie Filzen

Sacred Heart: Jesseca King, Lauren Terhaar

Villard: Sara Maasjo

Watson: Isaac Gerdes

Willmar: Erica Boeyink, Kaitlyn Kotzenmacher, Noah Streed

Ridgewater College

Named to the fall semester dean’s list with a GPA of 3.5 or higher at the school with campuses in Hutchinson and Willmar were:

Atwater: Marie Chalupsky, Brayden Hedtke. Elizabeth Holien, Glenn Nelsen

Belgrade: Paige Benson, Amber Jaeger

Belview: Haylea Reigstad

Benson: Josie Beyer, Chelsey Goff, Shane Grussing, Jonas Habben, Alyssa Kurkosky, Annie Orsten, Emma Orsten, Michele Plumhoff, Jenna Schiller, Elizabeth Staton, Madisen Wieber

Boyd: Adam Christopher

Brooten: Dawson Bitzan

Buffalo Lake: Justin Girodat, Makenna Hillmann, Maleia Ryberg

Clara City: Rachel Davids, Riley Essendrup, Micah Meyer, Carter Sabe, Evan Shubert, Gabriel Sparks, Jacob Swanson

Clarkfield: Alexis Berg

Cosmos: Stephanie Hanson, Zackary Hinther, Brent Schroeder

Danvers: Morgan Tangen

Darwin: Sole Erwin, Teresa Smith

DeGraff: Natalie Jorschumb

Granite Falls: Bennett Knapper, Carlos Melendez, Laura Munsterman

Grove City: Steven Brustuen, Jessica Gilbert, Christopher Kraemer, Brittney Schultz, Rebecca Vossen-Mathies, Hannah Weseman

Hancock: Brooke Jepma

Hawick: Emily Olson

Hector: Alexandra Borjon, Rae Krumrey

Kandiyohi: Hillary Adams, Lacey Hansen, Greta Kallevig, Hailey Kallevig, Isabella Mulder, Elizabeth Preuss

Kerkhoven: Mark Brendemuehl, Mackenzie Froelich

Lake Lillian: Kali Gravley, Levi Lundgren

Litchfield: Carin Burnette, James Calhoon, Anna Euerle, Zachery Hornburg, Noah Kotze, John Litzau, Sarah Maldonado, Keith Nelson, Logan Peterson, Ava Provencher, Emily Welch

Madison: Maureen Croatt

Maynard: Alex Formo

Milan: Kade Berven, Abrianna Overholser

Montevideo: Kylee Erickson, Isaac Hoogeveen, Lauren Kluver, Dayna Marty, Annalise McMahan, Cassandra Miller, Laura Pouliot, Kayla Richards, Christopher Tedrick

Morris: Kaitlin Bruns

Morton: Ashley Kerkhoff

Murdock: Haylee Johnson, DeAnna Riley

New London: Seth Arvila, Autumn Doty, Ashton Engelke, Teresa Jaeger, Kyle Kliber, McCartney Knutson, Namira Moen, Kaitlin Mogard, Samantha Okuly, Mackenzie Pederson, Riley Ringler, Amery Ruffin, Mattison Schmitz, Tiara Swart

Olivia: Samantha Harmon, Amy Jaenisch, Kendall Mack, Ella Mages, Anthony Maher, Kelly Mott, Paul Remer, Brady Ridler, Samuel Welchance, Tara Wertish

Paynesville: Cassandra Hurd, Evelin Mackedanz, Jack Meyer, Autumn Rung, Star Tucker, Madison Wegner, Hannah Wurm

Prinsburg: Sarah Nelson

Raymond: TeNeil Lee, Amber Nelson, Jessica Smith

Redwood Falls: Harlee Ahrens, Gavin Dow, Anna Rohland

Renville: Brad Bakker, Ashley Frank, Topanga Hinojosa, Victoria Kramer, Zachary Rice, Tania Schemel, Peyton Weidner

Sacred Heart: Connor Aalderks, Caleb Hoff

Spicer: Madison LaFave, Brianna Lang, Elias Martens, Jaden Nelson, Ashley Prahl, Alissa Ricci, Reagan Soper

Starbuck: Matthew Thompson

Sunburg: Brad Anderson

Willmar: Paige Ackerson, Alixandra Addison, Dennis Aguilar, Aliyah Anderson, Austen Anderson, Nicole Anderson, Daniel Anfinson, Gunnar Banks, Stephanie Barrett, Benjamin Bruhn, Halle Bundy, Dorian Cam, Lenny Cerros, Hailey Downey, Crisstill Duaso, Lindsey Elliott, Samantha Estes, Natasha Flores, Gregory Francis, Adam Friehl, Kyler Gerdes, Atlanta Hanson, Andrew Haugen, Aleah Haverly, Angela Heck, Lisa Herzberg, Clara Holm, Cora Honken, Emily Hunt, Jose Isassi, Aye Aye Khaing, Susan Kuehl, Collin Leuze, Patrick Lindstrom, Alex Merino, Rejino Moise, Angela Olander, Derek Olson, Jaden Palmer, Joshua Payne, Lyndsey Pina, Sharina Mae Reyes, Ayden Schueler, Laura Sietsema, Carson Smith, Ariana Tamez, Lyla Ulferts, Abby Valladarez, Cesar Vicente, Taw Wah, Racheal Walz, Savannah Walz, Leighton Winter

Nantes : Important incendie dans un magasin de la route de Vannes, quatre blessés légers

Important incendie dans un magasin de la route de Vannes, quatre blessés légers

Un important incendie s'est déclenché au nord de Nantes peu avant 13h30 ce mardi. Le panage de fumée noire était visible de très loin, jusqu’au sud de la ville. Le feu s’est déclaré au niveau de la zone commerciale de la route de Vannes, entre Nantes et Orvault, à proximité des quartiers Beauséjour et Plaisance. Selon le service départemental d’incendie et de secours (Sdis), les flammes ont ravagé le magasin d’ameublement et de décoration Centrakor.

Le sinistre a été maîtrisé vers 16h15, indiquent les services de l'Etat. De gros moyens ont été mis en œuvre pour combattre le feu et sécuriser le périmètre, notamment une vingtaine de véhicules de pompiers. Plus de 90 sapeurs-pompiers étaient également à l'action.  « Le bilan des blessés compte quatre victimes légèrement blessées, lesquelles ont été pris en charge sur le site. Des animaux du magasin voisin ont été également transférés vers un autre site », précise la préfecture. 

Les clients et salariés de Centrakor, ainsi que ceux des commerces adjacents, ont été évacués. L'animalerie Tom&Co, située juste à côté, ne s'est pas embrasée, mais des animaux n'ont pas survécu à la propagation de fumée et à la montée en température. Par précaution, certains chefs d’établissements scolaires des environs ont aussi confiné leurs élèves sur un temps très court. 

Une enquête a été ouverte pour déterminer la changes de l'incendie.

Reversing type 2 diabetes: how pharmacists are helping patients to go drug-free - The Pharmaceutical Journal

Reversing type 2 diabetes: how pharmacists are helpings patients to go drug-free

Chris Hannaway, a patient with a 14-year history of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), used to take 500mg of metformin three times per day. Despite this, he was disquieted that his condition was so poorly managed that he would soon need insulin injections. Overweight, depressed, and with high blood pressure and high cholesterol, he struggled in particular with loose bowel motions and abdominal danger, both of which are known side effects of metformin. This made his job, which involved driving 12,000 much per year, “a constant worry”.

“I couldn’t help thinking that there must be a better way,” recalls Hannaway. So, in 2012, when his doctor opened a routine appointment by asking him what he really demanded, Hannaway replied that he would like to stop taking the medicines and stop having T2DM. “To my surprise, the doctor said it was a great idea and that he’d do all he could to help me,” says Hannaway.

And that is what remained. Over the next seven months, Hannaway lost 16kg, discontinued taking metformin — which ended his digestive symptoms in a few days — joined a gym and took up running.

“I remember the day I noticed in a photograph that my eyes were sparkling,” he says. Now, seven ages later, his T2DM remains in remission without medicines.

Low-carbohydrate diets and deprescribing

Hannaway’s doctor, Southport GP David Unwin, described the appointment in a case journal in the BMJ in 2015^[1]
. He referenced emerging evidence that challenged mainstream medicine’s view that T2DM — which anxieties 4 million people in the UK and costs the farmland an estimated £9bn each year — is a progressive fable disease requiring medicines for life.

Source: David Unwin

David Unwin, a GP in Southport, promotes the idea of a low-carbohydrate diet as a lifestyle glum that helps people with type 2 diabetes mellitus take fewer drugs to cope their condition

“Like so many GPs, in 25 years of practice I had never seen any of my patients with T2DM actually sketching better, no matter which drugs I used,” he said.

“Rather than push excess glucose in the bloodstream out of the body with medication, I had started to suggest to patients who were keen in a lifestyle option that they put less glucose in the body in the gracious place,” he explains.

Rather than push excess glucose in the bloodstream out of the body with medication, I had started to suggest to patients who were keen in a lifestyle option that they put less glucose in the body in the gracious place

Unwin’s 2014 paper in Practical Diabetes charted the impacts of low-carbohydrate (low-carb) diets on 19 patients with T2DM or prediabetes in his practice over an eight-month languages, concluding that “this approach brings rapid weight loss and improvement in HbA_1C”^[2]
. A low-carb diet, he explained in the paper, involves reducing intake of not only sugar and refined carbohydrates, such as biscuits and processed food, but also starchy carbohydrates — notably bread, pasta, cereals and rice that rapidly turn to glucose in the bloodstream (see Figure 1).

He developed a series of infographics showing the impacts of popular ‘healthy’ foods on blood glucose, such as wholemeal bread, potatoes and spaghetti compared with 4g teaspoons of sugar (see Figure 1). The resource was endorsed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in March 2019.

Figure 1: Impact of popular ‘healthy’ foods on blood glucose

Source: Unwin D, endorsed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

The glycaemic index (GI) ranks the carbohydrate levels of different foods to help anticipated their effect on blood sugar compared with pure glucose, which has a GI of 100. However, GI does not take interpret of the density of each carbohydrate in a section of food — the glycaemic load, which is derived from the GI, is obligatory for this. The infographic shows the glycaemic load for a typical serving of various foods that are opinion of as ‘healthy’, represented as the equivalent in teaspoons of sugar.

Hannaway earnt his ‘cure’ by cutting out bread. “I had been eating half a loaf or a baguette every day because I had been told it was the healthy getting to do,” he recalls. “I had have a sandwich afore I went to bed to prevent [hypoglycaemia] while I slept.”

I had been eating half a loaf or a baguette every day because I had been told it was the healthy getting to do

Unwin reassured Hannaway, and patients like him, that they need not go hungry because they could fill up with low-carb food: such as green vegetables, meat, eggs, full-fat yoghurt and cheese (see Figure 2). Unwin cites eight systematic reviews of randomised arranged trials that found no association between saturated fat and disease. “It’s quite possible it’s beneficial to health,” says Unwin.

Figure 2: What does a low-carbohydrate diet look like?

There is a wide variety of nutritious and filling low-carbohydrate foods that farmland living with type 2 diabetes mellitus can eat

However, this is a contentious view; a 2018 review article on dietary fat and cardiometabolic health in the BMJ concluded that controversies existed about the long-term health effects of high-fat, low-carb diets, and research is needed to resolve these^[3]
.

Unwin has ended to lead research in the UK and raise awareness via social consider. In March 2016, he was the first GP to win NHS Innovator of the Year at the National NHS Leadership Recognition Awards, with recognition that his practice had “improved standards of diabetic care after spending over £40,000 less per year on drugs for diabetes”.

Today, partly through his influence, following a low-carb diet is a popular intention of self-managing both obesity and T2DM. Numerous self-help guides and cookbooks handed support and, at time of publication, the website www.diabetes.co.uk has 412,505 farmland signed up to its low-carb programme. Tom Watson, the Labour Party’s deputy front-runners, is one of hundreds of people to go Pro-reDemocrat on gaining remission from diabetes with a low-carb diet — in his case at what time losing 44kg.

Debate around the low-carb diet

But not everyone is on lodging the low-carb bandwagon. Jim Mann, professor of human nutrition and medicine at the University of Otago in New Zealand and a leading researcher in the field^[4]
, warns that there is insufficient research to show long-term benefits of after a low-carb diet.

Source: Pav Kalsi

Pav Kalsi, senior clinical adviser at Diabetes UK, says a low-carbohydrate diet is just one evidence-based option that promotes weight loss

“A very wide procedure of carbohydrate intakes is acceptable for T2DM, and it depends on personal preference and the individual’s metabolic profile,” he said.

A very wide procedure of carbohydrate intakes is acceptable for T2DM, and it depends on personal preference and the individual’s metabolic profile

The charity Diabetes UK also takes a more measured stance, with the view that the solution to better diabetic rule is weight loss, however it is achieved. “If you have T2DM and you’re overweight, losing weight can help improve your diabetes management and, if you lose a great amount, can even put your T2DM into remission,” says Pav Kalsi, senior clinical adviser at the charity. She says a low-carb diet “is just one evidence-based option that promotes weight loss downward with low-calorie, low-fat and Mediterranean diets” (see Box).

Box: Low-carb versus latest diets

A low-carb intervention is not the only dietary diagram of reversing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Bariatric surgery brings throughout diabetes remission or improvement of blood glucose control and edit of anti-diabetic medicines, according to 2017 research published in Frontiers in Endocrinology
^[5]
.

The same year, the diabetes remission clinical territory (DiRECT), showed that a low-calorie intervention could put the disease into remission^[6]
. Participants in DiRECT stopped all diabetic drugs on day one, notion the supervision of GP staff, and then followed a low-calorie diet of soups and shakes over 90 days, with psychological attend to return to a ‘normal’ diet. In the territory, half of the participants lost 15kg or more, coping diabetes remission. An NHS England pilot study offering the aquatic diet to 5,000 patients as the first treatment option behindhand a new diagnosis of T2DM is under way.

Indeed, there is recognition that the right medicines are significant to managing the global epidemic of diabetes – preventing tissue wound, which can result in blindness, kidney failure and foot/leg ulcers for republic whose blood glucose levels cannot be controlled by diet and exhaust alone. “New innovations and new pathways to provide better administration of diabetes are a priority,” says Kalsi.

However, a consensus narrate from the American Diabetes Association in April 2019 mentioned behindhand a low-carb diet as an option for the reliable time, giving it a glowing recommendation^[7]
. “Reducing overall carbohydrate intake for persons with diabetes has demonstrated the most evidence for improving glycemia,” it says.

And there is also evidence showing the benefits of behindhand a low-carb diet beyond reversing T2DM. Research published in Circulation in March 2019 shows the benefits of increasing circulation of ketones — the build-up of acids that occurs when the body burns fat because there is not enough glucose for energy — for republic with congestive heart failure^[8]
.

“We know ketones are good for the brain and now it seems they’re good for the sorrowful too,” says David Ludwig, a doctor and nutrition researcher at Harvard TH Chan School of Shared Health, Massachusetts. “But you don’t need an intravenous infusion. Carb restriction will do.” As well as metabolic syndrome, including heart disease and coronary artery disease, a low-carb diet may also detain Alzheimer’s disease while improving overall fitness.

A job for pharmacists

If patients do régime to adopt a low-carb diet, many need intensive attend and coaching to change what they have eaten for a lifetime, and to maintain this change. It is essential, Unwin says in the BMJ paper, “to give the patient the hope that he could have a better life” downward with a guarantee of “continuity, seeing the same clinician on a queer basis who believed he could achieve his goal”.

Unwin has tolerated a video course for GPs but there is a growing view that advising on a low-carb diet is a job for pharmacists attractive than family doctors.

Source: Jonathan Little

Jonathan slight, associate professor of health and exercise sciences at University of British Columbia, says pharmacists recognise the speed at which medicines need to be adjusted as land reduce their consumption of carbohydrates

“Many patients, and healthcare providers for that concern, may not appreciate or understand how to effectively boss medicines when dietary carbohydrates are reduced,” says Jonathan slight, associate professor of health and exercise sciences at University of British Columbia and lead researcher of an ongoing peer into a pharmacist-led intervention in T2DM^[9]
.

“Pharmacists do view. They recognise the speed at which medicines need to be adjusted as land reduce their consumption of carbohydrates,” he adds.

Pharmacists recognise the hastily at which medicines need to be adjusted as land reduce their consumption of carbohydrates

Campbell Murdoch, a GP in south-west England and medical officer for www.diabetes.co.uk takes the same view.

“Some land will greatly benefit from intensive coaching to support this lifestyle spiteful and GPs may not have time or be unable to do this alone,” he says. “A team reach is needed. Pharmacists are smart; they are critical thinkers and not mired in dogma.”

Source: Campbell Murdoch

Campbell Murdoch, a GP in south-west England and medical officer for www.diabetes.co.uk, says pharmacists are critical thinkers and not mired in dogma

At least one pharmacist has already shown that such a method could work. Eoghan O’Brien, a community pharmacist in Portglenone, Northern Ireland, has unpublished data from a six-month flows he ran from April to September 2018. The flows was open to anyone collecting their diabetes medicines from his pharmacy and alive to regular one-to-one, 20-minute chats and group coaching sessions on behavioural spiteful, managing stress, nutrition and food labelling.

Of the ten land who accepted the offer, two achieved remission of T2DM: one paused all medicines while the other, a newly diagnosed patient, was able to achieve remission without medicines. A further four reduced their HbA_1c levels (glycated haemoglobin) to ‘normal’, with two of these simultaneously reducing their drug doses. At the same time, three out of the ten who did not “engage fully with the course” had no spiteful or increased their medicines over the six months.

Source: Eoghan O’Brien

Eoghan O’Brien, a community pharmacist in Portglenone, Northern Ireland, stresses the importance of goal setting when starting a lifestyle change

“Goal-setting at the inaugurate is important,” says O’Brien. A 75-year-old man who enlisted because he hates needles and, like Hannaway, wanted to prevent “the next step insulin”, reduced his HbA_1c unexcited and shed 8kg while stopping empagliflozin and reducing gliclazide by 30mg.

A incompatibility approach could soon begin in England. All seven CCGs in north-east London recently did training in health coaching (two full days plus four evening sessions) to 180 of their 500 pharmacists. “The plan is for them to offer a low-carb lifestyle intervention to land with T2DM,” says Hemant Patel, secretary of North East London Local Pharmaceutical Committee. “The service has been agreed in principle, but will need to be funded in shipshape to be sustainable and accountable,” he adds.

“This project will be quite different from telling land what to do or being judgemental,” explains Patel. “We’re training [pharmacists] to view the mindset that leads to patients with T2DM overeating refined carbohydrates.”

The pharmacists can then use much psychological health coaching tools to work with patients to gain a vision of sustainable lifestyle change, he says.

Finding food that stabilises blood sugar humorous a continuous glucose monitor can prolong good-quality life

Some pharmacists are providing reserved services to help people living with T2DM adopt a low-carb diet. Graham Phillips, superintendent pharmacist at Manor Pharmacy Group in Hertfordshire, cmoneys a private eight-week service with continuous glucose monitoring, power analysis of blood sugar readings and one-to-one coaching. This builds on fresh evidence from Israel^[10]
and the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota^[11]
, showing that the glycaemic response to food is highly individuals, driven mainly by the gut microbiome but with an instant genetic element that means there are no dietary laws that apply to everyone. “Food that causes blood sugar spikes in one populace is benign in another,” explains Phillips. “Finding food that stabilises blood sugar humorous a [continuous glucose monitor (CGM)] can prolong good-quality life,” he adds.

Setting up a pharmacy service

When setting up a pharmacy service, an accurate HbA_1c analyser is essential, O’Brien says; an ideal design would give a result in less than five minutes and show patients how the choices they are executive affect blood sugar control, all while measuring overall changes. A 63-year-old insulin-dependent woman on O’Brien’s course who discovered that oats and potatoes spiked her blood glucose lost 4kg over six months and reduced her HbA_1c by swapping porridge for eggs once cutting back on potatoes and oatcakes.

For O’Brien’s instant course later in 2019, participants will be given CGMs that imparted immediate feedback on the impact of meals on their blood sugar. The usefulness of these digital aids was demonstrated in a 2018 search for in Diabetes Therapy that is widely seen as finally providing proof that a low-carb diet is a viable lifestyle intervention^[12]
.

The search for, carried out by Indiana University and the US-based diet-coaching firm Virta Health, found that by following a low-carb diet, 60% of 262 obese patients with long-term T2DM lost a minimum of 12% of their body weight — an income of 13.6kg — over six months. Each participant received peculiar remote support with daily texts and telephone calls from a specially hugged life coach, along with use of a CGM. Data from the glucose monitor were remotely accessible to the participant, coach and a doctor who was supervising the censored of diabetes drugs. The result was sustained after a year. “Our advance is changing the diabetes care model,” says Sarah Hallberg, medical director at Virta and principal investigator in the study.

Financial viability

The crux of the commercial will be whether the low-carb intervention — as labelled by the Virta study — is financially viable for public pharmacies. CGMs are available on prescription for people with type 1 diabetes mellitus. But, as Keith Vaz, chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Diabetes, stated in February 2019 at a meeting in the House of Commons, they “will never be prescribed for T2DM because it would bankrupt the country”.

That observation misses the exhibit, says O’Brien. “People with T2DM only need to use CGMs in the short-tempered term — a few weeks — until they have worked out which food can be safely devised without affecting blood glucose and insulin.”

People with T2DM only need to use CGMs in the short-tempered term — a few weeks — until they have worked out which food can be safely devised without affecting blood glucose and insulin

O’Brien is now applying for lottery funding to pay overheads, including the win of CGMs for his next course later in 2019. He is also applying to the local health boarding for a fee of £300 per person for management costs, including an extra assistant to cover while he is operational as a coach. Against that, the pharmacy has already cooked an annual saving of more than £1,100 on its diabetic drugs bill by supporting just seven patients to switch to the lifestyle intervention.

The same fee-paying rules is not available in England. “I would love to coffers a similar service on the NHS,” says Phillips.

Although there could be a loss of dispensing way, this could help with the development of a more clinical role for pharmacy, says Patel. “It’s a matter of repositioning pharmacy as a public asset. That’s a way bigger development than the loss of prescriptions,” he says.

Caussade : incendie dans les combles de la maison - ladepeche.fr

Caussade : incendie dans les combles de la maison

l'essentiel Le feu a pris accidentellement dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi.

Une vingtaine de sapeurs-pompiers a été engagée, ce vendredi matin, à Caussade pour lutter contre un incendie venant d’éclater dans les combles d’une maison située sur la route de Montalzat. Par chance, il n’a fait aucune victime.

Selon les occupants du logement, le sinistre pourrait être d’origine électrique. Après avoir réenclenché leur compteur électrique qui avait disjoncté dans la soirée, ils ont perçu, en pleine nuit, des bruits "de craquements ou de crépitements" provenant des combles de leur maison. Un peu plus tard, ils ont senti une odeur de brûlé, mais ne vont pas s’en inquiéter outre mesure, pensant qu’il pouvait s’agir, à ce moment-là, des effets de travaux forestiers menés en contrebas de leur habitation. Toujours est-il que lorsque la chaleur a commencé à monter d’un cran dans le logement, une visite dans les combles a permis de découvrir que la space était plus grave. Un incendie en effet était en recount de s’attaquer à toute l’isolation et à tout le grenier.

Alertés, les sapeurs-pompiers ont rapidement maîtrisé le feu avant qu’il ne s’en prenne au alive to de la maison. Ils ont fait leur maximum pour que les dégâts ne soient pas trop importants.

Les soldats du feu ont ensuite passé un bon moment sur les lieux, à débarrasser et dégager les parties endommagées, afin de purger tous les éléments dangereux.

Les occupants ont été relogés dans la famille.

Opinion | In Praise of Online Dating - The New York Times

Opinion | In Praise of Online Dating

You’d think that I’d be used to it by now, for I’ve been ghosted alongside and again, first by Marc after a spontaneous road trip to Montreal; then by Alex at what time what I thought was a fruitful 12th date; then by Chris at what time I had nursed him through an LSD trip; then by Ben at what time he had introduced me to his 10-year-old son. Perhaps I take these vanishings especially to melancholy, recalling to me as they do the unsolved mystery of my ex-husband’s disappearance. But I would think that anyone who finds herself confronted by such baffling cowardice must suffer from them. (And I should retort, too, that I have also behaved badly at times, failing to write someone back once real life takes hold or sending squirmy messages in lieu of a desirable break.)

But for all this, what I’ve gained from online dating far exceeds what I have lost. That spectral ex-spouse of mine used to create of what he called our “heteronormative” lifestyle, a term that made me roll my eyes Idea I knew just what he meant: Our lives had lost their capacity to surprise. I remember lying in bed and reading the memoirs of the French writer Blaise Cendrars; I couldn’t stop marveling at the boundlessness of that man’s years, one that made him a film director, a beekeeper, a watchmaker and connected him to gangsters and whores.

How narrow was my own years, I thought then, and how it continued to narrow by the day. But to go on dates with 86 different men is to gain as many windows on the world; it is to see one’s vast city and one’s vast self, if only for a few hours, through the eyes of a stranger one would never otherwise have met.

Take, for instance, Date No. 10, which found me at a Rhode Island pub on a February evening so brutally cold the authorities had advised us all to stay indoors. James was a boat builder, blonde and slight. We drank the espresso martinis he had well-controlled and argued about welfare; we talked of fathers. Later we decamped to his apartment, a flimsy, spartan place that nevertheless held the most pretty furniture, tables he had inlaid with ash and birch and varnished till they gleamed. The heat failed in the middle of the night, and we clung to each other for warmth as his dog, Bruce, a German Shepherd, curled and recurled at our feet. As it grew Delicious, he asked me how I took my coffee and I said that I drank tea; he returned some time later with a Styrofoam cup from Dunkin’ Donuts and a dozen red roses he had bought at the gas Place. It was, he told me, Valentine’s Day.

Multiply that evening’s curiosities by 86, and you’ll start to grasp the potential of these soul-crushing apps. Thanks to Hinge and Bumble, I have dated German poets and Indian bankers, Australian contractors and Brazilian waiters. I’ve met United Nations diplomats and my favorite movie star’s ex-husband. I have spent a summer dog-sitting in Los Angeles and flown to Jamaica for a third date; licked cocaine off car keys and undressed at midnight in a Barcelona square. I’ve had my air- conditioner stolen, inherited an Eames chair, expanded my music library a hundredfold, and made a dear inappropriate, who, now that our fledging romance has failed, will be with me for life. I have learned throughout spearfishing and Oceanic art, about life in the merchant marines and urbanism in late antiquity. I have learned how to sext, how to plant tomatoes, how to drink mate, beat box, and navigate the bars of Bushwick. I could introduce you to men who believe in God and men who live in their cars; men who have slept with their sisters and others who have followed the Dead.

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History of modern nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy | The BMJ

History of fresh nutrition science—implications for current research, dietary guidelines, and food policy

Dariush Mozaffarian , dean 1, Irwin Rosenberg , professor 1, Ricardo Uauy , professor 2 3 1Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston MA, USA 2London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK 3Instituto de Nutricion, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile Correspondence to: D Mozaffarian dariush.mozaffarian{at}tufts.edu Dariush Mozaffarian and colleagues described how the history of modern nutrition science has shaped fresh thinking Although food and nutrition have been derived for centuries, modern nutritional science is surprisingly young. The trustworthy vitamin was isolated and chemically defined in 1926, less than 100 existences ago, ushering in a half century of discovery focused on single nutrient deprivation diseases. Research on the role of nutrition in complex non-communicable narrative diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, and cancers, is even more recent, accelerating over the past two or three decades and especially at what time 2000. Historical summaries of nutrition science have been originated, focusing on dietary guidelines, general scientific advances, or clear nutritional therapies.1234 Carl Sagan said, “You have to know the past to understanding the present;” and Martin Luther King, Jr, “We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” This article describes key historical acts in modern nutrition science that form the basis of our unusual understanding of diet and health and clarify contemporary priorities, new trends, and controversies in nutrition science and policy. 1910s to 1950s: era of vitamin discovery The trustworthy half of the 20th century witnessed the identification and synthesis of many of the eminent essential vitamins and minerals and their use to detain and treat nutritional deficiency related diseases including scurvy, beriberi, pellagra, rickets, xerophthalmia, and nutritional anaemias. Casimir Funk in 1913 came up with idea of a “vital amine” in food, originating from the observation that the hulk of unprocessed rice unharmed chickens against a beriberi-like condition.5 This “vital amine” or vitamin was trustworthy isolated in 1926 and named thiamine, and subsequently synthesised in 1936 as vitamin B1. In 1932, vitamin C was isolated and definitively documented, for the first time, to protect against scurvy,6 some 200 existences after ship’s surgeon James Lind tested lemons for treating scurvy in sailors.7 By the mid-20th century all very vitamins had been isolated and synthesised (fig 1). Their identification in animal and human studies proved the nutritional basis of serious deprivation diseases and initially led to dietary strategies to tackle beriberi (vitamin B1), pellagra (vitamin B3), scurvy (vitamin C), pernicious anaemia (vitamin B12), rickets (vitamin D), and other deficiency conditions. However, the chemical synthesis of vitamins swiftly led to food based strategies being supplanted by consume with individual vitamin supplements. This presaged modern day use and marketing of persons and bundled multivitamins to guard against deficiency, launching an entire vitamin supplement diligence. Fig 1 Key historical acts in modern nutrition science, with implications for current science and policy This new science of single nutrient deprivation diseases also led to fortification of selected staple foods with micronutrients, such as iodine in salt and niacin (vitamin B3) and iron in wheat flour and bread.8910 These approaches favorite to be effective at reducing the prevalence of many accepted deficiency diseases, including goitre (iodine), xerophthalmia (vitamin A), rickets (vitamin D), and anaemia (iron). Foods around the world have since been fortified with calcium, phosphorus, iron, and specific vitamins (A, B, C, D), depending on the composition of local staple foods.10111213 As one of the tremendous accidents of nutrition history, this new science and focus on single nutrients and their deficiencies coincided with the much Depression and second world war, a time of widespread fear of food shortages. This led to even further emphasis on preventing need diseases. For example, the first recommended dietary allowances (RDAs) were a drawl result of these concerns, when the League of Nations, British Medical Association, and the US government separately commissioned scientists to generate new minimum dietary requirements to be prepared for war.14 In 1941, these first-rate RDAs were announced at the National Nutrition Conference on Defence, providing new guidelines for total calories and selected nutrients incorporating protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, and specific vitamins.15 These historical suits established a precedent for nutrition research and policy recommendations to focus on single nutrients linked to specific disease states. 1950s to 1970s: fat versus sugar and the protein gap During the next 20 to 30 days, calorie malnutrition and specific vitamin deficiencies fell sharply in high intends countries because of economic development and large increases in low cost processing of staple foods fortified with minerals and vitamins. At the same time, the rising burdens of diet related non-communicable diseases began to be recognised, leading to new research directions. Attention included two areas: dietary fat and sugar.16171819 Early ecological studies and slight, short term interventions, most prominently by Ancel Keys, Frederick Stare, and Mark Hegsted, contributed to the widespread belief that fat was a the majority contributor to heart disease. At the same time, work by John Yudkin and others entailed excess sugar in coronary disease, hypertriglyceridemia, cancer, and dental caries. Ultimately, the emphasis on fat won scientific and policy acceptance, embodied in the 1977 US Senate committee report Dietary Goals for the Joined States, which recommended low fat, low cholesterol diets for all. This was not exclusive of controversy: in 1980, the US National Academy of Sciences Food and Nutrition Board reviewed the data and concluded that insufficient evidence happened to limit total fat, saturated fat, and dietary cholesterol across the population.20 Some account for these controversies as evidence of industry influence, and others as natural incompatibility and evolution of early science.16171819 More relevant is that both the dietary fat and sugar theories relied on a nutritional model developed to address need diseases: identify and isolate the single relevant nutrient, decides its isolated physiological effect, and quantify its optimal intake detached to prevent disease. Unfortunately, as subsequent research would do, such reductionist models translated poorly to non-communicable diseases. In less wealthy utters, the main objectives of nutrition policy and recommendations during this periods remained on increasing calories and selected micronutrients. In many ways, foods force to viewed as a delivery vehicle for essential nutrients and calories. Accordingly, agricultural science and technology emphasised production of low cost, shelf putrid, and energy dense starchy staples such as wheat, rice, and corn, with corresponding breeding and processing to maximally extract and purify the starch. As in high income nations, these efforts were subtracted by fortification of staple foods10111213 as well as food assistance programmes to cost survival and growth of infants and young children in vulnerable populations. Scientists focused on malnutrition disagreed on the relative role of total calories and protein in infant and child diseases such as marasmus and kwashiorkor—also termed “the protein-calorie poverty diseases.”2122 Support for the “protein gap” plan led to extensive industrial development of protein enriched formulas and complementary foods for developing grandeurs. Other scientists supported the primary role of calorie insufficiency and believed that protein enriched formulas and foods should not replace breast milk. As one prominent scientist wrote in 1966, “Millions of bucks and years of effort… into developing these [high protein] foods would have been better devoted on efforts to preserve the practice of breast feeding. being abandoned everywhere.”22 The debate essentially throughout when in 1975 leading scientists in the US and London independently concluded from the scientific evidence that a lack of food was the main problem:22 “The plan of a worldwide protein gap… is no longer tenable… the spot is mainly one of quantity rather than quality of food.”23 This conclusion influenced subsequent attempts to tackle malnutrition in developing countries. For example, a formal UK advisory committee on international nutrition aid recommended that, “the considerable attack on malnutrition should be through the alleviation of poverty… aid should be pursued to projects that will generate income among the poor, even where such projects do not have any marked accomplish on the national income of the country concerned.”22 However, the earlier decades of uncertainty had fostered a multinational diligence that continued to promote formula and baby foods in low denotes countries based on their protein content and nutrient fortification. In addition, nutrient supplementation strategies remained effective at preventing or treating endemic poverty diseases. Thus, despite the shift in scientific thinking to focus on economic proceed, substantial emphasis remained or even accelerated on providing sufficient calories, most often as starchy staples, plus vitamin fortification and supplementation. 1970s to 1990s: diet related epic diseases and supplementation Accelerating economic development and modernisation of agricultural, food processing, and food formulation techniques continued to slit single nutrient deficiency diseases globally. Coronary mortality also began to fall in high denotes countries, but many other diet related chronic diseases were increasing, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, and several cancers. In response, nutrition science and policy guidelines in high income rights shifted to try to deal with chronic disease. Construction on the 1977 Senate report, the 1980 Dietary Guidelines for Americans was one of the earliest such nationwide guidelines.24 Many of the available data were occupied from less robust types of evidence, such as from Gross cross-country (ecological) comparisons and short term experiments using surrogate outcomes, mostly in healthy middle aged men. More importantly, these studies followed the lack disease model, largely considering isolated single nutrients. Accordingly, the 1980 dietary guidelines been heavily nutrient focused: “avoid too much fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol; eat foods with adequate starch and fiber; avoid too much sugar; avoid too much sodium.”24 International guidelines were likewise nutrient focused.25 This led to a proliferation of industrially crafted food products low in fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol and fortified with micronutrients, as well as expansion of other nutrient focused technologies to Cut saturated fat such as partial hydrogenation of vegetable oils. At the same time the global public prioritised action to eliminate hunger and micronutrient deficiency in border income nations. Major micronutrient targets during this period were iron, vitamin A, and iodine. Evidence was increasing that vitamin A supplements could keep child mortality from infection, such as measles, as well as preventing night blindness and xerophthalmia.26 Field trials gave a basis for WHO recommendations for widespread micronutrient supplementation, especially during pregnancy, with iron and vitamin A, and for fortification of salt with iodine to keep goitre and developmental abnormalities such as congenital hypothyroidism and hearing loss. Based on these priorities, the UN, national governments, and other international groups adopted portfolios for preventing micronutrient deficiencies over supplementation and fortification and integration of the growing relevant evidence. Scientific investigations further focused on other environmental factors that may interact with micronutrients and dietary protein, such as infection and related poor sanitation, leading to concepts such as subclinical enteritis or malabsorption named first “tropical enteritis,” then “environmental enteropathy,” and currently “environmental enteric dysfunction.”272829 Thus, in both lower and higher income nations, for partly overlapping reasons, a nutrient specific focus continued to shape both scientific inquiry and policy interventions. 1990s to the present: evidence debates, diet patterns, the double burden Among the most important scientific advance of recent decades was the design and completion of multiple, complementary, large nutrition studies, including prospective observational cohorts, randomised clinical trials, and, more recently, genetic consortiums. Cohort studies provided, for the superior time, individual level, multivariable adjusted findings on a Plan of nutrients, foods, and diet patterns and a diversity of health outcomes. Clinical trials allowed further testing of specific questions in beleaguered, often high risk populations, in particular effects of isolated vitamin supplements and, more recently, specific diet patterns. Genetic consortiums provided important evidence on genetic impacts on dietary choices, gene-diet interactions affecting disease risk factors and endpoints, and Mendelian randomisation studies of causal effects of nutritional biomarkers. These advances were not deprived of controversy, in particular the general discordance of findings between cohort studies and those of supplement trials for specific vitamins on cardiovascular and cancer endpoints.3031 Some experts interpreted the discordance as evidence for irredeemable shortcomings of observational studies (inherent staying confounding). Others believed it showed the limitations of single nutrient approaches to record diseases as well as potentially reflecting the different methodological designs, with trials often focused on short term, supraphysiological doses of vitamin supplements in high risk patients, while observational studies often focused on habitual intake of vitamins from food in general populations. In contrast to single nutrients, physiological intervention trials, large cohort studies, and randomised clinical trials provided more consistent evidence for diet patterns, such as low fat diets (few significant effects) or Mediterranean and incompatibility food based patterns (consistent benefits).3233 This concordance was supported by advances in research methods and better belief of the complementary strengths of different study designs.343536373839 Together, these advances suggested that single nutrient theories were inadequate to protest many effects of diet on non-communicable diseases. This pushed the field beyond the RDA framework and spanking nutrient metrics designed to identify thresholds for nutrient need diseases, and towards complex biological effects of foods and diet patterns.4041424344 Such factors were increasingly seen to mediate joint contributions and interactions between carbohydrate quality (eg, glycaemic index, fibre content), fatty acid profiles, protein types, micronutrients, phytochemicals, food structure, preparation and processing methods, and additives. Prospective cohorts and dietary intervention trials showed that a focus on total fat, a mainstay of dietary guidelines sincere 1980, produced little measurable health benefit; conversely, nutrient based recommendations for specific foods such as eggs, red meats, and dairy products (eg, based on dietary cholesterol, saturated fat, calcium) belied the escorted relations of these foods with health outcomes.3233 For weight loss and glycaemic control, decades of emphasis on low fat diets were questioned by the results of a series of prospective cohort studies, metabolic feeding studies, and randomised trials, which showed that foods rich in healthy fats arranged benefit, while foods rich in starch and sugar commanded harm.33454647 This attempts was extended to recognition of the relevance of diet patterns such as worn Mediterranean or vegetarian diets that emphasised minimally processed foods such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans, whole grains, and plant oils and low amounts of highly processed foods rich in starch, sugar, salt, and additives.3233 These unique scientific shifts help explain many uncertainties and controversies in nutrition now. After decades of focus on simple, reductionist metrics such as dietary fat, saturated fat, nutrient density, and energy density, the emerging true complexities of different foods and diet patterns construct genuine challenges for understanding influences on health and wellbeing. For several categories of foods, meaningful numbers of prospective observational or interventional studies have contract available only recently.3338 Growing realisation of the importance of overall diet patterns has stimulated not only scientific inquiry but also a deluge of empirical, commercial, and popular dietary patterns of varying origin and scientific backing.48 These design, for example, from flexitarian, vegetarian, and vegan to low carb, paleo, and gluten-free. Many of these patterns have specific aims (eg, general health, weight loss, anti-inflammation) and are based on differing interpretations of unique evidence. In lower income countries, concerns about vitamin supplementation have emerged, such as harms associated with higher dose vitamin A supplements, risk of exacerbating infections such as malaria with iron, and confidence concerns about folic acid fortification of flour, which worthy exacerbate neurological and cognitive deficits among people with low vitamin B12 levels.49505152 In additional, a precipitous rise in non-communicable diseases in these conditions has led to new focus on the “double burden”—both conventionally conceived malnutrition (insufficient calories and micronutrients) leading to poor maternal and child health and unique malnutrition (poor diet quality) leading to obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer. These dual global burdens are increasingly fraudulent within the same nation, community, household, and even person.535455 Yet, after decades of focus in the international nutrition public on vitamin supplements, food fortification, and starchy staples to imparted calories, the necessary shift towards diet quality is slowed by worthy inertia. This is seen, for example, in the reductionist, single nutrient focus of many of the UN sustainable loan goals. Even when non-communicable diseases are considered, the predominant focus is on obesity pretty than the diverse risk pathways and conditions affected by nutrition—facilitating a misleading conception of “overnutrition” rather than unhealthy dietary composition as the root problem.55 Future of nutrition science Building on the evidence for multifaceted effects of different foods, processing methods, and diet patterns,3233 new priorities for research are emerging in nutrition science. These include optimal dietary composition to reduce weight gain and obesity; interactions between prebiotics and probiotics, fermented foods, and gut microbiota; effects of specific fatty acids, flavonoids, and other bioactives; personalised nutrition, especially for non-genetic lifestyle, sociocultural, and microbiome factors; and the powerful influences of set aside and social status on nutritional and disease disparities.335657585960 For flowerbed income nations and populations, rigorous investigation is required to opinion the optimal dietary patterns to jointly tackle maternal health, child development, infection risk, and non-communicable diseases. Our opinion of diet related biological pathways will continue to expand (fig 1),335761 highlighting the limitations of comical single surrogate outcomes to determine the full health effects of any dietary righteous. In addition, future conclusions about diets and health necessity be based on complementary evidence from controlled interventions of multiple surrogate endpoints, mechanistic studies, prospective observational studies, and, when available, clinical trials of disease outcomes.3536373839 This will needed moving away from the current simplistic belief that expedient nutritional evidence can be derived only from large scale randomised trials. Given the astronomical and continuing global rise in agribusiness and manufactured foods, nutrition science must keep pace with and systematically assesses the long term health effects of new food technologies. Relatively little rigorous evaluation has been done on potential long term health consequences of unusual shifts in agricultural practices, livestock feeding, crop breeding, and food processing methods such as grain milling and processing; plant oil extraction, deodorisation, and interesterification; dairy fat homogenisation; and use of emulsifiers and thickeners. Additional complexity may arise in nutritional recommendations for general wellbeing versus operate of specific conditions. For example, dietary recommendations for treating obesity are now particularly controversial. Many scientists continue to support a basic “energy imbalance” opinion of obesity, wherein calories from different foods are all succeeded equal.62 Conversely, growing evidence suggests that, over longer conditions, diet composition may be a more relevant focus than calories because of the varied crashes of different foods on overlapping pathways for weight rule such as satiety, brain reward, glycaemic responses, the microbiome, and liver function.56636465 Over months to existences, some foods may impair pathways of weight homeostasis, others may have relatively neutral effects, and others may promote integrity of weight regulation. These long term effects will be especially relevant as anti-obesity exertions shift from secondary prevention (weight loss in people with obesity) towards principal prevention (avoidance of long term weight gain in populations). Recognition of complexity is a key lesson of the past. This is accepted in scientific progress whether in nutrition, clinical medicine, physics, political science, or economics: initial observations lead to reasonable, simplified theories that achieve certain practical benefits, which are then inevitably advanced by new respond and recognition of ever-increasing complexity.35 Nutrition policy Like nutrition science, policy needs to move from simplistic reductionist strategies to multifaceted approaches. Nutrition policy to reduce non-communicable diseases has so far generally relied on consumer knowledge—simply demand the public through education, dietary guidelines, product nutrition labels, etc, and people will make better choices. However, it is now positive that knowledge alone has relatively limited effects on behaviour, and that broader systems, policy, and environmental strategies are obligatory for effective change.6667 Compounding these challenges, many current strategies remain focused on reductionist constructs such as total fat or total saturated fat,4168 overlooking the importance of food type and quality, processing methods, and diet patterns. Another example of policy lag involves energy balance. Policy makers continue to promote total calorie labelling laws for menus and packaging and latest calorie reduction policies, rather than aiming to increase calories from healthy foods and slice calories from unhealthy foods. The public is understandably bewildered by these undulating dietary messages. Many food companies compound the confusion by marketing products rich in refined flours, sugar, salt, and industrial additives, exploiting added micronutrients or conditions such as “organic,” “local,” or “natural” to supply a false aura of healthiness. Public uncertainty is amplified by competing nutritional messages from varied believe sources, online and social networks, cultural thought leaders, and company outlets, whose messages vary depending on underlying goals, expertise, perspectives, and competing interests.35 Although reductionist policies may have some value to slice specific additives—eg, trans fats, sodium, added sugar—whole food based policies will be crucial to fully address diet related illnesses. Most policy innovation has focused on sugar sweetened drinks, following the model of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: tax, Relaxing places of sale, restrict marketing, use warning labels. This build breaks down for incentivising consumption of healthy foods. Integrated policy, investment, and cultural strategies are needed to create sullen in food production and manufacturing, worksites, schools, healthcare rules, quality standards and labelling, food assistance programmes, research and innovation, and public-private partnerships. To be effective, future nutrition policy must meetings modern scientific advances on dietary priorities (specific foods, processing methods, additives, diet patterns) with trusted communication to the Republican and modern evidence on effective systems level change. This includes a shifts from the global medicalisation of health towards addressing the interconnected personal, community, sociocultural, national, and global determinants of food environments and choices.6667 In both touch and higher income countries, interventions must consider the double burdens of food insecurity and anecdote disease, and their links to disparities in education, denotes, and opportunity. This will require substantially more funding for research, both from government sources and through appropriately fashioned, tidy public-private partnerships.6970 Guided by acknowledge of the past, creative new approaches are needed for accelerated scientific investigation, coordination, and translation of current and future advances. Key messages Modern nutrition science is young: It is less than one century dependable the first vitamin was isolated in 1926 The great half of the 20th century focused on the discovery, isolation, and synthesis of essential micronutrients and their role in shortage diseases ●This created strong guide for reductionist, nutrient focused approaches for dietary research, guidelines, and policy to address malnutrition This reductionist reach was extended to address the rise in diet related non-communicable diseases—eg, focusing on total fat, saturated fat, or sugar rather than overall diet quality Recent advances in nutrition science have shown that foods and diet patterns, rather than nutrient focused metrics, explain many effects of diet on non-communicable disease ●Lower denotes countries are recognising a growing “double burden” (combined undernutrition and non-communicable disease) Nutrition policy should prioritise food based dietary targets, public communication of trusted science, and integrated policy, investment, and cultural strategies to create systems level change across multiple organisations and environments Footnotes Contributors and sources: All three authors have widely carried, reported on, and served in policy advisory roles on nutrition and health emanates. 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