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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 374

nutrition

A preterm neonate with a nasogastric tube in an incubator. (Courtesy of Elgan Pharma)
August 29, 2023, 11:33 am
Israeli company nears final hurdle to okay insulin-based preemie therapy
Elgan Pharma uses insulin’s growth factor properties to help the gastrointestinal systems of the tiniest babies develop more quickly and effectively — and get them home sooner
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Dietician, author and social media influencer Ilana Muhlstein. (Courtesy)
March 8, 2023, 4:06 am
How weight-loss guru Ilana Muhlstein rose from ‘big’ to huge social media sensation
The dietician, best-selling author, mom and TikTok queen is a self-made success story – and now she’s teamed up with Gal Gadot
By Aviva Engel
A herd of cattle graze in the Golan Heights (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
June 24, 2022, 9:48 am
Government deal to boost beef industry pilloried as bad for climate, public health
Agriculture minister says NIS 420 million accord will help cut prices, while rights activists say permanent customs tax exemption on import of live calves is a license for abuse
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative image: A ketogenic food diet (iStock via Getty Images)
January 17, 2022, 3:45 pm
High-fat diet may restore cognitive function lost in brain injury – Israeli study
More than half of the lost cognitive ability returns after mice are given ketogenic diet for two months, Tel Aviv University scientists report in peer-reviewed research
By Nathan Jeffay
Fruit on sale at Europe's largest outdoor market, Porta Palazzo in Turin, Italy, in October 2006. (AP Photo/J.M. Hirsch)
February 4, 2020, 9:21 pm
Global campaign to feed world without harming the planet arrives in Israel
Now launched in Hebrew, the EAT- Lancet Commission report sets out how 10 billion people can be fed healthy food by 2050 while protecting Earth
By Sue Surkes
David Hertz is the cofounder of Gastromotiva, a Brazilian-based organization that fights unemployment and social inequality. (Courtesy of the Charles Bronfman Prize via JTA)
September 8, 2019, 12:26 am
David Hertz, who uses food for social change, wins $100K Bronfman Prize
Jewish entrepreneur from Brazil is cofounder of Gastromotiva, which counters inequality and unemployment with cooking and nutrition education
By JTA
Students at Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium high school in Tel Aviv producing spirulina. (Courtesy - JustSpirulina.org )
May 20, 2019, 5:30 am
A Tel Aviv high school program is helping to feed the world, with spirulina
Experts from Congo visit Gymnasium Herzliya to learn from students how to produce the algae, a malnutrition-fighting wonder-food
By ToI Staff
Avi Gilbert, left, and Menachem Simon harvest microgreen crops at Hillel Academy Jewish day school of Dayton, Ohio, March 7, 2019. (Marshall Weiss/Dayton Jewish Observer)
April 2, 2019, 11:35 pm
Ohio day school students farm microgreens through project with Israeli roots
An indoor farming initiative teaches fifth- and sixth-graders key skills, melds science with Jewish values related to food justice, and partners them with kids in the Jewish state
By Marshall Weiss
The Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, January 2, 2014. (Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)
April 2, 2019, 4:25 pm
Fruit juice diet lands Israeli woman in hospital with brain damage
Woman in her 40s admitted to Tel Hashomer with possibly irreversible injuries after three weeks of malnutrition
By ToI Staff
Chef Brett Eisen helped teach healthy eating to Sacramento-area kids who had little access to nutritious food while he was working with the Sacramento Kings basketball team. (Screenshot Youtube)
February 20, 2018, 5:03 am
Meet the Jewish student-teacher culinary team who made it to the Olympics
After meeting in a culinary arts college in Denver, Colorado, Adam Sacks and Brett Eisen are taking their show on the road — to the XXIII Winter Games in South Korea
By Elissa Einhorn
Illustrative. Enjoying a bowl of tortilla chips. (Hugh Stonelan via Stock/Getty Images)
December 25, 2017, 8:40 pm
Food packages to carry red labels for excess sugar, salt and saturated fats
Health Ministry hopes manufacturers will cut unhealthy ingredients over the next two years, before rules come into effect
By Sue Surkes
A man slices cuts of meat from a shawarma spit inside a restaurant cafe in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, November 30, 2017 (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
December 3, 2017, 5:12 am
EU shawarma vendors up in arms over possible ban
European legislature seeking to outlaw phosphates used in the popular street food
By Kirsten Grieshaber and Raf Casert
Illustrative: A basket of sesame bread, multi-grain bread, rye bread, and others. (Wikipedia/3268zauber/CC BY-SA)
June 8, 2017, 3:30 pm
White bread may be healthier than whole — for some
Weizmann Institute study links health benefits of bread to unique bacterial cultures in each person’s intestines
By Sue Surkes
Tanya Rosen provides nutrition counseling catering to Orthodox Jews. (Courtesy of Rosen/via JTA)
February 6, 2017, 8:52 pm
This Orthodox nutritionist sells ‘kosher’ workouts and 90-calorie challah
Shabbat, holidays, kashrut and higher pregnancy rates are among the considerations factored in to Tanya Rosen’s nutrition plans
By Josefin Dolsten
Sufganiyot on display in Jerusalem’s Central Bus Station. The jelly doughnut began appearing in bakeries around Israel more than a month before Hanukkah. (Ben Sales)
December 12, 2016, 12:41 am
Israeli health minister declares ‘donuts – out!’
Yaakov Litzman says Israel must find alternative to sugary, oily Hanukkah treat, educate children to eat better
By ToI Staff
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