Update

Ok so I have been pretty bad with updating the blog as late. Last week I spent a week in Italy following Northern Ireland in the football World Cup qualifiers. Great time but Italy is not what I expected. Maybe need to go back in the summer.

Anyway enough of all that. Was at a seminar yesterday by Dr Tim Foster from Nottingham University. His talk was "Food structure and its effect on bioaccessibility for
optimised bioavailability of micro- and macro-nutrients”. I have to say I was not sure how this was going to go, however some of the information he discussed was very interesting. He discussed how food companies manipulate the food structure to achieve different aims. For example how they actually put fat molecules into certain foods that actually slow the release of energy and make you feel full longer. They do this without actually adding any increase in calories from the fat macronutrient. There is definatly alot of scope for future research in this area especially with regards to helping people lose weight, help make more effective sports supplements and even increase delivery of drugs to patients with disease or muscle wasting.

Check out some of his work in Pubmed. I will be updating more often just got to keep on top of things.