/newsroom/taxonomy/term/1018/all en /newsroom/channels/news/small-dietary-changes-can-cut-your-carbon-footprint-25-355698 <p>The latest <a href="https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/">Canada’s Food Guide</a> presents a paradigm shift in nutrition advice, nixing traditional food groups, including meat and dairy, and stressing the importance of plant-based proteins. Yet, the full implications of replacing animal with plant protein foods in Canadians’ diets are unknown.</p> Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:42:24 +0000 keila.depape@mcgill.ca 308646 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/other-paleo-diet-rare-discovery-dinosaur-remains-preserved-its-last-meal-344495 <p><i>Microraptor</i> was an opportunistic predator, feeding on fish, birds, lizards – and now small mammals. The discovery of a rare fossil reveals the creature was a generalist carnivore in the ancient ecosystem of dinosaurs.</p> Tue, 20 Dec 2022 21:36:11 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 288588 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/narwal-tusks-reveal-mercury-exposure-related-climate-change-330059 <p>In the Arctic, climate change and pollution are the biggest threats to top predators like narwhals. Studying the animals’ tusks reveals that diet and exposure to pollution have shifted over the past half century in response to sea-ice decline. Human emissions have also led to a sharp rise in the presence of mercury in recent years, according to an international team of researchers.</p> Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:13:31 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 257550 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mindfulness-training-shows-promise-maintaining-weight-loss-283028 <p>Can mindfulness training help overweight people shed pounds and keep them off?  ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ researchers surveyed the growing body of studies investigating that question, and came away encouraged.</p> <p>Kimberly Carrière, Bärbel Knäuper and Bassam Khoury examined 19 studies conducted over the past decade. Mindfulness interventions in these studies involved either formal meditation, informal mindfulness strategies that focused on eating activity, or some combination of these two approaches.</p> <p>The researchers found that:</p> Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:29:28 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32695 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/tracking-eating-habits-promote-healthier-diets-233972 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:55:37 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 19833 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/you-are-what-your-father-eats-231995 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:11:35 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 19515 at /newsroom