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Fruit juice – just another sugary drink?
Writing in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology journal, Professor Naveed Sattar and Dr Jason Gill – both of the university's Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences – call for better labelling of fruit juice containers to make explicit to consumers that they should drink no more than 150ml a day. MedicalXpress

Study shows gut bacteria associated with obesity varies by geographic latitude
A pair of researches has found that the proportions of two types of gut bacteria known to have an impact on weight retention differ by geographic latitude. In their paper, published in the journal Biology Letters, Taichi Suzuki and Michael Worobey of the Universities of California and Arizona respectively describe how they studied gut data of people from around the world and found that the amounts of two types of bacteria associated with weight gain or loss was different depending on where people lived. MedicalXpress

Folic Acid fortification and colorectal cancer risk
Although this type of analysis precludes a definitive conclusion, available evidence suggests that the increase in CRC incidence rates in the later 1990s is unlikely due to folic acid fortification and, assuming a time lag of a decade or longer to see a benefit on CRC, folate appears to be one of the most promising factors that could explain the downward trend of CRC incidence rates in the U.S. Keum N, Giovannucci EL. Am J Prev Med. 2014 Mar;46(3 Suppl 1):S65-72. PMID: 24512932