Special Updates on Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids - Click on Newsletter for Latest Report on PUFA, or click on the link at the bottom of this homepage.

-------------------------------------------- The brochure for our fall continuing medical education conference is now available and can be downloaded from our website as a PDF file.

Please click on ANA Conferences on the left side of this homepage, and this will take you to the section of our website with full details about the fall conference, including the final conference brochure and details on how to register.

ANA Fall Continuing Medical Education Conference to be held in Orlando, Florida - Saturday, October 16, 2010

The 10th Annual Fall CME Conference will be held at the Gaylord Palms Hotel & Convention Center Hotel in Orlando - Kissimmee, Florida

Nutraceuticals and Medicine - The Role of Diet, Nutrition, Nutraceuticals and Phytonutrients in the Prevention and Management of Disease

Topic: Nutritional supplements to defuse weapons of mass inflammation.

Presenter: Lorne J. Hofseth, PhD - Associate Professor with Tenure, South Carolina College of Pharmacy, University of South Carolina

Learning Objectives: 1. To review the scientific evidence linking chronic Inflammation to disease. 2. To review some key players involved in the link between inflammation and disease. 3. To review some of our animal and human studies showing a beneficial effect of complementary and alternative strategies to suppress inflammation.

4. To provide an overview of a recent clinical trial completed at the University of South Carolina and published in the Journal of Molecular Food Nutrition Research: Systemic inflammatory load in humans is suppressed by consumption of two formulations of dried, encapsulated juice concentrate.

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Topic: Plant-based diets and health; guidelines for the clinical practice.

Presenter: Cyril Kendall, PhD - University of Toronto, Canada Professor and research scientist in Nutritional Sciences Department. Dr. Kendall has extensive research experience in dietary studies on foods and cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

Learning Objectives: 1. Review the dietary options for lowering serum cholesterol and discuss the short and longer-term effects of dietary combinations (Portfolio) on lipids, blood pressure and other coronary heart disease risk factors.

2. Understand the principles underpinning the physiological effects of low glycemic index foods as “slow release” or “lente” carbohydrate and review the rationale for the use of low glycemic index foods in the prevention and treatment of diabetes.

3. Discuss dietary approaches that may be undertaken to aid individuals in achieving a healthier plant-based diet. ---------------

Topic: Nutrition and Immunity. How our diet impacts our immune system.

Presenter: Susan Percival, PhD - Professor, Food Science and Human Nutrition Department, University of Florida

Learning Objectives:

1,Review the basics of immunity, introduce a key immune cell, and how this cell is supported by phytonutrients.

2. Inflammation plays a key role in many disease processes. Discuss and identify the benefits and detriments of inflammation.

3. Learn how phytonutrients play an important role in supporting our immune system in addition to their antioxidant value.

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Topic: Diagnosis and Treatment of Vitamin D Deficiency: guidelines for the clinical practice. Recent research suggests that vitamin D can help prevent certain cancers and other diseases. Our nationally recognized speaker will discuss the latest research and its implications

Speaker: Robert P. Heaney, MD,FACP, FACN,FASN John A. Creighton University Professor, Professor of Medicine, Dept. of Medicine, Creighton University, Omaha, NE

Dr. Heaney has worked for over 50 years in the study of osteoporosis, vitamin D and calcium physiology. He is the author of 3 books, and has published over 400 original papers, chapters, monographs, and reviews in scientific and educational fields. He is considered one of the experts in his field and has served on the editorial boards of all the major scientific publications in the field of bone biology and chaired the Scientific Advisory Panel on Osteoprosis of the Office of Technology Assessment (U.S. Congress).

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European Nutraceutical Association Spring 2010 Conference Focuses on Nutraceuticals and Obesity

At it's recent conference, The European Nutraceutical Association (ENA) addressed the subject of "Nutraceuticals and Obesity" on the occasion of their sixth Annual Conference attended by some 250 doctors, nutrition specialists, dietary assistants, pharmacists, natural scientists and sports scientists from Europe and the USA. The conference was held in Vienna. Five internationally renowned experts presented the significance and the consequences of our ever-heavier society on the health of individuals, and discussed the role of nutraceuticals in weight reduction. Formula diets were also included as they also belong to this product group in the widest sense. Other non-surgical treatment approaches and possible options for the future were also discussed.

A summary report from the ENA Conference on Obesity is available as a special report in our May-June newsletter. To obtain this report click on Newsletter at the top of the home page, or click on the link at the bottom of this home page.

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Clinical Update

Vitamin D3 supplementation during the winter is linked to lower incidence of influenza A, particularly in specific subgroups of schoolchildren, according to the results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial reported online in the March 10 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

"To our knowledge, no rigorously designed clinical trials have evaluated the relation between vitamin D and physician diagnosed seasonal influenza," write Mitsuyoshi Urashima, MD, PhD, from Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, in Tokyo, Japan, and colleagues. "We investigated the effect of vitamin D supplements on the incidence of seasonal influenza A in schoolchildren."

Schoolchildren were randomly assigned to receive vitamin D3 supplements (1200 IU/day) or placebo from December 2008 through March 2009. The main endpoint of the study was the incidence of influenza A, diagnosed by influenza antigen testing (rapid influenza diagnostic test [RIDT]) on a nasopharyngeal swab specimen.

In the vitamin D3 group, 18 (10.8%) of 167 children had influenza A, as did 31 (18.6%) of 167 children in the placebo group (relative risk [RR], 0.58; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.34 - 0.99; P = .04). The association of decreased influenza A incidence with vitamin D supplements was stronger in children who had not been taking other vitamin D supplements (RR, 0.36; 95% CI, 0.17 - 0.79; P = .006) and in those who started nursery school after age 3 years (RR, 0.36; 95% CI, 0.17 - 0.78; P = .005).

Among children with a previous diagnosis of asthma, 2 children in the vitamin D3 group vs 12 children in the placebo group had asthma attacks as a secondary outcome (RR, 0.17; 95% CI, 0.04 - 0.73; P = .006).

"This study suggests that vitamin D3 supplementation during the winter may reduce the incidence of influenza A, especially in specific subgroups of schoolchildren," the study authors write. "....Moreover, asthma attacks were also prevented by vitamin D3 supplementation."

Limitations of this study include small sample size, lack of data on serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D or on urinary calcium data, and lack of information on the presence or development of influenza A antibodies.

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New Edition of JANA Now Available Online. Click on the link found at the bottom of this home page, or click on JANA Journal on the homepage. In this edition:

Preventative Medicine—Can it Lower Costs for Health Care? Results Show Duke Prospective Health Pays Off

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Research Updates

Prostate-Specific Dietary Supplements Discouraged for Prostate Cancer Patients Undergoing Radiation Therapy

Vitamin D Crucial to Activating Immune Defenses

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Clinical Update

Selenium Intake May Worsen Prostate Cancer Study Reports: J Clin Oncol. 2009 Aug 1;27(22):3577-83. Epub 2009 Jun 15

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Research Clinical Survey

Lipid Replacement Therapy with a Glycophospholipid-Antioxidant-Vitamin Formulation Significantly Reduces Fatigue Within One Week

Garth L. Nicolson, PhD, Rita R. Ellithorpe, MD, Cyndee Ayson-Mitchell, MD, Brett Jacques, ND and Robert Settineri, MS

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Original Research Article

Effect of Combination Pantethine, Plant Sterols, Green Tea Extract, Delta-tocotrienol and Phytolens on Lipid Profiles in Patients with Hyperlipidemia

Mark Houston, MD, William Sparks, BSc, CN

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The Effect of a Plant-Based Supplement on Hypertension and Other Indicators of Cardiovascular Disease

John E. Lewis, Judi Woolger, Janet Konefal, Jared T. Ritter,Angelica B. Melillo, Sarah A. Jones, Soyona Rafatjah,Scott Irwin, Evan Long