Calcium and Weight Loss
Daily calcium intervention improves the effectiveness of calorie-restriction weight loss programs in overweight or obese humans. Yen-Ling Chen, Yi-Chun Chen, Jo Chun Lin, Yi-Wen Chien Calcium and Weight Loss Study …
Course: Introduction to Nutrition and Food Safety
Obesity and weight management
In many developed countries, overweight or obesity has become a public health issue. Generally speaking, body mass index (BMI) between 24 to 27 is considered “overweight.” For those whose BMI …
Protection for heart, brain and bones
It’s important to keep your organs healthy while aging, especially your heart, brain, and bones. In this video, Prof. Chao will introduce some important advices about how to eat to …
Caloric restriction and aging prevention
You may know the “food pyramid.” It is a triangular diagram representing the optimal number of servings to be eaten each day from each of the basic food groups. In …
Eat to live or live to eat?
After we know how long human beings can live, you may wonder why there are so many differences between regions. In this video, Prof. Chao will explain from the nutrition …
World trend of life expectancy
Life expectancy at birth compares the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year, if mortality at each age remains constant …
Life expectancy of human beings
There are 3 methods to calculate ideal life expectancy of human beings. In this video, Prof. Chao will explain these 3 methods. However, in real life, the life expectancy are …
What will you learn in this course?
Welcome to our course! I am Prof. Jane Chao. The other educators of this course are: Prof. Yi-wen Chien Prof. Yu-Chen Hou Prof. Yung-Kun Chuang We are all from the …
Possible hypotheses of cell death
Supervising organ regression and environment damage might be important factor causing cell death. In this video, Prof. Chao will explain what is “cell death” and the hypotheses and some characteristics …
Elderly and active aging
Demographers and researchers typically refer “baby boomers” as starting birth years ranging from the early-to-mid 1940s and ending birth years ranging from 1960 to 1964. Thus, they are in the …
Study in TMU
We hope you enjoyed this free online course from Taipei Medical University (TMU). TMU offers various study programs from fundamental science to clinical researches. Why TMU? Taipei Medical University (TMU) …
Techniques of food inspection
NMR, MS, and SIRA, three of the most frequently-used techniques of food inspection, will be introduced in this video.
The anti-aging food pyramid
In the last video, Prof. Chao had introduced the food pyramid of WHO. However, in many developed countries, the population of overnutrition might be much higher than malnutrition. In this …