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ILSI North America’s goal is to publish its scientific work in the peer-reviewed literature. It also publishes monographs, white papers, and other documents. In this section, you can find both recent and past ILSI North America publications.

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ILSI North America Newsletter

Quarterly newsletter summarizing ILSI North America events, recognitions, and news.

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ILSI North America Publications

Listed here are recent ILSI North America publications including peer-reviewed articles and monographs. For a list of publications from ILSI entities other than ILSI North America, visit ILSI Publications.

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Year	Publication Title	File/PDF
2009	Early Determinants of Later Health Outcomes A state-of-the science summary evaluating determinants of risk and critical programming windows for specific health outcomes from pregnancy/gestation through five years of age. Determinants of risk for three health outcomes were reviewed: obesity, cardiovascular disease, and neurodevelopment. Industry perspectives also address the potential use of these data for the food industry.
2009	Towards Establishing DRIs for EPA and DHA This article summarizes the 2008 workshop "Towards Dietary Reference Intakes for Omega-3 Fatty Acids," which reviewed the evidence for long chain PUFAs on cardiovascular disease and other health outcomes.
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2009	The State of the Science on Dietary Sweeteners Containing Fructose This supplement summarizes the 2008 Workshop "State of the Science on Dietary Sweeteners Containing Fructose," sponsored by the ILSI North America Technical Committee on Carbohydrates. Eleven articles in the supplement cover the occurrence and uses of fructose in the food supply, dietary intake levels, and the current science on health effects of fructose in its various forms.
2009	Funding Food Science and Nutrition Research: Financial Conflicts and Scientific Integrity This paper discusses conflict-of-interest guidelines regarding industry funding to protect the integrity and credibility of the scientific record, particularly with respect to health, nutrition, and food-safety science. Eight principles are enumerated, which specify the ground rules for industry-sponsored research.
2009	Healthy Mouth Healthy Body What we know about the connection between oral and system health.
2009	Hydration and Health Promotion
2009	Hydration and Human Health: Critical Issues Update The symposium on which this article is based dealt with the current knowledge on hydration, from the myths and science of hydration, to the assessment of the level of hydration of the individual, and to recommendations for the maintenance of water balance under normal conditions and during physical exercise.
2007	Flavonoid Intake and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality: a Prospective Study in Postmenopausal Women Flavonoid food composition data were used evaluate the association between flavonoid intake and cardiovascular disease mortality.
2007	Flavonoids and Heart Health Discusses research on flavonoid intake and the relation between flavonoids and heart health; provides information that could lead to expert consensus on the state-of-the-science of dietary intake of flavonoids on heart health; and summarize and prioritize the research needed to establish the relations between specific flavonoids and heart health.
2007	Functional Neuroimaging Correlates of Mental Fatigue The neural mechanisms underlying feelings of fatigue are poorly understood. The primary purpose of the study was to use functional magnetic resonance imaging to determine the association between feelings of mental fatigue and blood oxygen level dependent brain responses during a mentally fatiguing cognitive task. The results suggest an association between subjective feelings of mental fatigue and brain responses during fatiguing cognition.
2007	Cognitive Methods for Assessing Mental Energy This review assess the concept of mental energy and cognitive tests used to assess it including cognitive performance, mood questionnaires, electrophysiological techniques, brain scanning technologies, and ambulatory monitoring. Studies of the factors affecting mental energy, such as drugs, foods, sleep, and diseases are also reviewed.
2007	Hydration and Health Promotion
2006	DRIs: Implications for Fiber Labeling and Consumption This supplement summarizes the outcome of the 2004 ILSI North America Fiber Workshop, sponsored by the Technical Committee on Carbohydrates. This article compares definitions of fiber, raising questions on criteria for defining fiber and analytical and functional was to distinguish among fibers.
2006	Dietary Sodium Intake and Its Relation to Human Health The ILSI North America Technical on Sodium is proud to announce the recent publication of a committee-sponsored supplement to the Journal of the American College of Nutrition. Individual papers address the role of sodium in fluid homeostasis with exercise; the influence of dietary sodium on blood pressure; salt sensitivity as related to blood presure, cardiovascular disease, and survival; the relationship between dietary sodium and cardiovascular disease; the interaction between sodium and potassium; the role of dietary sodium in osteoporosis; and the formulation of dietary guidelines in light of scientific evidence.
2006	Understanding Tolerable Upper Level Intakes This supplement to the Journal of Nutrition, summarizes the 2003 workshop on Tolerable Upper Intake Levels (UL) sponsored by the Project Committee on Tolerable Upper Levels. Articles capture the outcome of the workshop on scientific issues, communications concerns, and additional issues surrounding the practical application of ULs.
2006	Four Classification Schemes for Adult Motivation Classification of perspectives on motivation and recommendations for measurement are provided. Motivation is classified into four broad categories: content process decision making, and sustained effort theories. Recommendations on measurement are developed for each classification scheme.
2006	Mental Energy: Defining the Science This special supplement to Nutrition Reviews contains a series of articles that explain the development of a definition and model for mental energy, including methods for assessing its domains.
2006	Beverage Caffeine Intakes in Young Children In Canada and the US Published in the Summer 2006 issue of the Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research, this article addresses caffeine consumption patterns and caffeine intake differences in canadian and US children.
2006	Low-Carbohydrate Diets The ILSI North America Technical Committee on Carbohydrates is pleased to announce the publication "Low-Carbohydrate Diets: Assessing the Science and Knowledge Gaps, Summary of an ILSI North America Workshop." Appearing in the December 2006 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, this aricle provides highlights on a workshop examining definitions of "low-carb" and physiological mechanisms of efficacy.
2006	Proceedings from Workshop on Mental Energy The proceedings Mental Energy: Defining the Science provide highlights of the April 2004 workshop on mental energy.
2006	Hidratación: Líquidos para la Vida The ILSI North America Technical Committee on Hydration and ILSI Mexico are proud to announce the monograph Hydration: Fluids for Life is now available in Spanish! This is a reprint of the 2004 monograph that covers the functions of water in the human system; the health effects of water loss; recommended intakes through the lifecycle and dietary sources of hydrating fluids.
2005	Functional Foods for Health Promotion: Implications for Reducing Obesity Published as a commentary in Nutrition Today, this article provides highlights from the Special Conference on Functional Foods, sponsored by the ILSI North America Technical Committee on Food Components for Health Promotion and the American Society for Nutritional Sciences (ASNS) at the Experimental Biology meeting in 2004. This symposium helped increase the understanding of the onset of obesity and provided further knowledge about the physiological response to food and food components.
2005	Effect of Chronic Caffeine Intake Although not substantiated by research, many clinicians, coaches, and military personnel advise a reduction of caffeine use to optimize or maintain hydration status. Having identified this critical gap in caffeine research, the committee funded research to examine the effects of tolerance and withdrawal from caffeine on hydration status in subjects who are regular users of caffeine.
2005	Fluid-Electrolyte and Renal Indices of Hydration During Eleven Days of Controlled Caffeine Consumption Although not substantiated by research, many clinicians, coaches, and military personnel advise a reduction of caffeine use to optimize or maintain hydration status. Having identified this critical gap in caffeine research, the committee funded research to examine the effects of tolerance and withdrawal from caffeine on hydration status in subjects who are regular users of caffeine.
2004	Hydration: Fluids for Life Written in an engaging and accessible style, the 40-page booklet brings readers the science on the importance of staying hydrated for overall health. Geared toward non-specialist health professionals, Hydration: Fluids for Life, covers the functions of water; water loss and dehydration; recommended intakes through the lifecycle; and important sources of hydrating fluids.
2004	Beverage Caffeine Intake in US Consumers and Subpopulations of Interest Concerns exist about the potential adverse health effects of high consumption of dietary caffeine, especially in children and pregnant women. Recommended caffeine intakes corresponding to no adverse health effects have been suggested recently for healthy adults, for women contemplating pregnancy, and for young children age 4-6 years. To determine whether current caffeine intake approaches these levels, intake from major dietary sources were measured in caffeinated beverage consumers in the 1999 US Share of Intake Panel, a targeted beverage survey. The data showed that while mean caffeine intakes are within recommended safe levels, heavy consumers of certain subpopulations, including young children and women contemplating pregnancy, might benefit from dietary advice.
2004	Evaluation of Four Highly Cited Energy and Fatigue Mood Measures This paper evaluation four highly cited measures of energy and fatigue moods including the vitality scale of the SF-36 Health Survey, Profile of Mood States, and Activation-Deactivation Adjective Checklist.
2004	Consumer Perceptions of Mental and Physical Energy Consumer's defitions of energy could inform structure/function claims. This peper summarizes focus group research that explored consumer's descriptions of mental and physical energy.
2004	Dietary Fatty Acids, Hemostasis, and CVD Risk Published in the March 2004 issue of the Journal of the America Dietetic Association, this article describes relationships between dietary fatty acids, hemostasis, and CVD risk. The article is approved by the American Dietetic Association for continuing education credits.
2003	Supplement on Behavior and Obesity Prevention This special supplement to Obesity Research reviews and evaluates how various dietary and physical activity factors relate to weight management. The authors present what is understood about the complex biological, social, environmental, and economic factors that contribute to obesity. Their manuscripts also describe how these factors have changed over time and where the greatest research and dialogue is needed to treat ultimately and prevent obesity.
2003	Biomarkers of Nutritional Exposure In this supplement to The Journal of Nutrition, the authors provide an evaluation of the use of biomarkers in nutritional epidemiology. Their focus is on biomarkers that are considered to have current or emerging interest for chronic disease and methodologic research, and for which a substantial body of literature regarding their measurement in humans exists.
2003	AJCN Supplement on Sugars and Health This October 2003 supplement to The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition summarizes the 2002 Workshop on Sugars and Health, sponsored by the ILSI North America Technical Committee on Carbohydrates. Nine articles in the supplement cover sugars and weight control; insulin sensitivity; diabetes; CVD; dental caries; and US guidance on sugars intake.
2003	Sugars and Health: Is There an Issue? Current controversy over the impact of sugars in health prompted a workshop in which participants shared the latest nutritional science information on this topic. Published as a commentary in Journal of the America Dietetic Association, this article summarizes the "Sugars and Health Workshop," sponsored by the ILSI North America Technical Committee on Carbohydrates and held in September 2002.
2003	Hydration: Issues for the 21st Century Appearing in the August 2003 issue of Nutrition Reviews, this review article goes beyond studies of water requirements for stressed populations to summarize emerging scientific information focusing on healthy adults and point to areas for future research.
2002	ILSI Caffeine Monograph Published in a special issue of Food and Chemical Toxicology, this series of articles provides a review of the medical literature covering caffeine and behavior, calcium economy, and reproductive risks.
2001	Defining Energy for a New Millennium This supplement addresses the question as to what "energy" means to the scientific community, the consumer public, the policymakers, and attempt to identify the scientific foundation for energy claims. A series of articles explores the scientific basis and evidence for linking food components to physical and mental energy.
2001	Evaluation of the Reproductive and Developmental Risks of Caffeine
1998	Carbohydrates and Weight Management This ILSI North America Concise Monograph provides readers with a better understanding of the role of carbohydrates in weight maintenance.
1998	Human Diet and Endocrine Modulation The ILSI North America Monograph Human Diet and Endocrine Modulation, provides information on mechanisms of action; methods of measuring endocrine-active substances; and sources and potential effects of endocrine-active substances in the human diet.