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Timothy Johns
School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition,
21111 Lakeshore Road
Ste. Anne de Bellevue H9X 3V9
Ph: (514) 398-7847 | Fax: (514) 398-7739
email:
web: http://www.mcgill.ca/dietetics/staff/professorial/johns/
Expertise:
Environmental Health, Biodiversity, Ethnobotany, Nutrient, phytochemical and biological activities of plants, Population Health, Traditional use of Plants for Food and Medicine
Focus:
Traditional uses of plants for food and medicine in relation to issues of the health of human populations and of the environments in which they live
Affiliations:
Professor, School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment, McGill University
Academic Supervisor (if Applicable)
Research Area(s)
Food
Geographical Preference(s)
Quebec
Projects
- CIHR Team in Aboriginal Antidiabetic Medicines
- Rigorous scientific evaluation of selected anti-diabetic plants: Towards an alternative therapy for diabetes in the Cree of Northern Quebec
- Bridging traditional knowledge and modern medicine to improve diabetes care and treatment in the cree populations of iiuyiuiu aschii (James Bay territory of northern Quebec)
- Endothelial cytoprotection from oxidized LDL by some crude melanesian plant extracts is not related to their antioxidant capacity
- Traditional dietary additives of the Maasai are antiviral against the measles virus
- Antioxidant activity relates to plant part, life form and growing condition in some diabetes remedies
- Water extracts from Momordica charantia increase glucose uptake and adiponectin secretion in 3T3-L1 adipose cells
- Selected plant species from the Cree pharmacopoeia of northern Quebec possess anti-diabetic potential
- Agricultural biodiversity, nutrition, and health: making a difference to hunger and nutrition in the developing world
- Linking biodiversity, diet and health in policy and practice
- Beliefs, attitudes, and practices of breastfeeding mothers from a periurban community in South Africa
- Ecuadorian Andean women's nutrition varies with age and socioeconomic status
- Biocultural diversity in the sustainability of developing-country food systems
- Pregnancy outcomes in women using herbal therapies
- Northwest African and Middle Eastern food and dietary change of indigenous peoples
- Rigorous scientific evaluation of selected anti-diabetic plants: Towards an alternative therapy for diabetes in the Cree of Northern Quebec