Preventing Botulism In Infants, Canada
Health Canada is advising parents and caregivers not to feed honey to children under one year old.
March 28, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: affect-children, children-over, diet, feed-honey, honey-because, one-year, safely-eat, serious-disease, very-low
Eat Your Greens To Reduce The Risk Of Oral Cancer
Eating green leafy vegetables “significantly lowers the risk” of oral cancer among women who smoke, a recent study has revealed. The research showed for every one serving of green leafy vegetables, the risk of oral cancer for current women smokers is reduced compared to those who have given up or never smoked…
March 28, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, green-leafy, lowers-the-risk, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, recent-study, reduced-compared, research-showed, risk, women-smokers
For Heart-Healthy Antioxidants, Walnuts Are Number One
A new scientific study positions walnuts in the No. 1 slot among a family of foods that lay claim to being among Mother Nature’s most nearly perfect packaged foods: Tree and ground nuts…
March 28, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, lay-claim, mother, mother-nature, nature, new-scientific, nutrition / diet, oncalldietitian.com, perfect-packaged, study-positions
Keeping Foods Fresher Longer With ‘Nano-Bricks’
Scientists are reporting on a new material containing an ingredient used to make bricks that shows promise as a transparent coating for improving the strength and performance of plastic food packaging. Called “nano-bricks,” the film even looks like bricks and mortar under a microscope, they say…
March 28, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, even-looks, film, improving-the-strength, ingredient-used, like-bricks, make-bricks, new-material, nutrition / diet, on call diets, oncalldiets, plastic-food, strength, the-film