Risk of fractures in later life not reduced by high daily calcium intake
If you are already taking moderate amounts of calcium, increasing it will not lower your risk of osteoporosis or fractures when you are older, researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden reported in the BMJ (British Medical Journal).
May 24, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: bones / orthopedics, british-medical, diet, get-older, lose-some, medical, risk, thus-increasing, uppsala, will-not
EFSA Launches Updated Guidance For Food And Feed Risk Assessment Of GM Plants
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published updated guidance for the risk assessment of food and feed derived from genetically modified (GM) plants. The document expands on previous EFSA guidance and reflects the latest scientific developments in areas such as assessment of allergenicity and selection of the comparator plant against which the GM plant is compared…
May 24, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: comparator, diet, european, european-food, feed-derived, genetically-modified, nutrition, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, risk, risk-assessment, safety, such-as-assessment, the-comparator
Lunch? Have A Large Fruit Salad Please!
What do apples, blueberries and prunes have in common?
May 24, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: benefits, benefits-include, better-blood, confirm-the-benefits, diet, increased-bone, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, on call diets, scratching-the-surface, strong-defense, surface
Protection Provided By Probiotic-Derived Product In Model Of Intestinal Inflammation
Many people tout the beneficial effects of probiotics in preventing and/or treating several intestinal diseases, including ulcerative colitis…
May 24, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: beneficial, diet, including-ulcerative, intestinal-diseases, on call diets, people-tout, the-beneficial, tout-the-beneficial, treating-several
Vitamin D Levels Low In African-Americans With Multiple Sclerosis
African-Americans who have multiple sclerosis (MS) have lower vitamin D levels than African-Americans who don’t have the disease, according to a study published in the May 24, 2011, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. However, most of the difference in vitamin D levels was due to differences in climate and geography…
May 24, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: difference, disease, medical, multiple-sclerosis, neurology, oncalldietitian.com, study-published, the-difference, the-medical
How The Bitter Can Produce The Sweet Pre-Meal Dietary Supplement Developed At Hebrew University Can Overcome Fat And Sugar Problems
A little bitter with a little sweet, in the form of a nano-complex dietary supplement taken before meals, can result in a substantial reduction of fat and sugar absorption in the body, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harvard University researchers have found…
May 24, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: body, form, harvard, hebrew, little-bitter, little-sweet, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, sugar-absorption, taken-before, the-body, the-form
Why Caffeine Can Reduce Fertility In Women
Caffeine reduces muscle activity in the Fallopian tubes that carry eggs from a woman’s ovaries to her womb. “Our experiments were conducted in mice, but this finding goes a long way towards explaining why drinking caffeinated drinks can reduce a woman’s chance of becoming pregnant,” says Professor Sean Ward from the University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, USA…
May 24, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: carry-eggs, fertility, finding-goes, medicine, nevada, nevada-school, oncalldiets, professor, professor-sean, reduces-muscle, university
