Controlling Obesity Will Save Over Half A Trillion Dollars
With the tobacco problem on the back burner, diet and obesity are coming into the cross hairs as a focus for public health. Controlling the rise in obesity, promoting quality of life, whilst saving on public healthcare costs is clearly an admirable goal…
May 7, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: cross, diet, ontrolling-the-rise, rise, saving-on-public, the-cross, the-rise, the-tobacco, tobacco, whilst-saving
Oral Zinc Found To Reduce Common Cold Symptoms In Adults More Than Kids
People who take oral zinc may experience shorter common cold symptoms than those who do not, researchers from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, and McMaster University reported in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).The authors added that adverse effects, especially when higher doses are taken, are common…
May 7, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: children, doses, flu / cold / sars, hospital, may-experience, nutrition, oral-zinc, shorter-common, toronto
Daily Omega 3 Fatty Acids In Fish May Ward Off Heart Disease
Most people, whether healthy or having cardiovascular disease (CVD), would benefit from regular consumption of oily fish, concluded speakers at the EuroPRevent 2012 meeting…
May 7, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: concluded-speakers, cvd, europrevent, from-regular, having-cardiovascular, healthy, healthy-or-having, nutrition / diet, oily-fish, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets
Prebiotic May Reduce Colon Cancer Risk, Severity Of Colitis
Researchers at Michigan State University have shown a prebiotic may help the body’s own natural killer cells fight bacterial infection and reduce inflammation, greatly decreasing the risk of colon cancer.
May 7, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: body, crohn's / ibd, fight-bacterial, help-the-body, killer-cells, michigan, michigan-state, prebiotic-may, serve-as-food, the-trillions, tiny-bacteria, trillions, university
