Children’s Poor Reading Could Improve With Omega-3 Supplements
New research from the UK suggests that taking a daily supplement of DHA, an omega-3 fatty acid, could be a simple and effective way to improve reading and behaviour in healthy but underperforming children…
September 10, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: daily-supplement, dha, diet, effective-way, improve-reading, nutrition, nutrition / diet, omega-3-fatty, oncalldietitian.com
Non-Alcoholic Red Wine Lowers Blood Pressure
Non-alcoholic red wine was found to lower blood pressure in men at high risk of heart disease, researchers from Spain reported in the journal Circulation Research. The authors explained that the men who drank non-alcoholic red wine daily for four weeks had higher levels of nitric oxide in their blood…
September 7, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: authors-explained, blood, circulation, heart-disease, journal, levels, nitric-oxide, nutrition, nutrition / diet, on call diets, oncalldiets, red-wine, spain, weeks
Green Tea Improves Memory And Spacial Awareness
Although previous studies have shown that green tea consumption aids in weight loss, can lower cholesterol levels and is full of anti-oxidants, a new report published in Molecular Nutrition & Food Research reveals that it may also benefit memory and spacial awareness as well…
September 5, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: awareness-as-well, benefit-memory, molecular, molecular-nutrition, neurology / neuroscience, new-report, oncalldiets, research, tea-consumption, weight-loss
Organic Food Not Safer Or Nutritionally Superior To Conventional Foods
Overall, organic foods are not nutritionally superior to conventional foods, neither are they safer regarding bacterial contamination, researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine reported in Annals of Internal Medicine. The scientists emphasized that they did not find any significant evidence pointing to nutritional benefits linked to the consumption of organic foods…
September 5, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: annals, benefits-linked, evidence-pointing, internal, medicine, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, organic-foods, school, scientists-emphasized, stanford, stanford-university, the-consumption
If People Don’t Take Their Health Into Their Own Hands, Governments May Use Policies To Do It For Them
Obesity rates in North America are a growing concern for legislators.
September 4, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: alberta, get-healthy, heart-disease, north, not-take, nutrition, oncalldiets, researcher-says, their-weight, university, waistlines-mean, weight
Collaboration To Validate A Method Developed By Mars, Incorporated To Quantify The Much-Studied Cocoa Flavanols
Mars, Incorporated, working in partnership with AOAC International, has successfully completed a multi-laboratory, first-of-its-kind validation of a method for analyzing flavanols and procyanidins in cocoa-based products…
September 1, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: analyzing-flavanols, aoac, incorporated, international, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, successfully-completed