Consuming too much wheat flour and animal protein could have profound effects on kidney health
Three new studies suggest that controlling dietary acid intake could help improve kidney health.
November 12, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: congress-center, georgia, georgia-world, kidney-function, kidney-week, on call diets, urology / nephrology, wheat-flour
Soft drinks and sugar in the diet may have negative effects on the kidneys
Two new studies highlight the potential negative effects that soft drinks and sugar can have on kidney health. Results of these studies were presented at ASN Kidney Week 2013 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA…
November 12, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: asn, atlanta, congress, georgia, georgia-world, kidney-week, new-studies, on call diets, presented-at-asn, these-studies
Scientists study factors influencing intestinal microbes
Study results from Texas A&M University and University of North Carolina School of Medicine scientists on the effect of diet complexity and estrogen hormone receptors on intestinal microbiota has been published in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology…
November 12, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: applied, effect, environmental, hormone-receptors, intestinal-microbiota, journal, medicine, north, north-carolina, receptors-on-intestinal, school, the-effect, the-journal, university
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may benefit from vitamin C
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – a health problem in which the lungs lose their inherent springiness, making it progressively harder to breathe – can have a dramatic effect on the ability to exercise and even perform simple activities of daily life because of the disease’s fallout effects on skeletal muscles.
November 12, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: ability, been-implicated, diet, disease, dramatic-effect, even-perform, fallout-effects, lungs-lose, nutrition, on call diets, oncalldiets, these-muscle
