Fetal development disrupted when female zinc deficient pre-pregnancy
Female mice deprived of dietary zinc for a relatively short time before conception experienced fertility and pregnancy problems and had smaller, less-developed fetuses than mice that ingested zinc…
June 2, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: conception-experienced, dietary-zinc, mice-deprived, oncalldietitian.com, pregnancy / obstetrics, pregnancy-problems, relatively-short, time-before
Swim times are significantly faster when swimmers recover with chocolate milk
Grabbing chocolate milk after a hard swim could give swimmers a performance edge, according to new research presented at one of the nation’s top sports medicine conferences – the American College of…
June 2, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: chocolate-milk, diet, hard-swim, medicine-conferences, nation, new-research, presented-at-one, the-nation, top-sports
When assessing vitamin D’s role in diabetes, don’t forget parathyroid hormone
Testing vitamin D alone is not enoughCombined assessment of parathyroid hormone along with vitamin D may be needed to assess the impact of vitamin D status on sugar metabolism, according to…
June 2, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diabetes, diet, impact, nutrition, on call diets, oncalldiets, status-on-sugar, sugar-metabolism
