Giving children a taste for vegetables ‘often and early’
Exposing infants to a new vegetable early in life encourages them to eat more of it compared to offering novel vegetables to older children, new research from the University of Leeds suggests.
June 3, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: eat-more, from-the-university, leeds, life-encourages, new-research, new-vegetable, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, offering-novel, older-children, on call diets, oncalldiets, university
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
