What are the health benefits of cantaloupe?
Learn all about the health benefits of cantaloupe, including lowering risk of developing asthma, decreasing blood pressure, preventing constipation and keeping hydrated.
July 3, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: decreasing-blood, developing-asthma, health, including-lowering, nutrition / diet, oncalldiets, preventing-constipation, the-health
Picking up healthy habits in your 30s and 40s can slash heart disease risk
The heart is more forgiving than you may think – especially to adults who try to take charge of their health, a new Northwestern Medicine® study has found.
July 3, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: health, heart-disease, may-think, more-forgiving, northwestern, oncalldiets, take-charge, their-health
Randomized pediatric autism clinical trial conducted entirely online
UC San Francisco researchers have completed the first Internet-based clinical trial for children with autism, establishing it as a viable and cost effective method of conducting high-quality and…
July 2, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: clinical-trial, completed-the-first, conducting-high-quality, cost-effective, diet, francisco, internet-based, nutrition, on call diets, the-first
Adding sugar to a high-fat Western diet could be worse than a high-fat diet alone
A high-fructose, high-fat diet can cause harmful effects to the livers of adult rats, according to new research published in Experimental Physiology, providing new insight into the effects of…
July 1, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: adult-rats, diet, effects, experimental, harmful-effects, high-fat-diet, livers, new-research, providing-new, the-effects, the-livers
Childhood malnutrition linked to higher blood pressure in adults
Malnutrition during childhood is associated with higher diastolic blood pressure, higher resistance to blood flow, and poor heart function during adulthood.
July 1, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: blood-flow, blood-pressure, diastolic, during-childhood, heart-function, higher-diastolic, higher-resistance, hypertension, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, resistance
Children who can identify unhealthy food logos are more likely to be overweight
The more a child is familiar with logos and other images from fast-food restaurants, sodas and not-so-healthy snack food brands, the more likely the child is to be overweight or obese.
July 1, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: child, diet, from-fast-food, images, likely-the-child, on call diets, other-images, overweight-or-obese, snack-food