If adhered to, branded diets are ‘similarly effective’
How does the Atkins diet compare to Weight Watchers at losing weight? A new meta-analysis suggests there is not much between them, as long as diets are followed for 12 months.
September 3, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: does-the-atkins, long-as-diets, losing-weight, not-much, on call diets, watchers-at-losing, weight, weight-watchers
A shift in global diets essential to address climate change
A new study, published in Nature Climate Change, suggests that – if current trends continue – food production alone will reach, if not exceed, the global targets for total greenhouse gas (GHG)…
September 3, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: change, current-trends, diet, food-production, ghg, nature, not-exceed, oncalldietitian.com, public-health, the-global, total-greenhouse
Daily breakfast is associated with a lower type 2 diabetes risk profile in children
Regular consumption of a healthy breakfast may help children lower their risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a study published in this week’s PLOS Medicine.
September 2, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: children-lower, developing-type, healthy-breakfast, may-help, nutrition / diet, on call diets, plos, risk, study-published, their-risk, week
Infant feeding habits may predict eating behaviors in later life
The follow-up to an FDA study analyzing infant nutrition investigates to what extent eating behaviors in the first year of life predict eating behaviors at age 6.
September 2, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: behaviors-at-age, diet, eating-behaviors, fda, infant-nutrition, life-predict, oncalldietitian.com, the-first
Brain scans suggest people can learn to like healthy foods
Brain scans of participants showed higher activation of reward centers shifted from high-calorie toward low-calorie food over a 6-month structured behavioral weight-loss program.
September 2, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: activation, behavioral-weight-loss, food-over, nutritional counseling, reward-centers, showed-higher, toward-low-calorie
American diet ‘improving’ but remains poor overall
Consumption of trans fats has fallen, but there is a widening gap in terms of diet quality between rich and poor, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health.
September 2, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: between-rich, diet-quality, harvard, harvard-school, new-study, nutrition / diet, oncalldiets, public, trans-fats, widening-gap
Quality of U.S. diet improves, gap widens for quality between rich and poor
The quality of the U.S.
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Study reveals drivers of Western consumers’ readiness to eat insects
The most likely early adopters of insets as a meat substitute in Western societies are young men with weak attitudes toward meat, who are open to trying novel foods and interested in the…
September 1, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: attitudes-toward, diet, early-adopters, meat-substitute, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, trying-novel, western, young-men