Iron supplementation improves hemoglobin recovery time following blood donation
Among blood donors with normal hemoglobin levels, low-dose oral iron supplementation, compared with no supplementation, reduced the time to recovery of the postdonation decrease in hemoglobin…
February 11, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: blood-donors, diet, hemoglobin-levels, iron-supplementation, low-dose-oral, nutrition, on call diets, postdonation, reduced-the-time, the-postdonation
Historic US and UK dietary advice on fats "should not have been introduced"
National dietary advice on fat consumption issued to millions of US and UK citizens in 1977 and 1983, to cut coronary heart disease incidence, lacked any solid trial evidence to back it up, and…
February 11, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: advice-on-fat, cut-coronary, diet, dietary-advice, fat-consumption, heart-disease, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, solid-trial
Sunlight and vitamin D levels higher for coastal populations in England
People living close to the coast in England have higher vitamin D levels than inland dwellers, according to a new study published in the journal Environment InternationalExposure to sunlight is a…
February 11, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: coast, environment, inland-dwellers, journal, living-close, new-study, nutrition / diet, on call diets, the-coast, the-journal, vitamin
Molecular gastronomy: Better cooking through biophysics
The study of the physical and chemical processes that occur during food preparation and consumption is being perfected to an art form — with delicious results — in FranceThis is almost sugar…
February 11, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: art-form, being-perfected, food-preparation, france, genetics, occur-during, on call diets, physical, the-physical
