Food order has significant impact on glucose and insulin levels
Eating protein and vegetables before carbohydrates leads to lower post-meal glucose and insulin levels in obese patients with type 2 diabetes, Weill Cornell Medical College researchers found in a…
June 24, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diabetes, insulin-levels, lower-post-meal, medical, medical-college, nutrition, obese-patients, weill-cornell
Too hot to handle: how to avoid heat-related illness
In this Spotlight feature, we take a look at how heat-related illnesses are caused and what measures can be taken to prevent them from occurring.
June 24, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, emergency medicine, how-heat-related, look-at-how, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, spotlight
Getting children to embrace healthy food
Researchers at the University of Bonn: attractive packaging makes identical products taste betterIf the packaging has an appealing design, primary school children also reach for healthy foods.
June 24, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: appealing-design, attractive-packaging, betterif-the-packaging, makes-identical, nutrition, nutrition / diet, oncalldiets, packaging, primary-school, products-taste, the-packaging, university
‘Fitness’ foods may cause consumers to eat more and exercise
Weight-conscious consumers are often drawn to foods such as Clif Bars and Wheaties, whose packaging suggests that they promote fitness.
June 24, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, often-drawn, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, such-as-clif, wheaties