Pass the salt – using the fly to understand how pregnancy drives food cravings
Researchers at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon discover that fruit flies share the human craving for salt during pregnancy and shed light on how the nervous system controls this…
September 25, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: champalimaud, diet, during-pregnancy, fruit-flies, human, human-craving, light-on-how, lisbon, nervous, nervous-system, oncalldiets, pregnancy / obstetrics, unknown
How a Big Mac affects your body in 1 hour
A new infographic claims to reveal how the world-famous Big Mac from fast food giant McDonald’s affects the body 10, 20, 30, 40 and 60 minutes after eating it.
September 25, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: affects-the-body, body, food-giant, from-fast, new-infographic, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, on call diets, reveal-how, the-world-famous, world
Inflammatory response may fan the flame of dietary fats’ role in obesity-related diseases
An enhanced inflammatory response could be the key link between high saturated fat intake – a recognized risk factor for obesity-related disorders – and the development of diseases like type 2…
September 25, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: development, diet, enhanced-inflammatory, fat-intake, high-saturated, link-between, nutritional counseling, on call diets, recognized-risk, the-key
Novel research method reveals eating habits
Researchers used a mobile phone application to gather data about people’s eating habits, finding that many eat over a 15-hour period during the day, which may not be healthy.
September 25, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: 15-hour-period, data, during-the-day, eating-habits, gather-data, mobile-phone, nutrition, nutrition / diet, oncalldiets, period
