Bacterium carrying a cloned Bt-gene could help millions infected with roundworms
Intestinal nematodes and roundworms infect more than one billion people worldwide.
December 18, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: nutrition, on call diets, oncalldiets, one-billion, parasites-lead, roundworms-infect
Study provides more evidence that coffee may reduce mortality
Drinking four to five cups of coffee daily – even the decaffeinated kind – could lower risk of death from a number of causes, including heart disease and diabetes, say researchers.
December 18, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: decaffeinated, even-the-decaffeinated, five-cups, including-heart, nutrition, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling
Top risk factors for child undernutrition in India identified
In India, nearly 40% of all children are stunted–of extremely low height for their age–and nearly 30% are underweight.
December 18, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: all-children, diet, extremely-low, harvard, india, new-study
Fish oil helps transform fat cells from storage to burning
Researchers have found that fish oil transforms fat-storage cells into fat-burning cells, which may reduce weight gain in middle age.
December 18, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, oil-transforms, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, reduce-weight
Can cocoa help kidney patients?
Cocoa flavinols are known to have a beneficial effect on the circulatory system; it seems they could help patients with kidney failure, often linked to cardiovascular problems.
December 18, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: beneficial-effect, circulatory, diet, kidney-failure, nutritional counseling, often-linked, oncalldiets, the-circulatory, urology / nephrology
Thousands of UK birth defects ’caused by failure to fortify flour with folic acid’
Fortification of flour with folic acid is not mandatory in the UK, which has resulted in more than 2,000 avoidable cases of neural tube defects in the country since 1998.
December 18, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: country, folic-acid, neural-tube, not-mandatory, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, pregnancy / obstetrics, the-country
