Food preferences altered by specific brain pathways
People with a gene defect have greater preferences for high-fat, but not high sugar foods, drawing a direct link between food choice and genetic variants.
October 5, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: between-food, direct-link, gene-defect, high-sugar, nutrition, oncalldiets
Adaptation to food deprivation as a clue for treating metabolic diseases
When people are deprived of food, a number of biological mechanisms are set in motion to adapt the body’s metabolism to the conditions of scarcity.
October 4, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: adapt-the-body, biological-mechanisms, body, conditions, diet, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, the-conditions
How Does Stress Affect My Cholesterol Levels?
What exactly does stress mean? What is cholesterol
October 4, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: anxiety / stress, article, between-the-two, exactly-does, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, questions-as-well, relationship, stress-mean, the-relationship
Milk intake is objectively not linked to increased cardiovascular risk
Researchers in Valencia participated in an international study that has debunked the association between milk and dairy products and increased cardiovascular risk.
October 3, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: association, between-milk, debunked-the-association, diet, increased-cardiovascular, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, the-association, valencia
Could coffee reduce women’s risk of dementia?
Older women who consume at least 261 milligrams of caffeine daily – around two to three cups of coffee – may be at lower risk of dementia, study finds.
October 1, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: alzheimer's / dementia, around-two, consume-at-least, least-261, lower-risk, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, three-cups