How coffee protects the brain
New research reveals what gives coffee its protective properties for brain health, and why it can help keep Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease at bay.
November 6, 2018 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: alzheimer, coffee-its, disease-at-bay, nutrition / diet, oncalldiets, parkinson, protective-properties, research-reveals
Best foods for a Crohn’s disease flare-up
In a person with Crohn’s disease, a flare-up can cause diarrhea, abdominal pain, and a loss of appetite.
November 6, 2018 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: abdominal-pain, cause-diarrhea, crohn, crohn's / ibd, diet, eating-the-right, foods-during, help-ease, nutrition, nutritional counseling, on call diets, the-right
Eat your vegetables (and fish): Another reason why they may promote heart health
Elevated levels of trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) — a compound linked with the consumption of fish, seafood and a primarily vegetarian diet — may reduce hypertension-related heart disease symptoms. New research in rats finds that low-dose treatment with TMAO reduced heart thickening (cardiac fibrosis) and markers of heart failure in an animal model of hypertension.
November 6, 2018 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: animal-model, cardiac-fibrosis, compound-linked, consumption, diet, heart-disease, heart-failure, may-reduce, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, primarily-vegetarian, reduced-heart, tmao
Can this Amazonian diet offer a solution to heart disease?
One indigenous population from the Bolivian Amazon may have a lesson or two to teach us about how diet and lifestyle can protect heart health.
November 6, 2018 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: bolivian, bolivian-amazon, diet, from-the-bolivian, indigenous-population, lesson-or-two, nutrition / diet, oncalldiets, protect-heart
