Adolescent weight gain on popular injectable contraceptive may depend on micronutrient intake
Since its introduction nearly 23 years ago, the popular injectable contraceptive depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) has been associated with causing substantial weight gain in some adolescent girls. Without being able to identify or predict which girls will gain weight on the drug, physicians typically counsel all teens receiving DMPA to simply eat less
February 2, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: being-able, gain-weight, message, oncalldietitian.com, popular, predict-which, simply-eat, some-adolescent, the-drug, the-popular, weight-gain, years-ago
Neurotoxin-Producing Algae That Affect Seafood Increasing In California
With toxic algal blooms – which can increase the amount of harmful toxins in the shellfish that California residents consume – ramping up in frequency and severity locally, scientists at USC have developed a new algae monitoring method in hopes of one day being able to predict when and where toxic “red tides” will occur…
October 3, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: being-able, california, diet, new-algae, nutrition / diet, oncalldiets, one-day, red-tides, shellfish, the-shellfish, toxic-algal, usc
