What Do Fats Do In The Body?
It’s common knowledge that too much cholesterol and other fats can lead to disease, and that a healthy diet involves watching how much fatty food we eat. However, our bodies need a certain amount of fat to function and we can’t make it from scratch…
February 12, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: bodies, common-knowledge, diet, fats, fatty-food, healthy-diet, how-much, much-cholesterol, nutrition, nutrition / diet, on call diets, our-bodies
Vegetarian Diet Helps Kidney Patients Keep Toxic Phosphorous In Check
A grain-based vegetarian diet helps chronic kidney disease patients avoid accumulating toxic levels of phosphorous in their bodies, according to new research from the US…
December 24, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: bodies, helps-chronic, kidney-disease, new-research, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, patients-avoid, their-bodies, toxic-levels, urology / nephrology, vegetarian-diet
Kidney disease patients: Vegetarian diet lowers blood and urine phosphorous levels, study suggests
Phosphorous levels plummet in kidney disease patients who stick to a vegetarian diet, according to a new study. The results suggest that eating vegetables rather than meat can help kidney disease patients avoid accumulating toxic levels of this mineral in their bodies.
December 23, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: bodies, kidney-disease, levels-plummet, nutrition, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, patients-avoid, results-suggest, toxic-levels, vegetarian-diet