What are the benefits of eating Brazil nuts?
Brazil nuts are full of healthful nutrients and provide a wide range of health benefits. However, eating too many Brazil nuts can cause selenium toxicity
April 18, 2019 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: brazil, cause-selenium, diet, eating-too, healthful-nutrients, nutrition / diet, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, wide-range
Nutrition education may help prevent breast cancer reoccurrence
Breast cancer is the most frequent cause of death among women worldwide, and five-year survival rates are just 58.4% in Brazil, lower than in many other regions.
January 7, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: brazil, frequent-cause, nutrition, oncalldietitian.com, regions, survival-rates, the-most, women-worldwide
Breast cancer reoccurrence may be prevented through nutrition education
Breast cancer is the most frequent cause of death among women worldwide, and five-year survival rates are just 58.4% in Brazil, lower than in many other regions.
January 7, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: brazil, diet, frequent-cause, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, regions, survival-rates, the-most, women-worldwide
What is stevia? What are the health benefits of stevia?
Find out about stevia – a popular sugar substitute extracted from plants grown in Brazil and Paraguay. With no calories and numerous health benefits, is it too good to be true?
December 29, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: brazil, from-plants, numerous-health, nutrition / diet, on call diets, oncalldiets, popular-sugar, substitute-extracted, too-good
Lead and cadmium found in some chocolate bought in Brazil
Scientists have found that commercial samples of chocolate purchased in Brazil contain varying levels of lead and cadmium, which can cause health problems, and that those levels are linked to how…
September 5, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: brazil, cause-health, chocolate-purchased, contain-varying, diet, nutrition, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, on call diets
Nut intake linked to lower risk of obesity
A new study, published in the online journal PLOS ONE, looks at the association between tree nuts (almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamias, pecans, pine nuts, pistachios and walnuts), metabolic syndrome (MetS) and obesity in a population with a wide range of nut intake ranging from never to daily.
January 12, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: association, between-tree, brazil, metabolic-syndrome, new-study, nut-intake, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, online, pine-nuts, plos, the-association, the-online, wide-range
Tree Nuts And Health
Three new studies involving tree nuts (almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamias, pecans, pine nuts, pistachios and walnuts) were presented this week at the Experimental Biology Meeting in Boston, MA…
April 24, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: biology-meeting, boston, brazil, experimental, involving-tree, meeting, new-studies, nutrition / diet, oncalldietitian.com, pine-nuts, week
Hunger, Food Insecurity Linked To Reduced Use Of Condoms For Women In Brazil
In this week’s PLoS Medicine, Alexander Tsai of Harvard University, Cambridge, USA and colleagues show that in sexually active women in Brazil severe food insecurity with hunger was positively associated with symptoms potentially indicative of sexually transmitted infection and with reduced odds of condom use…
April 12, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: alexander, alexander-tsai, brazil, cambridge, harvard, on call diets, oncalldiets, potentially-indicative, sexually-active, usa, week