Potential for better-tasting reduced-fat desserts, dressings, sauces
Adjusting the calcium level and acidity could be the key to developing new better-tasting, more eye-appealing and creamier reduced-fat sauces, desserts and salad dressings that could be on the market soon, researchers report..
March 19, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: calcium, developing-new, diet, market, more-eye-appealing, nutrition, nutrition / diet, on call diets, oncalldiets, salad-dressings, the-calcium, the-key, the-market
Risk of hip fracture, colorectal cancer not reduced by calcium plus vitamin D supplementation
New results are in from the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Calcium plus Vitamin D Supplementation Trial. These findings assess the effects on hip fracture and colorectal cancer incidence among 30,000 postmenopausal women nearly five years after the seven-year period of calcium plus vitamin D supplementation ended.
November 20, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: after-the-seven, assess-the-effects, bones / orthopedics, calcium, calcium-plus, findings-assess, from-the-women, hip-fracture, oncalldiets, women
Magnesium Intake, Absorption Significantly Associated With Bone Density In Children
Parents are advised to make sure their children drink milk and eat other calcium-rich foods to build strong bones. Soon, they also may be urged to make sure their kids eat salmon, almonds and other foods high in magnesium – another nutrient that may play an important role in bone health, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Washington, DC…
May 7, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: annual-meeting, bone-health, bones / orthopedics, calcium, children, foods, important-role, nutrition, other-foods, study-presented, their-kids
Patients With High Blood Calcium Levels Benefit From Monitored Vitamin D Therapy
Patients with a gland disorder that causes excessive calcium in their blood who also have vitamin D deficiency can safely receive vitamin D treatment without it raising their calcium levels, a new study has determined. The results with one-year follow-up were presented at The Endocrine Society’s 94th Annual Meeting in Houston…
June 28, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: annual, annual-meeting, blood, calcium, calcium-levels, endocrine, endocrine-society, gland-disorder, new-study, nutrition, nutrition / diet, on call diets, oncalldiets, safely-receive, their-blood
Protein Provides Link Between Calcium Signaling In Excitable And Non-Excitable Cells
A calcium-sensing protein, STIM1, known to activate store-operated calcium channels has been found to also inhibit voltage-operated calcium channels, according to researchers at Temple University. The researchers published their findings, The Calcium Store Sensor, STIM1, Reciprocally Controls Orai and Cav1.2 Channels, in the Oct. 1 issue of Science magazine…
October 4, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: activate-store-operated, calcium, calcium-store, controls-orai, nutrition, oncalldiets, reciprocally-controls, science, sensor