Could chili peppers reduce the risk of colorectal cancer?
A study from UC-San Diego School of Medicine found that mice fed capsaicin – the active ingredient in chili peppers – had lower tumor growth in the gut and increased lifespan.
August 4, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: active, chili-peppers, diego, diego-school, medicine, mice-fed, on call diets, oncalldiets, the-active, the-gut, tumor-growth
Factors that may help parents encourage their obese children to become more healthy
A University of California, San Diego School of Medicine-led study suggests that parents of obese children often do not recognize the potentially serious health consequences of childhood weight gain…
July 24, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: childhood-weight, diego, diego-school, medicine-led, not-recognize, nutrition, obese-children, potentially, serious-health, study-suggests, university
Potential nutritional therapy for childhood neurodegenerative disease
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified the gene mutation responsible for a particularly severe form of pontocerebellar hypoplasia, a currently incurable neurodegenerative disease affecting children. Based on results in cultured cells, they are hopeful that a nutritional supplement may one day be able to prevent or reverse the condition…
August 6, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: condition, diego-school, gene, identified-the-gene, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldiets, prevent-or-reverse, severe-form, supplement-may, the-gene, university
Women Who Drink Alcohol Before Pregnancy Less Likely To Take Multivitamins
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego Department of Pediatrics and Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, a research affiliate of UC San Diego School of Medicine, have found a link between multivitamin use and alcohol consumption before pregnancy, uncovering a need for education about the importance of vitamin supplementation, particularly among women who drink …
May 2, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: among-women, california, children, diego, diego-department, diego-school, link-between, medicine, nutrition, nutrition / diet, on call diets, pediatrics, the-importance, university