Vitamin D insufficiency, low rate of DNA methylation in black teens may increase disease risk
Low levels of vitamin D in black teens correlates with low activity of a major mechanism for controlling gene expression that may increase their risk of cancer and other disease, researchers report.
April 26, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: black-teens, diet, disease, gene-expression, low-activity, major-mechanism, oncalldietitian.com, other-disease, risk
Hepatitis A: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Hepatitis A is a viral infection of the liver that is spread person-to-person and via contaminated food and water. Learn more about the disease, its symptoms and treatment here.
March 31, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: disease, its-symptoms, liver, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldiets, spread-person-to-person, the-disease, the-liver, viral-infection
Green tea compound shows promise for treating rheumatoid arthritis
EGCG – a compound abundant in green tea – was found to reduce ankle swelling in mouse models of rheumatoid arthritis, suggesting it could be a promising treatment for the disease.
February 17, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: arthritis / rheumatology, compound-abundant, disease, egcg, green-tea, mouse-models, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, promising-treatment, reduce-ankle, rheumatoid-arthritis
Boys & Girls Clubs of America curb childhood obesity with healthy lifestyle programs
New Programming Motivates Teens to Take Steps in a Healthy Direction.Recent data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that nearly one in five school-age children are…
January 28, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: cdc, centers, diet, disease, disease-control, from-the-centers, motivates-teens, nutritional counseling, on call diets, prevention, programming, steps, teens
Study links high sugar intake to increased risk of breast cancer
Mice fed a diet enriched with sucrose or fructose were more likely to develop breast cancer and have the disease spread to the lungs, according to the results of a new study.
January 4, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: develop-breast, disease, disease-spread, fructose-were, lungs, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, results, sucrose-or-fructose, the-lungs
MS patients may benefit from vitamin D supplements
Vitamin D supplements may be beneficial for people with multiple sclerosis, say researchers, after finding high doses of the vitamin reduced T cell activity linked to the disease.
December 31, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: after-finding, cell-activity, diet, disease, high-doses, multiple-sclerosis, nutrition, nutritional counseling, on call diets, say-researchers, the-vitamin, vitamin
Multi-domain intervention plus omega-3 supplementation improves cognition in older people with memory complaint
Results to be announced at the 8th International Conference on Clinical Trials for Alzheimer’s Disease (CTAD) suggest that combining a multidomain program of nutritional counseling, exercise, and…
November 9, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: alzheimer, alzheimer's / dementia, clinical, clinical-trials, conference-on-clinical, ctad, disease, international, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, the-8th
Low vitamin D and obesity as teenagers may accelerate MS
A study published in Neurology shows that people with MS who spent time in the sun as teenagers – and who were not obese – developed the disease later than others.
October 8, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: developed-the-disease, disease, disease-later, multiple-sclerosis, neurology, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, study-published, the-sun
Neolithic skeleton reveals early history of rickets
Rickets has been identified in a Neolithic skeleton from the Scottish island of Tiree, making it the earliest case of the disease in the UK, according to research announced at the British Science…
September 11, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: bones / orthopedics, british, diet, disease, earliest, from-the-scottish, neolithic, research-announced, scottish, the-disease, the-earliest, tiree
CDC warn of edible marijuana dangers following death of 19-year-old student
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention examines the case of a student who fell to his death following the consumption of recreational edible marijuana.
July 27, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: case, centers, consumption, death, disease, disease-control, examines-the-case, from-the-centers, his-death, new-report, nutrition, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, prevention