Should you fast before a cholesterol test?
Fasting before taking a cholesterol test used to be standard practice. Now, some doctors recommend that people do not fast before taking the test. Here, learn more about when people should fast before a cholesterol test, how long to fast for, and what the test results mean.
October 25, 2018 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: before-taking, cholesterol, fast-before, how-long, learn-more, not-fast, oncalldietitian.com, people-should, some-doctors, taking-the-test, test-used, the-test
Eating Before Swimming May Be Dangerous, After All
It appears that people who go swimming on a full stomach really do have a higher risk of drowning, researchers reported in Medicine, Science and the Law.
July 25, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: advice-on-how, authors-say, eating-before, fast-before, full-stomach, going-swimming, higher-risk, link-between, oncalldietitian.com, one-should, science, swimming-varies