Cranberry juice may help protect against heart disease and diabetes risk factors
Study finds polyphenol-rich cranberries to be a sustainable lifestyle approach to better healthA new study 1 reveals that drinking low-calorie cranberry juice cocktail may help lower the risk of…
June 30, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: better-health, cranberry-juice, drinking-low-calorie, heart-disease, help-lower, lifestyle-approach, lower-the-risk, new-study, nutritional counseling, the-risk
What are the health benefits of barley?
Find out about the potential health benefits of consuming barley including maintaining blood pressure, bone structure and strength, decreasing the risk of heart disease and cancer.
June 19, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: blood-pressure, bone-structure, consuming-barley, decreasing-the-risk, diet, health-benefits, heart-disease, including-maintaining, nutrition, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, on call diets, potential, risk, the-potential
Milk proteins may protect against cardiovascular disease
The Maillard reaction is a chemical reaction between amino acids and reducing sugars that results in browned foods like seared steaks and toasted bread.
June 12, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: between-amino, browned-foods, chemical-reaction, heart-disease, like-seared, nutrition, oncalldietitian.com, reducing-sugars
Saturated fatty acids might directly damage heart
Olive oil is universally considered a much healthier alternative to meat fat.
April 30, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: heart-disease, much-healthier, nutrition, universally-considered
Semi-veggie diet effectively lowers heart disease, stroke risk
A pro-vegetarian diet – one that has a higher proportion of plant-based foods compared to animal-based foods is linked to lower risks of dying from heart disease and stroke, according to new research…
March 10, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, foods-compared, heart-disease, higher-proportion, lower-risks, nutrition, nutrition / diet, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, proportion
Omega-3 fatty acids appear to protect damaged heart after heart attack
Study suggests this therapy may provide added benefits to standard careTaking omega-3 fatty acids appeared to lower inflammation and guard against further declines in heart function among recent…
March 9, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: acids-appeared, against-further, declines, heart-disease, heart-function, lower-inflammation, nutritional counseling, omega-3-fatty, on call diets, oncalldiets, therapy, therapy-may
A high-salt diet could protect against invading microbes
Most people consume more salt than they need and therefore have a higher risk of heart disease and stroke, which are the two leading causes of death worldwide.
March 6, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: heart-disease, higher-risk, leading-causes, more-salt, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, people-consume, risk, the-two
In the short run, a high-fat diet may help minimize heart attack damage
It’s well known that over the long run, a high-fat diet increases the risk of heart attack and stroke.
February 19, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, heart-attack, heart-disease, high-fat-diet, increases-the-risk, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldiets, over-the-long, risk, the-long, well-known
Plant-based diet may reduce obese children’s risk of heart disease
Obese children who begin a low-fat, plant-based vegan diet may lower their risk of heart disease through improvements in their weight, blood pressure, body mass index, cholesterol levels, insulin sensitivity, and high-sensitivity C-reactive, according to new research.
February 12, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: blood-pressure, body-mass, diet, heart-disease, insulin-sensitivity, may-lower, risk, their-risk, their-weight, through-improvements, vegan-diet, weight
Historic US and UK dietary advice on fats "should not have been introduced"
National dietary advice on fat consumption issued to millions of US and UK citizens in 1977 and 1983, to cut coronary heart disease incidence, lacked any solid trial evidence to back it up, and…
February 11, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: advice-on-fat, cut-coronary, diet, dietary-advice, fat-consumption, heart-disease, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, solid-trial