Study shows rats fed a dietary fiber supplement had better weight control
A University of Calgary study has found that rats fed a fibre supplement while on a high fat and high sugar diet show a much lower weight gain than those who did not eat the fibre.
April 11, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: calgary, fibre, fibre-supplement, high-fat, much-lower, not-eat, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, rats-fed, sugar-diet, university, weight-gain
Short bouts of high-intensity exercise before a fatty meal best for vascular health
A short burst of intensive exercise before eating a high fat meal is better for blood vessel function in young people than the currently recommended moderate-intensity exercise, according to a new…
April 2, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: before-eating, blood-vessel, currently-recommended, high-fat, intensive-exercise, nutrition, oncalldiets, short-burst, young-people
Brain Tumors Respond To Diet And Radiation Therapy
Brain cancer researchers have successfully treated mice with malignant gliomas, a type of aggressive and deadly brain tumor, with a unique combination of radiation therapy and ketogenic diet, a high fat, low carbohydrate and minimal protein regime that forces the body to use fat instead of sugar for energy…
December 6, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: deadly-brain, forces-the-body, high-fat, on call diets, oncalldiets, protein-regime, radiation-therapy, the-body, unique-combination
Curry Power: Beat High Fat Meal Triglycerides With Spice
When you sit down to a hearty meal and eat a high fat serving of food, you end up with high levels of triglycerides, a type of fat, in your blood. A new study finds that adding Indian curry spices like turmeric and cinnamon to your dishes could help reduce oxidative stress and thus thwart the risk of chronic disease…
August 12, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: blood, curry-spices, dishes, hearty-meal, high-fat, indian, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, risk, the-risk, thus-thwart
‘Junk food’ moms have ‘junk food’ babies
Pregnant mothers who eat high sugar and high fat diets have babies who are likely to become junk food junkies themselves. According to the report, which used rats, this happens because the high fat and high sugar diet leads to changes in the fetal brain’s reward pathway, altering food preferences.
March 23, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: altering-food, become-junk, eat-high, fetal, food-junkies, high-fat, on call diets, report, reward-pathway, sugar-diet, the-fetal, the-report
Chronic High Cholesterol Diet Produces Brain Damage
Research from the Laboratory of Psychiatry and Experimental Alzheimers Research at the Medical University Innsbruck (Austria) demonstrated that chronic high fat cholesterol diet in rats exhibited pathologies similar to Alzheimer’s disease. The results were published in Molecular Cellular Neuroscience (45(4):408-417, 2010) with lead author Dr. Christian Humpel…
November 25, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: alzheimer, alzheimer's / dementia, from-the-laboratory, high-fat, innsbruck, laboratory, molecular-cellular, neuroscience, nutrition, on call diets, psychiatry, rats-exhibited, research, results-were