Could Carrots Reduce Risk Of Type-2 Diabetes?
Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have found that for people harboring a genetic predisposition that is prevalent among Americans, beta carotene, which the body converts to a close cousin of vitamin A, may lower the risk for the most common form of diabetes, while gamma tocopherol, the major form of vitamin E in the American diet, may increase risk for the disease…
January 23, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: beta-carotene, body, body-converts, close-cousin, diabetes, disease, lower-the-risk, medicine, most-common, university
Chocolate May Lower Your Stroke Risk
Adding to the mounting evidence that consuming moderate amounts of chocoloate may benefit the heart, comes that of a new study of Swedish men that suggests it may also lower the risk of stroke. First author Susanna C…
August 30, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: consuming-moderate, heart, lower-the-risk, mounting, oncalldietitian.com, risk, swedish, the-mounting
Fish Oils Do Not Reduce Gestational Diabetes And Preeclampsia Risk
Taking DHA-enriched fish oils during the second half of pregnancy does not lower the risk of developing preeclampsia or gestational diabetes, researchers from Adelaide University, Australia, reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition…
June 7, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: adelaide-university, australia, clinical, developing-preeclampsia, diet, during-the-second, lower-the-risk, not-lower, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, pregnancy / obstetrics, pregnancy-does, risk, second-half
