Worldwide obesity rates see ‘startling’ increase over past 3 decades
An international research team has found that, unlike other major global health risks – such as smoking – obesity rates have significantly increased over the past 30 years.
May 29, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: health-risks, increased-over, major, major-global, obesity-rates, oncalldiets, over-the-past, past, research-team, such-as-smoking, the-past
Boosting the immune system with vitamin A may help in the fight against tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is a major global problem, affecting 2 billion people worldwide and causing an estimated 2 million deaths annually. Western countries are once again tackling the disease, with recent outbreaks in Los Angeles and London.
February 27, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: angeles, billion-people, disease, major-global, million-deaths, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, tackling-the-disease, tuberculosis
Low to moderate arsenic exposure linked to cardiovascular disease and mortality
Chronic exposure to low to moderate levels of inorganic arsenic is associated with increased incidence of fatal and not-fatal cardiovascular disease.
September 25, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, increased-incidence, inorganic-arsenic, major-global, moderate-levels, not-fatal-cardiovascular, nutrition
Global Field Expeditions Aim To Help Farmers Adapt To Climate Change By Securing Valuable Genetic Traits Of Key Food Crops
The Global Crop Diversity Trust has announced a major global search to systematically find, gather, catalogue, use, and save the wild relatives of wheat, rice, beans, potato, barley, lentils, chickpea, and other essential food crops, in order to help protect global food supplies against the imminent threat of climate change, and strengthen future food security…
December 11, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: essential-food, future-food, global, global-food, major-global, on call diets, oncalldiets, save-the-wild, wild