Adolescent weight gain on popular injectable contraceptive may depend on micronutrient intake
Since its introduction nearly 23 years ago, the popular injectable contraceptive depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) has been associated with causing substantial weight gain in some adolescent girls. Without being able to identify or predict which girls will gain weight on the drug, physicians typically counsel all teens receiving DMPA to simply eat less
February 2, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: being-able, gain-weight, message, oncalldietitian.com, popular, predict-which, simply-eat, some-adolescent, the-drug, the-popular, weight-gain, years-ago
Ads Influence Children’s Food Choices
A new study suggests watching advertisements influences children’s food choices. Parental encouragement to choose healthier options also appears to have an effect, although when that goes against the message of commercials, parental influence is not as strong as the researchers expected.
October 6, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: against-the-message, choose-healthier, influences-children, journal, message, nutrition / diet, on call diets, oncalldiets, parental-influence, suggests-watching, the-researchers
