What are the signs of not eating enough?
Undereating can negatively impact health and wellbeing. Aside from losing weight, signs that someone might not be eating enough can include feeling tired, getting ill more often, hair loss, and skin problems. Here, we cover the risks and reasons for undereating, as well as nine signs and symptoms to look out for.
June 16, 2018 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: cover-the-risks, diet, eating-enough, getting-ill, hair-loss, impact-health, more-often, nine-signs, risks, someone-might
Measuring arm circumference is a more reliable indicator of malnutrition
Children with diarrhea misdiagnosed more often if weight is sole criterionAdam C. Levine, M.D.
May 26, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: more-often, nutrition / diet, often-if-weight, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, sole-criterion
Burger consumption in restaurants associated with higher obesity risk in African-American women
Americans are increasingly eating more of their meals prepared away from home, and this is particularly true among African Americans, who also have higher rates of obesity than other Americans. Young adults tend to eat out more often at fast-food restaurants and these establishments are more often found in minority neighborhoods.
December 15, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: adults-tend, eat-out, eating-more, from-home, meals, more-often, nutrition, often-at-fast, rates, their-meals
Mismatch Between Sun Exposure In Modern Life And Skin Pigmentation
As people move more often and become more urbanized, skin color — an adaptation that took hundreds of thousands of years to develop in humans — may lose some of its evolutionary advantage, according to a Penn State anthropologist…
February 19, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: dermatology, diet, its-evolutionary, may-lose, more-often, more-urbanized, people-move, skin-color, state, took-hundreds
Discovery Of Bitter Blocker Increases Understanding Of Taste, Opening Doors To Better Nutrition And Therapeutic Compliance
Although bitterness can sometimes be desirable – such as in the taste of coffee or chocolate – more often bitter taste causes rejection that can interfere with food selection, nutrition and therapeutic compliance. This is especially true for children…
June 3, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: bitter-taste, causes-rejection, coffee-or-chocolate, diet, especially-true, food-selection, more-often, nutrition, nutrition / diet, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, taste, the-taste
Ghrelin Enhances Sense Of Smell
An appetite-stimulating hormone causes people and animals to sniff odors more often and with greater sensitivity, according to a new study in the April 13 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The findings suggest ghrelin may enhance the ability to find and identify food…
April 13, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: ability, enhance-the-ability, greater-sensitivity, hormone-causes, more-often, new-study, oncalldietitian.com, sniff-odors