About one-third of mild-to-moderate Parkinson’s disease patients are at risk from malnutrition
Patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) can experience difficulties with food preparation and ingestion, which could contribute to poor nutrition and place them at risk for malnourishment.
September 16, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, parkinson, parkinson's disease, poor-nutrition
Could blueberries help treat Parkinson’s disease?
Blueberries are deemed one of the healthiest foods because of their richness in antioxidants.
April 14, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: fruit, healthiest, nutrition, parkinson, parkinson's disease, richness, the-healthiest, their-richness, treat-patients
Paving the way to test inosine’s ability to slow Parkinson’s progression
The dietary supplement inosine, which the body converts to urate, safely raises blood urate levels in people with early stage Parkinson’s disease (PD), according to a new study. The result paves the way for testing inosine as a potential treatment for slowing PD progression.
December 30, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: blood-urate, body, body-converts, dietary-supplement, jama, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, parkinson, parkinson's disease, paves-the-way, potential-treatment, safely-raises, the-way
Iron May Have A Protective Effect Against Parkinson’s Disease
Increased iron levels may be causally associated with a decreased risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, says a new paper published this week in PLOS Medicine.
June 6, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: between-serum, colleagues-investigated, decreased-risk, eurac, italy, medicine-irene, new-paper, parkinson's disease, plos, risk, week
Dietary Nicotine In Peppers May Reduce Risk Of Developing Parkinson’s Disease
New research reveals that Solanaceae – a flowering plant family with some species producing foods that are edible sources of nicotine – may provide a protective effect against Parkinson’s disease…
May 12, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: edible-sources, flowering-plant, may-provide, on call diets, parkinson, parkinson's disease, producing-foods, protective-effect, research-reveals, solanaceae, some-species
Eating Foods With Nicotine Could Help Prevent Parkinson’s Disease
Certain species of a flowering plant family called “Solanaceae” have chemical properties that can help prevent the development of Parkinson’s disease. Some of the species are edible sources of nicotine, a chemical which is thought to have a neuroprotective effect upon dopaminergic neurons, providing a protective effect against the disease…
May 9, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: chemical-which, development, diet, disease, effect-upon, family-called, flowering-plant, nutrition, nutritional counseling, parkinson, parkinson's disease, prevent-the-development, protective-effect, species, the-species
The Benefits Of Caffeine On Motor Impairment In Parkinson’s Disease
Caffeine, which is widely consumed around the world in coffee, tea and soft drinks, may help control movement in people suffering from Parkinson’s. This is the finding of a study conducted at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI MUHC) that was recently published in Neurology®, the official journal of the American Academy of Neurology…
August 3, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: centre, health-centre, neurology, parkinson, parkinson's disease, research, soft-drinks, study-conducted, the-finding, world
Eating Berries May Lower Men’s Parkinson’s Risk
Men who regularly consume foods rich in flavonoids, such as berries, apples, certain vegetables, tea and red wine, may significantly reduce their risk for developing Parkinson’s disease, according to a study published in the journal Neurology this week that saw no such effect among women…
April 6, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: certain-vegetables, consume-foods, journal, neurology, parkinson, parkinson's disease, red-wine, risk, study-published, such-as-berries, such-effect, the-journal, week
Malnutrition In The Parkinson’s Community: Study Seeks Volunteers
People with Parkinson’s disease are pre-disposed to malnutrition, yet very little is known about the prevalence of this problem or the best way to overcome it. A PhD student at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is looking for participants for a study which aims to shed some light on the issue.
April 21, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: oncalldiets, parkinson's disease, prevalence, problem, study-which, technology, the-prevalence, yet-very
Vitamin D Insufficiency High Among Patients With Early Parkinson Disease
Patients with a recent onset of Parkinson disease have a high prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency, but vitamin D concentrations do not appear to decline during the progression of the disease, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Vitamin D is now considered a hormone that regulates a number of physiological processes…
March 14, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: archives, decline-during, disease, high-prevalence, jama, neurology, now-considered, nutritional counseling, parkinson, parkinson's disease, progression, recent-onset, the-disease, the-progression