2019 in medical research: What were the top findings?
Another year has come and gone, and we are about to step into a new decade. But what have the past 12 months meant for medical research?
December 21, 2019 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, months-meant, nutrition, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, past, the-past, year
High prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency in large population of kids with type 1 diabetes
During the past two decades, vitamin D status, defined as serum concentration of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, has emerged as a predictor of key clinical outcomes including bone health, glucose metabolism…
April 21, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: bone-health, defined-as-serum, diabetes, diet, during-the-past, key-clinical, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, outcomes-including, past, serum-concentration, the-past, two-decades
Study finds association between energy drinks and traumatic brain injury in teens
Teens who reported a traumatic brain injury in the past year were seven times more likely to have consumed at least five energy drinks in the past week than those without a history of TBI…
September 17, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: consumed-at-least, energy-drinks, least-five, neurology / neuroscience, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, past, seven-times, tbi, the-past, traumatic-brain, year-were
Teeth reveal lifetime exposures to metals, toxins
Is it possible that too much iron in infant formula may potentially increase risk for neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s in adulthood — and are teeth the window into the past that can help…
July 23, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: increase-risk, infant-formula, nutrition / diet, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, parkinson, past, potentially-increase, teeth-the-window, the-past, too-much, window
Less focused on recurrent bad feelings through probiotics
People focus less on bad feelings and experiences from the past (i.e. rumination) after four weeks of probiotics administration.
April 15, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: after-four, bad-feelings, focus-less, from-the-past, less-on-bad, oncalldietitian.com, past, psychology / psychiatry, weeks
The rise of the takeaway
The number of takeaway food outlets has risen substantially over the past two decades, with a large increase seen in areas of socioeconomic disadvantage, according to a study carried out across…
April 3, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: large-increase, nutrition, nutritional counseling, over-the-past, past, past-two, study-carried, takeaway-food
Children’s hunger born from mothers’ trauma
Adverse Childhood Experiences, ACEs, linked to household food insecurityThe roots of children’s hunger today may stretch back, in part, to the past childhood trauma of their caregivers.
February 5, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: adverse-childhood, caregivers, childhood-trauma, diet, hunger-today, may-stretch, oncalldietitian.com, past
‘US trans fat intake has decreased, but not enough’
New research suggests that although intake of trans fats has decreased over the past 30 years, Americans still have unhealthy levels of it in their diets.
October 23, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, diets, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, on call diets, past, trans-fats, unhealthy-levels
Survey of ready-to-eat salads exposes high salt content
Despite a large reduction in average salt content over the past decade, many food stores and restaurants in the UK are still loading their salads with unhealthy quantities of salt.
July 30, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: average-salt, content-over, large-reduction, nutrition, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, over-the-past, past, salads, the-past, unhealthy-quantities
Childhood obesity: is it being taken seriously?
Childhood obesity has soared in the past 3 decades, meaning more children are at risk of obesity-related illnesses. But is the condition still overlooked
July 30, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: condition, meaning-more, nutritional counseling, on call diets, past, still-overlooked, the-condition, the-past