A milestone in the battle against arsenic and fluoride-contaminated drinking water
Over 300 million people worldwide use groundwater contaminated with arsenic or fluoride as a source of drinking water.
April 28, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: 300-million, arsenic-or-fluoride, nutrition, people-worldwide, use-groundwater
Foodborne diseases kill 125,000 children a year
Foodborne disease affects 1 in 10 people worldwide every year, killing 420,000 and causing 33 million lost days of productivity. Children under 5 years are particularly affected.
December 4, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: disease-affects, every-year, killing-420, million-lost, on call diets, oncalldiets, particularly-affected, people-worldwide
Major Health Benefits Expected From Low-Arsenic Rice Discovered In Bangladesh
Millions of people worldwide are regularly exposed to arsenic through drinking water and eating rice grown in soil and water containing high amounts of arsenic.
February 15, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: development, diet, different-types, drinking-water, health, high-amounts, nutritional counseling, people-worldwide, rice-grown, serious-cardiovascular, the-development, water-containing
Do Omega-3 Fatty Acids Help MS? Apparently Not
About 2.5 million people worldwide suffer from multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic, incurable disease of the central nervous system. Some MS sufferers take or have tried omega-3 fatty acid supplements to control the disease, because the essential fatty acids are believed to have anti-inflammatory and neuro-protective effects in multiple sclerosis…
April 17, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: because-the-essential, control-the-disease, disease, essential, essential-fatty, multiple-sclerosis, nutrition, omega-3-fatty, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, people-worldwide, sufferers-take, the-central
