Scientists turn white fat into obesity-fighting beige fat
Scientists have shown that berries, grapes and other fruits convert excess white fat into calorie-burning ‘beige’ fat, providing new strategies for the prevention and treatment of obesity. In the study, mice were fed a high fat diet
June 18, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, fruit-per, high-fat, mice-were, on call diets, percent-less, providing-new, study, the-study, white-fat
Children who are given vitamin A may be less likely to develop malaria
Large study in sub-Saharan Africa suggests vitamin A’s protective effectChildren under age 5 living in sub-Saharan Africa were 54 percent less likely to develop malaria if they had been given a…
February 6, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: africa, been-given, develop-malaria, oncalldiets, percent-less, protective-effect, saharan-africa, suggests-vitamin, tropical diseases, under-age
Nut consumption linked to reduced death rate, study suggests
In the largest study of its kind, people who ate a daily handful of nuts were 20 percent less likely to die from any cause over a 30-year period than were those who didn’t consume nuts, say scientists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Harvard School of Public Health
November 21, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: 30-year-period, brigham, consume-nuts, diet, its-kind, largest, nutrition, nutritional counseling, nuts-were, on call diets, percent-less, public-health, say-scientists, the-largest, women
Vitamin D May Reduce Risk Of Uterine Fibroids, According To NIH Study
Women who had sufficient amounts of vitamin D were 32 percent less likely to develop fibroids than women with insufficient vitamin D, according to a study from researchers at the National Institutes of Health.
April 17, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: develop-fibroids, health-fibroids, known-as-uterine, national, national-institutes, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, percent-less, sufficient-amounts, uterine-leiomyomata, uterus