Healthy Eating And Physical Activity Among Preschoolers Could Be Promoted By Child-Care Facilities
Eating and physical activity habits for a lifetime can develop at an early age.
August 31, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: activity-habits, all-time-high, childhood-obesity, exercise-habits, positively-impact, preschool-child, prevalence, setting, setting-presents, the-opportunity, the-use
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
The Importance Of Monitoring Vitamin D Levels In All Patients With Cirrhosis
Vitamin D deficiency is a well reported complication in chronic cholestatic liver disease such as primary biliary cirrhosis. While the prevalence and treatment of this deficiency has been addressed in many articles over the last decades, little is known of the vitamin D status in alcoholic liver cirrhosis…
March 16, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: alcoholic-liver, chronic-cholestatic, deficiency, last-decades, liver-disease, over-the-last, prevalence, primary-biliary, the-vitamin, well-reported
No Link Between Economic Growth And Child Undernutrition Rates In India
Economic growth in India has no automatic connection to reducing undernutrition in Indian children and so further reductions in the prevalence of childhood undernutrition are likely to depend on direct investments in health and health-related programs…
March 8, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: automatic-connection, childhood-undernutrition, depend-on-direct, diet, direct-investments, india, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, prevalence, reducing-undernutrition, the-prevalence
USDA And HHS Announce New Dietary Guidelines To Help Americans Make Healthier Food Choices And Confront Obesity Epidemic
Agriculture Secretary TomVilsack and Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius today announced the release of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the federal government’s evidence-based nutritional guidance to promote health, reduce the risk of chronic diseases, and reduce the prevalence of overweight and obesity through improved nu…
February 1, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: nutrition, nutrition / diet, prevalence, promote-health, reduce-the-risk, risk, secretary, the-prevalence, today-announced
Mayo Clinic Researchers Find Eating More Monounsaturated And Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids May Decrease Mild Cognitive Impairment
Mayo Clinic researchers found that the prevalence of mild cognitive impairment decreased with an increase in the consumption of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids. Monounsaturated fatty acids are commonly found in olive oil and canola oils, and polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as Omega 3 or Omega 6 fatty acids, are commonly found in most varieties of nuts, seeds and fish…
January 27, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: clinic, consumption, diet, fatty-acids, impairment-decreased, mild-cognitive, nutrition, nutritional counseling, olive-oil, omega, prevalence, such-as-omega, the-consumption, the-prevalence