Vitamin D supplements may not prevent type 2 diabetes
A large-scale new trial of over 2,000 adults found that taking vitamin D supplements does not help prevent the development of type 2 diabetes.
June 16, 2019 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: development, diabetes type 2, does-not, new-trial, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, prevent-the-development, the-development
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
Metabolic Syndrome Prevented, Treated In Mice By The Addition Of Intestinal Enzyme To Their Diets
Feeding an intestinal enzyme to mice kept on a high-fat diet appears to prevent the development of metabolic syndrome – a group of symptoms associated with type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and fatty liver – and to reduce symptoms in mice that already had the condition…
April 10, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: already-had, condition, development, diabetes, fatty-liver, high-fat-diet, intestinal-enzyme, metabolic-syndrome, mice-kept, nutritional counseling, prevent-the-development, reduce-symptoms
Women’s Heart Failure Risk Unaffected By Vitamin E Supplementation
Taking vitamin E supplements does not increase or decrease heart failure risk among women, according to a study in Circulation: Heart Failure, an American Heart Association journal. The study is the first to investigate the effectiveness of vitamin E to prevent the development of heart failure…
March 21, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: among-women, association, circulation, decrease-heart, does-not, effectiveness, failure-risk, heart-disease, heart-failure, nutrition, prevent-the-development, the-effectiveness, the-first