Dietary guidelines for choline may be insufficient
New research suggests that genetic variations influence the risk of developing symptoms of choline deficiency and determine the propensity of liver or muscle damage outcomesWhat is now considered to be the “right” amount of the essential nutrient, choline, might actually be “wrong,” depending on who you are.
March 31, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: developing-symptoms, essential, influence-the-risk, muscle-damage, nutrition, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, propensity, risk, variations-influence
Craving For Sugar And Drugs Increased By Faulty Signaling In Brain
“Our data indicate that the brain becomes hypersensitive to rewards when this co-signaling of glutamate and dopamine does not function. Lower doses than normal are enough to increase the propensity to ingest the substance, and this is true of both sugar and cocaine,” says Asa Mackenzie, associate professor of neuroscience at Uppsala University and the researcher who led the study…
September 1, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: both-sugar, brain, dopamine-does, mackenzie, oncalldiets, propensity, study, uppsala
