Bon Appétit! Here Are Your Top 10 Best And Worst Foods In America
Well, the report is out and The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has published the best and worst foods in America. While many chains boast new “healthy” menus, they continue to produce the products that can eventually kill you if one indulges cravings too often…
July 20, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: america-while, boast-new, cravings-too, nutrition / diet, on call diets, one-indulges, products, public, public-interest, report, science, the-best, the-report
Changes In Specific Dietary Factors May Have Big Impact On Long-Term Weight Gain
In a series of three separate studies looking at how changes in multiple dietary and other lifestyle factors relate to long-term weight gain, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers found that modest changes in specific foods and beverages, physical activity, TV-watching, and sleep duration were strongly linked with long-term weight gain…
June 23, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: hsph, lifestyle, looking-at-how, modest-changes, multiple-dietary, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, physical-activity, public, public-health, specific-foods, strongly-linked, studies-looking, three-separate
Keep Food Safe After Power Outages, ADPH Advises
The Alabama Department of Public Health advises caution with food and drinking water in the aftermath of recent tornadoes. Do not taste any food or drink you think is spoiled. Identify and throw away food that may not be safe to eat.
May 2, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: advises-caution, aftermath, aid / disasters, alabama, alabama-department, away-food, color-or-texture, food-or-drink, oncalldiets, public, public-health, the-aftermath, throw, unusual-odor
Experimental Treatment For COPD In Development
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have developed a non-steroid based strategy for improving the lung’s innate immune defense and decreasing inflammation that can be a problem for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)…
April 14, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: based-strategy, bloomberg-school, copd, decreasing-inflammation, innate-immune, johns, johns-hopkins, lung, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, public, public-health, pulmonary-disease
Study: More Exercise Cuts Sodium Levels
Overall, persons should regularly exercise and consume less sodium in their diets. This week though, research has been shared with the public and the American Heart Association Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, that a person’s blood pressure lessens the more exercise you do, in direct response to a high salt diet…
March 24, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: association, blood-pressure, diet, direct-response, less-sodium, more-exercise, nutrition / diet, persons-should, public, week, week-though
FDA Seeks To Invest In Foodborne Illness Prevention, Medical Product Safety And Countermeasures
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is requesting a budget of $4.3 billion to protect and promote the public health as part of the President’s fiscal year (FY) 2012 budget – a 33 percent increase over the FDA enacted budget for FY 2010.
February 15, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: 2012-request, covers-the-period, diet, fda, fiscal-year, health-as-part, nutrition, nutrition / diet, oncalldiets, over-the-fda, percent-increase, period, president, promote-the-public, public
Why Folic Acid May Prevent A First Heart Attack, But Not A Second
A perplexing medical paradox now has an explanation according to research undertaken at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry and published in the current issue of the Public Library of Science…
February 4, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: current, diet, london, medicine, nutritional counseling, on call diets, paradox-now, public, public-library, the-current, undertaken-at-barts
The Food Integrity And Traceability Conference Puts Food Safety Under The Microscope
As food scares, such as the recent detection of dioxins in eggs from Germany, become more frequent, the public should be reassured that advances in science are helping reduce the risks from eating contaminated foods. That’s according to Professor Chris Elliott from Queen’s University Belfast…
January 28, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: become-more, conferences, elliott, food-scares, helping-reduce, oncalldiets, professor, professor-chris, public, queen, the-public, the-recent, university
Population-wide Reduction In Salt Consumption Recommended
The American Heart Association issued a call to action for the public, health professionals, the food industry and the government to intensify efforts to reduce the amount of sodium (salt) Americans consume daily…
January 14, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: association, food, government, health-professionals, intensify-efforts, nutrition / diet, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, public, the-food, the-government, the-public
Elderly Fall Risk Much Lower With Exercise And Vitamin D
People aged 65 or more who regularly exercise and take vitamin D supplements have a significantly lower risk of falling down compared to other seniors, researchers from Drexel University School of Public Health, USA wrote in an article published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Dr…
December 23, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: annals, drexel, drexel-university, falling-down, internal, lower-risk, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, public, public-health, regularly-exercise, school, seniors, seniors / aging
