Healthy diet? That depends on your genes
Shifts in the diets of Europeans after the introduction of farming 10,000 years ago led to genetic adaptations that favored the dietary trends of the time, new research indicates. The study has implications for the growing field of nutritional genomics, called nutrigenomics.
June 12, 2017 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: based-on-one, clinicians-may, dietary, diets, europeans, genome, growing, growing-field, his-genome, improve-health, new-research, tailor-each, the-dietary, the-diets, the-time
Children With Type 1 Diabetes Helped To Produce Their Own Insulin With Diet Additions
Adding foods rich in specific amino and fatty acids to the diets of youth with Type 1 diabetes kept them producing some of their own insulin for up to two years after diagnosis, said researchers at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill…
July 18, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: after-diagnosis, diabetes, gillings, gillings-school, global-public, north, oncalldiets, specific-amino, the-diets
Patients With Intestinal Failure Benefit From Prebiotic
Adding the right prebiotic to the diets of pediatric patients with intestinal failure could replace intravenous feeding, says a new University of Illinois study. “When we fed the carbohydrate fructooligosacharide (FOS) as a prebiotic, the gut grew and increased in function,” said Kelly A.
October 17, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: carbohydrate, diet, fos, illinois, oncalldietitian.com, replace-intravenous, the-diets, the-gut, the-right
Foods With Baked Milk May Help Build Tolerance In Children With Dairy Allergies
Introducing increasing amounts of foods that contain baked milk into the diets of children who have milk allergies helped a majority of them outgrow their allergies, according to a study conducted at Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s Jaffe Food Allergy Institute. The data are reported in the May 23 issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology…
July 2, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: allergies, allergy, clinical, contain-baked, diets, jaffe-food, journal, medicine, mount-sinai, on call diets, oncalldiets, school, the-diets, their-allergies
A Natural Variation Shows Promise For Increasing Provitamin A In Cassava Roots Using Transgenic Or Conventional Methods
The roots of cassava (Manihot esculenta) serve as the primary source of carbohydrates in the diets of people in many arid regions of the world, including more than 250 million people in sub-Saharan Africa. Unfortunately the roots of commercial cassava cultivars are quite low in micronutrients, and micronutrient deficiencies are widespread in these regions…
October 6, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diets, including-more, million-people, nutrition / diet, on call diets, the-diets, the-primary, the-roots