Cheese may raise breast cancer risk, but yogurt could reduce it
Certain dairy foods have varying effects on breast cancer risk, study finds. Yogurt may reduce risk of the disease, but the same cannot be said for cheese.
March 1, 2017 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: dairy-foods, disease, effects-on-breast, may-reduce, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, the-disease
Hepatitis A: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Hepatitis A is a viral infection of the liver that is spread person-to-person and via contaminated food and water. Learn more about the disease, its symptoms and treatment here.
March 31, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: disease, its-symptoms, liver, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldiets, spread-person-to-person, the-disease, the-liver, viral-infection
Neolithic skeleton reveals early history of rickets
Rickets has been identified in a Neolithic skeleton from the Scottish island of Tiree, making it the earliest case of the disease in the UK, according to research announced at the British Science…
September 11, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: bones / orthopedics, british, diet, disease, earliest, from-the-scottish, neolithic, research-announced, scottish, the-disease, the-earliest, tiree
Women with gestational diabetes history have poor diets
American women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus have lower-quality diets compared with mothers who do not have a history of the disease, according to a University of Massachusetts…
March 2, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diabetes, diabetes-mellitus, diet, diets-compared, disease, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, the-disease, university
How online games can help diabetic patients make healthier choices
Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease of global relevance. Due to the fear that comes with the long-term bodily degenerative processes, people with the disease often do not actively seek information…
May 23, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: bodily-degenerative, chronic-disease, diabetes, disease, fear, nutrition, the-disease, the-fear
Study of UK children finds low vitamin D linked to fatty liver disease
A UK study[i] investigating the link between low vitamin D status and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in British children has identified a genetic variant associated with the disease’s…
April 15, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: between-low, british, diet, estigating-the-link, fatty-liver, genetic-variant, nafld, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, the-disease, the-link
Fructose not responsible for increase in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is the most common chronic liver disease in developed countries, affecting up to 30 per cent of their populations.Since the disease is closely linked to obesity and Type 2 diabetes, there’s a growing debate in the medical community about whether diet plays a role in its development, specifically the consumption of fructose.
February 28, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: closely-linked, diet, disease, fatty-liver, its-development, medical, per-cent, the-disease, the-medical
Omega-3s cross blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer’s patients
The blood-brain barrier protects the brain from harmful chemicals in the blood, but it also blocks drugs from reaching it. However, researchers have suggested that omega-3 fatty acid supplements can cross this barrier in Alzheimer’s patients, influencing markers for the disease and inflammation.
December 5, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: alzheimer, barrier, barrier-protects, blood, brain, disease, fatty-acid, from-harmful, nutrition, on call diets, protects-the-brain, the-blood, the-brain, the-disease
In A Mouse Model Of Alzheimer’s Disease, A Low-Protein Diet Improved Memory And Slowed The Advance Of The Disease
Mice with many of the pathologies of Alzheimer’s Disease showed fewer signs of the disease when given a protein-restricted diet supplemented with specific amino acids every other week for four months. Mice at advanced stages of the disease were put on the new diet.
February 18, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: advanced-stages, alzheimer, alzheimer's / dementia, disease, nutritional counseling, pathologies, showed-fewer, the-disease, the-pathologies, their-memory
Effectively Treating Colorectal Cancer With Grape Seed Extract, Even As Cancer Gets More Aggressive
When the going gets tough, grape seed extract gets going: A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the journal Cancer Letters shows that the more advanced are colorectal cancer cells, the more GSE inhibits their growth and survival.
January 20, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: colorado, diet, disease, extract-gets, growth, journal, oncalldiets, the-disease, the-journal, university