2019 in medical research: What were the top findings?
Another year has come and gone, and we are about to step into a new decade. But what have the past 12 months meant for medical research?
December 21, 2019 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, months-meant, nutrition, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, past, the-past, year
High prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency in large population of kids with type 1 diabetes
During the past two decades, vitamin D status, defined as serum concentration of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, has emerged as a predictor of key clinical outcomes including bone health, glucose metabolism…
April 21, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: bone-health, defined-as-serum, diabetes, diet, during-the-past, key-clinical, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, outcomes-including, past, serum-concentration, the-past, two-decades
Study finds association between energy drinks and traumatic brain injury in teens
Teens who reported a traumatic brain injury in the past year were seven times more likely to have consumed at least five energy drinks in the past week than those without a history of TBI…
September 17, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: consumed-at-least, energy-drinks, least-five, neurology / neuroscience, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, past, seven-times, tbi, the-past, traumatic-brain, year-were
Teeth reveal lifetime exposures to metals, toxins
Is it possible that too much iron in infant formula may potentially increase risk for neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s in adulthood — and are teeth the window into the past that can help…
July 23, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: increase-risk, infant-formula, nutrition / diet, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, parkinson, past, potentially-increase, teeth-the-window, the-past, too-much, window
Survey of ready-to-eat salads exposes high salt content
Despite a large reduction in average salt content over the past decade, many food stores and restaurants in the UK are still loading their salads with unhealthy quantities of salt.
July 30, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: average-salt, content-over, large-reduction, nutrition, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, over-the-past, past, salads, the-past, unhealthy-quantities
Childhood obesity: is it being taken seriously?
Childhood obesity has soared in the past 3 decades, meaning more children are at risk of obesity-related illnesses. But is the condition still overlooked
July 30, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: condition, meaning-more, nutritional counseling, on call diets, past, still-overlooked, the-condition, the-past
Worldwide obesity rates see ‘startling’ increase over past 3 decades
An international research team has found that, unlike other major global health risks – such as smoking – obesity rates have significantly increased over the past 30 years.
May 29, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: health-risks, increased-over, major, major-global, obesity-rates, oncalldiets, over-the-past, past, research-team, such-as-smoking, the-past
What are the health benefits of oats?
Oats (Avena sativa) are a cereal commonly eaten in the form of oatmeal or rolled oats.They are mainly eaten as porridge, as an ingredient in breakfast cereals and in baked goods (oatcakes, oat cookies and oat bread). Over the past few decades oats have become a very popular “health food”.
January 30, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: baked-goods, breakfast-cereals, eaten-as-porridge, few-decades, health-food, nutrition, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, oatmeal-or-rolled, oncalldietitian.com, over-the-past, past, the-form, the-past, very-popular
High fiber diet may protect against asthma
In the past 50 years, as fruits and vegetables have featured less and less in the Western diet, rates of allergic asthma have gone up. Now a new study suggests these trends are not coincidental, but causally linked.
January 12, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: allergic-asthma, diet, featured-less, not-coincidental, past, respiratory / asthma, the-past, western
Decreasing Diabetes Risk In Obese Children And Adolescents Through Vitamin D Supplementation
Childhood and adolescent obesity rates in the United States have increased dramatically in the past three decades. Being obese puts individuals at greater risk for developing Type 2 diabetes, a disease in which individuals have too much sugar in their blood…
March 28, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: blood, diet, greater-risk, much-sugar, ndividuals-at-greater, nutritional counseling, obese-puts, obesity-rates, on call diets, past, the-past, united, united-states