Food Insecurity Predicts Mental Health Problems In Adolescents
A study published in the December 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that adolescents who experienced food insecurity in the past year have a higher prevalence of mental disorders than adolescents whose families have reliable access to food…
December 22, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: 2012-issue, adolescent, child, diet, food-insecurity, higher-prevalence, journal, mental health, mental-disorders, past, prevalence, study-published, the-past
Omega-3 Fatty Acids Don’t Improve Heart’s Ability To Relax And Efficiently Refill With Blood
Over the past three decades, researchers have firmly established that the omega-3 fatty acids in fish oil, including eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), have healthy effects on the heart…
April 26, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: dha, epa, fish-oil, heart, heart-disease, nutrition, nutritional counseling, omega, omega-3-fatty, oncalldiets, over-the-past, past, the-past, three-decades
Fish Oil May Help Prevent Psychiatric Disorders
Researchers at Zucker Hillside Hospital’s Recognition and Prevention (RAP) Program who have worked with teenagers at risk for serious mental illness for the past decade are now studying the effectiveness of Omega 3 fatty acids (fish oil) for treating psychiatric symptoms…
February 13, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: effectiveness, fatty-acids, hospital, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, past, program, psychology / psychiatry, recognition, serious-mental, teenagers-at-risk, the-past, zucker
Number Of Daily Meals And Snacks Contributes Most To Increase In Kilocalories Consumed By US Adults
The energy density of food and drink, portion size, and the number of meals and snacks per day have all been linked to increases in the average daily total energy intake of US adults over the past 30 years, but increases in the number of eating occasions and in portion size have accounted for most of this increase: energy density of food consumed may have actually slightly decreased…
June 28, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: adults-over, all-been, average, daily-total, energy-intake, increase, nutrition, oncalldietitian.com, over-the-past, portion-size, snacks-per, the-average, the-number, the-past
How Much Are Food-Allergic Diners Worth?
For the past year, AllergyEats founder Paul Antico has encouraged restaurants to better accommodate food allergic and intolerant diners because it’s the right thing to do. Now, the financial expert is demonstrating another benefit to catering to the food allergy community: it can significantly increase restaurants’ profits…
January 6, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: allergy, allergy-community, antico, benefit, diners-because, food-allergic, increase-restaurants, oncalldietitian.com, past, the-financial, the-food, the-past, the-right
Think Saturated Fat Contributes To Heart Disease? Think Again…
For the past three decades, saturated fat has been considered a major culprit of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and as a result dietary advice persists in recommending reduced consumption of this macronutrient. However, new evidence shows that saturated fat intake has only a very limited impact on CVD risk — causing many to rethink the “saturated fat is bad” paradigm…
October 2, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: advice-persists, cvd, heart-disease, macronutrient, nutrition, past, reduced-consumption, result-dietary, saturated-fat, the-past
