Thunderclap headache caused by the world’s hottest chili pepper
A new study explores the ‘unusual’ case of the man who ate the hottest chili pepper in the world and experienced thunderclap headache as a result.
April 10, 2018 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: chili-pepper, headache / migraine, hottest, new-study, nutritional counseling, the-hottest, the-man, the-world, world
Researchers develop new framework for human nutrition
Existing models for measuring health impacts of the human diet are limiting our capacity to solve obesity and its related health problems, claim two of the world’s leading nutritional scientists in…
August 3, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: capacity, claim-two, diet, human, leading-nutritional, measuring-health, nutrition, nutrition / diet, solve-obesity, the-human, the-world, world
Could ancient wheat be the future of food?
Researchers believe untapped consumer markets exist for ancient foods such as einkorn, emmer, and spelt, which fed large swaths of the world’s population for thousands of years but disappeared…
June 28, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: believe-untapped, diet, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, such-as-einkorn, the-world, world
Silk keeps fruit fresh without refrigeration
Half of the world’s fruit and vegetable crops are lost during the food supply chain, due mostly to premature deterioration of these perishable foods, according to the Food and Agriculture…
May 6, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: during-the-food, food, nutrition, nutrition / diet, on call diets, oncalldiets, premature-deterioration, the-world, these-perishable, vegetable-crops, world
Scientists to use microbes and methane to create sustainable Omega 3
Scientists are trying to find a new way to produce the nutritional fatty acids called Omega 3 that are currently sourced from fish oil from the world’s declining natural fish stocks.
May 5, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: currently-sourced, declining-natural, diet, from-fish, from-the-world, new-way, nutrition / diet, nutritional, nutritional counseling, omega, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, produce-the-nutritional, the-world, world
Commercial sea salt samples purchased in China contaminated with microplastics
Tiny plastic bits, collectively known as called microplastics, are showing up in bodies of water around the world, and are accumulating in aquatic creatures, including fish and shellfish.
November 13, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: aquatic-creatures, around-the-world, called-microplastics, diet, including-fish, known-as-called, nutrition, oncalldiets, plastic-bits, the-world, world
When eating fish is a health hazard
Fish farmed or caught near the world’s great industrial growth areas run the risk of spreading toxic contamination up the food chain and poisoning consumers.
September 14, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: caught-near, farmed-or-caught, food, great-industrial, growth-areas, near-the-world, nutrition, nutrition / diet, on call diets, oncalldiets, risk, the-food, the-world, world
New research: Coffee not associated with lifestyle diseases
Danish researchers are the first in the world to have used our genes to investigate the impact of coffee on the body.
July 10, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: body, genes, impact, nutrition, nutrition / diet, nvestigate-the-impact, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, our-genes, the-impact, the-world, world
Nut consumption associated with reduced risk of some types of cancer
Cancer and type 2 diabetes are two of the most significant public health burdens facing the world today, and currently available data suggests their prevalence is expected to continue to increase.
June 17, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: available-data, burdens-facing, facing-the-world, nutrition, oncalldiets, prevalence, public-health, the-most, the-world, world
A derivative of vitamin B3 found to prevent liver cancer in mice
Liver cancer is one of the most frequent cancers in the world, and with the worst prognosis; according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), in 2012, 745,000 deaths were registered worldwide due to…
November 25, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: nutrition, nutritional counseling, organisation, the-most, the-world, the-worst, world, world-health, worldwide-due, worst