Link Between Diet, Nutrient Levels And Cognitive Ability, Brain Shrinkage
New research has found that elderly people with higher levels of several vitamins and omega 3 fatty acids in their blood had better performance on mental acuity tests and less of the brain shrinkage typical of Alzheimer’s disease – while “junk food” diets produced just the opposite result…
January 4, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: alzheimer's / dementia, blood, brain, elderly-people, erformance-on-mental, junk-food, levels, mental-acuity, oncalldiets, opposite, several-vitamins, the-brain, their-blood
Vitamin D Deficiency Linked With Airway Changes In Children With Severe Asthma
Children with severe therapy-resistant asthma (STRA) may have poorer lung function and worse symptoms compared to children with moderate asthma, due to lower levels of vitamin D in their blood, according to researchers in London. Lower levels of vitamin D may cause structural changes in the airway muscles of children with STRA, making breathing more difficult…
September 23, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: airway, blood, london-lower, making-breathing, may-cause, moderate-asthma, nutrition, poorer-lung, respiratory / asthma, stra, structural-changes, the-airway, their-blood, worse-symptoms
Chew More, Eat Less?
Nutritionists in China found when both lean and obese young men chewed more at a meal, they ingested fewer calories and had more favourable levels of gut hormones in their blood, lending credence to the old Swedish proverb that says, among other things, “Eat less, chew more”, and “all good things will be yours”…
August 1, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: all-good, blood, both-lean, chew-more, fewer-calories, gut-hormones, more-favourable, nutrition / diet, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, swedish, the-old, their-blood, things, young-men
Those With High Alpha-Carotene Blood Levels Live Much Longer
People with high levels of alpha-carotene in their blood, that is, those who eat lots of fruit and vegetables, have a smaller risk of dying early and are more likely to live longer than others, researchers from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Atlanta, Georgia wrote in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine…
November 23, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: blood, disease-control, from-the-cdc, georgia, journal, nutrition / diet, prevention, the-journal, their-blood