A Warning To Postpartum Korean-American Women About Dietary Iodine Intake From Seaweed
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have brought attention to the potential health impacts for Korean and Korean-American women and their infants from consuming brown seaweed soup. Seaweed is a known source of dietary iodine, particularly in Korea; however, there is no scientific data on the iodine content in Korean seaweed soup…
July 13, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: brown-seaweed, diet, dietary-iodine, from-consuming, health-impacts, iodine, medicine, nutrition, nutrition / diet, potential, scientific-data, the-iodine, their-infants
Researchers Look At Potential Benefits, Risks Of Exclusive Breastfeeding During First 6 Months Of Life
A review of existing studies on breastfeeding, published Thursday online in BMJ (British Medical Journal), suggests some findings that contradict the WHO’s 2001 recommendation that mothers “exclusively breastfeed for the first six months of their infants’ lives,” Nature News reports (Gilbert, 1/14)…
January 19, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: 2001-recommendation, bmj, british-medical, exclusively-breastfeed, existing-studies, infants, medical, nature, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, six-months, studies-on-breastfeeding, suggests-some, their-infants
Researchers Look At Potential Benefits, Risks Of Exclusive Breastfeeding During First 6 Months Of Life
A review of existing studies on breastfeeding, published Thursday online in BMJ (British Medical Journal), suggests some findings that contradict the WHO’s 2001 recommendation that mothers “exclusively breastfeed for the first six months of their infants’ lives,” Nature News reports (Gilbert, 1/14)…
January 19, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: 2001-recommendation, british-medical, infants, nature, nature-news, six-months, studies-on-breastfeeding, suggests-some, their-infants
Risk Of Excess Body Fat In Breastfed Babies Doubled By Maternal Diet High In Trans Fats, Study Finds
A new University of Georgia study suggests that mothers who consume a diet high in trans fats double the likelihood that their infants will have high levels of body fat. Researchers, whose results appear in the early online edition of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that infants whose mothers consumed more than 4…
September 30, 2010 · by webmaster · in Nutritional News · Tags: georgia, high-levels, infants, likelihood, on call diets, online-edition, study-suggests, their-infants