New dietary guidelines must be sustainable, regardless of politics
The new iteration of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) must incorporate sustainability considerations – both for the health and wellbeing of Americans and the world in which we live, urges a…
October 2, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: dga, dietary, dietary-guidelines, health, must-incorporate, new-iteration, nutrition, nutrition / diet, the-health, world
How a Big Mac affects your body in 1 hour
A new infographic claims to reveal how the world-famous Big Mac from fast food giant McDonald’s affects the body 10, 20, 30, 40 and 60 minutes after eating it.
September 25, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: affects-the-body, body, food-giant, from-fast, new-infographic, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, on call diets, reveal-how, the-world-famous, 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
Call for curb on the production and sale of cheap salty junk food
A World Health Organization adviser is calling for the government to stop food manufacturers and distributors producing and selling unhealthy, cheap, salty junk food.
September 10, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: government, nutrition, nutrition / diet, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, organization, salty-junk, selling-unhealthy, stop-food, the-government, world, world-health
Queen’s University Belfast, UK, researchers discover how to cut worrying levels of arsenic
Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have made a breakthrough in discovering how to lower worrying levels of arsenic in rice that is eaten all over the world.
July 23, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: esearchers-at-queen, lower-worrying, nutrition, oncalldiets, over-the-world, queen, university, 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
‘Slimming chocolate’ study fools the world media
A study of chocolate designed to expose the junk-science diet industry has been widely reported across the world, despite major shortcomings.
June 1, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: across-the-world, chocolate-designed, despite-major, diet-industry, expose-the-junk, junk, nutrition, nutritional counseling, on call diets, widely-reported, world
Higher coffee consumption may protect against liver cancer
Evidence has emerged from the World Cancer Research Fund International CUP report on liver cancer that finds drinking coffee may reduce the risk of liver cancer.
March 30, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: cup, diet, from-the-world, international, reduce-the-risk, research, the-risk, world
New WHO guideline clamps down on intake of free sugars
In a new guideline, the World Health Organization states that daily free sugar intake should not exceed 10% of total energy intake.
March 5, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: daily-free, new-guideline, nutrition, nutrition / diet, organization, should-not, sugar-intake, total-energy, world, world-health
