Nutrient Balance As Sensed By The Brain
There is no doubt that eating a balanced diet is essential for maintaining a healthy body weight as well as appropriate arousal and energy balance, but the details about how the nutrients we consume are detected and processed in the brain remain elusive…
November 20, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: balanced diet, brain, details, energy-balance, healthy-body, nutrients, nutrition, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, the-brain, weight-as-well
Protecting Intestine From Radiation Injury With Probiotic
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that taking a probiotic before radiation therapy can protect the intestine from damage – at least in mice. The new study suggests that taking a probiotic also may help cancer patients avoid intestinal injury, a common problem in those receiving radiation therapy for abdominal cancers…
November 20, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: common-problem, diet, intestine, may-help, medicine, nutrition, protect-the-intestine, radiation-therapy, school, the-intestine
