Does Vitamin D Enhance Academic Performance? Probably Not
A study, in the online version of Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, shows that high levels of vitamin D do not appear to boost the academic performance of teenagers…
April 12, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: academic, academic-performance, boost-the-academic, community-health, epidemiology, high-levels, journal, oncalldietitian.com, online, the-online
Hunger, Food Insecurity Linked To Reduced Use Of Condoms For Women In Brazil
In this week’s PLoS Medicine, Alexander Tsai of Harvard University, Cambridge, USA and colleagues show that in sexually active women in Brazil severe food insecurity with hunger was positively associated with symptoms potentially indicative of sexually transmitted infection and with reduced odds of condom use…
April 12, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: alexander, alexander-tsai, brazil, cambridge, harvard, on call diets, oncalldiets, potentially-indicative, sexually-active, usa, week
Supplement Use Predicts Folate Status In Canadian Women
Researchers have gained new insight into why 22% of Canadian women of childbearing age are still not achieving a folate concentration considered optimal for reducing the risk of having babies with neural tube defects, despite a virtual absence of folate deficiency in the general Canadian population…
April 12, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: folate-deficiency, having-babies, new-insight, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, reducing-the-risk, risk, still-not, the-risk, tube-defects
