Girls and boys respond differently to a school-based healthy diet intervention in Argentina
A randomized controlled trial conducted with over 400 school-aged children in Argentina showed gender differences in likelihood to adopt healthy lifestyle changes…
October 22, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: 400-school-aged, adopt-healthy, argentina, nutrition / diet, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, randomized-controlled, showed-gender, trial-conducted
Nutritional intervention may help decrease 30-day readmission rates among Medicare patients
In the U.S., one in five Medicare patients is readmitted to a hospital each year at an estimated cost of $17.5 billion annually. To reduce this impact, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has introduced hospital penalties based on readmissions conditions that commonly affect patients aged 65 and older – including acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure and pneumonia…
October 22, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: 17-5-billion, aca, affordable, based-on-readmissions, commonly-affect, congestive-heart, estimated-cost, hospital-each, hospital-penalties, impact, including-acute, myocardial-infarction
Tackling abdominal obesity with exercise and nutrition
Lifestyle programs focused on high-intensity interval training combined with nutritional counselling on the Mediterranean diet have shown dramatic results for improving the heart health of people with abdominal obesity, finds a study released at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress…
October 22, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: abdominal-obesity, focused-on-high, heart, heart-health, improving-the-heart, interval-training, mediterranean, nutritional counseling, on call diets, programs-focused, study-released
