Supplement cuts muscle loss in knee replacements
Twenty grams of essential amino acids taken twice daily for a week before and for two weeks after knee-replacement surgeries helped 16 patients, mean age 69, recover faster and with much less muscle atrophy than a control group ingesting a placebo.
October 28, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: acids-taken, after-knee-replacement, bones / orthopedics, control-group, mean-age, much-less, muscle-atrophy, on call diets
Researchers demonstrate preventive effect of sterols in Alzheimer’s disease
“Plant sterols are present in various combinations in nuts, seeds and plant oils. As plant sterols are the equivalents of animal cholesterol, they can in principal influence metabolic processes, where cholesterol is involved,” explained Marcus Grimm, Head of the Experimental Neurology Laboratory at Saarland University…
October 28, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: animal-cholesterol, equivalents, experimental, laboratory, marcus, marcus-grimm, metabolic-processes, neurology-laboratory, oncalldietitian.com, plant-sterols
Red and processed meat ‘increases colorectal cancer risk’
People with a common genetic variant who consume red or processed meat may increase their risk of colorectal cancer.
October 28, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: annual, human-genetics, nutrition, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, processed-meat, the-annual, their-risk
Population-wide vitamin and mineral deficiencies detected via new testing strategy
Johns Hopkins researchers have demonstrated that levels of certain proteins in the bloodstream may be used to estimate levels of essential vitamins and minerals without directly testing for each nutritional factor…
October 28, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: bloodstream, certain-proteins, each-nutritional, essential-vitamins, estimate-levels, hopkins, johns-hopkins, nutrition / diet, oncalldiets, the-bloodstream
