Physicians want to learn more about diet, cardiovascular disease prevention
Most physicians are aware of the importance of lifestyle factors in preventing cardiovascular disease (CVD) — and believe diet is as important as statin therapy and exercise, according to a new survey.
March 16, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: cvd, importance, important-as-statin, lifestyle-factors, oncalldietitian.com, statin-therapy, the-importance
Folic acid supplementation linked to reduced risk of first stroke in people with hypertension
A study of more than 20,000 people with high blood pressure finds that combination treatment with folic acid and enalapril may reduce the risk of first stroke.
March 16, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: blood-pressure, diet, folic-acid, may-reduce, nutrition, nutritional counseling, reduce-the-risk, risk, stroke, the-risk
Mind reading: Spatial patterns of brain activity decode what people taste
A team of researchers from the German Institute of Human Nutrition in Potsdam and the Charite University Hospital in Berlin have revealed how taste is encoded in patterns of neural activity in the…
March 16, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: charite, charite-university, from-the-german, german, german-institute, hospital, how-taste, human, human-nutrition, neural-activity, nutrition, nutrition / diet, oncalldietitian.com, potsdam
Scientists find a new beta cell maturation step triggered by weaning from milk to chow
Researchers to study whether early weaning affects chances of developing diabetesA long-standing puzzle in the diabetes field has been the fact that only a small subset of insulin-producing beta…
March 16, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: affects-chances, been-the-fact, developing-diabetes, diabetes, early-weaning, fact, small-subset, study-whether, the-diabetes
