U.S. elementary schools see improvement in nutrition of school lunches
The percentage of U.S. elementary schools regularly offering healthy foods as part of school lunches increased significantly from the 2006-2007 to the 2013-2014 school year and the number of less…
March 17, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, elementary-schools, foods-as-part, from-the-2006, healthy-foods, number, nutrition, regularly-offering, school-lunches, school-year, the-2013-2014
Diverse diets enrich gut microbes
Researchers explain how reducing diet diversity reduces gut microbe diversity.
March 17, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diverse-gut, diversity-reduces, explain-how, gut-microbe, less-rich, microbe-population, oncalldiets, reducing-diet
When you eat could be as important as what you eat
New research shows mitochondria are very time-sensitive and may explain why sleeping and eating out of phase with the body clock may raise risk of obesity and metabolic diseases.
March 17, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: body, clock-may, diet, eating-out, nutrition / diet, oncalldiets, raise-risk, research-shows, the-body
Re-energizing the aging brain
The human brain has a prodigious demand for energy — 20 to 30% of the body’s energy budget.
March 17, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: alzheimer's / dementia, body, diet, human-brain, nutrition, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, the-body
Rapid urine test could replace food logs
A new urine test can reveal the presence of important compounds that occur in cruciferous vegetables. The test could replace unreliable food logs in cancer-prevention research.
March 17, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: food-logs, important-compounds, new-urine, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldiets, presence, replace-unreliable, reveal-the-presence
