‘Nudges’ help students select healthy lunches
With back-to-school season in full swing, imagine this: Your child orders lunch via computer and gets a little message saying he or she needs to add more nutritious food groups. That combination helped some youngsters eat healthier meals, a study has shown.
August 30, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: child, child-orders, full-swing, little-message, lunch-via, nutrition, nutritional counseling, nutritious-food, on call diets, she-needs, youngsters-eat
20 cent school intervention stops unhealthy weight gain in children
A school intervention costing less than 20 cents per child has stopped unhealthy weight gain.
August 30, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: cents-per, costing-less, diet, nutritional counseling, on call diets, school-intervention, stopped-unhealthy
The Paleo diet: Could it reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease?
Healthy adults who followed the Paleo diet for 8 weeks had lower levels of a molecule called interleukin-10, suggesting a lower heart attack risk.
August 30, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, lower-heart, lower-levels, molecule-called, nutrition, nutrition / diet, paleo, weeks-had
Folic acid may protect against congenital heart defects
Findings from a study of Canadian data show that fortifying foods with folic acid are associated with reduced rates of congenital heart defects.
August 30, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: congenital-heart, data-show, diet, folic-acid, nutrition / diet, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets
Food labels we look for and what they really mean
Various agencies and organizations certify or approve foods, but what do their labels actually promise or guarantee?
August 30, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: actually-promise, approve-foods, certify-or-approve, daily, daily-meal, labels, nutrition, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, oncalldiets, promise-or-guarantee, their-labels
