Fasting before a blood test: What you need to know
For some kinds of blood tests, the patient may be required to fast beforehand. In this article, learn about fasting for blood tests.
August 23, 2017 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: article, blood / hematology, blood-tests, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, patient, some-kinds, the-patient
New Standard For Vitamin D Testing To Ensure Accurate Test Results
At a time of increasing concern about low vitamin D levels in the world’s population and increased use of blood tests for the vitamin, scientists are reporting development of a much-needed reference material to assure that measurements of vitamin D levels are accurate. The report appears in ACS’ journal Analytical Chemistry…
January 27, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: acs, analytical, blood-tests, increased-use, increasing-concern, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, reference-material, reporting-development, the-world, vitamin, world
Food-Allergy Fears Drive Overly Restrictive Diets
Many children, especially those with eczema, are unnecessarily avoiding foods based on incomplete information about potential food-allergies, according to researchers at National Jewish Health. The food avoidance poses a nutritional risk for these children, and is often based primarily on data from blood tests known as serum immunoassays…
November 8, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: allergy, avoiding-foods, based-on-incomplete, blood-tests, diet, esearchers-at-national, food-avoidance, incomplete-information, known-as-serum, national, national-jewish, often-based, oncalldietitian.com, primarily-on-data, these-children
