Industry-funded study implies diet soda is ‘superior to water for weight loss’
A controversial study has reported that participants who consumed diet drinks lost more weight on average than a control group who drank mostly water. Could the results be biased?
May 30, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: control-group, diet-drinks, lost-more, nutrition / diet, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, results, the-results, weight-on-average
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
Link between DHA-enriched formula in infancy and positive cognitive outcomes in childhood
University of Kansas scientists have found that infants who were fed formula enriched with long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFA) from birth to 12 months scored significantly better than a control group on several measures of intelligence conducted between the ages of three to six years…
August 14, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: ages, between-the-ages, conducted-between, control-group, diet, fatty-acids, formula-enriched, from-birth, group-on-several, kansas, months-scored, nutrition, several-measures, the-ages
