Most people consider becoming vegetarian for their health
Researchers know that people are motivated to be vegetarian for different reasons — the most common in western cultures being health, the environment and animal rights.
April 2, 2020 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: being-health, diet, different-reasons, environment, oncalldietitian.com, the-environment, the-most, western-cultures
Pathogens in cheese – researchers follow the traces of deadly bacteria
Listeria is a rod-shaped bacterium highly prevalent in the environment and generally not a threat to human health. One species however, Listeria monocytogenes, can cause listeriosis, a very dangerous disease.
March 24, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: environment, listeria, oncalldietitian.com, pathogen, raw-meat, raw-milk, rod-shaped-bacterium, smoked-fish, the-environment, very-dangerous
How Animals Sense Potentially Harmful Acids
All animals face the challenge of deciding which chemicals in the environment are useful and which are harmful. A new study greatly improves our understanding of how animals sense an important class of potentially harmful chemicals: weak acids. The study appears online on May 16 in the Journal of General Physiology…
May 17, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: animals-face, biology / biochemistry, environment, harmful-chemicals, important-class, journal, nutritional counseling, online-on-may, study-appears, the-environment
