The reference dietary intake (RDI) gives numbers based on age and gender. The Daily Value (DV) builds on the RDI, but creates a number meant for everyone that can be put on the labels of food products. In short, the RDI is more specific and the DV is more general. If you are conf...
Hopkins Children's adopted the preventive treatment with potassium citrate two years ago, and doctors now believe this one major side effect of the diet is a thing of the past, allowing more children to remain on the diet for longer. Potassium citrate taken twice daily, either as powder sprin...
The urinary calcium increased significantly with each increase in protein intake, the mean value being 168, 240, 301 and 278 mg, respectively, when the low, the medium and the high protein and the high protein-high fruit and vegetable diet was given. Fecal calcium was not significantly ...
There is not enough research to confirm that low carb diets yield better results than other diets. So, you can (and should) still include healthy carbs regularly. In fact, make your diet about 50% of these healthy carb foods: Whole grains (whole grain bread, whole grain pasta, ancient gr...
(serum 25(OH)D < 30 nmol/L) and insufficiency (serum 25(OH)D > 30 < 50 nmol/L) [1] is common among older people as a result of reduction in mobility, time spent outdoors with sun exposure, intrinsic skin response to ultraviolet radiation and dietary vitamin D intake [...
If you’re excited about the potential health benefits of cannabidiol (CBD), you may be looking for new ways to add it to your daily diet. CBD-infused beverages are becoming more and more popular. Should you try one of them? CBD is a chemical that comes from the cannabis plant, but ...
poor diet, fatty foods abuse; smoking, which provokes vascular spasms and increase the risk of blood clots, impeding blood flow; abuse of alcohol, destroying a liver, brain cells that causes severe erectile dysfunction; minimum level of physical activity. Physical inactivity leads to the formation...
Vitamin A is an essential nutrient that is important for maintaining normal vision, gene expression, reproduction, embryonic development, growth, and immune function [1]. The human body cannot synthesise this nutrient, which is obtained through the diet [1]. When dietary intake is low for a lon...
mice, who ordinarily have a low-salt diet, and gave them high-salt food to reflect the typical intake of humans. They found that not only did resting stress hormone levels increase, but the mice’s hormone response to environmental stress was double that of mice that had a normal diet. ...
In an ideal world, women would eat a healthy diet all the time. But so few of us have the luxury of making sure each meal is filled with fruits and