Nutrition News
Living Well: Your Guide to Nutrient Rich Eating
Eating right helps you feel great and stay healthy so you can live well, but sometimes it's hard to know what advice to follow or how to get started. The Nutrient Rich Foods Coalition Web site offers fast and reliable information to help you eat the nutrient-rich way—that means getting the most vitamins, minerals and other nutrients—but not too many calories—from the foods you choose. (June 09)
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The Nutritional Melting Pot: Understanding the Influence of Food, Culture, and Religion on Nutrition Interventions
Patients with different cultural and religious backgrounds often bring their own sets of beliefs and practices that can affect medical treatment… a basic understanding of religious and cultural norms as they relate to food habits can help registered dietitians (RDs) and other members of the healthcare team. The nutrition care plan goal for patients with wounds is to meet nutrient needs within the context of customary food habits. (June 09)
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How to Reduce Salt 
The human body is a wondrous and mysterious machine. Over 200,000 years into the evolutionary process and scientists say we still don't know how something as simple as the taste of salt—one of the world's most prolific natural elements first used by man thousands of years ago—works in the human body. (June 09)
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Hidden Risk: Millions of People Don't Know They Are Diabetic
One of the most troubling statistics in health care is this: Twenty-three million Americans have diabetes, and one-quarter of them don't realize it… A surprising number of adults have elevated blood-sugar levels that meet the criteria for diabetes but have never had symptoms or ignored them. 
(June 09)
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Cardiovascular Disease Toolkit
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death among people with diabetes, accounting for at least two out of three diabetes-related deaths. Please talk with your diabetes patients about their increased risk for heart disease and stroke. Make sure they know that risk reduction is possible. (June 09)
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Enteral Tube Feeding For Older People With Advanced Dementia
The use of enteral tube feeding for patients with advanced dementia who have poor nutritional intake is common. In one US survey 34% of 186,835 nursing home residents with advanced cognitive impairment were tube fed. (May 09)
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B Vitamins Could Lower Risk of Macular Degeneration
Taking B vitamins could lower the risk for a leading cause of blindness in older Americans, a study reports. "This is the first randomized trial to indicate a possible benefit of folic acid, B-6 and B-12 vitamin supplements in reducing the risks of age-related macular degeneration," says study author William Christen, an associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. (April 09)
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Seniors Not Getting Enough Nutrition
A recent study of the diets of older adults has found that many Americans are not getting an adequate amount of essential vitamins and minerals. The research indicates that supplements can help older adults to meet their nutritional requirements… Researchers found that many Americans who are middle aged and older are not being adequately nourished. The study was published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. (April 09)
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