POSTS TAGGED AS nutrition

Digestive Enzyme Cartridge

Relizorb
For patients suffering from various digestive system cancers, malnourishment from an inability to utilize fats can worsen already serious disease. [MORE]

Nutrient Effect in Gene Expressions

cElegans
Well, of course, Mom was right: eat your vegetables!  And now nutritigenetic researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School [MORE]

Mobile Metabolism Monitor

Breezing
“Breezing” is the name developers at Arizona State University have given to a device that analyzes CO2 and [MORE]

Watson on Antioxidants

Dr. James D. Watson
Nutritionists have made a strong case for fruits and vegetables, which are high in antioxidants, as [MORE]

Nutritional Biomarkers

Nutritional Biomarkers
Sooner or later, personalized medicine will encompass the individual’s daily nutritional needs, but that area of investigation probably [MORE]

Breath Test for Vitamin Deficiency

Vitamin B12
Researchers at the University of Florida at Gainesville, and a New Hampshire company, Metabolic Solutions, have developed a [MORE]

A Catch-22 for Cancer Survivors

Surviving cancer can have adverse effects-e.g. cardiovascular complications, obesity, diabetes, osteopenia and osteoporosis, et al. For those reasons, cancer [MORE]

The Burden of Food Allergy

Peanuts, shrimp, eggs, and milk have long been known for causing food allergies, but in a recent study of [MORE]

Diet Coach Robot

Diet Robot
While it doesn’t have the “personal charm” of a Richard Simmons or Jillian Michaels, “Autom”-a robotic diet coach [MORE]

Monell Chemical Senses Center

There’s more than one way to explore personalized medicine, and researchers at the Monell Center in Philadelphia are doing [MORE]

Strategies to Reduce the Healthcare Cost Curve

Howard Deichen, MBA, Executive Vice President,  MedAssets explores  the future of healthcare  and strategies  that will successfully bend the healthcare [MORE]

Beck Speaks Out on the Importance of Nutrition for Seniors

David W. Beck. President, Homeplate Food Groups and  General Manager.  MedAssets Community-Based Programs describes  “aging in place” as the new [MORE]

Restricting Salt in the Diet

Table Salt
If American men could cut their daily salt intake from an average of 10 grams to 7, and [MORE]

Using Technology to Connect Acute Care and Community Services to Reduce Costs and Improve Outcomes for Older Americans

This presentation by the Executive Vice President of MedAssets focuses on the costs of care for chronic illness in older [MORE]