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A Healing Diet to Plug Pressure Sores
(Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - Protica Staff Writer)
Pressure ulcers are a significant and costly healthcare problem for patients and healthcare providers. An understanding of the role of nutrition in their prevention and management can help ameliorate ...
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Battling Childhood Obesity through Smart Eating
(Thursday, January 27, 2005 - Protica Staff Writer)
Finally, a positive solution regarding America’s difficult and costly campaign to stem childhood obesity is emerging. For the thousands of children and their families who are currently battling with ...
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Beyond Macronutrients and the Importance of Vitamin Supplements
(Thursday, January 27, 2005 - Protica Staff Writer)
What is often overlooked in a nutrition vocabulary dominated by talk of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats, is the plain fact that vitamin supplements play a critical role in an overall healthy eating ...
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Capsulized Food: The Next Step in Food Evolution
(Monday, December 27, 2004 - Protica Staff Writer)
A new development in nutrition research called ‘capsulized food’ aims to exceed consumer requirements for food. Pennsylvania-based Protica Research is the first of what will likely be many companies d...
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Current Dietary Recommendations in Strength Training
(Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - Protica Staff Writer)
Strength is the cumulative expression of the innumerable myofibrils orderly arranged to form the muscle. Strength training attempts to boost these protein motors and the biological machinery that supp...
Posted By : amanda |
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Diet Problem of the Business Traveler: Staying Fit When on the Run
(Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - Protica Staff Writer)
Americans of all ages live such busy, fast-paced lifestyles, that eating nutritious meals is seen as something of a luxury; to be enjoyed on special occasions or when one rarely has a few hours to pre...
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Dietary Proteins Can Lower Blood Pressure
(Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - Protica Staff Writer)
Blood pressure as the name suggests is the force of blood against arterial walls. A normal adult blood pressure is below 120/80. High blood pressure has been defined as over 140/90. Hypertension or hi...
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Dietary Recommendations After Gastric Bypass Surgery
(Thursday, March 03, 2005 - Protica Staff Writer)
When obesity gets out of hand, unresponsive to dietary, lifestyle and medical interventions, drastic measures are needed to cut down calorie intake. Morbid obesity with a BMI (body mass index, a measu...
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Eating Healthy in a Time-Starved World
(Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - Protica Staff Writer)
Americans are literally running out of time. Achieving a work-life balance, which is still a luxury for tens of millions of working parents, has been overtaken by an even greater demand: a work-life-n...
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Exposing the Best Source of Protein Myth
(Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - Protica Staff Writer)
Some camps lobby in favor of whey protein as the best protein source, while others advocate soy. Some claim that meat and poultry are the best source of protein, while others swear that a plant-based ...
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Finding the Elusive Complete-Protein Source
(Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - Protica Staff Writer)
Eating the appropriate composition of protein is an unusually difficult challenge for many Americans. Many protein sources are not considered “complete” because they do not provide all of the required...
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Food Selection for Gastric Bypass Patients
(Thursday, January 27, 2005 - Protica Staff Writer)
The bulk of concern surrounding gastric bypass surgery is emanating from the medical community. Some experts are worried that individuals opting for this rather dramatic surgery are not prepared to m...
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Inactive Alert: Essential Proteins for Sedentary People
(Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - Protica Staff Writer)
While the value of protein in diet has been accepted and promoted within the athletic community, it has been less well disseminated within the very large sedentary population. Currently making up abo...
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Kwashiorkor In An Affluent Society
(Friday, September 16, 2005 - Protica Staff Writer)
Kwashiokor is a form protein-energy malnutrition that we generally associate with children from war-torn countries of Africa. The financial and social affluence generally protects our population, espe...
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Link between Protein and Low Cholesterol
(Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - Protica Staff Writer)
Current research has revealed a promising relation between a high protein diet and low blood cholesterol levels. Many people with high cholesterol levels take medications to control their cholesterol ...
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Natural Milk Proteins Protect Against Heart Disease
(Monday, May 30, 2005 - Protica Staff Writer)
Proteins form an integral part of natural diet. Epidemiological studies strongly support the hypothesis that increased protein intake can lower blood pressure. Dietary patterns associated with a high...
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Not All Protein is Created Equally
(Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - Protica Staff Writer)
America’s focus on nutritious eating began to receive national attention in the 1940s when President Roosevelt introduced the RDA, or Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) model. This model, which took on...
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Nutrition Supplements for Aging Americans
(Tuesday, January 04, 2005 - Protica Staff Writer)
Within a generation, an unprecedented demographic reality will exist in the US: 1 in 5 Americans will be older than 65. This is indeed news worth celebrating, because it means that more Americans are ...
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Policosinol and Cholesterol Reduction
(Thursday, March 03, 2005 - Protica Staff Writer)
The word cholesterol has become synonymous with poor health. Indeed, one does not typically hear the word used, or see it printed, unless it points to yet another distressing fact -- that high choles...
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Protein - The Denominator Customary to All Diets
(Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - Protica Staff Writer)
The Human Body is in a constant flux with the environment. Matter and molecules flow in and out, casting themselves into its complexities. Although the body lends them structure, it is the intake—the ...
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Protein and Endurance Sports
(Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - Protica Staff Writer)
Endurance Sports are like music concerts. They start at a low key, setting a steady rhythm and culminate into a crescendo that enthralls the spectator and the athlete. And not unlike an orchestra, end...
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Protein Principles for Diabetes
(Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - Protica Staff Writer)
Dietary considerations can present a Hobson’s choice in diabetes. Even when the intake is nutritious, assimilating it can be another matter. Then there is the problem of progression of diabetic compli...
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Protein Requirement in Wound Healing
(Friday, September 16, 2005 - Protica Staff Writer)
Wound healing is the process of repair that follows injury to the skin and other soft tissues. Wounds may result from trauma or from a surgical incision. The capacity of a wound to heal depends in par...
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Protein Requirements During and After Pregnancy
(Friday, August 19, 2005 - Protica Staff Writer)
Pregnancy is one of the physiological states in a women’s life that is nutritionally demanding. A well balanced diet ensures a well-nourished body that can adequately meet the demands of pregnancy, fe...
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Protein Requirements During Treatment of Renal Failure
(Friday, May 06, 2005 - Protica Staff Writer)
Renal disease is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in industrial and post-industrial societies. Kidneys when healthy regulate the amount of fluid, potassium and sodium in the body. Kidneys...
Posted By : amanda |
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