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ADA releases updated position paper on vegetarian diets

...se following a varied, balanced vegetarian diet." The position paper draws on results from ADA's evidence analysis process and information from the ada Evidence Analysis Library to show vegetarian diets can be nutritionally adequate in pregnancy and result in positive maternal and infant health outcom...

ADA releases updated position statement on functional foods

... consumed as part of a varied diet on a regular basis, at effective levels. ada supports research to further define the health benefits and risks of indivi...d be based on the significant scientific agreement standard of evidence and ada supports label claims based on such strong scientific substantiation. Food ...

Diabetics on high-fiber diets might need extra calcium, report UT Southwestern researchers

...udy, 13 patients with type 2 diabetes ate either a high-fiber diet (50 grams per day) or the moderate-fiber diet (24 grams per day) recommended by the ada for six weeks, then switched to the other diet for six weeks. All participants stayed at UT Southwestern's Clinical and Translational Research Center ...

American Dietetic Association releases 2008 nutrition trends survey

...onwide consumer opinion survey, Nutrition and You: Trends 2008. In each ada survey since 1991, ada has used respondents' answers to a number of different questions to segment...

Bayhill Therapeutics and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation announce research collaboration

...o pancreatic autoantigens. Clinical Trial Criteria Key inclusion criteria for this trial include: a diagnosis of type 1a diabetes mellitus based on ada criteria, ≤5 years since T1D was diagnosed, ≥ 18 years of age, ≤ 40 years of age at the time of diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes, detect...

News from the October 2008 Journal of the American Dietetic Association

...urces. The American Dietetic Association encourages consumers to consume adequate amounts of fiber, particularly from food sources, according to a new ada position statement published this month on the health implications of dietary fiber: It is the position of The American Dietetic Association that t...

Highlights from the November 2007 Journal of the American Dietetic Association

... to receive a copy of a Journal article, e-mail media@eatright.org . ada Participates in Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development The J...vember issue as open access, meaning that they are freely available to both ada members and non-members alike through the Journals Web site at www.adajourn...

An 'elegant' idea proves its worth 25 years later

...ea was to give patients chemicals they already make in small amounts in large doses to make up for the missing urea cycle enzyme they inherited," says ada Hamosh, M.D., M.P.H, clinical director of the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine. "Sodium phenylacetate and sodium benzoate already know h...

Joslin discovers signs of residual islet cell function in people with long-term type 1 diabetes

...Study began in April 2005 to identify physiological, clinical, genetic and other factors shared by the Medalists. The study being presented at the ada meeting is part of the second phase of the Joslin 50-Year Medalist Study that is assessing these factors in 326 patients with more than 50 years of in...

Living with salt

...salt remained unresolved. In a recent paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (PNAS), Institute scientists Prof. ada Zamir and Dr. Lakshmanane Premkumar of the Institute's Biological Chemistry Department and Prof. Joel Sussman and Dr. Harry Greenblatt of the Structur...