Nutrition

Nutrition News

SCCM Fewer Calories Does Not Reduce Ventilator Use Trophic enteral feeding was no better than full enteral feeding in reducing ventilator use among critically ill patients with acute lung injury.
Medscape Medical News, February 6, 2012
Americans Sweet on Sugar: Time to Regulate? Researchers say excess sugar should be regulated like alcohol and tobacco.
WebMD Health News, February 6, 2012

Vitamins and Mortality: In Defense of Supplements One of Medscape's readers responds to the Mursu study with thoughtful attention to the limitations of the study and advocacy for a few of the maligned supplements.
Medscape Internal Medicine, February 1, 2012
The Latest on D, Bone Health, and Cancer Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, MD, describes the USPSTF meta-analysis on vitamin D, bone density, and cancer.
Medscape Internal Medicine, January 30, 2012

Consumption of Fried Foods and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease
British Medical Journal, February 3, 2012
Solar UV Doses of Young Americans and Vitamin D3 Production
Environmental Health Perspectives, January 30, 2012
Prospective Study of Diet and Venous Thromboembolism in US
American Journal of Epidemiology, January 30, 2012
Long-term Antioxidant Supplementation and HRQoL
International Journal of Epidemiology, January 26, 2012
Dietary Fiber for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, January 24, 2012