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Registered dietitians play essential role in effective management of diabetes in adults

Proper nutrition therapy is essential for the successful management of type 1 and type 2 diabetes and registered dietitians (RDs) can play a key role as part of the health care team. An article in the December issue of the ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

ADA publishes practice guidelines for nutrition care for patients with spinal cord injury

The American Dietetic Association has published new evidence-based nutrition practice guidelines for registered dietitians on nutrition care for patients with spinal cord injury.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Zooarchaeological study indicating hominids already practiced sophisticated hunting techniques in East Asia

More than ten thousands of bone fragments were recovered from the Lingjing site, Henan Province during 2005 and 2006. By taking statistical analyses of the skeletal elements of the two predominant species ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

'Inhabitants of Madrid' ate elephants' meat and bone marrow 80,000 years ago

Humans that populated the banks of the river Manzanares (Madrid, Spain) during the Middle Palaeolithic (between 127,000 and 40,000 years ago) fed themselves on pachyderm meat and bone marrow. This is what ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Rapid climate change threatens Asia's Rice Bowl

As Asia's monsoon season begins, leading climate specialists and agricultural scientists warned today that rapid climate change and its potential to intensify droughts and floods could threaten Asia's rice production and ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

World scientists define united approach to tackling food insecurity

Nearly one billion people in the world are undernourished, while millions suffer from chronic disease due to excess food consumption. Global demand is growing for agricultural products and food prices are rising, yet roughly ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

J. Craig Venter describes biofuels, vaccines and foods from made-to-order microbes

Just as aspiring authors often read hundreds of books before starting their own, scientists are using decades of knowledge garnered from sequencing or "reading" the genetic codes of thousands of living things to now start ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pesticides not sole cause of declining bee numbers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite a growing worldwide clamor to ban pesticides linked to honey bee deaths, multiple factors contribute to the declining honey bee population, not just one class of insecticides, says Extension Apiculturist ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Increasing genetic diversity of honey bees needed

(PhysOrg.com) -- Increasing the overall genetic diversity of honey bees will lead to healthier and hardier bees that can better fight off parasites, pathogens and pests, says bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Indigenous peoples at forefront of climate change offer lessons on plant biodiversity

Humans are frequently blamed for deforestation and the destruction of environments, yet there are also examples of peoples and cultures around the world that have learned to manage and conserve the precious resources around ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Quality of life of obese dogs improves when they lose weight

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have found that overweight dogs that lose weight have an improved quality of life compared to those that don’t.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Overgrazed grasslands tied to locust outbreaks

While residents of the United States and much of Europe think of locust plagues as biblical references, locust swarms still have devastating effects on agriculture today, especially in developing countries ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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