Sentences with phrase «prevent dietary deficiency»

Really suggests to me that the ALA to DHA / EPA conversion is a safeguard to prevent dietary deficiency problems.

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Many of those affected live in areas that are difficult to reach with existing programs to prevent vitamin A deficiency, such as vitamin A supplementation, dietary diversification, food fortification, and promotion of optimal breastfeeding.
Professor Green added: «This research suggests that thiamin - fortified fish sauce has the potential to be a simple, low - cost, and sustainable means of improving dietary thiamin intake and preventing thiamin deficiency in Cambodia.»
It can even prevent several dietary deficiencies.
Vitamin A deficiency has been associated with a number of prevalent diseases, including childhood asthma, 43,44 kidney stones formed spontaneously from calcium phosphate, 9 and fatty liver disease.45 Vitamin A in doses above those needed to prevent deficiency protects against oxidative stress, 46 kidney stones formed from dietary oxalate, 28 and exposure to environmental toxins.47
Work done by scientists in the early 20th century on identifying individual nutrients in food and developing ways to manufacture them raised hopes that optimal health could be achieved and diseases prevented by adding them to food and providing people with dietary supplements; while there were successes in preventing vitamin deficiencies, and preventing conditions like neural tube defects by supplementation and food fortification with folic acid, no targeted supplementation or fortification strategies to prevent major diseases like cancer or cardiovascular diseases have proved successful.
The most commonly prescribed medications (including cholesterol, diabetes, thyroid and heartburn meds) and their effects on key nutrients will be explored, in addition to dietary solutions for preventing and managing these deficiencies.
Dietary interventions to prevent zinc deficiency.
In order to prevent poor wound healing as well as scurvy (a deficiency of vitamin C leading to abnormalities ranging from lethargy, gum disease, bone and muscle pain, etc.), guinea pigs and primates must obtain their vitamin C needs from dietary intake.
Usually strange eating habits are caused by a nutritional deficiency caused by dietary or absorption problems; other times it is a behavioural issue which requires obedience training to prevent eating non-food items.
Variety keeps cats from becoming finicky and food - addicted, reduces the chance of dietary excess or deficiency of any single nutrient, and may prevent the development of food intolerances, allergies, and inflammatory bowel disease.
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