Really suggests to me that the ALA to DHA / EPA conversion is a safeguard to
prevent dietary deficiency problems.
Not exact matches
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.