Sentences with phrase «specific vegetable intake»

«By using a serious video game, we saw increases in meal - specific vegetable intake at dinner for the children in the Action and Coping groups and fruit intake at breakfast, lunch, and snacks for all intervention groups,» said lead author Karen Cullen, DrPH, RD, USDA / ARS, Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine.

Not exact matches

II: Saving the Kingdom of Fivealot, researchers from the United States Department of Agriculture / Agricultural Research Service Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital evaluated how creating implementation intentions (i.e., specific plans) within the goal - setting component in the game helped fourth and fifth grade students improve fruit and vegetable intake at specific meals.

II, an online video game that promotes fruit and vegetable intake, in which they either created action or coping implementation intentions, both, or did not create implementation intentions during the goal - setting process to eat fruit and vegetables at specific meals.

The success of popular health fads today such as the Mediterranean Diet and Paleo Diet may have less to do with their specific food components, and more to do with their increased vegetable intake and lower processed food intake.

Because the pod of the green bean is eaten right along with the seed, we would expect not only very good fiber intake from consumption of this vegetable but also helpful consumption of specific polysaccharides that are present in the cell walls of the pod.

Study findings have also suggested specific steps women can take to improve their health including: nut and grapefruit consumption may help prevent breast cancer; getting enough Vitamin E may reduce asthma risk; eating berries, along with cruciferous and green leafy vegetables may reduce cognitive decline; sufficient magnesium intake may help prevent heart attacks; getting enough plant - based omega - 3's may reduce depression; and, eating more plant protein and reducing refined carbohydrate intake may reduce heart disease risk.

We've seen research studies on five specific types of cancer — including bladder cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, ovarian cancer, and prostate cancer — and intake of cruciferous vegetables (specifically including kale).

Depending on the specific cruciferous vegetables in question and the method of preparation, we're talking about daily cruciferous vegetable intake levels beginning at approximately one - half cup and ranging upward to approximately 2 cups as being necessary to provide these glucosinolate intake levels.

In addition, several case - control studies have shown that specific forms of the gene that encodes glutathione S - transferase, which is the enzyme that metabolizes and helps eliminate isothiocyanates from the body, may influence the association between cruciferous vegetable intake and human lung and colorectal cancer risk (21 - 23).

Unless you're staying in ketosis for a longer period of time for a specific reason, don't limit your non-starchy vegetable intake: bring on the greens (especially served with a nice dose of good fat)!

We examined the association between change in intake of specific fruits and vegetables and change in weight in three large, prospective cohorts of 133,468 United States men and women.

Consequently, evidence for an inverse association between cruciferous vegetable intake and cancer risk provides relatively little information about the specific effects of indole -3-carbinol on cancer risk.

Furthermore, although fruit juice and potato intakes have decreased over time, both still contribute substantially to total fruit and vegetable intake, and therefore public health recommendations and nutritional guidelines ought to emphasize individual or subgroups of specific fruits and vegetables that maximize the potential for weight maintenance and disease prevention [34].

Evaluating specific subgroups of vegetables, increased intakes of cruciferous and green leafy vegetables was inversely associated with weight change: pooled change -0.68 lb per daily serving of cruciferous vegetables (95 % CI, 0.96 to -0.40 lb) and -0.52 lb per daily serving of green leafy vegetables (95 % CI, -0.83 to -0.22 lb)(Fig 2).

While you shouldn't cut out all Omega -6-rich foods (as they have specific heart - healthy benefits), it's important to monitor your intake — measure out portions of nuts, nut butters, vegetable oils, seeds, and even acai.