Editor’s Note - March 2015
March is National Nutrition Month. According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey study on dietary intake,1 90% of adults consume more sodium than recommended. Approximately 13% of the caloric intake in an adult’s diet came from added sugars; 50% of the US population consumed sugar-sweetened beverages on any given day. Between 2007 to 2010, adults consumed 11.3% of their total calories from fast food.
What does this translate to? According to the National Center for Health Statistics,1 young children and women age 12 to 49 years reported an iron deficiency. In 2009 to 2010, 13.4% of adults had high total cholesterol but recent data also suggests that there is a steady decline in low-density cholesterol in women age 40 to 74 years.
Primary care practitioners must continue to stress the importance of a balanced and nutritious diet for better heart and cardiometabolic health.
In honor of National Nutrition Month, Consultant360 has recently highlighted several nutrition studies:
• The food groups associated with foodborne illness based on 4 common pathogens.2
• A high-fiber diet yielded similar weight loss results in patients as the traditional American Heart Association dietary guidelines.3
• To avoid diabetes manifestation, eat fruit instead of products with processed sugar.4
• Individuals with diets high in animal protein are 3 times more likely to develop kidney failure.5
Visit the Nutrition Medical Resource Center on Consultant360.com to read these articles and much more. Interested in weekly clinical nutrition bites? Sign up for our daily e-newsletters and have our Nutritional Pearls delivered to your inbox every Tuesday.
Sincerely,
Pooja Shah
Managing Editor, Consultant and Consultant360
References:
1. CDC. NCHS nutrition data. Updated August 2013. www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/factsheets/factsheet_nutrition_data.pdf. Accessed January 2015.
2. Butcher MC. Study outlines food groups most associated with foodborne illness. Consultant360. 2015 Feb 25. www.consultant360.com/exclusives/study-outlines-food-groups-most-associated-foodborne-illness. Accessed March 2015.
3. Butcher MC. Could a high-fiber diet help with weight loss? Consultant360. 2015 Feb 18. www.consultant360.com/exclusives/could-high-fiber-diet-help-weight-loss. Accessed March 2015.
4. McGraw M. Swap processed sugar for fruit to avoid diabetes. Consultant360. 2015 Feb 5. www.consultant360.com/exclusives/swap-processed-sugar-fruit-avoid-diabetes. Accessed March 2015.
5. McGraw M. Study: diet plays a role in kidney disease progression. Consultant360. 2015 Feb 27. www.consultant360.com/exclusives/study-diet-plays-role-kidney-disease-progression. Accessed March 2015.