Northern Nutritionals

Tag: behavior

  • Motivational Interviewing

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    Karline Jensen
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    Motivational Interviewing has been shown to be more effective than standard care in eliciting change towards more healthy diets.  Hollis et al. (2015) used the technique with 28 premenopausal women ages 44-50, with the goal of influencing their diets to be less likely to result in weight gain as they entered their menopausal years.  The…

  • Metallothionein and Mercury Transport

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    Karline Jensen
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    Metallothionein has been found to play a role in mitigating the adverse effects of mercury exposure (Woods et al., 2013).  Boys in Portugal with variants in the genes for metallothionein were found to exhibit more severe behavioral symptoms.  Metallothioneins are proteins that are able to bind to mercury and transport it through the body.  The…