Tag: iron
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Preventing Depression
A systematic review by O’Neill et al. (2022) examined 7 randomized controlled trials on the effect of different dietary interventions on depression in adults, and found fresh produce, wholegrains, low-fat dairy and lean protein to be beneficial, and processed and high-fat foods to be detrimental. In their discussion they highlight a study by Lindseth et…
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Thyroid Labs
It is possible for imbalances of thyroid hormones to exist despite a normal TSH. One example of such an imbalance is non-thyroidal illness syndrome, which was investigated in the context of obesity by Keşkek et al. (2018). They found that 9.5% of the 219 obese participants in their study had low free T3 despite normal…
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Prenatal Iron
Arija et al. (2019), in a prospective cohort study in Spain, found that children born to mothers who had taken prenatal iron supplements (14-30 mg/day) scored better on tasks designed to evaluate working memory and executive functioning at age 7 than those whose mothers had not taken prenatal iron. Nguyen et al. (2021), in a…
Northern Nutritionals 