Highlights from ACN Journal

Two interesting studies were published in the February Journal of the American College of Nutrition.

• Overweight/obese pre-pubertal children who met with a nutritional consultant weekly over a six week period to follow a low glycemic load diet showed positive modified body fat content and improved cardiovascular risk factors.
  
  
• Subjects with unfavorable serum lipid and lipoprotein profiles benefit even more from plant stanols than people with more favorable profiles.