A Circulation study found Chinese men and women who ate Western fast food raised their risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease. PCRM notes Chinese fast-food consumption has doubled since 1990, and cites a second study linking soy intake to less inflammation in Chinese women.
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Eating patterns and diets, from Mediterranean to low-carb and vegan.
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One of the Best Foods You Can Eat to Defy Aging
Mercola reports on a Nature study finding the gut microflora of people in long-term care was less diverse and correlated with frailty, co-morbidity and inflammation markers. He adds that bacteria counts drop sharply around age 60 and suggests seniors may need dietary supplements.
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Eating too much fat may raise breast cancer risk
Mice fed a fatty-acid-free diet developed tumors later, less often and in smaller numbers than mice on a standard diet, but the diet did not slow growth of tumors once they appeared. The authors suggest cutting dietary fat may protect against tumor formation rather than existing tumors.
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High fat boosts death risk in men with prostate cancer
Among 525 Swedish men with prostate cancer, those in the top quartile of total fat intake were twice as likely to die of the disease as those in the lowest. Men with the highest intakes of marine omega-3 DHA were 40 percent less likely to die of it.
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High protein diet linked to cardiovascular disease
Following 43,396 Swedish women for about 16 years, researchers found each one-tenth drop in carbohydrate intake on a low-carb, high-protein score went with 4 percent more cardiovascular disease. Regular use of such diets was linked to higher risk, they concluded.
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Eating heart healthy means lower risk of heart attack - study
Following 18,062 Norwegians aged 25 to 69 from the mid-1990s to 2005, researchers found those with high intake of fish, fruit, vegetables and polyunsaturated fat 23% less likely to have a heart attack. Among obese participants the reduction reached 38%.
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Western diet linked to type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease death
In the Singapore Chinese Health Study, people eating Western-style fast food twice a week were 27 percent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes and 56 percent more likely to die of coronary heart disease than those who hardly ate any, after adjusting for lifestyle and diet.
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Western diet linked to type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease death
Among tens of thousands of Singapore Chinese adults followed from the 1990s, those eating Western-style fast food twice a week were 27 percent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes and 56 percent more likely to die of coronary heart disease than those who hardly ate any.
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Weight loss resulting from a low-fat diet may help eliminate menopausal symptoms (PR)
In a Women's Health Initiative study of 17,473 women, those on a low-fat diet high in whole grains, fruit and vegetables who lost 10 pounds or 10 percent of their body weight were more likely to reduce or eliminate hot flashes and night sweats after a year.
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“Low-Carb” Diets Increase Heart Risk
Swedish researchers tracking 140,000 people found cholesterol fell after a 1980s push to cut fat, then rose again in the early 2000s as the low-carbohydrate fad led many to drop healthful carbohydrates for fattier foods, bringing weight gain and higher overall heart disease risk.
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Is Atkins still your diet? High fat diet boosts obesity, diabetes risk
Rats fed a high-fat diet for 20 weeks gained weight and fat mass and developed insulin resistance, glucose intolerance and inflammation. Rats given an Agaricus blazei murill extract alongside the diet gained less and had milder disorders, despite eating just as much.
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Even if You Eat Organic Food, This Cooking Mistake Can Ruin Your Health (Opinion)
Mercola argues that the cholesterol in arterial plaque is oxidized cholesterol, introduced by foods cooked in vegetable oils, and that total cholesterol says little about risk. He favors HDL/total and triglyceride/HDL ratios, plus ferritin, homocysteine, Lp(a) and vitamin D levels.
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High fat diet gets you colon cancer - studies
Mice inoculated with colon cancer cells and fed a diet with 60% of calories from fat grew larger tumors and more lung tumors while gaining only 5.9% body weight, Korean researchers report. Insulin and IGF-I, both cancer promoters, also rose.
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Western diet boosts cancer risk?
Mice bred as a model of familial adenomatous polyposis developed 130 percent more intestinal tumors on a new Western-style diet than on standard AIN-76A chow. Cutting calorie intake by 30 percent on either diet did not reduce their cancer risk.
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Very low calorie diet helps obese people with type 2 diabetes
Fourteen severely obese people with type 2 diabetes spent a week on a very low calorie diet, and their glucose disposal rose from 59 to 75.5 ml/min/m2 alongside lower fasting glucose and triglycerides. The authors credit better beta cell function, not insulin sensitivity.
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Low-calorie diet linked to higher death rate in bowel disease model (PR)
Michigan State researchers found mice on a calorie-restricted diet were more likely to die after infection with an inflammation-causing bacterial pathogen in the colon, suggesting low calorie intake may impair immune response. Moderate obesity showed no link to colitis severity.
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One of the Worst Ways to Eat Eggs
Mercola argues that commercial free-range labels cover hens kept in barren lots and fed corn, soy and cottonseed meal, which he says cannot match truly pastured hens foraging for seeds, plants, insects and worms. He cites Mother Earth News' 2007 egg testing project.
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Men eating fatty diet may be less fertile
Among 99 US men, those eating the most total fat had 43 percent lower total sperm counts and 38 percent lower sperm concentrations than those eating the least, a Human Reproduction study found. Saturated fat showed a similar pattern, while high omega-3 intake tracked slightly higher counts.
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