Reports from Beijing say family doctors may come to recommend fasting two days a week. Researchers argue intermittent fasting, holding intake to 500-800 calories on fasting days, can deliver benefits similar to chronic caloric restriction, lowering a cancer-linked growth factor and blood fats.
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Eating patterns and diets, from Mediterranean to low-carb and vegan.
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Plant-based diet prevents chronic diseases like coronary heart disease
Writing in the Journal of AOAC International, Wong and colleagues argue that fiber-rich, plant-based diets resembling those of early humans may lower cholesterol much as drugs do, while the low-fiber, high-saturated-fat Western diet leaves the gut microbiota poorly supplied.
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So what's the most effective way to prevent breast cancer? - Caloric restriction!
A 2004 JAMA study of 7,303 Swedish women hospitalized for anorexia nervosa before age 40 found they were 53% less likely than the general population to be diagnosed with breast cancer, and 23% less likely among those who had never given birth.
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Functional foods and prevention of diabetes - book chapter summary
A chapter in Functional Foods: concept to product argues lifestyle shapes both forms of diabetes. Cow's milk, cereals, potatoes and fruit given very early, plus nitrates and nitrites, may raise type 1 risk, while vitamins D and E and n-3 fats may protect. Obesity and inactivity dominate type 2.
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26 out of 54 People Who Avoided These Foods Got a Brain-Destroying Vitamin Deficiency
Mercola argues that B12 occurs almost only in animal tissue and that plant sources are analogs which block true B12, leaving vegans at risk of a deficiency that may take about seven years to show and can progress from fogginess and fatigue to nerve damage and depression.
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Healthy prenatal diet helps prevent birth defects - new study
Stanford's Suzan Carmichael drew on the National Birth Defects Prevention Study and found women eating high-quality diets were 51%, 44% and 26% less likely to have babies with anencephaly, cleft lip with or without cleft palate, and cleft palate.
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Vegan from the inside: Why people love plant-based diets
A 2011 survey of 2,068 vegans found 68.6 percent said their health improved after going plant-based against 1.6 percent who said it declined, while 55.2 percent reported more energy and 44.2 percent more physical activity.
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Prenatal intake of omega-6 fatty acids ups endothelial dysfunction risk in offspring
In LDL-receptor-deficient mice, offspring of mothers fed an omega-6-rich diet had higher cholesterol and triglycerides, thicker arterial walls and severely altered endothelial cells. Offspring of omega-9-fed mothers had lower triglycerides and well-preserved aortic endothelium.
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Diets high in fiber won't protect against diverticulosis (PR)
A UNC study of more than 2,000 people found that eating a high-fiber diet raised rather than lowered the risk of diverticulosis, and countered the belief that constipation increases risk. Lead researcher Anne Peery says it is too early to tell patients to do anything differently.
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Vegetarians less likely to have many diseases
Summarising a 2011 Health Prospect paper by Mahato, the piece distinguishes vegan, lacto- and lacto-ovo-vegetarian diets and relays claims that vegetarians are less likely to be overweight or to develop cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and stroke.
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We Are All Paula Deen
A commentary says pinning the blame on Paula Deen, who hid her type 2 diabetes while promoting butter and meat and then signed a deal with Novo Nordisk, misses the wider picture: television alternates ads for meat and cheese with ads for drugs treating the results.
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Got kids with ADHD? Healthy diet can help!
A Pediatrics review by Millichap and Yee reports that diets low in sugar, free of additives and preservatives, and high in omega-3 fats and fiber may reduce ADHD symptoms, with iron and zinc supplements possibly helping, while Western-style diets may worsen the condition.
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How to Starve Cancer Out of Your Body - Avoid These Top 4 Cancer-Feeding Foods
Mercola interviews surgeon Christine Horner on breast cancer, who names processed foods, soft drinks, CAFO red meat, trans fats, sugar and xenoestrogens as cancer-promoting, and points to plant foods, cruciferous vegetables, flax seed and omega-3 and omega-9 fats as protective.
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Predators hunt for a balanced diet (PR)
Ground beetles offered a choice of high-protein and high-fat foods picked the balance best for producing healthy eggs and laid more eggs than beetles denied that choice. Researchers say it is the first evidence that predators, not just herbivores and omnivores, select food for nutritional value.
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A diet rich in slowly digested carbs reduces markers of inflammation in overweight and obese adults (PR)
In a controlled feeding trial of 80 Seattle-area adults, a low-glycemic-load diet built on whole grains, legumes and other high-fiber foods lowered the inflammation marker C-reactive protein by about 22 percent among overweight and obese participants, Fred Hutchinson researchers report.
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Mediterranean diet gives longer life (PR)
Four University of Gothenburg studies report that 70-year-olds in Sweden who ate a Mediterranean diet had a 20% higher chance of living longer, which researcher Gianluca Tognon puts at an estimated two to three extra years. Three of the supporting studies are not yet published.
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Eat Like a Caveman to Protect Your Brain From Shrinking (Opinion)
Dr. Mercola calls multiple sclerosis drugs among the most toxic in medicine, noting a 59-year-old patient died within a day of a first dose of Gilenya and that Tysabri can cause the brain infection PML. He points to Dr. Terry Wahls, who credits a Paleo-style diet with reversing her MS.
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This Food Can Slow Your Brain - and it Lowered IQ 4 Points in Recent Study
Dr Paul Jaminet argues that very low-carb diets can backfire and that naturally occurring food toxins matter, citing a Japanese study in which children eating wheat daily scored almost four points lower on IQ tests than those eating rice. His diet allots 20-30 percent to rice or potatoes.
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