A reader letter in which Adam Evenson recounts giving up meat in 1968 after doctors and friends warned him he would die of malnutrition without it.
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Eating patterns and diets, from Mediterranean to low-carb and vegan.
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Vegan diet provides many health benefits
Dietitian Vandana Sheth tells HealthDay that well-planned vegan diets are nutritionally adequate and suit every life stage, including childhood, pregnancy and athletics. Research ties vegetarian and vegan eating to lower cholesterol and blood pressure and less heart disease and diabetes.
Food
Meat ups cancer risk while fruit/vegetables reduce it
A translated compilation of older claims linking meat to cancer, including a 1976 Senate committee report and National Research Council figures attributing 40% of cancers in men and 60% in women to meat. The piece notes names and organizations may not be rendered accurately.
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Diet full of antioxidants helps cut stroke risk
Following about 36,700 Swedish women, researchers found those whose diets had the highest total antioxidant capacity were 17 percent less likely to have a stroke. Among women with prior cardiovascular disease, the top quartile had 45 percent lower hemorrhagic stroke risk.
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Studies Suggest Mediterranean Diet Protects Against Stroke And Heart Disease
Olive oil's monounsaturated fat may be linked to less heart disease, and a BMJ study found healthy people eating a Mediterranean diet had a lower risk of type 2 diabetes. Physician Fred Stutman says the pattern chooses better fats rather than cutting fat across the board.
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Mediterranean diet helps cerebrovascular disease
Among 707 participants, 222 of whom had at least one infarct, moderate adherence to a Mediterranean diet was linked to 22 percent lower odds of an infarct and the closest adherence to 36 percent lower, a protective effect the authors compare in size to hypertension's added risk.
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Body weight, diet may be risk factors for non-Hodgkin lymphoma (PR)
Researchers followed 47,541 men for 22 years and 91,227 women for 28 years, confirming 566 and 966 non-Hodgkin lymphoma cases. Adjusting for age, race and other factors, men obese at ages 18 to 21 had a 64 percent higher risk of the disease later in life than non-obese men.
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Study: Spicier Diet Could Help Fight Cancer
M.D. Anderson researcher Bharat Aggarwal studies curcumin, the compound behind turmeric, and says recent trials show as little as 100 milligrams damps down inflammatory markers in people. He stresses that no food is a magic bullet and urges dietary variety.
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Moms who eat high-fat diet before, during pregnancy 'program' babies to be fat, at risk (PR)
In mice, mothers fed a high-fat diet before and during pregnancy bore offspring with more fat mass and smaller livers than those of low-fat-fed mothers, OHSU researchers report. Switching to a low-fat diet during pregnancy considerably reduced those effects.
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Mediterranean diet linked to lower risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus
Among 340,000 people in the EPIC study, with 11,994 cases of type 2 diabetes, high adherence to a Mediterranean diet came with 12% lower risk and medium adherence with 7%. The association was not significant in participants under 50 or those who were obese.
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Clinton: being a vegan prevents and cures heart disease
Bill Clinton went vegan after heart surgery on advice from Dean Ornish and Caldwell Esselstyn, dropping meat, dairy, eggs and nearly all oil. He lost considerable weight and says he feels more energetic; Ornish holds that a plant-based diet can reverse heart disease in most people.
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Study: College students not eating enough fruits and veggies (PR)
An Oregon State survey of 582 students, mostly first-years, found men reported about five servings of fruits and vegetables a week and women about four, short of even one a day. Both drew more than 30 percent of calories from fat, and students skipped meals fairly often.
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Coming Health Forecast: A Perfect Nutritional Storm (PR)
In a press release, Zone Diet author Barry Sears blames a “perfect nutritional storm” of cheap refined carbohydrates and vegetable oils, fed by roughly $20 billion a year in corn and soybean subsidies, for the silent inflammation he ties to diabetes, heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer's.
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Research links diet during pregnancy to breast cancer risk reduction in female offspring (PR)
Research presented at the Era of Hope conference suggests an expectant mother who eats more omega-3 fatty acids, or methyl nutrients such as methionine, choline, folate and vitamin B12, may reduce her daughter's later breast cancer risk. Some findings go further and hypothesise prevention.
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A Raw Food Diet: Is it Healthier?
Isaac Eliaz sets raw-food claims about preserved enzymes against Traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic Medicine, which hold that cooking makes many nutrients more available and protects the body's digestive capacity. He argues the right choice depends on the individual's constitution.
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The Best Foods that Fill You Up and Boost Your Metabolism and Shed Pounds
Ori Hofmekler argues the genes that govern biological aging respond to what, how much and how often you eat, and that calorie restriction alone cannot predict whether someone loses weight or gets in shape. He points instead to the system controlling hunger and satiety signals.
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The Verdict is IN: Meat is OUT! - from The Cancer Project
A WCRF/AICR report concludes that avoiding red and processed meat while eating more fiber-rich plant foods could prevent 64,000 US colorectal cancer cases a year, and now calls fiber's protective effect convincing. Processed meat carries double the risk of red meat.
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New Study Supports Plant-Based Diets for Weight Loss, Overall Nutrition
A Journal of the American Dietetic Association study of 13,292 NHANES participants found vegetarians slimmer than meat eaters, with 24 percent more fiber and 17 percent more calcium, plus more magnesium, potassium and iron and less total and saturated fat.
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