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Diet
Eating patterns and diets, from Mediterranean to low-carb and vegan.
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Diet
High protein diet good for your weight, but not all proteins are the same
A New England Journal of Medicine trial of overweight adults who had already lost 11 kg found a high-protein, low-glycemic diet best at preventing weight regain, though a low-protein, low-glycemic diet may work about as well. A Circulation study ties red meat to coronary heart disease.
Diet
Low protein, low GI diet also good for weight loss
Copenhagen researchers tested five low-fat diets in 938 overweight adults after an eight-week 800-calorie phase. Only the low-protein, high-glycemic-index diet brought significant weight gain; the low-protein, low-GI diet did not, despite a press release crediting high protein.
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Study explains why Mediterranean diet prevents heart disease
A small trial asked 24 people with high cholesterol to eat a diet rich in the monounsaturated fats found in olive oil, and HDL rose within a month. The piece sets this against a trial in which the statin combination Vytorin modestly cut cardiovascular events in chronic kidney disease patients.
Diet
Are You Using this Powerful Anti-Aging Secret?
Dr. Mercola profiles Bernando LaPallo, 109, who credits his health to a largely raw diet and to his father's advice to keep the colon clean, and sets his habits beside those of Walter Breunig, described as America's oldest man, whose diet runs to vegetables, fruit, beans, nuts and soup.
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Twinkie diet and Mediterranean diet, which is better for weight loss?
Kansas State nutrition professor Mark Haub ate mostly snacks and sweets at 1,800 calories a day and lost 27 pounds in two months, cutting LDL cholesterol 20% and triglycerides 39%. Experts say such a diet is not sustainable and the weight returns with old habits.
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Healthy diet helps memory, protects against disease
Forty-four overweight adults aged 50 to 75 spent four weeks on an anti-inflammatory diet of oily fish, barley, soy protein, blueberries, almonds, cinnamon and vinegar. LDL cholesterol fell 33 percent, blood lipids 14 percent, blood pressure 8 percent and a clotting marker 26 percent.
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Mediterranean diet cuts risk of diabetes
Among 418 non-diabetic adults at high cardiovascular risk, four years on a Mediterranean diet with olive oil or with nuts brought about half the diabetes risk of a low-fat diet: 10.1% and 11.0% developed diabetes against 17.9% of controls, with no calorie restriction.
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Mediterranean diet linked to lower risk of breast cancer
Among 14,807 Greek women followed nearly nine years, diets scoring 2 points closer to the traditional Mediterranean pattern carried 12 percent lower breast cancer risk overall, which the researchers called not significant, and 22 percent lower risk after menopause. Younger women saw no benefit.
Lifestyle
When to have another pregnancy after a miscarriage
A BMJ study of more than 30,000 Scottish women found those who conceived within six months of a miscarriage had better outcomes than those who waited longer, with a live birth rate of 85.2 percent versus 73.3 percent among women who waited over 24 months. WHO advises waiting at least six months.
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Plant-based diet effective in treating diabetes, PCRM says
PCRM says it sued the FDA for failing to act on its petition asking the agency to point diabetes patients toward dietary alternatives on Avandia's label. The group cites a 2006 NIH-funded study that found a low-fat plant-based diet matched oral drugs at lowering blood sugar and cholesterol.
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Superfood Expert, David Wolfe, Shares Latest Insights on How to Stay Healthy
Mercola interviews raw food and superfood advocate David “Avocado” Wolfe about the holistic treatment of chronic inflammation, and promotes conference DVDs and tickets to the Longevity Now Conference in Costa Mesa in September 2010.
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Fatty Diet Could Cause Alzheimer's
Baylor researchers fed a high-fat diet to mice bred as a model of Alzheimer's disease and saw calorie intake climb from 12 weeks, amyloid beta-peptide levels rise alongside it, and the animals turn obese and insulin resistant by 16 weeks.
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US Sees Decline in Cancer Death Rates
The American Cancer Society says cancer death rates fell about 2 percent a year among men and 1.5 percent among women from 2001 to 2006, crediting smoking cessation, better treatment and earlier detection. Lung cancer remains the leading cancer killer for both sexes.
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Your Diet Could be More Important Than Your Genes
Researchers gave food frequency questionnaires to 276 middle-aged male twins and linked a Mediterranean-style diet to higher heart rate variability, a measure whose low values signal coronary artery disease risk. Studying twins let them control for genetic and family influences.
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Plant-based diet may help depression, dementia
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Genes help centenarians, healthy diet helps you to live longer
A Boston Medical Center study of more than 1,000 centenarians identified about 150 gene variants that a model used to predict living past 100 with up to 77 percent accuracy. The NIA's Winifred Rossi notes lifespan also depends on environment. The piece then reviews caloric-restriction research.
Vitamins
Nutrients protective against AMD
A study of 4,000 adults aged 55 to 80 found vitamin C, vitamin E, zinc, lutein, zeaxanthin and the omega-3 fats DHA and EPA protective against age-related macular degeneration when paired with a low-glycemic-index diet that releases glucose slowly.
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