In the REGARDS cohort, a convenience diet of Chinese, Mexican, pasta and pizza dishes or a vegetarian diet was tied to roughly 20 percent lower cancer death risk. A southern diet of fried food, added fat, organ meat and sweet drinks raised it over 100 percent in African Americans.
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Eating patterns and diets, from Mediterranean to low-carb and vegan.
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High fat diet may raise lung cancer risk - study
A high-fat diet promoted tumor growth in two mouse models of K-ras-driven lung cancer, according to work presented at an AACR meeting. The researchers speculate the diet acts by raising systemic IGF-1; K-ras mutations appear in about 25 percent of human lung cancer cases.
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Mediterranean diet for breast cancer prevention and treatment in postmenopausal women
A 2015 review argues the Mediterranean diet, built on fish, olive oil, unrefined cereals, herbs, fruits and vegetables, supplies antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties relevant to breast cancer prevention, and notes epidemiology puts postmenopausal women most at risk.
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Earing highly antioxidative diet cuts pancreatic cancer risk
An Italian case-control study of 326 pancreatic cancer patients and 652 controls, run from 1991 to 2008, found a diet with high total antioxidant capacity was linked to up to 40 percent lower risk. About 53,070 Americans were expected to be diagnosed with the disease in 2016.
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Healthy diet lowers breast disease risk
Women who mostly ate a healthy pattern of fish, poultry, eggs, low-fat dairy, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts and fruit were 56% less likely to develop benign breast disease than those eating a Western-style pattern, a British Journal of Nutrition study found.
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Mediterranean diet lowers risk of hip fractures
A study in JAMA Internal Medicine found postmenopausal women who ate a Mediterranean diet were 20 percent less likely to suffer hip fractures than women who did not follow it.
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Mediterranean diet helps type 2 diabetes mellitus
In the MeDITA randomized trial, people newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes who followed a Mediterranean diet for a year had lower C-reactive protein and higher adiponectin than those on a low-fat diet, which the researchers read as reduced inflammation alongside some fat loss.
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Prudent diet linked to lower cardiovascular disease risk
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Western diet linked to ADHD, obesity
Mayo Clinic researchers comparing 336 people diagnosed with ADHD in childhood against more than 600 without it found girls with ADHD were twice as likely to become obese later in life. A separate Australian study linked a Western dietary pattern to doubled odds of an ADHD diagnosis.
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Low carbohydrate diet linked to high diabetes mellitus risk
Among 4,502 women with a history of gestational diabetes in the Nurses' Health Study II, followed from 1991 to 2011, close adherence to a vegetable-heavy low-carbohydrate diet was tied to 19% higher risk of diabetes, and a version high in animal protein and fat to 40% higher risk.
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Vegan diet linked to lower prostate cancer risk
Among 26,346 men in Adventist Health Study-2, vegans were 35 percent less likely to develop prostate cancer than men following other dietary patterns, with reductions of 37 percent in white men and 33 percent in black men.
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Mediterranean diet lowers risk of breast cancer
In a JAMA Internal Medicine trial of 4,282 women at high cardiovascular risk, those assigned a Mediterranean diet with extra virgin olive oil were 68% less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer over five years than those on an ordinary Mediterranean diet. Nuts showed no such effect.
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Olive oil lowers diabetes mellitus risk
Among nearly 145,000 women followed for 22 years in the Nurses' Health Studies, eating more than a tablespoon of olive oil a day was associated with about 10% lower risk of diabetes. Substituting 8 grams of olive oil for mayonnaise cut risk 15%; for butter, 8%.
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Prudent diet lowers risk of AMD
Across 76,693 women and 39,519 men, Harvard researchers linked a prudent diet to 23 percent lower risk of advanced age-related macular degeneration and a Western pattern to 36 percent higher risk. DASH and Mediterranean patterns matched 17 and 16 percent reductions. Intermediate AMD showed no link.
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In study, skipping meals is linked to abdominal weight gain
Mice that ate all their food in one meal and fasted the rest of the day developed liver insulin resistance and carried more belly fat than mice free to nibble, Ohio State researchers report. Martha Belury says skipping meals may set the body up for fat gain.
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High protein intake linked to high IGF-I
Among 1,883 postmenopausal UK women, those in the top quintile of total and dairy protein intake had 7.6 and 5.5 percent higher serum IGF-I, a growth factor tied to higher cancer risk. Heavy drinkers and current hormone therapy users showed lower IGF-I.
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Vegetarian diet may lower risk of premature ovarian failure
Comparing 453 women who had premature ovarian failure with 400 who had normal ovarian function, Chinese researchers tied pelvic surgery, mumps, relatives with menstrual abnormalities and chemical exposure to higher risk, and vegetarian diet, tea and mineral water to lower risk.
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Western diet linked to endometrial cancer
An Italian case-control study of 454 women with endometrial cancer and 908 hospital controls linked the most Western-style diets to 63 percent higher risk and diets heavy in animal foods and polyunsaturated fats to 76 percent higher risk. Associations were stronger among obese women.
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