Karen Collins suggests building a desk breakfast from protein, a whole grain and a fruit or vegetable, and choosing your options ahead of time. She warns that sausage-and-cheese biscuits and jumbo muffins can run 350 to over 500 calories with much of a day’s saturated fat.
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Diet
Eating patterns and diets, from Mediterranean to low-carb and vegan.
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Diet
Nutrition-wise: Celery, pizza, and crab cakes
An American Institute for Cancer Research question-and-answer column: two celery stalks carry about 64 mg of sodium, a small fraction of the daily limit, against about 570 mg in a similar portion of pickles, and vegetable pizza rarely supplies a full vegetable serving.
Diet
Mediterranean Diet Linked to Lowered Risk of Depression
Following more than 10,000 Spaniards for about 4.5 years, researchers found those who stuck with the Mediterranean diet were half as likely to become depressed as those who abandoned it, though they say the relationship may not be one of cause and effect.
Diet
Mediterranean diet linked to reduced risk of depression
Researchers surveyed 10,094 healthy Spanish adults about their diets and counted 480 new cases of depression over 4.4 years. Those who adhered most closely to a Mediterranean diet had a more than 30 percent lower risk than those who adhered least, even after other risk factors.
Lifestyle
World's oldest man eats two meals a day
Walter Breuning of Montana, newly 113, says he has eaten only breakfast and lunch for 35 years: “You get in the habit of not eating at night, and you realize how good you feel.” He takes no medication but a daily baby aspirin, and credits working as much as diet.
Diet
7 Reasons to Eat More Saturated Fat
Excerpting Michael and Mary Eades' The 6-Week Cure for the Middle-Aged Middle, Mercola lists claimed benefits of saturated fat: lower lipoprotein(a), calcium incorporation into bone, protection of the liver from alcohol and painkillers, and lung surfactant, whose fat is all saturated.
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Your brain on fat -- mechanisms of overeating
UT Southwestern researchers report that palmitic acid, a saturated fat in butter, cheese, milk and beef, reaches the brain and blocks appetite-suppressing signals from leptin and insulin. Senior author Deborah Clegg says the effect lasts about three days, which may explain Monday hunger.
Diet
High-Fiber Diets Prevent Polyps
New results from the Polyp Prevention Trial show that the participants who adhered most closely to a low-fat, high-fiber, high-produce diet cut their odds of polyp recurrence by up to 35 percent and of advanced polyp recurrence by nearly 50 percent. The trial enrolled 1,905 people.
Nutrition
Do phytosterol reduce risk of heart disease? and more!
An AICR Q&A: 2 grams of phytosterols a day can lower LDL cholesterol about 10 percent in people with high cholesterol, though reaching that usually takes fortified products, and there is no known benefit at healthy levels. The writer knows of no research tying whey to prostate cancer.
Diet
Dietary fiber cuts breast cancer risk in older women
In an NIH-AARP study of 185,598 postmenopausal women followed for seven years, those with the highest dietary fiber intakes were 13 percent less likely to develop breast cancer. The researchers suggest fiber may act by changing how the body handles estrogen.
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Genetic mutations raise Alzheimer's risk, healthy lifestyle cuts the risk
Scanning more than 600,000 DNA markers in over 19,000 older Europeans and Americans, 7,000 of them with Alzheimer's, an international team tied two more genes to the disease: clusterin on chromosome 8 and PICALM on chromosome 11. Their effects look smaller than APOE4's.
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How to prevent prostate cancer?
A roundup of earlier reports on diet and prostate cancer, covering plant-based diets, black tea, lycopene with soy isoflavones, and a Japanese study in which men drinking five or more cups of green tea a day were 48 percent less likely to develop advanced disease.
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Does obesity raise prostate cancer risk?
Brenda Hernandez examined health data on 84,000 men and found those obese or overweight at 21 had lower risk of localized, low-grade prostate cancer, while heavy weight gain in young adulthood tracked with advanced, high-grade disease in white men.
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Mediterranean diet beats low-fat diet in diabetes management
Italian researchers followed 215 type 2 diabetes patients for four years: 44% on a low-carbohydrate Mediterranean diet needed blood sugar medication, against 70% on a low-fat diet. Mediterranean dieters also lost 4.4 more pounds and had better cholesterol.
Diet
"Alkali Load" May Help Conserve Bone and Muscle
An ARS-funded study put 19 healthy adults over 50 on controlled high- and low-protein diets, with nine taking potassium bicarbonate to mimic about 14 daily servings of fruit and vegetables. Researchers measured blood, urine, calcium absorption and bone and muscle markers after each diet period.
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Mediterranean Dieters Less Likely to Develop Dementia
A Taub Institute study reports that people who followed a Mediterranean diet closely had 40 percent lower dementia risk, and those who added exercise a further 33 percent. The authors stress they found no causal link between diet, exercise and dementia.
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Too much coffee shrinks women's breasts
A Lund University study of 300 women found a clear link between drinking coffee and smaller breasts. Author Helena Jernstriem said the change is not sudden and there is no need to worry: “They will get smaller but the breasts aren't just going to disappear.”
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Mediterranean diet cuts premature death risk
In the EPIC study, Antonia Trichopoulou's team followed 23,000 healthy Greek men for an average of 8.5 years and recorded 652 deaths among those whose diets least resembled the Mediterranean pattern against 423 among those whose diets resembled it most.
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