A new group wants everyone cutting back on meat for health, environmental, ethical or economic reasons to adopt the label “reducetarian.” Co-founder Brian Kateman argues the term appeals because not everyone is able or willing to give up meat entirely.
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Eating patterns and diets, from Mediterranean to low-carb and vegan.
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Low glycemic diets may not improve cardiovascular outcomes when compared to high-glycemic diets
An NIH-funded controlled feeding study of 163 overweight adults found no significant difference between low- and high-glycemic index versions of the DASH eating plan in insulin sensitivity, HDL or LDL levels, or blood pressure. The results appear in JAMA.
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5 Ways to Amp Up your New Year’s Diet Resolution
Merilee Kern relays five points from HealthyWage co-founder Jimmy Fleming for New Year dieters. The first is to write down specific goals and dates; he suggests a modest one to two pounds a week, so roughly six pounds over a first month.
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Study: Doubling Saturated Fat in the Diet Does Not Increase Saturated Fat in Blood
In a controlled feeding study, participants ate six three-week diets that steadily added carbohydrate and cut fat. Total blood saturated fat did not rise and fell in most people, while palmitoleic acid, a fatty acid linked to diabetes and heart disease risk, tracked closely with carb intake.
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High-fat diet postpones brain aging
Mice carrying the DNA repair defect behind Cockayne syndrome showed signs of delayed brain aging after being fed medium chain fatty acids from coconut oil. Lead author Vilhelm Bohr says patients with Alzheimer's or Parkinson's may benefit in the long term.
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Diets high in fruit, vegetables, whole grains and nuts among factors to lower first-time stroke risk
Updated American Heart Association and American Stroke Association guidelines say Mediterranean or DASH-style diets with nuts, regular activity, controlled blood pressure, less sodium and not smoking lower first-stroke risk. Modifiable risk factors account for 90 percent of strokes.
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EWG’s Food Scores: Rate Your Plate
EWG promotes its new Food Scores database, which rates foods on nutrition, ingredient concerns such as additives and contaminants, and processing. It reports nearly 60% of the foods in the database contain added sugar, including 92% of granola and trail mix bars.
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Calorie restriction extends your lifespan by 20%
In mice, a low-fat diet with calories cut 30 percent for life extended lifespan by about 20 percent, and exercise added nothing on top of it; exercise alone lengthened life 16 percent on a high-fat diet. The low-calorie diet also shifted gut bacteria toward lactobacillus.
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High-fat meals could be more harmful to males than females
Male mice fed a high-fat, high-sugar diet developed brain inflammation and heart damage that female mice on the same diet did not, Cedars-Sinai researchers report in Cell Reports. The lead author says the females appeared to have strong protection against those effects.
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Paleolithic diet, Mediterranean diet linked to lower colorectal cancer
Comparing 564 people with colorectal cancer to 1,202 controls, researchers found the top fifth for Paleolithic and Mediterranean diet scores were 29 and 26 percent less likely to be diagnosed. Measured against community controls, the reductions were 16 and 23 percent.
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High fat diet can harm the liver
In a Spanish study, mice on a high-fat diet developed the liver changes of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and treatment with melatonin, MnTBAP or uric acid prevented every change seen in untreated high-fat-fed mice. The authors suggest the same might prevent NAFLD in people.
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MedDiet, DASH slow cognitive decline
Rush University researchers studying 826 older Chicago residents in the Memory and Aging Project found that following DASH and Mediterranean-style eating patterns may help slow age-related cognitive decline.
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High fat diet increases Parkinson's disease risk
In mice genetically prone to Parkinson's disease, a high-fat diet significantly accelerated the onset of neurological symptoms as the animals aged, alongside obesity, glucose intolerance and insulin resistance.
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Hypertension and nutritional status: What to eat to prevent high blood pressure
An Annual Review of Nutrition review from Messina names excess energy intake and obesity as the main dietary risks for hypertension, along with high salt and alcohol. Potassium, polyunsaturated fat, protein, exercise, possibly vitamin D and the DASH diet may lower blood pressure.
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Eating Fish May Lower Risk For Hearing Loss
Among more than 65,000 women followed by Brigham and Women's researchers, those eating at least two servings of fish a week were 20 percent less likely to develop hearing loss than those who ate less or none, suggesting omega-3s may lower the odds of acquired hearing loss.
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More than 40 percent of sodium comes from 10 common types of food
A CDC Vital Signs report finds more than 90 percent of US children aged 6 to 18 eat more sodium than recommended, and about 43 percent of it comes from ten foods, led by pizza, bread and rolls, cold cuts, savory snacks and sandwiches.
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CDC report finds sodium consumption high among U.S. children
A CDC Vital Signs report using 2009-2010 NHANES data finds more than 90 percent of U.S. children aged 6 to 18 eat more sodium than recommended, averaging about 3,300 mg a day. Ten foods, led by pizza and bread, supply roughly 43 percent of it.
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Mediterranean diet prevents cardiodiabesity
A review of 37 studies found 33 of them linking closer adherence to the Mediterranean diet with lower risk of cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, diabetes and obesity. The authors credit olive oil, fish omega-3s and antioxidants from beans and vegetables, plus limited meat.
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