De Lorgeril and Salen argue that a modernised Mediterranean diet — high omega-3 to omega-6 ratio, fibre, polyphenols, low-glycemic foods — lowers breast cancer risk, while statins have been associated with higher risk. They urge doctors to weigh such therapies in high-risk women.
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Eating patterns and diets, from Mediterranean to low-carb and vegan.
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Dietary factors and prostate cancer
A systematic review suggests red meat, dietary fat and milk may raise prostate cancer risk while fruit, vegetables and polyphenols may lower it. It says selenium and vitamin supplements should not be advocated for prevention, and high doses may even worsen prognosis.
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American diet risk factor for liver cancer
Sedentary mice fed a diet high in trans fat and high-fructose corn syrup showed early nonalcoholic steatohepatitis at six months and liver inflammation and bridging fibrosis at 12; six of 10 developed liver tumours. The authors conclude the lifestyle alone sufficed in these mice.
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High fat diet bad, high fat high fructose diet even worse
Adult male rats ate a high-fat or a high-fat, high-fructose diet for two weeks. The fructose group showed higher serum triglycerides, free fatty acids, insulin and hepatic insulin resistance, plus more liver triglyceride and ceramide, steatosis and necrosis, than the high-fat group.
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Plant-Based Diet Reverses Heart Disease
Researchers counselled 198 cardiovascular patients to eat a diet free of meat, fish, dairy and added oils. Of the 89 percent who followed it, 81 percent had fewer symptoms and complications, participants lost an average 18.7 pounds, and 22 percent saw their condition reverse.
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Long term use of high protein diet unhealthy
A review in ISRN Nutrition drawing on 32 studies reports that long-term high protein or high meat intake can raise the risk of bone and calcium disorders, kidney dysfunction, cancer, liver disease and coronary artery disease. The adult RDA is 0.8 g of protein per kg of body weight.
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Plant-Based Foods Benefit Longevity
Among Seventh-day Adventists, non-vegetarians had a 20 percent higher mortality rate than vegetarians. Vegetarian and semi-vegetarian diets also cut greenhouse gas emissions by 29 and 22 percent compared with non-vegetarian diets.
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Diet linked to depression
A 2014 report in the Finnish journal Duodecim links depression to diet, associating low intake of vitamin B12, folate, omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin D with higher risk. It says B12 and folate may also be used in treatment, while the role of fatty acids remains unclear.
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Mediterranean diet linked to lower type 2 diabetes mellitus risk
A meta-analysis in Metabolism pooling 17 studies and 136,846 participants found strict adherence to a Mediterranean diet was associated with 23 percent lower risk of type 2 diabetes. The authors suggest the diet, adapted to local foods, could help prevent the disease.
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Vegetarian diet linked to lower cancer risk
Among 61,647 British adults followed 15 years, cancer struck 10.1 percent of meat eaters, 6.0 percent of fish eaters and 5.9 percent of vegetarians. Vegetarians had 63 percent less stomach cancer and 77 percent less multiple myeloma; overall risk was 12 percent lower for both groups.
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Timing of having lunch affects weight loss
Among 420 obese adults on a Mediterranean-diet weight loss program, those who ate lunch late lost less weight over 20 weeks than early eaters, even though meal timing did not change calorie intake, diet composition, energy expenditure or sleep.
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Fat Linked to Breast Cancer Risk
Tracking 88,804 women in the Nurses' Health Study II for 10 years, researchers reported in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment that a diet high in animal fat raised breast cancer risk 18 percent overall, and dietary cholesterol raised it 32 percent in premenopausal women.
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Diet important for multiple sclerosis
A literature review reports people with multiple sclerosis ate more animal products, whole milk and sweets and less fish, produce and cereal than healthy people, and that patients who closely followed the low-saturated-fat Swank diet were three times less likely to die of the disease.
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What should NAFLD patients eat?
A report in Przeglad Gastroenterologiczny advises people with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease to take 40 to 50 percent of calories from complex carbohydrates, under 30 percent from mono- and polyunsaturated fat and 15 to 20 percent from protein, and to avoid fructose.
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New Nordic diet leads to lower blood pressure, weight loss
Among 181 centrally obese adults given free food for 26 weeks, those eating the New Nordic Diet - heavy on fruit, vegetables, whole grains and fish - lost 4.7 kg against 1.5 kg on an average Danish diet and cut systolic pressure about 5 mmHg, without counting calories.
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Vegetarian diet prevents high blood pressure
An analysis in JAMA Internal Medicine found vegetarians' blood pressure ran lower than omnivores': 4.8/2.2 mm Hg lower across seven controlled trials and 6.9/4.7 mm Hg lower across 32 observational studies covering more than 21,000 people.
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Low-carb vegan diet may reduce heart disease risk and weight
St. Michael's Hospital researchers report that the low-carbohydrate vegan Eco-Atkins diet cut cholesterol by 10 per cent and took off about four more pounds over six months than a high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet. They estimate the change may lower heart disease risk by 10 per cent over 10 years.
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Poor diet before pregnancy is linked with preterm birth (PR)
University of Adelaide researchers report that women who consistently ate high-fat, high-sugar and takeaway foods before conceiving were about 50% more likely to have a preterm birth than those eating protein, fruit, whole grains and vegetables. The study covered 300-plus women.
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