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Vegan men 'frail' and more likely to die young, new analysis of British data suggests - with unhealthy plant-based foods to blame
Date: 30/12/2024
Eating a diet heavy in unhealthy plant-based foods could increase your risk of heading to an early grave.
How Blood Sugar Impacts Your Brain Health
Date: 24/12/2024
Sugar, a key source of brain energy, is also linked to mood, dementia, and more.
The first lawsuit against ultra-processed foods
Date: 18/12/2024
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee may not think there is much to ultra-processed foods (UPF), but companies making them have just been served with a lawsuit.
Processed plant-based meat alternatives linked to depression risk in vegetarians
Date: 17/12/2024
Researchers found that vegetarians who consumed processed plant-based meat alternatives (PBMAs) had a 42% increased risk of depression compared to vegetarians who refrained from PBMAs.
Inflammatory dietary habits linked to 84% higher risk of dementia
Date: 17/12/2024
Chronic inflammation, driven by diets high in pro-inflammatory components such as saturated fats and processed carbohydrates, may exacerbate brain inflammation and promote amyloid-beta plaque formation, a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease.
Healthy pregnancy diet boosts kids' emotional regulation - Clinical trial
Date: 11/12/2024
All soon-to-be-parents want to give their baby the healthiest start possible, but new Brock University-led research shows that eating well and being physically active during pregnancy also benefits children years after birth.
Can your diet help reduce brain iron and cognitive decline?
Date: 10/12/2024
"This study is an example of how we can encourage healthier lifestyle choices to help combat some risk factors that can affect brain health...."
A healthy diet may ease chronic pain, study suggests
Date: 09/12/2024
"It's common knowledge that eating well is good for your health and well-being. But knowing that simple changes to your diet could offset chronic pain, could be life changing...."
How Inflammation Affects Your Mental Health
Date: 06/12/2024
Understanding how inflammation affects our mental state and how it is in turn influenced by factors like diet, medications and more, we gain important insights into the pathophysiology of psychiatric conditions and pave the way for innovative treatments.
How mother’s diet affects baby’s health: What insights from different cultures can tell us
Date: 04/12/2024
Prenatal nutrition plays an important role in shaping the future health of an infant.
Prenatal supplements largely lack the recommended amount of omega-3 fatty acids to help prevent preterm birth − new research
Date: 04/12/2024
Most prenatal supplements lack the amount of omega-3 fatty acids that could help prevent preterm birth, meaning delivery before 37 weeks’ gestation.
Ultra-processed foods and calories: more evidence!
Date: 03/12/2024
A diet of ultra-processed foods that are 'energy dense' and 'hyper-palatable' leads healthy adults to consume an extra 1000 kcal/day, compared with a nutritionally matched diet of minimally processed food, according to preliminary results from a new controlled trial
An affordable and effective nutritional approach to help reduce inflammation and prevent type 2 diabetes
Date: 02/12/2024
Omega-3 supplementation can be a highly effective strategy for the treatment of adipose tissue inflammation and prevention of its associated diseases such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, especially in people with high blood LDL values.
Less than 50% of many prenatal supplements have the adequate amount of choline and iodine
Date: 29/11/2024
New research reveals that many prenatal vitamins don't contain enough of the nutrients that are essential for a healthy pregnancy, while others contain harmful levels of toxic metals.
How sweet is it really? Non-nutritive sweeteners and the control of blood sugar levels
Date: 27/11/2024
"These findings go a long way to answering some of the fundamental questions we have around the effects of non-nutritive sweeteners and show that despite the misconception that they are metabolically inert, their habitual high intake can alter distinct mechanisms of sugar handling...."
Conflicts of interest: moving towards zero tolerance
Date: 19/11/2024
Harmful industries still exert their influence over health professionals, academia, and health systems; robust change is required, write Chris van Tulleken, Nigel Rollins, and Rebecca Coombes
Cocoa or green tea could protect you from the negative effects of fatty foods during mental stress, study finds
Date: 18/11/2024
"For those who tend to reach for a treat when stressed or depend on convenient food because they work high-pressure jobs or are time-poor, incorporating some of these small changes could make a real difference."
Fat cells have epigenetics-based memory: Researchers discover mechanism behind weight loss yo-yo effect
Date: 18/11/2024
In summary, our findings indicate the existence of an obesogenic memory, largely on the basis of stable epigenetic changes, in mouse adipocytes and probably other cell types.
Junk Food Diet Causes 12-Year-Old Boy to Go Permanently Blind
Date: 12/11/2024
Doctors said that the boy has avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), an eating disorder that affects about half of autistic children to different degrees. This was an extreme case, but definitely not singular.
How ADHD may influence a child's weight
Date: 11/11/2024
Children with increased ADHD symptoms are typically lighter at birth than their peers but are later more likely to have obesity
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