Diet & Nutrition News and Research

Latest Diet & Nutrition News and Research

Retinoic acid combined with PIC, a synthetic immunity booster, significantly elevates the immune system response to a tetanus shot

These results show that a natural product of vitamin A can have an important role in regulating immunity and, when administered along with PIC, might be a potentially powerful nutritional-immunological assist in vaccination."

12 Sep 2005

Low-fat, plant-based diet is more effective at helping women lose weight

A low-fat, plant-based diet is more effective at helping women lose weight and improve insulin sensitivity than an omnivorous diet, shows a new study appearing in the September issue of The American Journal of Medicine.

10 Sep 2005

Funding the "war on terror" could cost the lives of millions of Americans

Professor Erica Frank argues that the US government's decision to shift funds away from basic public health services towards preventing terrorism has cut funding for common diseases and for disaster relief, resulting in enormous numbers of unnecessary deaths.

10 Sep 2005

Diabetics with fatty livers could benefit from diet rich in soy protein

According to a group of researchers from Mexico they have discovered that a diet rich in soy protein may alleviate fatty liver, a disease which often accompanies diabetes.

10 Sep 2005

At last, the seven secrets of eternal youth!

There are it seems seven different factors which we should be concentrating on in our search for eternal youth and they have nothing to do with plastic surgery and crazy diets!

10 Sep 2005

Diet rich in soy protein may alleviate fatty liver

A group of researchers from Mexico has discovered that a diet rich in soy protein may alleviate fatty liver, a disease which often accompanies diabetes. The details of their findings appear in the September issue of the Journal of Lipid Research, an American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology journal.

6 Sep 2005

Folic acid fortification of grain foods has produced a one-third decline in serious birth defects of the brain and spine

...but the March of Dimes urged federal officials to help spare a greater number of babies from these devastating conditions by requiring higher levels of the B vitamin.

6 Sep 2005

Study - no effect of fish oil on life-threatening cardiac arrhythmia

In patients with an increased risk of heart rhythm problems, cardiac arrest or arrhythmia, eating fish oil did little to reduce that risk.

6 Sep 2005

Alcohol-based hand sanitizer gel significantly reduces the spread of gastrointestinal infections in the home

In a study of 292 Greater Boston families - half of which were given hand sanitizer - those that used the gel had a 59 percent reduction in the spread of GI illnesses.

6 Sep 2005

Children who use community health centers may be at a particularly high risk of being obese

Children who use community health centers may be at a particularly high risk of being obese, according to a new study. This association between obesity and the type of health delivery system used was present regardless of race, ethnicity or geographic characteristics.

6 Sep 2005

Nurse-led multidisciplinary programme can help coronary patients and their families to reduce their risk of major cardiovascular disease

Early results from the EuroAction hospital project, announced today at the European Society of Cardiology, demonstrate how a nurse-led multidisciplinary programme, organised in busy general hospitals, can help coronary patients and their families to reduce their risk of major cardiovascular disease (CVD).

5 Sep 2005

Pomegranate fruit extracts can block enzymes that contribute to osteoarthritis

The study looked at the ability of an extract of pomegranate fruit against Interleukin-1b (IL-1b), a pro-inflammatory protein molecule that plays a key role in cartilage degradation in osteoarthritis.

1 Sep 2005

Extra-virgin olive oil tastes good and is also an anti-inflammatory

After a tasting experience at a molecular gastronomy meeting in Sicily, biologist Gary Beauchamp of Pennsylvania University decided to analyse freshly pressed extra-virgin olive oil and found a chemical that acted like ibuprofen in the oil.

31 Aug 2005

Early life exposure to second-hand smoke can produce life-long respiratory problems

A new study finds early life exposure to second-hand smoke can produce life-long respiratory problems. The study of 35,000 adult non-smokers in Singapore found that those who lived with a smoker during childhood had more respiratory problems, including chronic cough.

30 Aug 2005

Severely restricting calories over decades won't dramatically extend life span

Severely restricting calories over decades may add a few years to a human life span, but will not enable humans to live to 125 and beyond, as many have speculated, evolutionary biologists report.

30 Aug 2005

Americans get most of their antioxidants from their coffee

Researchers in the U.S. say the American coffee drinking habit is not such a bad thing as coffee is a good source of antioxidants.

29 Aug 2005

Dental problems caused by radiation, chemotherapy should be treated before a child undergoes immunosuppression as part of bone marrow transplantation therapy

Many children who undergo bone marrow transplantation (BMT) as part of cancer treatment already have dental abnormalities that leave them vulnerable to potentially life-threatening bacterial infections, according to investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. A report on this study appears in the prepublication online edition of Bone Marrow Transplantation.

29 Aug 2005

Diet & Nutrition News and Research

Latest Diet & Nutrition News and Research

Retinoic acid combined with PIC, a synthetic immunity booster, significantly elevates the immune system response to a tetanus shot

Low-fat, plant-based diet is more effective at helping women lose weight

Funding the "war on terror" could cost the lives of millions of Americans

Diabetics with fatty livers could benefit from diet rich in soy protein

At last, the seven secrets of eternal youth!

Diet rich in soy protein may alleviate fatty liver

Folic acid fortification of grain foods has produced a one-third decline in serious birth defects of the brain and spine

Study - no effect of fish oil on life-threatening cardiac arrhythmia

Alcohol-based hand sanitizer gel significantly reduces the spread of gastrointestinal infections in the home

Children who use community health centers may be at a particularly high risk of being obese

Nurse-led multidisciplinary programme can help coronary patients and their families to reduce their risk of major cardiovascular disease

Pomegranate fruit extracts can block enzymes that contribute to osteoarthritis

Extra-virgin olive oil tastes good and is also an anti-inflammatory

Early life exposure to second-hand smoke can produce life-long respiratory problems

Severely restricting calories over decades won't dramatically extend life span

Americans get most of their antioxidants from their coffee

Dental problems caused by radiation, chemotherapy should be treated before a child undergoes immunosuppression as part of bone marrow transplantation therapy

New understanding of role cholesterol plays in causing heart attacks, strokes

Molecular missing link between fasting and acute attacks of porphyria

Coffee is the number one source of antioxidants in the U.S. diet

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