Prostate cancer patients who eat high-fat diets and red meat are four times more likely to die
Researchers at McGill University found that a gene involved in progressing prostate cancer (known as MYC) is fueled by fatty foods and red meat, but a dietary intervention helped. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 3, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Study finds the keto diet triggers the release of immune system cells that can tame the flu
Yale researchers found that the high-fat, low-carb diet, known as keto, could tame the flu. The diet activates the release of T cells in the lungs that traps the virus before it become worse. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 16, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Keto Diet Protects Mice from Flu
The low-carb, high-fat diet increases the presence of gamma-delta T cells in the animals' lungs, improving a mucus barrier against the virus. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - November 15, 2019 Category: Science Tags: News & Opinion Source Type: news
Ketogenic diet helps tame flu virus
(Yale University) A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet like the Keto regimen has its fans, but influenza apparently isn't one of them.Mice fed a ketogenic diet were better able to combat the flu virus than mice fed food high in carbohydrates, according to a new Yale University study published Nov. 15 in the journal Science Immunology. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - November 15, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Impaired liver function during pregnancy may increase risk of childhood obesity
(Society for Endocrinology) Impaired liver function during pregnancy may alter gut bacteria composition and increase the risk of obesity in children, according to results presented at The Society for Endocrinology Annual Conference. In a rodent of model of the most common liver disease in pregnancy, the composition of gut bacteria in offspring was altered and liver function impaired, particularly when they were fed a Western-style, high-fat diet. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 10, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Food Addictions Are Real Addictions —And More And More People Are Getting Hooked
This article is excerpted from TIME: The Science of Addiction—What We Know. What We’re Learning.
In some ways, of course, food is more insidious than drugs, because there’s no such thing as abstinence, no such thing as never starting in the first place, no such thing as being able to say, “Food? Never touch the stuff.” You eat because you’ll die if you don’t, so you spend your life in a sort of nutritional two-step—a little but not too much; go overboard today, cut back tomorrow; eat the good stuff but never the junk. Sometimes you succeed at all of that, and other times yo...
Source: TIME: Health - November 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized Addiction Diet/Nutrition Obesity Source Type: news
Medical News Today: Some keto diets may exacerbate skin inflammation
A study in mouse models with psoriasis-like skin inflammation suggests that ketogenic diets with a very high fat content may exacerbate skin problems. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Nutrition / Diet Source Type: news
Craving Junk Food After Poor Sleep? Blame Your Nose
BOSTON (CBS) – Ever crave junk food after a sleepless night? Researchers from Northwestern think they have figured out why. We can blame our noses.
When we are sleep deprived we find it harder to resist calorie-dense, high-fat foods like pizza and chocolate. After studying the food choices of 29 adults after a bad night’s sleep, scientists say we can blame it on our sense of smell.
They found the olfactory system goes into overdrive, making it easier for the brain to identify food odors. Then other areas of the brain which receive food signals are blunted, leading you to choose foods with richer energy signals,...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - October 9, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Health News Dieting Healthy Eating Source Type: news
Africa: A High-Fat Diet Can Affect Your Brain Too
[IPS] Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -Two decades into the 21st century, all too many people still associate being 'overweight' with prosperity, health and wellbeing, mainly because being thin has long been associated with being emaciated due to hunger, undernourishment and malnutrition. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 9, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Beware High-Fat Diets
By Wan Manan Muda and Jomo Kwame SundaramKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct 8 2019 (IPS) Two decades into the 21st century, all too many people still associate being ‘overweight’ with prosperity, health and wellbeing, mainly because being thin has long been associated with being emaciated due to hunger, undernourishment and malnutrition.
Overweight and obesity can easily be assessed by anthropometric measures, including the body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference. But BMI thresholds for overweight and obesity may differ by ethnic group or country.
Wan Manan MudaThe standard World Health Organization (WHO) BMI cut-off ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 8, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Wan Manan Muda and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Tags: Global Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Low-carb diets may help you shed weight but do they raise the risk of cancer?
The ketogenic diet is a low-carb, high-fat plan which even has its own hashtag #LCHF. But very low-carb diets often lack fibre - long proven to have a protective effect against bowel cancer. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Medical News Today: Is this how fructose worsens the effect of high fat diets?
A new mouse study reveals that adding fructose to high fat diets disrupts fat burning in the liver through effects on fat oxidation genes and mitochondria. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Nutrition / Diet Source Type: news
Study shows how four nights of poor sleep can make you gain weight
A new study from Pennsylvania State University has found hat eating high-fat and calorie-rich meals after being sleep deprived leads to a higher levels of insulin the body. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 26, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
High fat mass index and diabetes associated with heart disease
Fat mass index, rather than body mass index (BMI), is associated with a higher risk of heart disease in people with diabetes, according to new findings published inCMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). MedicalXpress (Source: Society for Endocrinology)
Source: Society for Endocrinology - September 23, 2019 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
High Fat and Diet Induced Obesity
i-FectTM Delivers Again!Research shows that rats and humans on a high-fat diet (HFD) are less sensitive to satiety signals known to act via vagal afferent pathways. Impaired vagal afferent responsiveness to both gastric satiety hormones (CCK and leptin) and mechanical stimulation raises the possibility that changes in electrophysiological properties may be the underlying mechanism responsible for impaired vagal responsiveness to a wide variety of satiety signals.Potassium channels play a central role. To demonstrate this researchers used ouri-Fect siRNA Transfection Kit to silence TRESK and TASK1 to understand there impact...
Source: Neuromics - September 16, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Tags: diabetes iFect obesity Obesity Research RNAi siRNA siRNA delivery in-vivo Source Type: news
