Ending the Big, Fat Debate
Achieving a clear understanding of the health effects of dietary fats requires a challenging slog through a thick tangle of opinions. These days, it's rare to get through any given news cycle without contentions about dietary fat, expert and otherwise, coming at us from every quarter. The preoccupation, especially intense now, has a rather long lineage. Call to Action: Let's End the Big Fat Debate It is time to end the big, fat debate- by focusing less on nutrients, and more on foods. Some of the most nutritious foods are extremely low in fat (e.g., broccoli, spinach, blueberries) and some, high (e.g., walnuts, almonds...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How A High-Fat Diet May Be Screwing With Your Brain
Dietary fat is having a moment. From Paleo diet converts who hail the virtues of saturated fat to nutritionists who want to do away with upper limits on total fat consumption, Americans are getting a strong message: Fill up on fat and stay away from refined carbohydrates and added sugar. Here to throw a wrench into this fashionable mode of thought is a small but illuminating rodent experiment presented on July 10 at the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior in Denver. Neuroscientist Krzysztof Czaja of the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine made the case tha...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - July 14, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Damon Gameau's health plummeted after eating low fat foods for 60 days
Australian actor Damon Gameau, 38, spent two months avoiding junk foods and instead stuck to products marketed as low fat and 'healthy' but was shocked to discover how bad he felt as a result. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 25, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
6 Expert Tips on Rethinking Nutrition and Heart Health
Have kids, they said. Along with all the vomit and tears they will bring you joy, hilarity and fierce amounts of love (true, true.) But nobody ever mentioned they might concoct a "potion" that sits fermenting in an overlooked thermos for five days. Oh and that it might detonate in the kitchen in the dead of night. Have you ever cleaned out your toaster with a cotton bud? I have. It's hard. Especially when you really should be in bed and your heart is still somewhere outside your chest cavity.
A few days previously I'd given the girls some random kitchen and craft ingredients to make their own potions -- magic medicine to...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 1, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Going Vegan Could Help Ease Diabetes Pain
By Janice Neumann (Reuters Health) - A low-fat vegan diet may help people with type 2 diabetes reduce physical pain related to the condition, suggests a small new study. "This new study gives a ray of hope for a condition where there are no other good treatments," said Dr. Neal Barnard, the study's lead author and president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a non-profit organization that promotes a vegan diet, preventive medicine, and alternatives to animal research. Most people with type 2 diabetes will develop peripher...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - May 29, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Eating A Rich Mediterranean Diet Could Help Keep Your Brain Healthy
By: Agata Blaszczak-Boxe
Published: May 11, 2015 01:48pm ET on LiveScience.
Eating a Mediterranean diet that is rich in nuts and olive oil may help delay cognitive decline in older adults, according to a new study.
In the study, researchers randomly chose about 300 people to follow a Mediterranean diet for four years, and asked 145 people to eat a low-fat diet for the same period. Following a Mediterranean diet means consuming many vegetables and fruits, and eating some seafood, while eating only a little meat and dairy.
In the study, 155 of the people who were on a Mediterranean diet were asked to include one liter...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 12, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Diet swap study highlights bowel effects of western-style diet
Conclusion
This study aimed to investigate various biological changes to the gut that occur when switching from a western-style low-fibre, high-fat diet to an African-style high-fibre, low-fat diet, and vice versa. These changes may partly explain why African-Americans living in the US have over 10 times the bowel cancer rate of rural Africans.
The differences seen may not solely have been due to the differences in fibre and fat. The western-style diet also appeared to contain more red and processed meat, which have also been linked to increased bowel cancer risk. It is also worth bearing in mind that this study only took ...
Source: NHS News Feed - April 29, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer Food/diet Diabetes Source Type: news
Snacks to Help You Maximize Your Weekend Workouts
By Sarah-Jane Bedwell, SELF
Refueling after exercise is essential to seeing results: Since the body breaks down tissues and uses energy -- namely carbs -- contained or stored in the blood, liver and muscle, you're gonna need to fill the energy tank back up afterwards. Especially after a hard, long weekend workout we're all guilty (yet proud!) of engaging in. Opt for a snack that delivers a healthy ratio of four grams of carbohydrate for every gram of protein, a combo which helps rebuild muscles while replenishing your body's glycogen stores (aka your energy tank). Whip up one of these perfectly portioned ideas this week...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Following UK dietary advice may cut heart disease risk
Conclusion
This study showed that following dietary recommendations closely for 12 weeks can reduce blood pressure by a significant amount, which is likely to cut the chances of having a heart attack or stroke for an average healthy middle-aged person. The diet also affects cholesterol levels, but the overall effect of this may be modest.
The study appears to have been carefully conducted to avoid biasing the results. The researchers gave butter or margarine spread and cooking oil to people in both groups, for example, and asked everyone to fill out food diaries, as well as taking urine samples for nutrient analysis.
Thi...
Source: NHS News Feed - March 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Food/diet Heart/lungs Source Type: news
Roundup of news from ENDO 2015
Frankie the dog 'sniffs out thyroid cancer'
A dog has been used to sniff out thyroid cancer in people who had not yet been diagnosed, according to US researchers. Discovering the chemicals the dogs can smell could lead to new tests.
BBC News
Low-fat diet 'burns more fat', study finds
A study closely monitoring the diets of 19 people found that those consuming low fat diets lost more weight than those consuming low carbohydrate diets, despite eating the same number of calories.
BBC News
Male fertility: Losing weight and cancer drugs 'boost sperm'
Two approaches to boost...
Source: Society for Endocrinology - March 9, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
Low-fat diet 'burns more fat'
A low-fat, rather than a low-carb, diet leads to a greater loss of body fat, according to experiments carried out by scientists at the US National Institutes of Health. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 6, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Food labels: why 'low-fat' and 'high-fibre' don't mean healthy
You might think foods labelled 'low-fat' or 'no added sugar' are better for you, but packaging can be extremely misleading (Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice)
Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice - March 4, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: fat food labels low-fat sugar fat-free Source Type: news
Food labels: why 'low-fat' and 'high-fibre' don't mean healthy
You might think foods labelled 'low-fat' or 'no added sugar' are better for you, but packaging can be extremely misleading (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - March 4, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: fat food labels low-fat sugar fat-free Source Type: news
9 Foods That Keep You Feeling Full Longer
SPECIAL FROM Next Avenue
By Linda Melone
Sticking to a low-calorie diet in an effort to lose weight immediately presents one big challenge: hunger. When you’re hungry you’ll grab the quickest food within reach and forget all your good intentions. It’s one reason why only one out of five people can last a month before falling off the diet wagon, according to a British survey.
The foods you choose, however, can make all the difference between feeling hungry again within a half hour and being satisfied for several hours.
“Key components of highly satisfying foods are protein and fiber,” says Rebecca Solomon, d...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 3, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Peanuts May Lower Risk Of Death From Heart Disease
This study, with a more ethnically and economically diverse population in the U.S. and China, suggests that nuts can benefit people from a wide variety of backgrounds. "We can now tell people that peanuts are just as good as more expensive tree nuts, and that the benefit isn't just for white, upper class people, it's for everybody," said senior study author Dr. Xiao-Ou Shu, a professor of epidemiology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, in a phone interview. Shu's team studied 71,764 people in the southeastern U.S. - mostly low-inco...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - March 2, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
