Posts Tagged ‘Fruits Vegetables’

DASH Diet Helps Cut Blood Pressure

16th October 2009 by admin 1 Comment

Dear Dr. Donohue: I need to obtain a copy of the DASH diet you spoke of. Where can I get it?
L.K.
Dear L.K.: I can give it to you here. You don’t need a book. DASH is “dietary approaches to stop hypertension.” It’s a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat dairy products. [...]

Mediterranean Diet Tops Low-fat Diet for Diabetics

3rd September 2009 by admin 1 Comment

A low-carbohydrate, Mediterranean-style diet is more effective than a typical low-fat, calorie-restricted diet for diabetes management, according to a study released Monday.
Not only did the Mediterranean diet lead to greater weight loss, it also resulted in better blood sugar control, delayed the need for blood sugar-lowering medication, and improved some heart disease risk factors, the [...]

Caffeine Without Healthy Diet Linked to Heart Risk

3rd September 2009 by admin No Comments

People who drink lots of coffee but who don’t follow a Mediterranean-style diet are more likely to have atrial fibrillation, a new study shows.
Italian researchers asked patients who’d been recently diagnosed with the common heart arrhythmia to supply information about their dietary habits, including caffeine consumption. Their diets were compared with those of people without [...]

Regimens: Habits Help in Avoiding Breast Cancer, Study Finds

3rd September 2009 by admin No Comments

Women can cut their risk of breast cancer by almost half if they watch their weight, exercise daily, breast-feed their babies and limit alcoholic beverages, according to a new report by the American Institute for Cancer Research.
The report is an update of a 2007 review of more than 800 studies, adding information from 81 new [...]

Is That Right? One A Day with Selenium And Prostate Cancer

20th June 2009 by admin No Comments

The food-industry watchdog organization Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has set its sights — not in a good way — on Bayer One A Day Men’s vitamins for the company’s claim that the selenium in those supplements helps protect against prostate cancer.
An ad for Bayer’s One A Day Men’s notes that there [...]

‘Eco-Atkins’ Diet Sheds More Than Pounds

9th June 2009 by admin No Comments

A modified Atkins diet, one that substitutes plant-based proteins for animal-based ones, helps people lose weight and lowers their cholesterol, new research shows.
“In just two weeks on the so-called ‘Eco-Atkins’ diet, everything starts to look much better metabolically … I think this becomes an alternative for the heart disease reduction diet, [...]