3/19/15 With the MIND diet, a person who eats at least three servings of whole grains, a salad and one other vegetable every day — along with a glass of wine — snacks most days on nuts, has beans every other day or so, eats poultry and berries at least twice a week and fish […]
by Salynn Boyles Contributing Writer Action Points Note that this mouse study found that cocount-oil, compared with two variants of soybean oil, appeared to result in less adverse metabolic effects. Be aware that mice fed a low-fat diet had less weight gain than those fed any of the equi-caloric high-fat diets. A newly introduced soybean oil […]
By Shereen Lehman Tue Mar 10, 2015 4:29pm EDT Email Facebook Twitter By Shereen Lehman (Reuters Health) – A modified Mediterranean diet with local foods may be easier for some people to stick with and also result in weight loss, suggests a new study from Germany. People on a Mediterranean diet that used more familiar […]
The analysis of data from the ongoing, prospective California Teachers Study, which was designed to examine dietary patterns and breast cancer risk, found that following a Mediterranean diet reduced ischemic stroke risk by up to 18%, stroke neurologist Ayesha Sherzai, MD, of Columbia University Medical Center, New York City, said. Mediterranean Diet Followers Had Lower […]
Published: Dec 5, 2014 By Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today Cardiovascular Med Diet May Help Heart in Erectile Dysfunction Patients Published: Dec 5, 2014 | Updated: Dec 5, 2014 Register Today Earn Free CME Credits by reading the latest medical news in your specialty. SIGN UP By Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today save […]
A mediterranean-style diet and left ventricular mass (from the northern manhattan study) The American Journal of Cardiology, 12/01/2014 Clinical Article Gardener H, et al. – The authors hypothesized that adherence to a DT would be inversely associated with left ventricular (LV) mass in the multi–ethnic population–based Northern Manhattan Study. Greater adherence to a DT is […]
Mediterranean-style diet is associated with reduced blood pressure variability and subsequent stroke risk in patients with coronary artery disease American Journal of Hypertension, 11/13/2014 Clinical Article Lau KK, et al. – The Mediterranean–style diet is widely advocated for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Meanwhile, blood pressure variability (BPV) is a novel risk factor for […]
Stroke Rounds: New Prevention Guidelines Favor Mediterranean Diet Published: Oct 30, 2014 | Updated: Oct 30, 2014 By Salynn Boyles, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today Action Points Note that joint guidelines from the American Heart and American Stroke Associations clarify issues relating to stroke prevention on the population level. Among the most notable guidelines, the associations […]
Video at MedPageToday as well. Published: Oct 28, 2014 | Updated: Oct 29, 2014 By Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today Action Points Note that this cohort study demonstrated an association between baseline trimethylamine-N-oxide levels and subsequent mortality among patients with heart failure. Be aware that dietary histories were not obtained from the patients […]
PracticeUpdate.com RESEARCH · August 26, 2014 TAKE-HOME MESSAGE In this meta-analysis of 13 cohort studies, the highest levels of dietary linoleic acid intake were associated with a 15% lower risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) and a 21% lower risk for CHD deaths compared with the lowest levels of intake. This analysis supports current recommendations […]
MDLinx.com Current Atherosclerosis Reports, 08/19/2014 Evidence Based Medicine Review Article Clinical Article Story Source Chiva–Blanch G, et al. – Recent systematic reviews of observational studies ranked Mediterranean diet as the most likely dietary model to provide cardiovascular protection. These recent results allow us to recommend Mediterranean diet to subjects at high risk for cardiovascular disease […]
Circulation, 07/01/2014 > Clinical Article PubMed Reference Journal Reference Martínez–Gonzalez MA, et al. – The authors assessed the effect of these diets on the incidence of atrial fibrillation in the PREDIMED trial. In the absence of proven interventions for the primary prevention of atrial fibrillation, this post hoc analysis of the PREDIMED trial suggests that extravirgin olive oil […]
MEDICAL NEWS | PHYSICIAN’S FIRST WATCH June 12, 2014 By Kelly Young Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM Higher protein intake is associated with reduced stroke risk, according to a meta-analysis in Neurology. Researchers assessed the results of seven prospective cohort studies in roughly 250,000 participants. During a median follow-up of 14 […]
The Telegraph HOME»HEALTH»HEALTH NEWS Story Source Eating full fat yogurt daily can reduce the risk of obesity by almost a fifth, research has suggested By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor7:45AM BST 31 May 2014 Eating full-fat yogurt daily could help you lose weight faster than eating low fat yogurt, surprising new research has shown. People who […]
Research · May 05, 2014 TAKE-HOME MESSAGE In this randomized, parallel-design, controlled trial including 235 participants, a Mediterranean diet supplemented with either extra virgin olive oil or nuts was associated with significant decreases in mean systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, fasting blood glucose levels, and total cholesterol compared with placebo. Patients at high cardiovascular […]
European Urology, 04/14/2014 Clinical Article Full Story PubMed Reference Journal Reference Kenfield SA, et al. – This study aims to determine whether the traditional Med–Diet pattern is associated with risk of incident advanced or lethal PCa and with PCa–specific and overall mortality among men with PCa. A higher Med–Diet score was not associated with risk of advanced […]
PracticeUpdate Research · May 01, 2014 Full Story Journal Reference TAKE-HOME MESSAGE The authors studied the effect of a Mediterranean-style diet (MeDi) and vitamin D levels on dry eye syndrome (DES). In a large cohort of men, following the MeDi was associated with an increased risk of DES and increased severity of the disease. Conversely, […]
Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2014 Apr 2. pii: S0939-4753(14)00109-4. doi: 10.1016/j.numecd.2014.03.003. [Epub ahead of print] Mediterranean dietary pattern, inflammation and endothelial function: A systematic review and meta-analysis of intervention trials. Schwingshackl L, Hoffmann G. Abstract BACKGROUND: High adherence to a Mediterranean diet (MD) is associated with reduced all-cause and cardiovascular mortality risk. To our knowledge, […]
JAMES HAMBLINMAR 24 2014, 1:14 PM ET Full Story Researchers asked if one diet could be crowned best in terms of health outcomes. If diet is a set of rigid principles, the answer is a decisive no. In terms of broader guidelines, it’s a decisive yes. Flailing in the swell of bestselling diet books, infomercials […]