Diet & Nutrition

Further study needed on combining exercise training and diet supplementation… Scientists at the University of Southampton, UK, have shown that although some studies find diet can enhance the effects of exercise to prevent muscle loss in later life, current evidence about what works is inconsistent. Between the ages of 40 …

Researchers study effects of calorie restriction and physical activity as separate and combination weight-loss methods… In a new study, Saint Louis University associate professor of nutrition and dietetics Edward Weiss, Ph.D, and colleagues found that, though people often think of the benefits from exercise, calorie restriction and weight loss as …

Scientists saw dramatic effects on risk factors for colon cancer when American and African volunteers swapped diets for just two weeks… Western diets, high in protein and fat but low in fiber, are thought to raise colon cancer risk compared with African diets high in fiber and low in fat …

According to an editorial published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, even though physical activity is important for health, a healthy diet is essential for weight loss, and regular exercise will not make up for a poor diet… Many public health messages encourage the belief that obesity is entirely …

The recent study “Diet Soda Intake Is Associated with Long-Term Increases in Waist Circumference in a Biethnic Cohort of Older Adults: The San Antonio Longitudinal Study of Aging (SALSA)”1 suffers from several limitations, which likely confound the study’s conclusions. The authors note that the waist circumference (abdominal fat) findings were not …

An increase in polyunsaturated fatty acid intake showed some benefit in pregnant women with GDM as well as the fetus… GDM not only puts mothers at risk but it can also be dangerous for infants. Studies show that more than half of pregnant women with GDM develop overt diabetes within …

Diabetics who drink coffee had significantly lower HbA1c and higher adiponectin compared to those who did not… Researchers from India and Trinidad studied the levels of adiponectin in coffee drinkers for type 2 diabetes (DM2) and non-diabetic patients. This was a cross-sectional study including 220 non-diabetic subjects, 143 of who …

Phosphatidylcholine is a chemical contained in eggs, soybeans, mustard, sunflower, and other foods… Researchers included data on dietary intake from three observational cohorts; the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS), NHS II, and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (HPFS). The authors excluded participants with diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, or unlikely dietary data …

In a comparison of a fiber-intake focused diet versus the more complex AHA-compliant diet, both cohorts lost weight, although the AHA dieters lost slightly more… In a randomized trial, a diet that focuses solely on increasing fiber intake works about as well as a more complex American Heart Association (AHA)-compliant …

Popular weight loss strategy improves satiety and decreases fat mass, but increases risk of metabolic disease… Some of the potential mechanisms that account for weight loss associated with high-protein diets involve increased secretion of satiety hormones (GIP, GLP-1), reduced orexigenic hormone secretion (ghrelin), the increased thermic effect of food and …