THE ENDOCRINE SOCIETY WASHINGTON—Eating your daily calories within a consistent window of 8-10 hours is a powerful strategy to prevent and manage chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, according to a new manuscript published in the Endocrine Society’s journal, Endocrine Reviews. Time-restricted eating is a type of intermittent fasting that limits your food intake to a certain number of hours each day. Intermittent...
Category: <span>Nutrition & Dietics</span>
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Eating less fat may save your hair
TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY IMAGE: APPEARANCE OF MICE FED WITH A HIGH-FAT DIET (RIGHT) AND A STANDARD DIET (LEFT). CREDIT: DEPARTMENT OF STEM CELL BIOLOGY, TMDU Tokyo, Japan – It’s well known that obesity is linked to the development of numerous diseases in humans. Heart disease, diabetes, and other ailments are extremely common in...
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Is your body clock off-schedule? Prebiotics may help
by Lisa Marshall, University of Colorado at Boulder Artichokes are among the many foods rich in prebiotics. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Whether it’s from jetting across time zones, pulling all-nighters at school or working the overnight shift, chronically disrupting our circadian rhythm—or internal biological clocks—can take a measurable toll on everything from sleep, mood and metabolism...
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Study: Eating yogurt can help older adults with high blood pressure
by University of Maine Credit: Wikipedia / CC-BY-SA-3.0-de Yogurt consumption can help lower blood pressure in older adults with elevated levels, according to a new study led by an international team, including researchers at the University of Maine. The study, a new finding in the Maine-Syracuse Longitudinal Study (MSLS), was conducted by researchers Alexandra Wade of...
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Eating walnuts daily lowered bad cholesterol and may reduce cardiovascular disease risk
by American Heart Association Credit: CC0 Public Domain Eating about ½ cup of walnuts every day for two years modestly lowered levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, known as “bad cholesterol,” and reduced the number of total LDL particles and small LDL particles in healthy, older adults, according to new research published today in the American Heart Association’s...
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Fructose in the diet expands the surface of the gut and promotes nutrient absorption
Feeding mice high-fructose corn syrup, a widely used sweetener in human diets, has been found to drive an increase in the surface area of the gut that is associated with enhanced absorption of dietary nutrients and weight gain. The incidence of obesity has been steadily increasing, tripling globally between 1975 and 2016, at a high...
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Alternating diets to promote weight loss – diet & nutrition
by University of Toronto Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Nearly 80 percent of participants in a University of Toronto study lost a “clinically significant” amount of body weight in less than two years after following three successive and varying diets. The dieters followed, in sequence, a calorie-restrictive diet, a low-carb/high-fat diet and an intermittent fasting diet, losing 11.1 kilograms on...
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Inflammatory Diet Linked to Increased All-Cause Dementia Risk
A proinflammatory diet, as measured by the dietary inflammatory index (DII), is associated with increased risk of all-cause dementia, although not Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new analysis of longitudinal data from the Framingham Heart Study Offspring Cohort. Dr Debora Melo van Lent The lack of an association with Alzheimer’s disease was a surprise because amyloid-beta prompts microglia and...
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NEW LOOK AT ‘SHOCKING’ STUDY SAYS WE NEED MORE VITAMIN C
It was wartime and food was scarce. Leaders of England’s effort to wage war and help the public survive during World War II needed to know: Were the rations in lifeboats adequate for survival at sea? And, among several experiments important for public as well as military heath, how much vitamin C did a person...
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Benefits of time-restricted eating depend on age and sex
CREDIT: SALK INSTITUTE LA JOLLA—(August 17, 2021) Time-restricted eating (TRE), a dietary regimen that restricts eating to specific hours, has garnered increased attention in weight-loss circles. A new study by Salk scientists further shows that TRE confers multiple health benefits besides weight loss. The study also shows that these benefits may depend on sex and...