dietary

Alternative medicine more popular among HIV positive patients

...ayer therapy, simple exercises, lifestyle changes, dietary supplements, mega vitamins, counseling and herbal medications seem to be the most preferred forms of alternative treatment used by these patients. 70% of these patients said that these therapies had improved their condition. The study was conducted ...

Eat greens to have a ever green heart

...e second study reveals. "The beneficial effects of dietary intervension are not limited solely to its action on fat levels but also they influence other machanisms, opening up new perpectives for its protective effect on atherosclerosis," Dr. Francisco Fuentes of Hospital Universitario Reina Sofa in Cordoba,...

Vitamin Shields Brittle Bones

...ats was equivalent to what a human would take as a dietary supplement, about 400 international units or IU daily. Combining estrogen and vitamin E did not appear to offer any additional benefits, Wimalawansa reported. Appropriate doses of vitamin E, at least in rats, appears to reduce menopausal risk of de...

Sweet Candies replace bitter Pills for Anaemia

...ied candies, which provided 48% of the recommended dietary allowance of iron per week, were acceptable to children aged 4 to 6 years and improved their iron status. It is also noted that these candies increase the iron in the blood to about 10% in 3 months. So its time for u kids to ask your mom to buy u c...

B Vitamin Supplementatoin Saves Money and Lives

... homocysteine is much stronger than that for other dietary supplements promoted for heart disease prevention like garlic and vitamin E."...

Role of zinc in development

... of vitamin A, iron and zinc could be countered by dietary supplements. Zinc deficiency is often seen in deve...egnant women in developing countries. Remarking on dietary necessity of zinc, Dr Wendy Doyle, of the British Dietetic Association, said, "Zinc is essential for...

Flaxseed fights cancer risk

...stmenopausal nuns - chosen because of their strict dietary practices. They were given either zero, five or ten grams of flaxseed as a supplement for seven week cycles over a year. Both levels of supplementation gave significant decreases in oestrogen levels. This does not show that flaxseed prevents cancer...

Probiotics can help

...foods as well as being also sold in tablet form as dietary supplements. Now a Finnish study has tested the efficacy of a particular strain of probiotic, lactobacillus GG, in preventing childhood diarrhoea and respiratory infections.Lactobacillus GG is already known to reduce the duration of acute diarrhoea...

Love the sun

....Only 10 per cent of vitamin D in the body is from dietary sources - which include oily fish, eggs, butter and margarine - and this goes for babies too....

Genetics and cholesterol levels

...holesterol levels are controlled by both genes and dietary factors. People with high blood cholesterol are of... have the same genetic make-up, the differences in dietary intake accounted for differences in cholesterol levels. But their cholesterol levels were more simil...

Emphasis on eating pattern

... fruit, milk or meat, ten more possible points for dietary limitations - total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium, then ten more points for dietary variety. The total possible is 100. The mean score, for a group of 340 women of average age 50, was ...

Animal Fat Enhances Risk Of Stomach

... other types of stomach and esophageal cancers and dietary factors, Dr. Susan T. Mayne from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and colleagues interviewed more than 1,000 patients and nearly 700 healthy people in three states.// Total fat intake and intake of saturated fat each doubled the risk of...

Too much coffee is too bad

...eine group), these findings identify caffeine as a dietary factor, which can alter one’s genetic predispositi...enotype, physicians should recommend both adequate dietary calcium and moderate caffeine comsumption for their elderly patients. ...

Legume Consumption Can Cut Heart Disease Risk

...ing legume consumption may be an important part of dietary interventions to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease....

High-protein diets may pose health risks

...a good approach// to meeting a person’s long-term dietary needs, says Robert H. Eckel, of the Association’s ...at more protein than their bodies need, and excess dietary protein can, in itself, also increase health risks, he emphasises. High-protein diets induce a quic...

Lecithin lowers cholesterol absorption in body

... Journal of Nutrition.// Many people believe that dietary cholesterol directly raises blood cholesterol. Because eggs provide about half the dietarty cholesterol in a typical western diet.Under experimental conditions using an animal model that closely mimics human physiology, Koo and his associates found t...

Olive oil does good

...re also examined. The researchers found that three dietary factors could affect a person's risks of developing the disease. They suggested that people who ate a lot of meat and fish, as opposed to those who ate mostly vegetables and cereals, were at increased risk. This is because a high meat intake can in...

Protein and fat improve memory

...ers, but this is the first study to show that pure dietary protein and fat also improve memory,” says lead author Randall Kaplan. Until now, it was believed by scientists that increases in blood glucose levels explained the beneficial impact of carbohydrates on memory in elderly people.In the present study,...

Less sodium,less pressure

...ertensive medications.In addition, following these dietary guidelines// could lead to a 20% decrease in the prevalence of heart disease and a 35% decrease in the prevalence of strokes. The DASH-Sodium study included 342 people. More than half of the participants were women and 41% of them had hypertension....

New Dietary Approach To Manage Kidney Stones

...evelop kidney stones are often told to limit their dietary intake of calcium. But new research suggests that ...on a low-calcium diet. The results point to a new dietary approach to manage kidney stones, according to Dr. Loris Borghi from the University of Parma in Ital...

Variation in breast cancer

...ent researcher based in Chicago, USA, reveals that dietary differences might explain the geographical variation in breast cancer. Rates are high where the proportion of daily calories from animal products are high. And where vegetable products contribute relatively more to the diet, the rates of cancer tend ...

Do gardening and be fit

...roduction of vitamin D which helps the body absorb dietary calcium. Weight-bearing exercise is any activity that requires the bones to fully support the body's weight, such as jogging, dancing and weight training. Gardening and weight training were the only exercises found to significantly improve bone dens...

Diet, Sunlight connected to Breast Cancer Risk

... researcher from Newport News, Virginia, looked at dietary supply data for a number of countries in North and...un pointed out, studies designed to zero in on the dietary factors in breast cancer--such as those in which groups of women with and without breast cancer are ...

Zinc may enhance growth in Young sickle cell patients

...nc requirements that may not be met by their usual dietary intake," lead study author Dr. Babette S. Zemel, of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. During the study, children given zinc had significantly greater increases in height, sitting height, knee height and arm circumference than...

Cancer hazard Found With Animal-Based Nutrients

...hers also found that plant-based nutrients such as dietary fiber, dietary beta-carotene, folic acid, vitamin C and vitamin B6 were associated with lower risk of these kinds o...

Beta-Carotene May Aid Diabetics

...rols. They also sought to follow-up the effects of dietary beta-carotene supplementation on LDL oxidation. Re... Researchers concluded that natural beta-carotene dietary supplementation normalises the enhanced low-density lipoprotein and may be important in delaying acc...

Processed Meat, Diabetes connection Found

...s School of Public Health researchers analyzed the dietary habits of thousands of men and found that those wh... Study, a project that began in 1986 by collecting dietary information from 40,000 men, aged 40 to 75, who were healthy, free of diabetes, heart disease or can...

Defeating colon cancer

... medical University of Texas, they highlighted how dietary intervention helps those with a family history of ...early 50,000 female nurses whose family history of dietary habits were known. This showed that those who had a genetic risk of colon cancer were two and a half...

Calcium reduces colon cancer risk

...arch before a recommendation can be made regarding dietary calcium and colon cancer. The study is important because it suggests that adequate calcium in the diet has a benefit beyond building strong bones. This is important because a lot of people don't get it and there needs to be more stress on calcium....

Lack of solar radiation causes cancer

...plements as a substitute for the action of UV-B on dietary pre-vitamin D. More research is needed to establish the role of such supplements. Meanwhile, a daily walk in the open air might be a good way of ensuring you're not completely cut off from solar radiation, especially if you live in a northern latitud...

Lactobacillus Supplements shorten the duration of diarrhoea

...ctobacillus or other supplements. Over-the-counter dietary supplements are not subject to the same safety and effectiveness standards that medications face. And children with diarrhoea should see a doctor if they have loose stools for more than 5 days, the stools contain blood or mucus, or the children show ...

Vegetables decrease Tobacco Toxins

...rding to her, this study suggests that just normal dietary levels can reduce the levels of tobacco-related toxins. The study included 160 disease-free smokers aged 16 to 58; half were women and 40 percent were African American. All were asked to fill out a detailed smoking history and food frequency questi...

Fish Oil Fights Arrhythmias, Sudden Death

...s study suggests fish-oil supplements, rather than dietary fish oil, could be a therapy without side effects for heart patients. The study found that 1 gram daily of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), found in fish oil and known also as omega-3 fatty acids, significantly reduced the risk of death overall ...

Healthy snacks improve nutrition of kids

...he ice cream, researchers calculated the students' dietary intake by questioning them once a week about the foods they had eaten during the past 24 hours. According to Sullivan, she was pleased to see that a simple intervention like providing healthy snacks could lead to such significant improvements in chi...

Beer guards against Colon Cancer

...s, amino acids and minerals, may have advantageous dietary effects and even chemo-preventive properties for carcinogenesis. He suggested certain ingredients in beer act on a molecular level to thwart cancer-causing molecules from doing bad things in the colon. Another researcher, Hyuntae Kim, at the Arizo...

Role of Diet in Oral Cancer

...age and gender, among other factors. They assessed dietary information for each of the study participants using an extensive food frequency questionnaire. Participants indicated the frequency of consumption of approximately 100 foods over a one-year period. Results point to several foods that appear to be i...

Vitamin C maintains healthy lungs

...and other nutrients begin, in order to see whether dietary changes can improve lung health once lung function has already started to decline....

Heart attack risk starts at 20

...e of tobacco (including secondhand smoke), healthy dietary patterns, weight control, and regular, appropriate exercise," the panel writes in the July 16 issue of the journal Circulation. "Risk begins at an earlier age than age 40 or 50 ... and this is an attempt to move the focus back to early adulthood whe...

Vitamin E helps the mind

...ils, nuts, and green leafy vegetables are the main dietary sources of vitamin E. Fortified cereals are also an important source of vitamin E in the United States. People are advised to consult with their physicians before taking high doses (above 2,000 International Units (IU) daily) of supplemental vitamin ...

Enzyme may aid hold back disease

... say, although factors such as cigarette smoke and dietary habits may trigger genetic mutations, a lot of gene damage is caused simply by the natural chemistry that goes on in the human body. When a mutation occurs, the genes stop doing their jobs powerfully. Researchers say one in three genetic changes or ...

Animal Fat increases risk Of stomach cancer

... other types of stomach and esophageal cancers and dietary factors, Dr. Susan T. Mayne from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and colleagues interviewed more than 1,000 patients and nearly 700 healthy people in three states. Total fat intake and intake of saturated fat each doubled the risk of e...

Fat Substitutes

...r fat content. Things like pectin or guar gum are dietary fiber; olestra is an artificial fat that is not absorbed. Monoglycerides and diglycerides are simply chopped off parts of vegetable oils that are emulsified with water. These latter compounds have the same calories as fat but reduce the amount of fa...

Spreading knowledge to doctors about herbal medicine

...food supplements. Many people take herbs and other dietary supplements, but find their doctors are lacking in knowledge// about these complementary medicines. A group called the Longwood Herbal Task Force, drawn from health professionals of the Harvard Medical School and other prestigious US medical centres,...

Vitamin E rich diet guards from Parkinson's

According to recent study, a high dietary intake of the antioxidant vitamin E may assist in...ollowed up for several years and asked about their dietary intakes of many foods. Those with a high intake of vitamin E appeared to be less likely to develop...

A Compilation of recent Diabetes Research articles

... the UK, which tried to understand the benefits of dietary supplements on type 2 diabetes patients. The study...pe 2 diabetes who //either received a placebo or a dietary supplement with phytoestrogens. Phytoestrogens are naturally occurring compound of plants, such as s...

Wine drinkers may have reasons to cheer

...ed because it did not take into account eating and dietary habits of wine drinkers, which, he says, is better than that of beer or other liquor drinkers....

Pizza is bad for health. But, do you know how bad?

...a and studied 15 varieties of pizzas and looked at dietary information provided by four famous pizza chains, revealed that a single serving of almost all varieties of pizza can deliver more fat than a cheese burger. The study suggests that the culprit that plays havoc in all pizzas is :Cheese! Greater the a...

Research on Celiac Disease in children

...GA-EMA testing is a sensitive method of monitoring dietary compliance. 3. The quality of antibody testing must be improved so as to be equivalent anywhere. 4. More food testing is needed and standards have to be established. 5. A safe source of oats should be available. To date there have been no fail...

Eating Fish Helps the Heart

...udy of 2,033 men with heart disease who were given dietary advice on fat, fiber or fish. After two years, the...acks. The American Heart Association states that a dietary approach to increasing omega-fatty acid intake is preferable. However, patients with coronary artery...

Night Time Aspirin Regimen Found to Reduce Blood Pressure

...ients unable or unwilling to exercise or adhere to dietary restrictions. All subgroups reported poor compliance to nonpharmacological hygienic-dietary recommendations....

Estrogen in Food Reduces Cancer Risk

...ia Cancer Center evaluated the association between dietary intake of seven specific compounds of phytoestroge...omen. All of the women were questioned about their dietary intakes. Researchers specifically focused on three classes of phytoestrogens including isoflavones, ...

Benefits of Eating Whole Grains, Fruits and Vegetables

...ed out a food frequency questionnaire to determine dietary intake. The study included information on the participants for more than 11 years. Researchers report those who ate whole grains had a lower risk of death and a lower risk of heart disease. They also found this positive association with fruit and ve...

Good carb, bad carb? Experts debate.

...ed, in the process knocking down many common-sense dietary beliefs. For instance, some complex carbohydrates are digested faster than the long demonized simple carbs. Foods such as white bread and some breakfast cereals break down in a flash, while some sweet things, like apples and pears, take their time. ...

Teens break bones 'due to lack of milk'

...'s children may be impaired by other lifestyle and dietary factors such as increased soft drink consumption, decreased milk consumption or changing patterns of physical activity." In Britain, one third of schoolchildren consume less than the recommended three daily servings of dairy foods. Consumption of fi...

Better Diet Even Late in Life May Prolong It

...the Sept. 19 issue of Science, found that reducing dietary intake late in life reduced mortality in fruit fli...s of being switched from a high nutrient intake to dietary restriction, flies were no more likely to die than those that had been under dietary restriction con...

Eat Less ... Exercise Less

... between 1,200 and 1,500 calories and reduce their dietary fat to between 20 percent and 30 percent of total energy intake.. Researchers found average weight loss was statistically significant in all exercise groups. However, the duration or intensity of exercise did not seem to matter. . Researchers say...

Downside of Diets in Children

...ot diet. Study authors write, "Drastic changes in dietary intake are rarely sustainable; thus, it is not surprising that few people maintain weight losses. For children and adolescents who are overweight, diets carefully supervised by a clinician may be beneficial and appropriate; however, young people and ...

Disease Management Programs – Effective for Heart Patient

... the patients by encouraging patients to adhere to dietary advice and take their cholesterol-lowering medicat... blood pressure, body weight, body mass index, and dietary intake of total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, and fiber. They exercised more, had a better sense ...

Low-Fat, High-Carb Diet Equally Effective In Weight Loss

...ing hungry, which is an important consideration in dietary strategies....

Eating Fiber Reduces The Risk Of Heart Disease

A new study shows eating dietary fiber specifically from fruits and cereals lowers .... However, few studies have actually looked at the dietary fiber from different sources and the relationship to heart disease. In a recent study researchers an...