New Book Helps Those with Bipolar Disorder Manage Diets - and Lives
Author Sarah Freeman recently published a new book entitled, " The Bipolar Diet: Managing Mood, Food and Weight ." The book is designed to provide a roadmap for those with bipolar disorder on improving diet and making lifestyle changes that can improve both mental and physical health. ...Online Diets Reviewed: Your Top 4 Metabolism Boosting, Fat Burning Plans
We researched just about every online weight loss program available, picked them apart, and delivered you the insider, no-nonsense, flat belly truths about the best ones. PHOENIX, April 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Member Authority set out to find the best online diet programs to achieve three goals: l...Gene Explains How High-Fructose Diets Lead to Insulin Resistance
Corn syrup more easily metabolizes to fat in liver, which may trigger disease, study says FRIDAY, March 6 (HealthDay News) -- A gene called PGC-1b appears to play a role in insulin resistance that can be caused by consuming large amounts of high-fructose corn syrup, a sweetener found i...Atkins Responds to Recent New England Journal of Medicine Weight-Loss Diets Study Results
Low-Carb Diets Included in Study Not Atkins Diet DENVER, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) study titled "Comparison of Weight-Loss Diets with Different Compositions of Fat, Protein, and Carbohydrates" (Feb. 26, 2009), concluded that reduced-calorie diets ...No More Diets or Counting Calories; Perfect Plate Makes a Permanent Change
LYNCHBURG, Va., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Perfect Plate announces its revolutionary new weight loss tool to be introduced Friday, February 6th. For any person needing to lose weight, Perfect Plate is an affordable and safe weight loss tool with proven results. Perfect Plate is not a diet, it's n...Spherix Announces Positive Phase 2 Study Results
...ietary carbohydrate results in less obesity, hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, and atherosclerosis (Police SB, Harris JC, Lodder RA, Cassis LA. Effect of diets containing sucrose vs. D-tagatose in hypercholesterolemic mice. Obesity . 2009 Feb;17(2):269-75.). A novel finding in this study was that atheroscler...Urologist and Allergist Explore Link Between Allergies and Interstitial Cystitis
...ms. Meanwhile, whether patients have "true" allergies or sensitivity to foods, the treatment is the same -- an elimination challenge diet. Elimination diets remove the potential problem foods from the patient's diet and add them back one at a time to see if the food really causes a problem. ICA offer...Lack of Food Variety Puts Kids With Autism at Risk for Poor Nutrition
...at risk for nutritional deficiencies because their diets lack sufficient variety, according to research fro...hildren for the amount of variety of food in their diets may be a good clinical marker to predict which chi...ncreasing foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids in the diets of autistic children has been suggested by some re...Pistachios Offer Protective Benefits Against Heart Disease, Type II Diabetes and Obesity
... ounces or 1/4 cup of mixed nuts and half portion of muffin; or 3) full portion of muffin. Each snack accounted for 450 calories, and all the overall diets were matched for caloric intake. While on each diet intervention, researchers measured the subjects' HbA1c (a marker of blood sugar control over...European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition
...state and lung cancers. The different dietary patterns in the different countries should enable reliable associations to be made between particular diets and cancers. The analysis of stored blood samples should also allow dissection of genetic factors involved in cancers, as well as the effects of horm...People of higher socioeconomic status choose better diets -- but pay more per calorie
St. Louis, MO, May 1, 2009 As people become more educated, studies have demonstrated that they tend to choose foods that are lower in calories but higher in nutrients. They also pay more. In a study published in the May 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association , researchers...Diabetics on high-fiber diets might need extra calcium, report UT Southwestern researchers
DALLAS March 24, 2009 The amount of calcium your body absorbs might depend, in part, on the amount of dietary fiber you consume. Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center report that patients with noninsulin-dependent diabetes (type 2) excreted less calcium through their urine when they ...Doctors endorse vegan and vegetarian diets for healthy pregnancies
WASHINGTON--Well-planned vegetarian and vegan diets are healthful choices for pregnant women and their children, and vitamin B12 needs can be easily met with fortified foods or any common multivitamin, say doctors and dietitians with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). PCRM n...High-fat diets inflame fat tissue around blood vessels, contribute to heart disease
CINCINNATIA study by researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) shows that high-fat diets, even if consumed for a short amount of time, can inflame fat tissue surrounding blood vessels, possibly contributing to cardiovascular disease. These findings will be published in the Feb. 20 editio...Nutrigenomics -- developing personalized diets for disease prevention
New Rochelle, NY, December 29, 2008The emerging field of nutrigenomics, which aims to identify the genetic factors that influence the body's response to diet and studies how the bioactive constituents of food affect gene expression, is explored in a series of provocative, interdisciplinary report...Sustainable Oils Receives Regulatory Approval for Feeding Camelina Meal in Livestock Diets
BOZEMAN, Mont., Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Sustainable Oils has reached a key milestone in its efforts to build camelina production and marketing opportunities for Montana farmers. The company received approval from the Center for Veterinary Medicine, a department of the Federal Drug Administrat...SENOMYX ANNOUNCES CORPORATE UPDATE AND SECOND QUARTER 2009 FINANCIAL RESULTS
...sweeteners utilized. Reducing the quantities of sucrose and fructose in products could be advantageous for consumers seeking to limit sugars in their diets and for manufacturers that would like to offer products with improved nutritional profiles without compromising on taste. "Our agreement with Firmeni...Spherix Announces 2008 Financial Results
...e 2007 sale of InfoSpherix. Recently Published Paper A paper co-authored by Spherix's President, Dr. Robert A. Lodder, titled "Effect of diets Containing Sucrose vs. D-tagatose in Hypercholesterolemic Mice," was recently published in the journal Obesity . This paper provides details of a st...New Trade Association Formed for North America Camelina Industry
...ebruary 6, the FDA issued a letter allowing the use of camelina meal in the diets of poultry broilers up to 10% of the weight of the total ration. NACTA memb... of the Food & Drug Administration, for the use of camelina meal in the diets of feedlot beef cattle and growing swine up to 2 percent of the weight of t...New label-free method tracks molecules and drugs in live cells
...blood triglyceride levels, and killing cancer cells, almost nothing is known about how fats like omega-3 are actually processed by our bodies. "Our diets have changed greatly in recent decades," Xie says. "As a unique technology capable of observing fat distribution in live cells -- and of differentiati...