Does a family dinner guarantee slimmer kids?
...ld be encouraged from the perspective of improving diet quality," Taveras said, "overweight prevention may not be one of the benefits." Previous studies have shown that family dinners are associated with greater consumption of fruits and vegetables; less fried food, soda, and saturated and trans fat; lowe...Bad metabolism in blood vessels linked to high blood pressure and atherosclerosis
...in-1 in skeletal muscle, those mice ate a high-fat diet but were as physically fit as mice on a low-fat diet. One interpretation of these results was that making mitochondria less efficient in skeletal muscle cells may be beneficial. Mitochondria produce energy in a process that also can cause damaging, ...Enhancing innate immunity improves Crohn's disease symptoms
...ng oil on a fire or prescribing a high cholesterol diet for heart patients, gastroenterologists traditionally have believed that it would not be a good idea to stoke up the body's immune system to treat Crohn's disease. Most treatments for Crohn's, an autoimmune disorder, are geared to suppress the immune...Preliminary data suggest that soda and sweet drinks are the main source of calories in American diet
...leading source of calories in the average American diet used to be from white bread, that may have changed...ed a much better understanding of how the American diet has changed. Our paper will look more closely at the issue of sweet drink consumption and its relati...Statins underprescribed to patients at higher risk of heart disease, Stanford study says
...isk patients were counseled about changes in their diet and exercise that could decrease their risk of heart disease. "Lifestyle change is fundamental not only to keep your risk for heart attacks low, but also to give you better health overall," Ma said. The researchers are careful to point out that stati...New NHLBI-sponsored study shows programs can teach children to eat healthier
...tion education program and were taught to follow a diet low in saturated fat and dietary cholesterol adopt... reveals the challenges of trying to eat a healthy diet in a fast-paced world. For example, the study documents a long-suspected phenomenon of modern socie...$3 million NIH grant focuses on workplace obesity
...sical activity." Fernandez's team will measure the diet and activity levels of Kodak employees who volunte...y, the researchers will not promote any particular diet or physical training. What makes this project unique among other workplace studies, Fernandez said,...Increased Vitamin B consumption reduces women's risk of colorectal cancer
...rcent reduced risk of developing CRC. "Consuming a diet high in vitamin B6 may reduce the risk of colorectal cancer in women, more specifically those who consume alcohol," said Susanna Larsson, MSc, study author with the Karolinska Institutet. "Inadequate vitamin B6 status may lead to the development of ...'Dr. Chef' improves quality of life for patients
...uffer from this disease need to follow a difficult diet whose main restriction is low fiber content. In th...were taught not only the theory of how to tailor a diet to their special needs, they also participated in the preparation of tasty and healthy food for thei...Mayo Clinic case series illuminates connection between welding, brain damage
...neurotoxicity. "We don't have enough evidence that diet is absolutely the way to go; while diet modifications can decrease oral intake of manganese, their manganese exposure is due to another form...TV confuses children about which foods are healthy, new study finds
...y were more likely to pick the wrong answer -- the diet and fat-free foods -- than when they were presente... advertising intentionally blurs the lines between diet and nutritional -- in Harrison's words it "frames" diet foods by "equating weight-loss benefits wit...Research linking obesity and asthma shows weight reduction may provide therapy for asthma sufferers
...xin and obesity was studied in mice fed a high-fat diet and in obese humans. Circulating eotaxin levels were compared in obese vs. lean mice, obese humans vs. lean humans, and obese humans before and after weight loss. Eotaxin mRNA levels were compared in fat tissue from obese vs. lean mice and in subcut...Nutritious frozen foods can play role in weight-loss programs
...utrition professor John W. Erdman, studied how two diet regimens resulted in weight loss in overweight and...Agriculture in 1992. Subjects following the second diet ate two packaged entrees each day plus recommended servings from the food pyramid. Both diets contai...Diabetic retinopathy occurs in pre-diabetes
...ine: Losing 5 to 7 percent of body weight through diet and a modest, consistent increase in physical activity (e.g., walking 5 days a week 30 minutes a day) lowered the incidence of type 2 diabetes by 58 percent. Treatment with metformin, an oral drug commonly used to treat diabetes, reduced the chances...Diets rich in calcium and vitamin D may decrease risk of PMS
CHICAGO A diet rich in calcium and vitamin D may lower the risk o...period. Their intake of calcium and vitamin D from diet and/or supplements was calculated from food frequency and standard NHS questionnaires administered i...Fish oil does not lower risk of heart problems for patients with implantable defibrillators
...ginal observations that Greenland Eskimos eating a diet high in omega-3 polyunsaturated fats (PUFAs) from sea mammals and fish had an unexpectedly low risk of cardiac death, multiple lines of evidence have suggested that omega-3 PUFAs have antiarrhythmic properties, according to background information in ...Drinking for just eight weeks impairs learning and memory in mice
...wo different strains, either an alcohol or sucrose diet for eight weeks, followed by a three-week withdrawal period. Learning and long-term memory tests included T-maze footshock avoidance, Greek Cross brightness discrimination, step-down passive avoidance, and shuttlebox active avoidance. "The tasks we...Only transplant center that developed comprehensive protocol for liver transplants in kids with MSUD
...his transplant, Jakob would have followed a strict diet for the rest of his life, and even then, he was st...reatment, up until transplant, had been a rigorous diet to severely restrict these amino acids. However, even strict adherence to this diet does not ensure...Elevated CRP can foil diet's ability to lower cholesterol
...rying to lower your LDL-cholesterol through modest diet changes alone may not work. Kirsten Hilpert, do...el of treatment for high cholesterol, is a low fat diet that restricts total fat to 30 percent of calories with saturated fat less than 10 percent. Hilpert...Psychiatric illnesses are common in children with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes
...tion with the effects of lifestyle changes such as diet and increased exercise. "For most children, a diagnosis of diabetes demands dramatic lifestyle changes," added Dr. Katz. "If the child has a neuropsychiatric disease as well, there are additional challenges, which physicians and caregivers need to f...