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Posted by techno62 | April 11, 2013
A new study published in Lancet Oncology showed that men, who had prostate cancer, after adopting the Ornish program (vegan diet, stress reduction, and exercise) were able to increase their telomeres. This means that they may have actually have reduced cellular aging. The assumption is that this would be true for others beyond cancer patients.
The Ornish Diet, which has many critics, focuses on whole foods, vegetables, fruits, and unrefined whole grains. Fat is kept below 10%. The Ornish Plan has been shown to reverse heart disease and diabetes in other studies.
The men in this study were on the diet for 5 years and chose to stay on it afterwards.
For years we have been told that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. You may have heard the maxim, "eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper."
A new article in Slate questions the research validity of this advice. This correlation has been assumed from the statistics of several studies that have not controlled for a wide variety of causes. People who eat breakfast tend to smoke less and exercise more.
Read the comments to the article and the realted articles on this site and you will see that many people claim that skipping breakfast and following some form of intermittent fasting has helped them lose weight and be healthier.
A new study of people with diabetes found that people who ate two meals a day lost more weight than people who ate 6 small meals even though the total number of calories was the same. In this study, people ate either 6 small meals or just breakfast and lunch. One concern about this eating schedule is that most people would not be able to give up dinner on a long-term basis. The problem seems to be with "grazing". People who tend to graze would often eat too much each time. Over-eating 6 times a day is a bad situation.
Read more about the number of times to eat for best weight loss.
The FDA has found that the diet product, Fat Zero, contains the ingredient sibutramine, that was considered dangerous enough to have been pulled from the U.S. market. It has shown that it can cause heart damage. The FDA has also found sibutramine in products Fruiting & Plant Slimming and Extra Body Slim.
Similar products have been found to contain Phenolphthalein, which research has found might cause cancer.
Is Cutting Salt a Good Idea?
The Institute of Medicine just released the results of a new study on whether people should be trying to reduce salt intake below the recommended 2,300 milligrams per day. There has long been a push to have people cut their sodium consumption due to perceived links between sodium and hypertension.
The researchers found that cutting sodium might actually have a negative impact on health, while not being able to find if there was a benefit or not for heart health. Currently, guidelines recommend keeping sodium intake to 1,500 mg or less for groups with diabetes, high blood pressure , people with kidney trouble and some other subgroups, but the study found no reason for these groups to have the lower limit.
The American Heart Association has said it disagrees with the findings and thinks that it is missing some details. They still recommend that everyone keep levels to 1,500mg.
Sugar is Hidden in American's Food
A new government study finds that Americans are eating far too much add sugars. It wasn't restaurant meals that were the problem, it was foods that people eat at home.
Researchers have discovered that the average American consumes 13% of their daily intake as sugar. They also noted an inverse relationship in the consumption of added sugars by adults to income - lower income people ate more added sugars. Children across all family income levels consumed the same level of sugar.
This added sugar is "hidden" in the sense that many adults don't realize that foods like cereals, bread, muffins, and even ketchup are loaded with added sugars. And helping sizes have grown over the years. A big bowl of cereal is a lot of sugar for small children.
Sugar is very addictive and can lead to a host of medical health issues.
Lack of sleep may spur weight gain
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Middle-aged women may be able to sleep their way to a trimmer body, new study findings suggest.
In a study that followed more than 68,000 U.S. women for 16 years, researchers found that those who caught more zzz's each night tended to put on less weight during middle-age. What's more, women who typically clocked 5 hours of sleep were one third more likely than those who slept for 7 hours to have a substantial weight gain -- 33 pounds or more -- during the study period.
It's also possible that people who sleep fewer hours either eat more or, because of fatigue, exercise less often.
Whatever the reason, the new findings suggest that sleeping 7 hours or more each night could help prevent the middle-age spread, according to the study authors.
April 9, 2013 — Scientists today described evidence that natural substancesextracted from unroasted coffee beans can help control the elevated blood sugar levels and body weight that underpin type 2 diabetes.
“A simple natural pill or capsule that would both help control blood sugar and foster weight loss at the same time would be a major advance in the treatment of type 2 diabetes,” Vinson said. “Our own research and studies published by other scientists suggest that such a treatment may, indeed, exist. There is significant epidemiological and other evidence that coffee consumption reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes.
“One large study indicated a 50 percent risk reduction for people who drank seven cups of coffee a day compared to those who drank only two cups a day. I am trying to make the coffee and diabetes story as clear as possible for the public. The evidence points to chlorogenic acids as the active ingredients in coffee that both prevent diabetes and improve glucose control in normal, pre-diabetic and diabetic people.”
Read more about how H=Green Cioffee Beans ,=may help with weight loss and blood sugar levels
Eating walnuts on a regular basis can reduce a person's risk of Type 2 diabetes by up to 25%.
A new study from Harvard shows that when people are trying to lose weight, it is the quality of the calories they consume rather than the quantity. The kind of calories determine how quickly the body burns off weight.
"It's not that calories don't matter, but the quality of the calories going in can affect the number of calories going out," said study author Dr. David Ludwig, at Boston Children's Hospital.
The researchers found a low glycemic diet superior over-all to low fat or low carb diests. The low carb diets led to the most weight loss, but added stress and inflammation.
As we have long known: Heavily processed carbohydrates - white bread, white rice and some breakfast cereals, to name a few - make sugar readily accessible, rather than securing it to more healthy elements, like the fiber in an apple. Ludwig said easily absorbable sugar leads to a rapid surge and crash in blood sugar after a meal, which can wreak havoc on weight loss.
To read how it is Quality and NOT Quantity of calories
Dieting without exercise harms bone health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men and women who lose weight through caloric restriction, without exercise, also lose bone at the hip and spine, increasing their risk for the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis and fractures, a study shows. Adding regular exercise to a calorie-restricted diet helps shield the bones from the harmful effects of dieting.
"Exercise protects against bone loss during voluntary weight loss," Dr. Dennis T. Villareal, who led the study, told Reuters Health. "Therefore, it would be important to combine calorie restriction and exercise to derive the benefits of weight loss and preserve bone."
However, to maintain healthy bones, "exercise should be an important component of a weight loss program to offset adverse effects of calorie restriction on bone," the team concludes.
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