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| Cloves. Mediterranean diet. Spices. Five antioxidant properties tested. "Researchers from the Miguel Hernández University have identified cloves (Syzygium aromaticum) as the best antioxidant spice, due to the fact they contain high levels of phenolic compounds ..."
Juana Fernández-López, Researcher from Miguel Hernández University, has indicated:
"Out of the five antioxidant properties tested, cloves had the highest capacity to give off hydrogen, reduced lipid peroxidation well, and was the best iron reducer ..."
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| Fruit juice. Teenagers. Nutritious diet.
Dr Theresa Nicklas, from USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, has said:
"One hundred percent juice is a smart choice ..."
"It provides important nutrients that growing teens need and the research consistently shows that drinking fruit juice is not linked to being.....
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| Obesity. Tipping point. "Over half the children became overweight at or before age 2 and 90 percent before reaching their 5th birthday."
Dr John Harrington, Assistant Professor from Eastern Virginia Medical School, has said:
"Our study suggests that doctors may want to start reviewing the diet of children during early well-child visits ..."
"Getting parents and children to change habits that have already taken hold is a monumental challenge.....
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| Diet. Dropouts. "Antidepressants were used by 19.2% of the dropouts ... those dropping out consumed 35% more soft drinks in total and 44% more diet (artificially sweetened) soft drinks ..."
Researchers from Unit for Nutrition Research, Landspítali University Hospital and University of Iceland; and Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland; have presented an article titled: "Predictors of Dropping Out in a Weight Loss Intervention Trial.".....
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| Weight loss. Atherosclerosis. "A low-carbohydrate diet, a low-fat diet and the Mediterranean diet were equally effective in helping obese people to reverse carotid atherosclerosis after losing moderate amounts of weight and improving their blood pressure ..."
Iris Shai RD PhD, Nutrition Epidemiologist from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, has said:
"Long-term adherence to weight-loss diets is effective for reversing carotid atherosclerosis as long as we stick to one of the current options of healthy diet strategy ..."
"This effect is more.....
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| Tri-pepper blend. "... supplement burns as many calories as 20-minute walk ..."
According to a Release dated February 2, sourced from University of Oklahoma - Public Affairs:
"A new weight-loss supplement tested by the University of Oklahoma Health and Exercise Science Department has the potential to burn as many calories as a 20-minute walk, according to Joel T. Cramer, assistant professor of.....
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| Choice may be more relevant than availability. "... availability of supermarkets -- rather than the lack of them --increased the risk of obesity for low-income women living in small cities."
David Dzewaltowski, Kansas State University Professor and Department head of Kinesiology, has said:
"This study was one of the first to look at supermarket availability across the urban-rural continuum, and the findings suggest that policies to increase healthful food availability may need to differ depending on urban.....
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| Diet. Sleep. "We definitely know that a relationship exists between sleep and obesity."
Kristen G Hairston MD MPH, Assistant Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism, from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, has said:
"We don't really know yet why this wasn't seen in participants over 40, but it was clear that, in individuals under 40, it is worse to get five or less hours of sleep on average.....
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| Rice. Alcohol flush mutation. "... fermentation can help to preserve and enhance the nutritional value of food and drink."
Bing Su, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, has said:
"Our molecular dating suggests that the emergence of the ADH1B*47His allele occurred about 10,000-7,000 years ago."
"The geographic distribution of the allele in East Asia is also consistent with the unearthed culture relic sites of rice.....
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| Popularity. Costs. Unhealthy diets. "A one-dollar increase in the cost of soda or pizza was also associated with a lower overall daily calorie intake, lower body weight and an improved insulin resistance score ..."
A report in the March issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, indicates: 'Adults tend to eat less pizza and drink less soda as the price of these items increases, and their body weight and overall calorie intake also appear to decrease ... '
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| Obesity program. New drug application for treatment of obesity. Phentermine. Topiramate.
VIVUS Inc has reported "... that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for filing the company's new drug application (NDA) for its investigational drug, QnexaŽ, for the treatment of obesity."
More from a Release dated March 1, sourced from VIVUS Inc:
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| Hunger hormone. Eating when full. "... ghrelin, which the body produces when it's hungry, might act on the brain to trigger this behavior."
Dr Jeffrey Zigman, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Psychiatry at UT Southwestern, has said:
"What we show is that there may be situations where we are driven to seek out and eat very rewarding foods, even if we're full, for no other reason than our brain tells us to ..."
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| Red wine. White wine. Beer. Liquor. Normal-weight women. "An inverse association between alcohol intake and risk of becoming overweight or obese was noted for all four types of alcoholic beverages [red wine, white wine, beer and liquor], with the strongest association found for red wine ..."
A report in the March issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, indicates: 'Normal-weight women who drink a light to moderate amount of alcohol appear to gain less weight and have a lower risk of becoming overweight and obese than non-drinkers ... ' More from a Release dated March 8, sourced.....
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| Eating. Anti-aging. "... consumption of certain substances such as resveratrol, selenium, flavonoids, zinc, omega 3 unsaturated fatty acids, vitamins E and C, Ginkgobiloba extracts, aspirin, green tea catechins, antioxidants in general, and even by light caffeine or alcohol consumption."
"Epidemiological studies propose that extension of the human lifespan or the reduction of age associated diseases may be achieved by physical exercise, caloric restriction, and by consumption of certain substances such as resveratrol, selenium, flavonoids, zinc, omega 3 unsaturated fatty acids, vitamins E and C,.....
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| Olive oil. "Among the research studies to be carried out, some of the most prominent focus on the effects fats and oils can have on mammary tumours, and especially those of extra virgin olive oil ..."
A Release dated December 22, from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, in Barcelona, Ccatalonia, Spain, has indicated that researchers '... aim to determine the possible activity of common components of the human diet with the objective of formulating scientific opinions on the health of the population or levels of risk, all.....
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| Obesity. Protection. 'The collection of symptoms that is the metabolic syndrome--insulin resistance, high cholesterol, fatty liver, and a greater risk for diabetes, heart disease, and stroke--are all related to obesity ...'
Roger Unger, from the University of Texas Southwestern at Dallas, has said:
"We are pushing our homeostatic capability to the maximum ..."
"Overnutrition used to be rare--reserved for those in the castle."
"Today, it's just the opposite."
"Bad calories are so cheap that anyone can.....
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| Dairy products. "Lactose malabsorption occurs when lactose is incompletely broken down in the intestine, which may or may not result in gastrointestinal symptoms after eating dairy products."
Dr Frederick J Suchy, Chief of Pediatric Hepatology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, has said:
"A lot of people who think they have lactose intolerance don't ..."
"They may have other conditions, or they may just need to consume smaller amounts of dairy products."
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| Polyphenols. Polyunsaturated fatty acids. "... methodologies for the design, evaluation and verification of functional foods which may protect against cardiovascular diseases and Alzheimer's disease."
Researchers from Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona have indicated:
"... that a diet rich in polyphenols and polyunsaturated fatty acids, patented as an LMN diet, helps boost the production of the brain's stem cells -neurogenesis- and strengthens their differentiation in different types of neuron cells."
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| Gluten. Aging. ELVIRA. Finland. "The higher figure for older people is explained by the fact that the condition becomes more frequent with age ..."
Professor Markku Mäki, from the Academy of Finland's Research Programme on Nutrition, Food and Health (ELVIRA), has said:
"We've already seen a similar trend emerge earlier on where allergies and certain autoimmune disorders are concerned."
"Screening has shown that gluten intolerance occurs in 1.5 per cent.....
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| Mediterranean diet. 'The study found that people who ate a Mediterranean-like diet were less likely to have brain infarcts, or small areas of dead tissue linked to thinking problems.'
Nikolaos Scarmeas MD MSc, from Columbia University Medical Center in New York has said:
"The relationship between this type of brain damage and the Mediterranean diet was comparable with that of high blood pressure ..."
"In this study, not eating a Mediterranean-like diet had about the same effect on the.....
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| Skin color. "... diet may be crucial to achieving the most desirable complexion."
Researchers from the University of Bristol in Bristol, England, and from the University of St Andrews, in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, have indicated "... that the color of a person's skin affects how healthy and therefore attractive they appear, and have found that diet may be crucial to achieving the most desirable.....
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| Diet course. "Stress, insufficient sleep, poor diet and physical inactivity are common among college students ..."
Scientists from the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California, "... surveyed 903 undergraduate students (76 percent white, 43 percent female, 68 percent freshmen) to gauge the prevalence of obesity. Seventeen percent of the women and 54 percent of the men were classified as overweight or obese.....
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| Protein pair. "... proteins p62 and ERK are involved in adipogeneis, (the development of adipocytes, or fat cells)."
Jorge Moscat PhD, Chair of University of Cincinnati's Cancer and Cell Biology Department, has said:
"Thoughts about ERK's role in obesity have been controversial ..."
"One theory suggested that it was to restrain production of fat cells."
"Our study shows a much more devious role for.....
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| Dietary patterns. Man-eating lions. "We're removing all those factors and getting down to data."
Nathaniel J Dominy, Associate Professor of Anthropology from University of California - Santa Cruz, has said:
"This has been a historical puzzle for years, and the discrepancy is now finally being addressed ..."
"We can imagine that the railroad company might have had reasons to want to minimize the number.....
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