Recent Posts Tagged With 'diet'

• Diet and Alzheimer’s disease

  Posted on Thursday October 22nd, 2009 at 07:20 in diet, nutrition, brain, dementia, alzheimer's disease, mediterranean diet

  Low-fat, low-calorie diets are not only good for cardiovascular health. It may also delay the onset or progression of dementia. Many epidemiological studies have presented evidence that diet plays a role in the clinical course of Alzheimer’s disea...

• Mediterranean diet works for diabetics, too

  Posted on Monday October 5th, 2009 at 07:30 in diet, diabetes, mediterranean diet

  Newly diagnosed with diabetes? Here is something you can do to postpone the need for anti-diabetes drugs: go for the Mediterranean diet. Mediterranean diet has always been thought of as the ideal diet to maintain cardiovascular health without giving...

• Breast cancer risk: animal food is not that bad

  Posted on Monday August 31st, 2009 at 08:59 in diet, Cancer, breast cancer, nutrition, meat, animal food, moderation

  Animal food stuffs such as meat, poultry and dairy products have been incriminated as the bad guys behind many chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular disorders and cancer. Consumption of red meat has been associated to poor heart health. Consump...

• Diet and cancer risk: vegetarians are the winners

  Posted on Tuesday July 28th, 2009 at 01:22 in diet, Cancer, vegetarian, cancer risk

  This is probably one of the largest studies to investigate the effect of diet and cancer risk. The study included more than 60,000 British residents and lasted for more than 12 years. And the results indicate that a vegetarian diet lowers the risk fo...

• Keeping sodium intake down: how difficult can it be?

  Posted on Tuesday July 14th, 2009 at 14:54 in diet, salt, sodium, heart failure, sodium intake, heart and stroke, hidden salt, recommendaed daily intake

  Why is sticking to a low sodium diet so difficult? Apparently it is difficult mainly because of problems with diet. The recommended daily intake of sodium for patients with heart failure is 2 g or 2,000 mg. However, many patients take in more than ...