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Welcome to our Chinese medicine and acupuncture research news pages. We add to the content of these pages continuously as more research news comes in. Browse through the complete archive below or use the category links on the right.

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Flaxseed protects against osteoporosis

Categories: Diet research
The addition of flaxseed oil to the diet could reduce the risk of osteoporosis in post-menopausal and diabetic women. Egyptian researchers looking at mouse models of the two conditions found that the presence of flaxseed oil in feed over a two month period improved serum levels of biomarkers associated with bone health and had a beneficial effect on bone mineral density. The study authors believe ...
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Healthy diet helps generate brain cells

Categories: Diet research
Spanish researchers have determined that a diet rich in polyphenols and polyunsaturated fatty acids (termed the LMN diet) stimulates neurogenesis - the production and differentiation of the brain's stem cells into various types of new neurones. Mice fed an LMN diet for 40 days (equivalent to five human years) were found to have more newly generated cells in two areas of the brain where neurogenesi ...
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Western diet turns on fat genes

Categories: Diet research
A diet high in fat and sugar has a double-whammy effect on the waistline, because it switches on genes that cause fat to be stored, according to new research. This study of mice found that foods that are high in fat and sugar stimulate the kappa opioid receptor, which plays a key role in fat metabolism. When this receptor is stimulated, it causes far more fat storage than would otherwise have occu ...
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When you eat as important as what you eat

Categories: Diet research
The Chinese belief that meal timing is important to health is being backed up by Western science. Animal experiments have revealed that the daily expression patterns of thousands of metabolic genes in the liver are more dependent on the timing of food intake than on the body's circadian clock, as previously thought. The results of the US study suggest that the times at which eating and fasting occ ...
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Health benefits of Mediterranean diet dissected

Categories: Diet research
A large Greek prospective cohort study (23,349 participants) has investigated the relative importance of the individual components of the Mediterranean diet. The dominant components of the Mediterranean diet that score as a predictor of lower mortality are moderate consumption of alcohol, low consumption of meat and meat products and high consumption of vegetables, fruits and nuts, olive oil and l ...
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Diet and heart disease

Categories: Diet research
A systematic review of the evidence for links between dietary factors and coronary heart disease shows that strong evidence supports the association of intake of vegetables and nuts and a Mediterranean diet as protective factors, while intake of trans-fatty acids and foods with high glycaemic index are identified as harmful factors. Moderate evidence exists for a protective effect of fish, marine ...
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Vegan nuns have same bone density as meat eaters

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A study comparing the bone health of vegan Buddhist nuns with non-vegetarian women has found that their bone density was identical. The cross-sectional study showed that, although vegans had lower dietary calcium and protein intakes than omnivores, veganism did not have adverse effect on bone mineral density and did not alter body composition. (Veganism, bone mineral density, and body composition: ...
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Diet and exercise reduce cancer

Categories: Diet research
Over 40% of bowel and breast cancer cases in the UK would be prevented by healthy diet, physical activity and weight maintenance, according to a landmark report that sets out recommendations for policies to reduce the global number of cancer cases. The report, Policy and Action for Cancer Prevention, published by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), estimates that about 43% of bowel cancer cases ...
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Mediterranean diet protects against cognitive decline

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Older people who follow a Mediterranean diet are less likely to develop mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and less likely to progress from MCI to Alzheimer's disease (AD). US researchers analysed data from 1393 cognitively normal individuals and 484 individuals with MCI who had a mean age of 77 years. Study participants were given a score of 0 to 9 based on their adherence to a Mediterranean diet. S ...
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