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High meat intake linked to cancer
Categories: Diet research
Data from a very large US health study are providing convincing information on the links between various diet and lifestyle factors and a variety of diseases. Researchers used data from a cohort study, which began in 1995 (the National Institutes of Health-American Association for Retired Persons (NIH-AARP) Diet and Health Study) and involves approximately 500,000 men and women aged 50-71 at basel ...
Honey better than drugs for kids night-time coughs
Categories: Diet research
Honey is more effective at soothing children's night-time coughs than over-the-counter antitussive medication. An American study of 105 children aged 2-18 years compared the effects of a single nocturnal dose of buckwheat honey or honey-flavoured dextromethorphan (DXM) with no treatment, on nocturnal cough and sleep difficulty associated with childhood upper respiratory tract infections. Significa ...
Obesity linked with cancer risk
Categories: Diet research
Being overweight increases the risk of developing many forms of cancer. A meta-analysis by UK researchers combined data from 221 studies, including over 250,000 cases of cancer, to determine the risk of cancer associated with a 5kg/m2 increase in body mass index (BMI). The researchers found that in men, a 5kg/m2 increase in BMI raised the risk of oesophageal adenocarcinoma by 52%, thyroid cancer b ...
Eat three meals a day
Categories: Diet research
Eating regular meals is better for health than eating one large meal a day. In a crossover study carried out in the USA, a small group of volunteers participated in two eight-week meal-treatment periods, consuming either all their required weight-maintenance calories in one meal or in three meals a day. At the end of the eight-week study period, the groups swapped over, therefore acting as their o ...
Vitamin D protects against heart disease and cancer
Categories: Diet research
Vitamin D deficiency is already known to be associated with osteoporosis, now two new studies suggest that it may also be associated with heart disease and poorer prognosis for some cancers. A US cohort study of 1739 people with no cardiovascular disease at baseline, showed that those with low blood concentrations of vitamin D had twice the risk of a first cardiovascular event, such as a heart att ...
Caffeine and miscarriage
Categories: Diet research
Too much caffeine during pregnancy may double the risk of miscarriage. In an American cohort study, 1,063 pregnant women were interviewed about their caffeine intake. An increasing dose of daily caffeine during pregnancy was associated with an increased risk of miscarriage, compared with no caffeine intake. Of 264 women who had consumed no caffeine, 12.5% had miscarriages. The miscarriage rate was ...
Categories: Diet research, Allergies
Another mother and child study, this time from the Spanish island of Menorca, supports a potential protective effect of
Apples and fish during pregnancy protect against atopy
Categories: Diet research, Allergies
Intake of apples and fish by women during pregnancy may reduce the risk of their children developing atopic conditions, according to the results of a longitudinal cohort study of nearly 2000 Dutch children. Mothers completed a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) during pregnancy, and children in the cohort were followed up at five years of age with a symptom questionnaire and FFQ. Food groups analy ...
Diet improves fertility
Categories: Diet research
Following a 'fertility diet' may favourably influence fertility in otherwise healthy women. A cohort of 17,544 American women, without a history of infertility, were followed for eight years as they tried to become pregnant. Researchers calculated a dietary score of one to five points for each woman, based on factors previously associated with reduced ovulatory infertility (higher consumption of m ...
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