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When we eat a meal, messages are sent from our body to our brain and from our brain to our body. The messages from our body are important to listen to!

Hi, this is Eunice from Diet Center.

Our taste buds may tell our brain how pleasant the flavors are. Enjoying tastes and textures are important to having a satisfying meal.

It takes about 20 minutes for our brain to recognize that our bodys needs have been met, and we are no longer hungry. This is important so that we dont overeat.

The messages from our brain to our body can be confusing. Its good if we listen to our brain telling us were full and to stop eating. Sometimes our brain may send messages that relate to our mental/emotional needs rather than physical needs. For example, the sight of food may have your brain thinking: I cant leave this much food on my plate and waste it; or I had a bad day, and ice cream will make me feel better. If its a special treat made by a loved one, your brain may say: I cant hurt my moms feelings and not eat her cake.

The messages we get when consuming a meal are important to listen to. We also need to be aware of which address physical needs, and which address emotional needs. Physically, our body needs food to obtain essential nutrients without excess calories, so that we can reach and maintain a healthy weight. Emotional needs can be taken care of without food.

Did you know that only 7% of the French population is obese compared to 30% of all Americans (having a BMI of 30 or greater)? Research shows that this is mostly attributed to portion size differences. A study compared the portion sizes of foods in Paris to the portions of foods in Philadelphia.

Researchers compared similar fast food chains, ice cream parlors, pizza shops and ethnic restaurants. The average portion in Philadelphia was 25% larger than in Paris. They also found that Chinese restaurants in Philadelphia served meals 72% larger than Chinese restaurants in Paris. In supermarkets, a candy bar was found to be 41% larger, soft drinks were 52% larger, and hot dogs were 63% larger in Philadelphia than the same items in Paris. Even a nutritious yogurt was 82% larger! American cookbooks were compared to French versions. They found that American recipes yield larger portions than the French versions.

The results of this study further stress the importance of practicing portion sizing to control weight, as your Diet Center program guides you to do. It also reflects the fact that people can be satisfied with less, but American culture encourages us to want more. While the focus here is portion size, nutritious choices are just as important to ones health.

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Eating the right diet and getting regular exercise are effective strategies to lower elevated blood pressure.

Clinical trials have found this to be true in people with hypertension (high blood pressure) who dont take blood-pressure-lowering drugs, as well as those who are treated with one or two medications.

Yet among people with high blood pressure that doesnt respond to drug therapy, called resistant hypertension, studies investigating the potential benefit of diet and exercise have been almost non-existent.

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A randomized controlled trial from Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C., demonstrated that the combination of diet, reducing sodium intake and exercise led to significant blood-pressure-lowering effects in people with resistant hypertension.

Hypertension, affecting almost one in four Canadians, is a leading preventable risk factor for heart disease, heart attack and stroke. Up to 30 per cent of people diagnosed with hypertension have resistant hypertension, defined as having a blood pressure reading that remains above target despite taking three or more blood-pressure-lowering drugs at optimal doses.

Over time, uncontrolled blood pressure is associated with a 50-per-cent greater risk of heart attack, stroke and cardiovascular death compared to controlled blood pressure.

The TRIUMPH study, published on Sept. 27 in the American Heart Associations journal Circulation, was the first to test the effect of comprehensive lifestyle modification on resistant hypertension. (TRIUMPH stands for Treating Resistant Hypertension Using Lifestyle Modification to Promote Health.)

For the four-month trial, 140 participants with resistant hypertension received either an intensive lifestyle intervention or standardized education and physician advice.

Those in the lifestyle intervention group were instructed how to follow the DASH diet with a calorie and sodium restriction. (DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension.) These participants also received feedback on their adherence to the diet during weekly 45-minute group sessions led by a dietitian and psychologist.

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The lifestyle intervention also included 30 to 45 minutes of biking and/or walking (and eventually jogging) three times a week under the supervision of an exercise physiologist.

Participants in the comparison group attended a one-hour educational session and received DASH diet materials. They were also given weight-loss targets and exercise goals which they were to achieve on their own.

All participants adhered to their blood pressure medication regimens during the study.

After 16 weeks, both groups experienced a significant reduction in blood pressure, comparable to that seen with blood-pressure-lowering medications.

Participants in the intensive lifestyle intervention group, however, achieved the greatest reduction in blood pressure. They also lost significantly more weight over the study period, 15 pounds versus 8.5 for those in the comparison group.

Diet and exercise modifications are often recommended before starting a medication to lower blood pressure. These new findings demonstrate that they are also an effective strategy when medications alone are not doing enough to manage blood pressure.

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The DASH diet, first proven to lower blood pressure in people with mild hypertension in 1997, focuses on fruits and vegetables, low-fat dairy products, and beans, lentils, nuts and seeds. These foods supply plenty of calcium, magnesium and potassium, minerals that help regulate blood pressure.

The diet plan also emphasizes whole grains and limits red meat and sweets. It also limits foods high in saturated fat such as fatty meats, high-fat dairy products, butter and coconut oil. Sodium intake is restricted to 1,500 to 2,300 milligrams per day. (One teaspoon of table salt contains 2,300 milligrams of sodium.)

The DASH diet advises specific daily or weekly servings of food groups depending on your calorie needs.

A 1,600-calorie DASH diet recommends, for example, eating three to four vegetable servings, four fruit servings, six whole grain servings, two to three low-fat dairy servings, three to six lean protein servings and two unsaturated oil servings daily. A serving of beans, lentils, nuts or seeds is recommended three times per week.

One serving is equivalent to one half-cup cooked vegetables or one cup salad greens, one medium-sized fruit or one half-cup fresh fruit, one slice whole grain bread or one half-cup cooked grains, one cup milk or yogurt, one ounce cooked fish or meat, one teaspoon vegetable oil or two tablespoons salad dressing and one-third-cup nuts or one half-cup cooked beans or lentils.

Leslie Beck, a Toronto-based private practice dietitian, is director of food and nutrition at Medcan. Follow her on Twitter @LeslieBeckRD

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By now, if you're interested in living a long, healthy life, you probably have some sense of how different foods affect your body. You may have even noticed, for instance, which breakfast foods leave you feeling groggy all day versus the ones that give you the energy boost you need in the morning.

Scientists continue to explore how what we eat affects not just our bodies but our minds, too. This is why the MIND diet is of particular interestit combines elements of the Mediterranean diet with those of the DASH diet to create a food plan designed to boost your cognitive health. New research finds that this diet can help older adults fight dementia, even when they have physical markers linked to Alzheimer's disease.

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The study, published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, looked at data from 569 deceased people. Researchers at Rush University Medical Center compared their performance on cognitive tests taken late in their lives to information about their diet as well as to their post-death autopsy reports. The researchers found that people who kept to the MIND diet performed better on the cognitive tests, even when their brains showed the physical signsplaques and tanglesthat are typically characteristic of Alzheimer's disease.

This suggests that the MIND diet could play a role in helping older adults keep their minds sharp, even as their bodies work against them.

"This study suggests our food choices can build resilience against cognitive decline as we age, even when the physical signs of Alzheimer's disease are present in the brain," Maggie Moon, MS, RD, best-selling author of The MIND Diet, told Eat This, Not That! in an interview. "That's especially important because drugs don't work, at least not right now. Even when they clear some of the plaques from the brain, they haven't been able to reduce or slow cognitive decline."

The name MIND diet is not just a statement of the diet's intended benefitsit's also an acronym. It stands for Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay. Researchers propose that the closer people stick to this diet, the lower their risk of Alzheimer's disease will be. Recommended foods on this diet include "leafy greens, a variety of vegetables, whole grains, olive oil, nuts, beans, berries, poultry, fish, and wine in moderation," says Moon.

"There are also a set of recommendations for foods to limit in your diet," says Julie Andrews, MS, RDN, CD, FAND, author of The Brain Health Cookbook: MIND Diet Recipes to Prevent Disease and Enhance Cognitive Power. "Those foods include fried foods, processed and red meat, whole-fat dairy, and sweets and pastries. These foods can still be included in your dietsay, if cheese is your favorite food, but it's recommended to limit them and focus more on the MIND diet superfoods."

The researchers behind this study also point to previous studies that suggest the foods in the MIND diet are rich in antioxidants, have anti-inflammatory properties, and are associated with protecting people's cognitive health.

For more on how to make food choices that will keep you sharp, be sure to check out these 10 Best Foods to Boost Brainpower. Then, don't forget to sign up for our newsletter!

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In past years I have provided information on general awareness including the role of a healthy diet in helping to reduce the likelihood of breast cancer.

As we focus on Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October the following is a reiteration of some recommendations for serious consideration to support this initiative.

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Other than skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women. Each year in the United States, more than 250,000 women get breast cancer and 42,000 women die from the disease. Some additional facts include the following:

Healthy lifestyle choices are linked to a lower risk of different types of cancer and other health conditions, such as heart disease. A healthy lifestyle includes maintaining a healthy weight and eating a healthy diet.

Studies on maintaining a healthy weight and lowering the risk of a first-time breast cancer suggest that overweight women have an increased risk of breast cancer after menopause (when most breast cancers occur) compared to women at a healthy weight.

Overweight women are thought to be at higher risk for breast cancer because the extra fat cells make estrogen, which can cause extra breast cell growth. This extra growth increases the risk of breast cancer. Other studies such as the Women's Health Initiative Trial suggested that a diet very low in fat may reduce the risk of breast cancer.

More research is needed in this important area for women who are interested in eating well to reduce their risk of ever getting breast cancer.

Although no food or diet can prevent you from getting breast cancer some foods can make your body the healthiest it can be, boost your immune system, and help keep your risk for breast cancer as low as possible.

Some general recommendations proposed by Registered Dietitians (RDs) include:

You'll find that processed foods generally don't fit in this type of diet as well as fresh foods do.

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Being active, eating a balanced diet and making healthy lifestyle choices can be physically and mentally rewarding at any point in life. And it can also produce positive benefits in helping prevent and/or reduce breast cancer.

Thanks to the Breast Cancer Awareness organization as well as the Susan G. Komen organization for much of the content provided in this column.

Check out the Center for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) websitecdc.gov/cancer/breast/

An explanation on the role of healthy lifestyle choices can be accessed atkomen.org/breast-cancer/risk-factor/lifestyle/

A discussion of steps to reduce the risk for breast cancer with a focus on prevention is available through the Mayo Clinic atmayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle

Mark A. Mahoney, Ph.D. has been a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist for over 35 years and completed graduate studies in Nutrition & Public Health at Columbia University. He can be reached at marqos69@hotmail.com.

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Starting on Tuesday, drivers on the southern portion of the George Washington Parkway will likely see road crews, lane closures and likely increased backups.

Starting Tuesday, drivers on the southern portion of the George Washington Parkway will likely see road crews, lane closures and likely increased backups.

Its part of the National Parks Services plan to restripe that part of the road and include a road diet to change one of the southbound lanes into a turning lane.

The project will focus on the George Washington Parkway from Alexandria, Virginia, all the way to its terminus near George Washingtons Mt. Vernon estate.

Were actually going to start restriping the parkway on the Mount Vernon side moving northbound. Well restripe, in kind, all the northbound lanes all the way to Alexandria. And then later this fall will begin restriping the southbound lanes, said Park Ranger Aaron LaRocca. Some of the restriping of the southbound lanes will also include reducing a lane southbound to create a traffic calming device known as a road diet.

Drivers will see this diet from Stratford Lane and Tulane Drive, or where the parkway does not have an existing median.

The service said a traffic study they conducted concluded the dieted road could handle the same traffic volume as the two-lane configuration.

Then at Bellevue and Belle Haven intersections with the parkway, well be putting some bollards in the roadway so that motorists have really clear defined movements that they can make through those intersections, LaRocca added.

Expect to see lane closures during weekdays. The National Park Service said crews will work on the northbound lanes starting at 9 a.m. and finish by 6:30 p.m. When they move to the southbound lanes, they will start earlier, at 5 a.m., and finish at 2 p.m. before the afternoon rush.

The changes are intended to make the parkway safer for drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists while maintaining its historic feel. In April, the park service announced the changes after concluding a yearslong safety study.

We undertook a study called the South Parkway Safety Study, where we went to the public kind of a two different occasions. Very early on in the study, we laid out a map of the parkway out onto the table and said, You use this road, what is your experiences? What are your suggestions for the park service to further evaluate about ways to improve safety? We took all of those different recommendations. We filtered them for what would be appropriate for national park in the southern section of the parkway, said LaRocca.

The project will likely finish by the end of the year.

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"We just thank you for this teaching that has given us freedom, and kept our weight off after all this time, God," says one of the women praying on her knees in the opening of newHBO Maxdocuseries "The Way Down."

The series follows Gwen Shamblin Lara's rise as an evangelical preacher through archival footage, depositionsand interviews with former members of Remnant Fellowship Church, which she founded. The documentary's full title "The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin" makes it clear thatthis is not the typical expos of an evangelical church. Here, diet culture prevails.

But before delving into that peculiar aspect of the church, one other detail makes this story particularly fascinating right now.Shamblin Lara died unexpectedly in Mayat age 66 in a plane crashshortly after takeoff.

Thatgrim turn of events had an unforeseen effect on "The Way Down," which opens with footage of the search and rescue team sent out after Shamblin Lara's private jet crashed into Percy Priest Lake in Tennessee, killing her and five other church members aboard. And although director Marina Zenovich never was able to interview her subject for the series directly, many of those who were afraid to speak out about their experiences with Remnant Fellowship while Shamblin Lara was alive have now come forward. This sparked the need for two more episodes of the series, which will follow in 2022.

For now, HBO Max has released the first three episodes, whichgo into detail aboutthe ways that Remnant Fellowship controlled former members, including allegations of child abuse and, in one case, accusations of the killing of one child by his parents. There'sbehavior that the series characterizes as cultlike, such asmega worship services with a charismatic leader, whom people both love and fear. But throughout the series, one of the oddest themes is of Shamblin Lara's obsession with the weight of her followers.

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Shamblin Lara, who's recognizable for her gravity-defying teased hair,earned a Mastersin food and nutrition and was a registered dietitianwho worked with the Tennessee Department of Health for five years. She put a twist on the usual weight loss approaches by developing her Christian diet program called theWeigh Down Workshop, which proposes that devotees can lose weight through belief in God. While some would see this as a more spiritual departure from diets that usually focus on physical and behaviorial approaches, thepatriarchal aspects of evangelical teachings begin to reveal themselves.

The basic principles of Weigh Down are supposedly portion control (hardly a revolutionary diet strategy), and dedicating the rest of the time to prayer instead of thinking about food. Throughout the series, we see former members describing their experiences with Weigh Down that go beyond merely prayer: one is told to fast even after losing over 100 pounds. Another remembers asking her husband for permissionto order Starbucks, and being told she could havethat or dinner. Another fasted for 40 days.

In one archival video, Shamblin Lara sits in a white dress withhuge gold hoops in her ears.

"God revealed to me that this is the true deliverance," she coos, "and that the key to permanent weight control is a matter of the heart."

More footage shows women proudly holding up pants that no longer fit them, similar to before and after ads for services like Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers.

Then Shamblin Lara's teachings go further: the congregation at Remnant is told that a thin body means you are "right with God." This meant that the overweight among the congregation were doing something wrong, that the people putting weight back on after losing it were clearly not in God's good graces (and presumably this means they're on "the way down" in the afterlife). To Shamblin Lara, the faster you lost weight, the holier you were. As one former member put it, if you weren't skinny, you weren't saved. "It was all about salvation. Nothing to do with Jesus Christ, it was about being thin."

This intersection of faith and diet culture is a twisted version of the world of juice cleanses and intermittent fasting in mainstream culture. Replace the negative language Remnant uses to describe plus-sized people with words like "lazy" , "weak-willed", or "unintelligent". Replace the "fear of God" as the motivator of the Weigh Down Workshops with "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels." The stigma surrounding plus-sized people is the same, repackaged in a way that the believers of Remnant understand.

Fatphobia plagues the way that we as a society operate. It's a normalized structure that if you don't look a certain way, you can't find clothes that fit, or be comfortable on an airplane, or access proper medical care. According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, 28.8 million Americans will struggle with an eating disorder in their lifetime.

Throughout the series it's shown how Shamblin Lara used the language of manipulation present in many alleged cults to control believers. She tailored her teachings to an audience of the faithful by having them believe that the message she spread was one communicated to her by a higher power. She told her congregants that people in Weigh Down who were not a part of Remnant were gaining weight back from not being a part of the true religion she preached.

"The overarching theme of everything she ever taught in there was about being under God's authority, which was her." one former member says, "Everything fell around that. And then everything else was about the weight and what you looked like. . . . she was the voice from God."

"She beckoned to people," Reverend Rafael Martinez, a cult interventionist, says in the series."She began to believe that the Weigh Down Workshop message was the answer to all the world's evils . . .Christian perfectionism could only be achieved by following her message." That version of perfection may have looked different from how mainstream society would view it in everything but its clothing size.

Groups that exhibit what is interpreted as cultlike behavioerare made entertaining in documentaries like "The Way Down" because their beliefs and actions areoutside of the reality of the average viewer. And in many ways, the series hits all the right points of a good expos:Anonymous talking heads in dark rooms. Footage of people crying in prayer. Laughter in how ridiculous it all is, now that the former members are out. Sadness when you realize that Remnant is still in operation, run by Shamblin Lara's daughter Michelle, with no sign of changing. But the thread of the Weigh Down Workshops and the way this belief of theirs reflects our own societal pressures ultimately humanizes Remnant.

Diet culture and fatphobia are so pervasive that they can even infiltrate the places we would least expect it. Members of Remnant aren't special for the way they interpret diet culture. In fact, they're just like us. It turns an unforgiving look at the viewer who would believe they're above cultlike fanaticism: if we're able to ingest certain beliefs about other people in our day to day, what's stopping us from taking that further? What would we believe next?

The first tree episodes of "The Way Down" are available now to stream on HBO Max, with two more releasing in 2022.

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PLEASANT RIDGE Recently, the city of Ferndale made moves on a road diet project on Woodward Avenue to remove a lane on each side of the road and replace the lanes with bike lanes and on-street parking.Pleasant Ridge originally planned to have a role in the project as well, with the lane reductions and other road diet elements from Ferndale stretching into the neighboring city.

For the time being, Pleasant Ridges portion of Woodward Avenue will not be a part of the road diet. This is because the Michigan Department of Transportation evaluated the project and determined the Interstate 696 underpass and Eight Mile Road bridge were significant design hurdles, city documents state, and they would not approve a reduction in travel lanes because of the design issues related to the underpass.

Its where the underpass and surface Woodward merge, City Manager James Breuckman said. Because of that merging and separating movement and depending on where theyre going southbound or northbound MDOT wont approve the reduction of lanes because they believe those lanes are necessary for drivers to make the merging and separating movements.

Breuckman further commented that theyre working on some options and that there would be a small gap on both northbound and southbound sides of Woodward because of the issue, but stated Pleasant Ridge is working on maximizing the protected cycling lanes on southbound Woodward.

Well use some on-street lanes north of Oakland Park, well use our parks, but were still gonna do that, he said. Were just waiting on a decision from MDOT, and once we get into design, well figure out what the final layout of that is going to be.

Pleasant Ridge City Commissioner Bret Scott added that the city had to largely eliminate its portion of the road diet so Ferndale could continue with its portion, and that was something they supported in the long run.

We were more than comfortable with that proposal because it at least allows the Ferndale portion to be approved now, he said. It will give the state of Michigan time to understand how traffic narrows into three lanes from 696 and Woodward north of 696, and then revisit it later.

While the road diet will be postponed in Pleasant Ridge for now, the city is moving forward with another project on Woodward: a two-way cycle track that will be installed on the northbound side from Sylvan Avenue up to North Main Street near I-696. It will be partially funded through a Transportation Alternatives Program grant. There also will be a streetscape project to redo the Woodward streetscape and stormwater infiltration on the east side thats being funded by a grant from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, or EGLE.

Breuckman stated in an email the project is about $1.5 million in total, with Pleasant Ridge receiving about $1 million in EGLE stormwater management and TAP grant funding. The TAP grant is about $400,000 with a $100,000 city match, and the EGLE grant is $600,000 with a $400,000 local match.

This will have a higher level of design than what would be implemented as part of the road diet because we are actually redoing the entire streetscape so we can kind of build that cycle track in its final condition rather than a temporary interim condition, Breuckman said. Were excited about that. We think its going to be a good first project to highlight on Woodward, a good demonstration project for what we can do elsewhere.

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If you're sick of yo-yo dieting, stuck in a cycle of losing and gaining weight, and feeling so restricted that you can't eat your favorite foods (especially cultural or family recipes), then you'll resonate with this TikTok video posted by Dalina Soto, MA, RDN, LDN, founder of Your Latina Nutritionist. In it, she shares the 10 benefits to intuitive eating and giving up dieting forever. Soto told POPSUGAR, "People are usually so confused about intuitive eating, like it's eating candy and sweets all the time. But I am here to tell you that intuitive eating is a self-care model that allows for you to take control of your health."

Intuitive eating is a way of eating where you stop restrictive dieting, and instead are encouraged to listen to your body, eat the foods you love, and not obsess over calories and carbs. With intuitive eating you can build a healthier relationship with food, while finding peace from the pressures food and dieting may have put on you in the past. You'll also reap the health benefits Soto mentions in the video above, such as less emotional eating, no longer being afraid of eating cultural foods, and less binge eating.

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Lifestyle factors like diet and exercise habits can interact with an individuals genomics to influence cancer outcomes as well as disease and recurrence risk. While there is no diet or workout plan that can cure or prevent cancer, research has shown that a change in eating habits could improve outcomes, according to Doris Piccinin, a clinical dietitian specialist at the University of Pennsylvanias Abramson Cancer Center.

Piccinin recently discussed diet and nutrition for individuals with a genetic risk for cancer at the 12th Annual Joining Forces Against Hereditary Cancer Conference.

DNA copies itself to make RNA a process called transcription. However, when something goes wrong in this step, faulty proteins and genetic mutations can be created, thus increasing a persons risk for cancer. Lifestyle habits like smoking can increase the chance of this happening, but recent research showed that certain nutrients can lower the risk.

Early epidemiological studies pointed to the benefits of many fruits and vegetables in lowering cancer risk at that stage, Piccinin said. It was identified that brassica-containing vegetables (that were) rich in sulfur were able to repair DNA.

Brassica is a family of vegetables that includes broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, collard greens, kale and turnips.

That same study, which was published in the International Journal of Epidemiology in 2017, also showed that for people who already had cancer, there was a 14% reduction in mortality risk with the consumption of these vegetables. Another study found that in patients with lung cancer who continued to smoke throughout treatment, there was a statistically significant decreased risk of disease progression and death in patients who had one cup cooked or two cups uncooked of brassica vegetables.

Piccinin also discussed that the standard American diet aptly referred to as SAD may also contribute to risk.

The standard American diet, void of color, (full of) white pastas, rice, grains, cereals, the only vegetable a French fry, and considering ketchup as their vegetable, as well as many fried foods that are high in saturated and trans-fat, is the perfect medium for this pro-inflammatory cytokine inflammatory environment that cancer cells just love to grow in, she said.

However, Piccinin explained that research from the American Institute for Cancer Research and the World Cancer Research Fund found that the Mediterranean diet could be beneficial.

If we can modulate (the American diet) by a diet rich in fruits and vegetables and whole grains that provide antioxidants potentially to limit inflammation, we can slow this (cancer) growth, she said. In addition, foods rich in Omega-3 fatty acids like fatty fish, flax and walnuts can also lower this inflammation.

Patients should work with a dietitian to determine which food plan is best for them, especially since there may be different emphases for different cancer types.

For example, Piccinin explained that patients with gastrointestinal cancers or who are genetically prone to them should consume no more than 18 ounces of red meat per week, and no more than two servings of processed meat, such as pepperoni, bacon and lunch meats, per month.

When it comes to hormone-driven cancers, Piccinin said that there is more of an emphasis on fat reduction.

Finally, while a healthy diet and lifestyle changes may lead to improved outcomes, it is essential that patients do not substitute healthy eating and exercise for actual cancer treatment, as prescribed by their health care team.

Although lifestyle factors can play a role, they should never be a substitute for traditional cancer treatment, as per your oncology team, Piccinin said.

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With all the buzz in recent years about the dangers of full-sugar soda, it can seem easy to assume that diet soft drinks are "healthier" than their sugary counterparts. However, in addition to being linked with higher rates of substance dependency than even cocaine addiction,some scientists are speaking out to spotlight the health problems diet soda can cause to your overall wellness and even your longevity.

USA Todayrecently reported that the media and consumer research company, 24/7 Tempo, performed an in-depth meta-analysis of studies on the health effects of diet soft drinks. Keep reading to learn the medical problems that diet soda may actually lead toand, don't miss Customers Are Noticing This Widespread Issue With Chick-fil-A's Food.

The report cites a 2012 study that followed more than 2,500 participants for a decade. Individuals who consumed diet soda saw a 43% greater chance of heart attack or other cardiovascular illness than did participants who drank regular cola (though from this report, it's not entirely clear how much or how frequently they drank either).

The report also suggests that diet soda consumption is linked to high blood pressure, possibly due to the sodium content which is a major ingredient for flavoring many diet drinks. High blood pressure happens to be a factor that can significantly increase stroke risk, which a 2017 study suggests also increases with diet beverage consumption.

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Totally counterintuitive, yesbut, despite their zero-calorie content, our source suggests that diet soft drinks may actually cause obesity.

Some behavioral health research has demonstrated that artificially sweetened drinks can lead to over-consuming other foods and beverages, since fake sweetener can leave the brain unsatiated thus, craving more treats.

Research has shown that diet pop may also lead to an increase in body mass index ("BMI"), and abdominal obesity.Plus, in one study, daily "diet" drinkers saw a nearly 70% higher risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.

Meanwhile, another study concluded that diabetics who drink more than four diet sodas per week were twice as likely to suffer blindness or other vision problems that can be related to diabetes.

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24/7 Tempo's report mentions one 2017 study that found the chance of dementia can increase three-fold among individuals over age 60 who drink one diet soda each day.

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The report also says that because diet beverages contain phosphorous, they can lower the body's capacity to absorb calcium and lead to bones that are more brittle.

In particular, one study found that women who drank three or more sodas a day had lower bone mineral density in their hips. (However, we should note, it seems this study analyzed the effects of all soda on bone density, not only diet soda.)

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One study mentioned in the report found that mice who drank diet soda saw a disruption in the balance of the gut microbiome, while another found that the Aspartame used in many diet drinks causes dysfunction that can lead to fatty liver disease.

Several unhealthy diet habits have been shown to increase the likelihood of cancer in some individuals.

Specifically, this report says a 2016 study called out the sweetener Sucralose (which is also the main ingredient in some sugar substitute products) because it had been shown to cause leukemia and other blood cancers in male mice.

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