Search Weight Loss Topics:

Page 874«..1020..873874875876..880890..»

Home » Diet » Page 874

Editor's Choice Academic Journal Main Category: Nutrition / Diet Article Date: 03 Jun 2012 - 11:00 PDT

Current ratings for: 'Mediterranean Diet Good For Mental And Physical Health'

4.67 (3 votes)

The diet is characterized by the consumption of fish, olive oil, nuts, pulses, vegetables, and fruit.

In order to determine how much the Mediterranean diet impacts quality of life, researchers examined over 11,000 university students over a period of four years. The study, which was conducted by researchers at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the University of Navarra (both in Spain), is published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Patricia Henrquez Snchez, researcher at the centre in the Canary Islands and lead author of the study, said:

At the start of the study, the researchers asked participants to provide information on their dietary intake. In order to determine whether the diet was followed, consumption of fish, fruit, pulses, nuts, cereals, and vegetables was positively valued and consumption of meat, alcohol, and dairy products was negatively valued. The researchers measured self-perceived quality of life after the four year monitoring period using a questionnaire.

The Mediterranean diet is based on lots of fruit and vegetables, and lean animal sourced proteins

The researchers found that participants who stuck to the diet more had better physical and mental well-being and significantly better physical quality of life.

Henrquez said "the Mediterranean diet is an important factor associated with better quality of life and can be considered as a healthy food model."

Read more:
Mediterranean Diet Good For Mental And Physical Health

Australian doctors are being assured their patients will benefit if they adopt a diet that's free of meat.

An Australian-first scientific research review, published in the Medical Journal of Australia today, has found vegetarians receive more health benefits than risks from their plant-based diet.

The Journal examined deficiencies traditionally thought to affect those who have adopted a vegetarian diet and found they were receiving adequate levels of protein, iron and zinc.

Advertisement: Story continues below

Nutritionist Rosemary Stanton, who has written an accompanying editorial to the research papers, says the scientific evidence shows a well-planned, plant-based diet can meet the nutritional needs of adults and children.

"The evidence is quite good that people who follow a vegetarian diet are likely to have less heart disease, less colorectal cancer, less type-2 diabetes and they're less likely to be obese," she said.

While those who don't eat fish may be receiving less omega-3 fatty acids than considered desirable, the study also found vegetarians do not exhibit signs of a clinical deficiency.

Deficiencies in vitamin B12 were noted in vegans; people who shun any animal-based product including milk and eggs.

B12 is required to help make red blood cells and to keep nerves functioning and the study recommended vegans receive supplements either through eating B12-fortified foods or by taking a daily supplement.

Dr Stanton said the study was also prompted by the increase in the number of people who are looking to reduce their intake of meat for both health and sustainability.

See the original post here:
Vegetarian diet healthy: medical study

Keep pushing yourself ... you won't weigh less if you eat less.

Eat less, weigh less. Simple? Not quite, writes Nick Galvin.

Losing weight is simple in principle. The rule of thumb has been that if you cut out 2100 kilojoules a day - the equivalent of two large lattes or a blueberry muffin - you will lose about half a kilo a week until you reach that magic number on the scales.

Simple - but, as it turns out, probably way too simple.

It now appears that dietitians, doctors and others may have been getting it wrong all these years. There's a lot more to losing weight than just kilojoules in/kilojoules out.

Advertisement: Story continues below

Losing weight ... just reducing your food intake is not enough.

When you start to lose weight, your body slows down your metabolism. In other words, you use less energy for the same activities.

This reaction has its roots in our primitive past, says Professor Michael Cowley, director of the Monash Obesity & Diabetes Institute. "If you go on a diet, your body says, 'Aha, here is a famine', and it decreases energy expenditure, so you need less energy just to stay at that weight," he says. "This is probably because we evolved in conditions where famine was frequent, and if you had an appropriate physiological response to famine, you were more likely to survive and your genes got propagated."

The result is that if you stay on the same reduced-kilojoule diet, over time the gap between kilojoules in and kilojoules out narrows. In a paper published last year in The Lancet, researchers from the US National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) found that for a given weight-loss goal, half the loss would occur in the first year, but the remaining kilos would take another two years to lose.

Read this article:
The diet dilemma

AUGUSTA, Ga., June 2 (UPI) -- Adolescents who don't eat enough fiber tend to have bigger bellies and higher levels of inflammatory factors in their blood, U.S. researchers said.

Dr. Norman Pollock, of the Medical College of Georgia and the Institute of Public and Preventive Health at Georgia Health Sciences University, and Dr. Samip Parikh, an internal medicine resident at GHS Health System, said the study involved 559 adolescents ages 14-18 in Augusta, Ga.

The researchers found the teens consumed on average about one-third of the daily recommended amount of fiber.

Low-fiber consumers in the study were more likely to have more of the visceral fat -- belly fat -- found in and around major organs in their abdominal cavity, Pollack said.

"The simple message is adolescents need to eat more fruits, vegetables and whole grains," Pollock said in a statement. "We need to push recommendations to increase fiber intake."

The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, found only about 1 percent of the young participants consumed the recommended daily intake of 28 grams of fiber for females and 38 grams for males.

The study appears the first to correlate dietary fiber intake with inflammatory markers in adolescents, the researchers said.

Original post:
Low-fiber diet as teen, bigger belly later

Enlarge iStockphoto.com

Some physicians say the theory of "evolutionary medicine" can help guide the treatment of modern ailments like obesity.

Some physicians say the theory of "evolutionary medicine" can help guide the treatment of modern ailments like obesity.

By now the paleo diet and lifestyle has inched from the fringe a little closer to the mainstream, thanks to some very passionate followers sold on the notion that our Paleolithic hunter-gatherer ancestors avoided modern day ailments like obesity and diabetes because they ate what some consider an "ideal" diet of meat, fruit and vegetables.

Maybe you've met paleo dieters through CrossFit, or seen them organizing MeetUps online, and been amazed that they've managed to swear off sugar, dairy, grains and beans.

But the paleo way is now moving beyond the gym and Web to an entirely new space the doctor's office. There the somewhat amorphous idea of "evolutionary medicine" is taking shape.

One of the founders of the paleo movement, Loren Cordain, a professor at Colorado State University with a doctorate in exercise science, is the author of a must-read book for paleo followers, The Paleo Diet. Recently, he co-founded the Paleo Physicians Network. Its goal: connect consumers with "medical professionals who practice Darwinian/Evolutionary Medicine." The network lists hundreds of them around the country (53 in California alone).

Except there's a small problem, according to one of the people who helped coin the term evolutionary medicine: No one actually practices evolutionary medicine because it's only a theory.

Randolph Nesse, a professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Michigan, might be called a father of evolutionary medicine. He co-authored an influential paper in 1991 called "The Dawn of Darwinian Medicine," which made a persuasive case for more research into how evolution by natural selection can help explain what makes us sick.

When Shots asked him about his thoughts on the Paleo Physicians Network, he said, "I don't like it much."

View post:
The Paleo Diet Moves From The Gym To The Doctor's Office

A nutritional counselor explains how you can use your diet to keep your energy levels up enough to keep up with the challenges of start-up life.

shutterstock images

As a busy entrepreneur you're probably going non-stop all day, but that doesn't mean your energy levels keep pace with your to-do list. Despite a consistently packed calendar from when the alarm rings in the morning to when we shut out the light at night, many busy professionals veer wildly from a post-coffee 11am energy buzz to a near catatonic post-lunch lull in the afternoon.

This can't be good for your productivity, but what's to be done about it? Afternoon napping has been suggested by many and seems to align well with humans' natural circadian rhythms, but if your customers or your kids make that option untenable, are their other possibilities for dealing with your daily energy rollercoaster?

On blog Dumb Little Man recently, nurse and nutritional health counselor Penny Klatell suggested busy professionals consider eating themselves to more consistent energy levels. "Food is both the culprit and the treatment for a big part of our lack of energy, muddled thinking, and mid-afternoon drowsy eyes," she writes, before offering advice on how to modify your diet to keep your mind and body on an even keel throughout the day.

Aside from solid-but-expected advice you've no doubt already heard from your mother ("Eat your breakfast!!!"), Klatell suggests several other dietary adjustments:

Complex beats simple, for once. We all know simple carbohydrates like sugary snacks, pasta and bread cause energy levels to spike and crash. Klatell nudges readers towards the alternative: "Complex carbs take longer to breakdown. Your body digests them more slowly so they supply energy at a slower and more sustained rate than simple sugars. You can get complex carbs from whole grains and cereals, beans, and vegetables."

Drink your way to more energy (no, not that kind of drink). "Dehydration causes fatigue. Even mild dehydration can slow your metabolism, drain your energy, and make you feel tired," writes Klatell.

"There's no easy answer to the question: 'How much water should I drink?' The answer really depends on many factors including your health, your age, how active you are, and where you live. For the average healthy adult who lives in a temperate climate, the Institute of Medicine recommends around 3 liters (about 13 cups) of total water intake a day for men and 2.2 liters (about 9 cups) of total water intake a day for women," she says.

Go here to see the original:
Diet Tricks for Entrepreneurs

Lets say you believe in God (most Americans do). Lets say youre deeply religious (most Americans say they are). So what does God want for you? You can be pretty sure God wants you to be happy, to be charitable, to be honest, to be kind. You can be pretty sure God doesnt care if youre rich, beautiful, famous or thin, right? Well, that thin part may take a little explaining.

With the U.S. tottering under an obesity epidemic that has left two-thirds of all adults and one-third of all kids overweight or obese, public health experts are despairing of finding new ways to get Americans off their duffs, away from the fridge and back into at least nominally healthy habits. Fad diets are useless; gym memberships do nothing at least if they go unused; public service ads get ignored. But, as we explore in this weeks issue of TIME (available to subscribers here), where all of those efforts have failed, faith could succeed at least according to Pastor Rick Warren.

Two years ago, Warren, the author of the ber-bestseller The Purpose Driven Life and the leader of the Saddleback mega-church in Lake Forest, Calif., was struck by how out of shape his 20,000-strong congregation had gotten and, he readily admitted, he was no better, tipping the scales at 295 lbs. or a full 90 lbs. too much for his 6-ft.-3-in. frame. He suspected he had a way to fix all that one that might work in the wider world as well and the secret, he believed, lay in Scripture, specifically in the Book of Daniel.

(MORE: The Book of Daniel: Is It Really About Diet?)

Theres a lot that happens in the Book of Daniel, but the critical passage occurs when Daniel and three other Jewish boys are brought to the court of the conquering King Nebuchadnezzar, where they are to be fed and trained so that they may serve in the royal circle. But as the Biblical passage recounts, the boys resist at least in part, refusing the rich foods of the kings table and choosing a more spartan fare instead:

Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see.

What the chief official saw, of course, was that Daniel and his friends had grown fitter and stronger than the other servants. It wasnt vegetarianism or vigorous exercise that had worked that magic though those were part of it. Instead, it was a belief that it was impossible to serve God fully if you were out of shape or unwell. For Daniel, getting fit was a triumph of faith and Warren was convinced his church members could find motivation the same way.

With that was born the Daniel Plan, a sweeping program of smart eating (and yes, lean meats are included), workout classes, small-group support meetings, walk and worship sessions and more, much of it made available both in person and online. Warren recruited three marquee names from the world of medicine Drs. Mehmet Oz, Daniel Amen and Mark Hyman (all of different faiths) to help spread the good-health message, and the Saddleback members fell in love with the plan. More than 15,000 of them have signed up so far and in the past 18 months alone, they have lost a collective 260,000 lbs.

(MORE: Dr. Oz: How Faith and Health Go Hand in Hand)

The bigger question about the Daniel Plan is whether it could work in other churches both evangelical and non-evangelical not to mention in synagogues, mosques and other houses of worship. Warren is betting it can, and, according to Hyman, is considering rolling out the program to 1 billion people worldwide over the next decade. Non-believers may grumble at the religious component of the plan, and Warren himself has stirred controversy over time with the strictness of his evangelical teachings. But this mission may transcend all of that. We all get sick, regardless of religion, says Hyman. When it comes to getting well, he and others argue, we cant be choosy about where we get our answers.

Read more:
Rick Warren's Diet: Does God Want You to Be Thin?

Jun 1, 2012 7:00am

For decades, medical experts have been concerned that high-protein, low-carb diets like Atkins could be damaging to the kidneys, but a new study found that this isnt the case in otherwise healthy patients.

Researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine compared the effects of such a diet to that of a standard low-fat diet in 307 obese people who did not suffer from kidney disease or other chronic illnesses.

After a two-year period, they found that the high-protein, low-carb diet didnt cause noticeable harmful effects on healthy obese patients kidney function compared to obese people who followed a low-fat diet.

Despite decades of concerns about low-carb, high-protein diets that may cause kidney damage in healthy people, there were no signs that this would be the case after a 2-year period, said Dr. Allon Friedman, lead author of the study, published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Protein in the blood contributes to important protective benefits to the body, including fighting infections, blood clots and improving circulation in the body. Normally proteins are too big to pass through the kidneys filter into the urine, but proteins from the blood can leak into the urine when kidney filters are damaged, according to the NIH.

Abnormal amounts of protein in the urine, known as proteinuria, usually point to some sort of kidney disease, regardless of diet. But, researchers found that the most important way to reduce protein in urine did not have to do with the type of diet was the actual amount of weight lost, not really how you get there, Friedman said.

The results are relevant to the millions of healthy obese adults who use dieting as a weight-loss strategy, researchers noted. More than one-third of American adults are obese, according to the CDC.

Despite the promising results, Dr. Joseph Vassalotti, chief medical officer of the National Kidney Foundation, cautioned people to take the findings with a grain of salt.

The population studied does not apply to most patients with or at risk for chronic kidney disease, since the study participants had no evidence of chronic kidney disease or other illnesses, said Vassalotti.

Originally posted here:
High-Protein, Low-Carb Diet Safe for Kidneys

Billings, MO (PRWEB) May 30, 2012

hCGTreatments.com or Diet hCG Weight Loss Programs found during recent clinical studies that their modern-day hCG diet shaves the maximum amount of fat per individual with their personalized, weight loss program. The hCGTreatments medically-supervised ketogenic diet also offers anti-aging benefits per recent clinical studies. The Diet Doc hCG Diet has more benefits than meets the eye states Dr. Rao, medical director of Diet Doc.

Diet Docs weight loss program follows a ketogenic diet that is a high-fat and low carbohydrate diet that forces the body to burn fats as a source of energy. Normally the body converts carbohydrates into glucose which the brain uses to function but with the ketogenic diet, the low carbohydrate intake tricks the body into thinking it is starving and coverts existing fat into fatty acids and ketone bodies using it as a source of energy, this state is known as ketosis. To reach this state, Diet Doc guides their patients to take in a little under 1300 calories a day with a diet that consists of organic leafy greens like kale and spinach; lean protein such as chicken breast and filet mignon; beneficial supplements that support weight loss like probiotics and Omega-3; low-glycemic fibrous fruits such as grapefruit and apples, and a medium chain triglyceride (MCT) oil as a source of fat. Most patients claim to follow the diet easily and experience little to no hunger for the duration of the program. Some even claiming to lose 14 pounds in the first two weeks. But weight loss is not the only benefit to Diet Docs programs. Studies have shown the many health benefits to following a short term ketogenic diet.

Originally created in the 1920s for pediatric epilepsy, the ketogenic diet is found to have considerable anti-aging properties. In an article published in the anti-aging medical journal, Rejuvenation Research, researchers did a study on the cellular effects of low- carbohydrate diets. They put 20 normal weight females on a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet for two weeks. After this short period of time, researches were amazed to find that stress levels in the cells of their subjects, which causes cellular damage, were virtually unchanged yet the bodys capacity to produce its own self-made antioxidants were significantly increased. When the body is inflamed, usually caused by foods high in saturated fat and calories, stress levels increase causing oxidative stress to cells; amongst other damaging effects. Antioxidant levels in the body are normally raised when the body is inflamed but in this study, researchers found that the increase in antioxidants were not a result of inflammation but were just a natural occurring reaction to the low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet. Studies have long shown the important role of antioxidants and aging. Antioxidants help slow the aging process by warding off free- radicals that are damaging to cells. Basically, the more cells you can preserve the less aging will occur.

Diet Docs programs have proven to be a success for most of their patients. They provide a comprehensive health evaluation before creating a personalized diet for each patient as well as unlimited support throughout the program. Our program is designed not only for immediate weight-loss results but for the long-term health benefits it will have on our patients, states Dr. Rao, Medical Director for Diet Doc.

Read more from the original source:
hCGTreatments / Diet hCG Weight Loss Program Is Found To Have Significant Anti-Aging Properties According to Studies.

Panic has officially released Coda 2, a major new version of the companys award-winning Web development application. Panic also took the opportunity to launch Diet Coda, a new lightweight Web development tool for the iPad. We did some hands-on testing with Diet Coda to see how it stacks up for mobile editing.

Diet Coda is lightweight tool that includes remote file management capabilities, text editing, and terminal access. These capabilities are tied together in a distinctive interface that is crisp, expressive, and well-designed. The core functionality is well-implemented, but the feature set is sparse in places and we found a handful of bugs that detracted from the quality of the user experience.

Diet Coda starts at the site list, which shows all of your websites in a grid. Each one is displayed with a graphical thumbnail of the home page. The user can add a new site by clicking the plus button.

Site configuration is a relatively straightforward process: the user inputs a server address, credentials, and remote folder. Diet Coda can connect to a server via FTP, SFTP, and FTP with SSL. The user can also optionally specify the SSH server address and login credentials to use for terminal access with each site.

After the user connects to a server, Diet Coda will display a dual-pane file management view. Remote file management is an area where Diet Coda really shines. The feature is designed in a really compelling, intuitive, and functional wayexactly what you would expect from the people who built Transmit. The right-hand column displays information about the selected file or folder and provides buttons for performing file management operations.

The left side of the interface displays the filesystem. The filesystem view is modeled after the Miller columns layout used in the Mac OS X finderas the user descends through the folder hierarchy, the contents of each selected folder will be displayed in a new vertical column. The column display can be dragged back and forth horizontally, making it easy to get back up to higher levels of the directory structure.

The program allows users to move, duplicate, delete, and rename files. Except for renaming, those operations can also optionally be performed in batch mode. Diet Coda also allows the user to adjust file permissions, a feature that is supported with a clever finger-friendly user interface.

The only major disappointment with basic file management in Diet Coda is that the move operation doesn't appear to allow the user to interactively choose the destinationthe program requires the user to type (or paste) the path of the destination.

I also encountered a minor bug that occurs sometimes when attempting to delete a folder. If you have selected an item within the folder and then go back and select the folder itself, hitting the delete button will often delete the item instead of the parent folder as expected.

Diet Coda comes with a built-in editor for modifying files. It supports syntax highlighting and basic auto-completion on CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, and Ruby. The support for HTML and CSS is reasonably good. CSS and JavaScript content that are embedded in an HTML document are treated properly. The syntax highlighting uses good colors that are easy on the eyes but still have plenty of contrast.

Go here to see the original:
Hands-on: Web development on the go with Diet Coda for iPad

Page 874«..1020..873874875876..880890..»

Home » Diet » Page 874