Research Paper Title Alternate Healthy Eating Index 2010 and Risk of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease among US Women and Men: Prospective Study. Study Question Does a longitudinal association exist between the Alternate Healthy Eating Index 2010 (AHEI-2010) – a measure of diet quality – and the risk of newly diagnosed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)?… Read More
I have just watched an interview on the BBCs Breakfast programme for the new TV Series ‘Eat Well For Less’. Traditionally, the argument about food is around the elements of portion size, fat content etc. This programme is somewhat different in that it looks at the amount of food a family already has in their… Read More
Research Paper Title Motilin-induced Gastric Contractions Signal Hunger in Man. Background Hunger is controlled by the brain, which receives input from signals of the GI tract (GIT). During fasting, GIT displays a cyclical motor pattern, the migrating motor complex (MMC), regulated by motilin. Objectives To study the relationship between hunger and MMC phases (I-III), focusing… Read More
Ruben Meerman and Andrew Brown (writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ)) explain why the answer might not be what you expect. Introduction Considering the soaring overweight and obesity rates and strong interest in this topic, there is surprising ignorance and confusion about the metabolic process of weight loss among the general public and health professionals… Read More
An article by Susan Mayor in the British Medical Journal (BMJ): Overweight people eating a low glycaemic index diet show no difference in cardiovascular risk factors or insulin sensitivity compared with those consuming a high glycaemic index diet, a randomised trial has shown. The glycaemic index is a property of some carbohydrate containing foods determined… Read More
From low fat to Atkins and beyond, diets that are based on poor nutrition science are a type of global, uncontrolled experiment that may lead to bad outcomes, concludes Richard Smith (Chair, Patients Know Best writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ)). Jean Mayer, one of the “greats” of nutrition science, said in 1965, in… Read More
Objective To examine whether adherence to the Mediterranean diet was associated with longer telomere length, a biomarker of aging. Design Population based cohort study. Setting Nurses’ Health Study, an ongoing prospective cohort study of 121 700 nurses enrolled in 1976; in 1989-90 a subset of 32 825 women provided blood samples. Participants 4676 disease-free women from nested… Read More
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