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The preliminary results of a study suggest that a diet rich in soybean foods and isoflavones may protect menopausal women from bone loss and osteoporosis.
When you need to satisfy between-meal munchies, do you automatically reach for a salty snack? For many of us it’s the bags of pretzels and potato chips that call our name from the vending machine midafternoon. But the snack favorites tend to be high in sodium, a mineral that we should be limiting in our diets. According to the National…
A new meta-analysis of 53 studies on dieting produces a surprising result: low-fat diets are not the most effective way of losing weight and keeping it off.
Low-fat diets do not yield greater weight loss than other slimming regimes, said a study Friday, adding to the long-running debate on how best to shed extra pounds or kilos. In fact, low-carbohydrate diets led to greater weight loss than low-fat ones, according to study results published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology journal. Weight loss on a low-fat diet was just 360 grammes (13 ounces), compared to 1.15 kilogrammes (2.5 pounds) on a higher-fat, low-carbohydrate eating plan.
A new study suggests the road to obesity may be paved with non-nutritious carbohydrates in breast milk, shifting popular notions about how and why children grow to become overweight adults.
By Hooyeon Kim SEOUL, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Weightlifting champion Kim Byeong-chan died alone, paralysed and penniless after a motorcycle accident cut short his career, and for some former athletes his demise is a consequence of South Korea’s ruthless pursuit of sporting excellence. The limited social safety net for athletes who get seriously injured, or who fail to make the grade, is a concern for many sportsmen and women in South Korea, a country which arrived on the global stage with the hosting of the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Park Chung-hee’s regime of the 1960s saw sport as an avenue to raise Korea’s global profile and gain legitimacy at home, and poured huge amounts of money into creating an elite athlete programme as well as bidding to host international competitions.
By Hooyeon Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – Weightlifting champion Kim Byeong-chan died alone, paralyzed and penniless after a motorcycle accident cut short his career, and for some former athletes his demise is a consequence of South Korea’s ruthless pursuit of sporting excellence. The limited social safety net for athletes who get seriously injured, or who fail to make the grade, is a concern for many sportsmen and women in South Korea, a country which arrived on the global stage with the hosting of the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Park Chung-hee’s regime of the 1960s saw sport as an avenue to raise Korea’s global profile and gain legitimacy at home, and poured huge amounts of money into creating an elite athlete program as well as bidding to host international competitions.
Low-carbohydrate eating is more effective for heart health and weight loss than low-fat dieting, a new study finds. These outcomes counter the current U.S.
By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – Young adults who eat the most fruits and vegetable have the least calcified plaque buildup in their arteries decades later, which indicates a reduced risk of heart disease, according to a new study. “Most dietary studies out there on things like fruits and vegetables or healthy fats are all in an older population,” said lead author Dr. Michael D. Miedema, of the Minneapolis Heart Institute in Minnesota. The new analysis involved participants in the government-funded Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study.
By Isla Binnie ROME (Reuters) – The home of Parma ham, trumpeting the benefits of a traditional Mediterranean diet, is urging consumers not to get into a prosciutto panic after a warning that processed meat can cause cancer. Italian food and farming groups responded indignantly to the World Health Organization (WHO) report that put cured meats, such as ham, sausage and salami, together with asbestos and tobacco on a list of carcinogens. The WHO said each 50-gram (1.76 oz) portion of processed meat – usually beef or pork which has been transformed through processes like salting and smoking – increased the risk of colorectal cancer by 18 percent.