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By Gene Emery (Reuters Health) – Total knee replacement can usually relieve pain and improve function, but a nonsurgical regimen can also be effective in some people without posing the complication risks that can plague people who choose surgery, according to a new study. The test found that while 85 percent of patients who underwent surgery showed clinically-significant improvement after one year, so did 67 percent assigned to a combination of supervised exercise, use of insoles, pain medication, education and dietary advice. “It won’t do any harm trying the nonsurgical treatment,” chief author, Dr. Soren Skou of the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, told Reuters Health.
By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Following a Mediterranean diet rich in fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, fish and healthy fats may preserve a more youthful brain in old age, a U.S. study suggests. Previous research has connected a Mediterranean diet to a reduced risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and other degenerative brain conditions, noted lead study author Yian Gu of Columbia University in New York. For the current study, researchers focused on elderly people with normal cognitive function to see if the diet might also be tied to losing fewer brain cells due to aging, Gu said by email.
Researchers say injecting rats with an appetite-suppressing gene led to long-term weight loss without the side effect of reduced bone mass often found with dieting.
(Reuters Health) – Need another reason to blame weight gain on your marriage? When one spouse becomes obese, the other’s risk of obesity almost doubles, a U.S. study suggests.“Normal weight people whose spouses went from being normal weight to obese were more likely to become obese,” said Laura Cobb, who led the study as a researcher at…
Dietary fat may impact the severity and duration of autoimmune flare-ups, suggests a study published in the journal Immunity.
If you’d like to make your diet healthier by adding more vegetables to your meals, cucumbers are a great choice. Cucumbers are widely used in traditional diets as well as spas across the world for a reason: They are good for health.In this research paper alone, cucumbers are said to have the following benefits: potential antidiabetic,…
Over 200 American kitchens were photographed to determine if the food sitting out on counters could predict the weight of the woman living in each home.
Title: Healthy Eaters Don’t Trust Overweight Bloggers, Study Finds
Category: Health News
Created: 10/16/2015 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 10/19/2015 12:00:00 AM
Often times, when we look for a healthy eating plan, it can feel like nutrition and diets are just a giant maze with no way out. And it can get really frustrating to try different eating plans without being able to stick to them more than a few weeks or months.But whether you simply want to eat healthier because you have food allergies or…
Shares of Weight Watchers nearly doubled in premarket trading. Winfrey, who for years has struggled publicly with her weight, will also join the board of Weight Watchers as the company reinvents itself to promote healthy lifestyles as well as its weight-loss programs. “I believe in the program so much I decided to invest in the company and partner in its evolution,” Winfrey said in a statement.