• Social media can be used to increase fruit and vegetable intake in young people

    Updated: 2024-04-24 15:16:18
    Researchers have found that people following healthy eating accounts on social media for as little as two weeks ate more fruit and vegetables and less junk food.

  • This Lentil Stroganoff Is Packed With Plant Protein

    Updated: 2024-04-24 10:00:00
    Looking for a protein-packed plant-based dinner that doesn't take too long to make? This stroganoff recipe has you covered The post This Lentil Stroganoff Is Packed With Plant Protein appeared first on Plant Based News.

  • Weight Loss Drugs With Your Gym Membership? What to Know

    Updated: 2024-04-24 05:14:53
    Weights, aerobics, and … Wegovy? Some in the fitness industry are moving to dispense the popular GLP-1 medications to club members, combining the new, easier method of losing weight with the old, more challenging one.

  • Dairy And Oat Blended Milk Sparks Backlash

    Updated: 2024-04-23 00:27:50
    Despite the fact that oat milk is popular and readily available, UK supermarkets are selling "blended" oat and dairy milk The post Dairy And Oat Blended Milk Sparks Backlash appeared first on Plant Based News.

  • Try This Spinach Arugula Salad With Candied Pecans And Apples

    Updated: 2024-04-22 17:32:35
    This salad is a perfect light lunch or side dish The post Try This Spinach Arugula Salad With Candied Pecans And Apples appeared first on Plant Based News.

  • This Start-Up Is Making Iron In Plant-Based Meat Easier To Absorb

    Updated: 2024-04-22 13:04:43
    Plant-based meats could soon be fortified with easy-to-absorb iron The post This Start-Up Is Making Iron In Plant-Based Meat Easier To Absorb appeared first on Plant Based News.

  • 3 in 5 parents play short order cook for young children who don't like family meal

    Updated: 2024-04-22 04:07:33
    While most parents of preschool and elementary aged children strive to give their children a balanced, nutritional diet, some of their strategies to promote healthy eating may backfire, a national poll suggests.

  • Dietary treatment more effective than medicines in IBS

    Updated: 2024-04-19 17:18:45
    Dietary treatment is more effective than medications in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). With dietary adjustments, more than seven out of ten patients had significantly reduced symptoms.

  • Heart-Liver Surgery May Help Patients Excluded from Transplant List

    Updated: 2024-04-19 15:41:44
    Patients with both heart and liver diseases are usually turned away from organ transplant lists. A new dual procedure aims to give them another chance.

  • When Body Image Becomes a Problem for Female Athletes

    Updated: 2024-04-19 13:48:05
    Many female athletes struggle with body image, and it can put their physical and mental health at risk.

  • 15 Vegan Salad Recipes

    Updated: 2024-04-19 08:21:42
    These vegan salad ideas are perfect for the warmer months The post 15 Vegan Salad Recipes appeared first on Plant Based News.

  • Metabolic health before vaccination determines effectiveness of anti-flu response

    Updated: 2024-04-18 17:27:07
    The annual influenza vaccine has become less effective on average over time. One reason may be reduced vaccine efficacy in people with obesity than those with a healthier body mass index (BMI), while the number of people with high BMI grows. Findings showed switching mice to a healthy diet four weeks before influenza vaccination protected 100% from a later flu exposure, despite still having a high BMI.

  • Guidance on energy and macronutrients across the lifespan

    Updated: 2024-04-17 22:28:19
    In the long history of recommendations for nutritional intake, current research is trending toward the concept of 'food as medicine' -- a philosophy in which food and nutrition are positioned within interventions to support health and wellness.

  • Calorie restriction study reveals complexities in how diet impacts aging

    Updated: 2024-04-17 22:28:16
    The rate at which human cells age is influenced by multiple interconnected factors. New research examined how restricting calories influences telomere length and biological aging.

  • Research explores how a father's diet could shape the health of his offspring

    Updated: 2024-04-17 17:10:02
    A mice study suggests a father's diet may shape the anxiety of his sons and the metabolic health of his daughters before they are even conceived.

  • The Truth About Whole-Body Scans

    Updated: 2024-04-16 22:15:10
    What to know about whole-body CT scans and DEXA scans for body composition.

  • Take it from the rats: A junk food diet can cause long-term damage to adolescent brains

    Updated: 2024-04-16 03:18:53
    A study on the effects of a junk food diet on rats reinforces scientific understanding about the gut-brain connection.

  • Family and media pressure to lose weight in adolescence linked to how people value themselves almost two decades later

    Updated: 2024-04-16 03:18:50
    People who as teenagers felt pressure to lose weight from family or from the media, females, people who are not heterosexual, and people experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage, are most at risk of 'internalized' weight stigma, new research has found.

  • Scientists uncover a missing link between poor diet and higher cancer risk

    Updated: 2024-04-12 15:34:31
    A research team has unearthed new findings which may help explain the connection between cancer risk and poor diet, as well as common diseases like diabetes, which arise from poor diet. The insights gained from this study hold promise for advancing cancer prevention strategies aimed at promoting healthy aging.

  • Choosing sugary drinks over fruit juice for toddlers linked to risk of adult obesity

    Updated: 2024-04-12 15:31:13
    Consuming sugar-sweetened drinks in the first few years of childhood can be linked to poor diet patterns that increase the risk of obesity in later life, according to a new study.

  • This outdated diabetes drug still has something to offer

    Updated: 2024-04-11 17:01:16
    Researchers have discovered the biochemical workings of an old-fashioned diabetes drug, and it's helping them develop new, safer alternatives.

  • Mixed diets balance nutrition and carbon footprint

    Updated: 2024-04-10 20:14:50
    What we eat can impact our health as well as the environment. Many studies have looked at the impacts of diets in very general terms focused at the level of food groups. A new study explores this issue following a more nuanced dish-level approach. One of the benefits of this kind of study is that people's connections with their diets vary around the world and have strong cultural associations. Knowledge of the impacts of diets using dishes rather than broad food groups can help individuals make informed choices and those in the food industry improve their practices.

  • Size of salty snack influences eating behavior that determines amount consumed

    Updated: 2024-04-10 20:14:37
    The size of an individual snack piece not only influences how fast a person eats it, but also how much of it they eat, according to a new study. With nearly a quarter of daily calorie intake in the United States coming from snacks, these findings may have implications for helping people better understand how eating behavior impacts calorie and sodium intake.

  • Obese and overweight children at risk of iron deficiency

    Updated: 2024-04-10 15:27:26
    Children and young people who are overweight or obese are at significantly higher risk of iron deficiency, according to a study by nutritional scientists.

  • Few newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics succeed in losing weight -- weight gain linked to much higher risk of complications

    Updated: 2024-04-04 15:35:32
    A register-based study identified three distinct BMI trajectory groups among patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes. In a four-year follow-up, most patients followed a stable trajectory without much weight change. Only 10% of patients lost weight, whereas 3% gained weight. Mean BMI exceeded the threshold of obesity in all groups at baseline. Weight loss is a central treatment goal in type 2 diabetes, but the study shows that few patients succeed in it.

  • Feeding the lonely brain

    Updated: 2024-04-04 15:34:20
    A new study has found that women who perceive themselves to be lonely exhibited activity in regions of the brain associated with cravings and motivation towards eating especially when shown pictures of high calorie foods such as sugary foods.

  • Unfavorable social factors may raise heart disease risk factors in Asian American adults

    Updated: 2024-04-03 17:06:32
    Asian American adults with more unfavorable factors related to income level, education, housing, access to health care and other social variables had a greater likelihood of having risk factors for cardiovascular disease in this study.

  • Blended antioxidant supplement improves cognition and memory in aged mice

    Updated: 2024-04-02 18:03:21
    Cell damage from oxidative stress is a major underlying cause of age-related cognitive and muscle strength decline. Antioxidants can reduce oxidative stress and prevent age-related health decline. A new study has found that mice administered with a blended antioxidant supplement show significant improvements in spatial cognition, short-term memory, and mitigated age-related muscle decline. The study suggests that blended antioxidant supplements hold promise as a dietary intervention for health issues associated with aging.

  • Pilot study shows ketogenic diet improves severe mental illness

    Updated: 2024-04-01 18:24:59
    A small clinical trial found that the metabolic effects of a ketogenic diet may help stabilize the brain.

  • Women with obesity do not need to gain weight during pregnancy, new study suggests

    Updated: 2024-03-28 23:46:44
    The guidelines for weight gain during pregnancy in obese women have long been questioned. New research supports the idea of lowering or removing the current recommendation of a weight gain of at least 5 kg.

  • Do sweeteners increase your appetite? New evidence from randomised controlled trial says no

    Updated: 2024-03-28 23:46:38
    Your source for the latest research news : Follow Facebook X Twitter : Subscribe RSS Feeds Newsletter New Sign up for our free email newsletter Science News from research organizations Do sweeteners increase your appetite New evidence from randomised controlled trial says no : Date March 28, 2024 : Source University of Leeds : Summary Replacing sugar with artificial and natural sweeteners in foods does not make people hungrier and also helps to reduce blood sugar levels , a significant new study has found . The double blind randomized controlled trial found that consuming food containing sweeteners produced a similar reduction in appetite sensations and appetite-related hormone responses as sugary foods and provides some benefits such as lowering blood sugar , which may be particularly

  • Eggs may not be bad for your heart after all

    Updated: 2024-03-28 15:10:37
    Whether you like your eggs sunny-side up, hard boiled or scrambled, many hesitate to eat them amid concerns that eggs may raise cholesterol levels and be bad for heart health. However, results from a prospective, controlled trial show that over a four-month period cholesterol levels were similar among people who ate fortified eggs most days of the week compared with those who didn't eat eggs.

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