Search Tag: Mediterranean diet
2024 01 Jul
Nutrition and prevention guidelines emphasise dietary patterns over individual foods for health outcomes. A recent umbrella review of 495 meta-analyses on dietary patterns and cardiometabolic and anthropometric risk factors identified the Mediterranean diet as the most beneficial. This diet is endorsed by the US dietary guidelines, the American...Read more
2024 01 Jun
Numerous studies have reported the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet. However, long-term data on its effects have been limited, and the reasons behind its mortality risk reduction are not well understood. In a new study following over 25,000 initially healthy women in the U.S. for up to 25 years, researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital...Read more
2019 26 Jun
Change in dietary behaviour is considered to be a first-line approach to the prevention and management of cardiovascular disease risk. Dietitians can help change behaviour and modify risk factors by educating and counselling patients. This is particularly true for patients who are at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease. Dietary changes...Read more
2019 20 Jun
A research team led by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Prof. Iris Shai has published a significant long-term study on the impact of Mediterranean and low-carb diets and exercise, measuring their impact with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology to map body fat. In the study, "The Beneficial Effects of Mediterranean Diet Over...Read more
2016 31 Mar
300 People Have Low Rates of Heart Disease and Alzheimer’s Researchers in the United States and Italy have teamed up to study the lifestyle and daily diet of a group of 300 centenarians (all over 100 years old), living in the remote Italian village of Acciaroli on the country’s south western coast. The average life expectancy in the...Read more