Socially informed perceptions of which foods are appropriate to eat, when they should be eaten and how much should be consumed have a greater impact on our food intake than feelings of hunger or fullness, says a University of Toronto review paper published in Physiology & Behavior.
U of T psychology professors Peter Herman and Janet […]
A new study done in Australia shows that eating a handful of walnuts every day can help patients with type 2 diabetes achieve recommended intakes for polyunsaturated fatty acids (such as omega-3s), critical to protecting the heart. Findings of this study are published in the July 2005 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic […]
Cardiovascular disease and Type II diabetes are a growing problem for the developed world, putting an ever greater strain on healthcare systems. Edited by a leading authority, this important collection reviews the role of functional foods in helping to prevent these chronic diseases.
Functional Foods, Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes reviews functional foods connection to preventing chronic […]
Study Findings:
A diet rich in fiber and vegetables lowered cholesterol just as much as taking a statin drug.
People who cannot tolerate the statin drugs because of side-effects can turn to the diet.
David Jenkins created a diet “portfolio” high in soy protein, almonds, and cereal fiber as well as plant sterols — tree-based compounds used […]
Load up on fiber and vegetables: They lower cholesterol almost as much as cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, Canadian researchers report.
Here’s your shopping list: Cholesterol-lowering margarines containing plant fats such as “Benecol” or “Take Control”, soy proteins and soluble fibers like oats, barley, psyllium (search), plus all kinds of vegetables, including eggplant and okra (search).
It’s important news […]
Studies show men in Japan and China have as much as 90 percent less prostate cancer than American men.
Cancer rates varied between Japan and Hawaii and that cancer rates varied between generations within Hawaii.
“Breast cancer rates are very low in Japan. They’re high in the United States and what we showed was that if […]
The new Michigan study shows that a group of naturally occurring chemicals abundant in cherries that could help lower blood sugar levels in people with diabeties.
Laboratory studies using animal pancreatic cells indicate that the chemicals, called anthocyanins, increased insulin production by 50 percent. Anthocyanins are a class of plant pigments responsible for the color of […]
As many as seven in ten (71%) 11-16 year olds in Britain agree that “it is important to eat a balanced diet” and only one in ten 7-16 year olds find buying health foods a strange concept, according to a new report from Mintel.
Mintel’s latest research also reveals that just 22% of children of this […]
Data published in a recent issue of Cancer Research, reported that researchers at Texas A&M University, using GE Healthcare’s CodeLink(TM) microarrays, have identified key changes in gene expression that provide an improved understanding of how dietary fat composition affects the initiation and promotional stages of tumor development in the colon. These findings indicate that the […]
PhytoMedical Technologies, an early stage research based biopharmaceutical company specializing in the discovery, development and eventual commercialization of innovative plant derived pharmaceutical and nutraceutical compounds, today reported that Time Magazine’s December 6th, 2004, cover story (The Year in Medicine from A to Z) referenced the benefits of a molecule found in cinnamon which has “insulin-like […]