diet

Should There be more Microbes on Your Plate?

May 26, 2022

British Reporter — Our diets provide us with the building blocks we need to stay healthy and fight disease. The nutrients in foods and beverages can be tallied up to know if we are getting what our bodies need. Yet what if a nutrient has been overlooked?According to University of California, for instance, friendly microbes in raw and fermented foods have

Creating new diets to feed healthy old age

British Reporter — A new research network, involving University of Liverpool researchers,

by British Reporter

March 21, 2022

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Keto diet may not work for women

Scientists from UC Riverside are studying how the popular keto and intermittent

by British Reporter

December 11, 2021

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Diet may affect risk and severity of COVID-19

Although metabolic conditions such as obesity and Type 2 diabetes have been

by British Reporter

September 13, 2021

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Researchers Explore Alternating Diets to Promote Weight Loss

British Reporter — Nearly 80 per cent of participants in a University of Toronto study lost a “clinically significant” amount of body weight in less than two years after following three successive and varying diets.

by British Reporter

August 28, 2021

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Low-glycemic diet reduces cardiometabolic risks for people with diabetes

A low-glycemic diet results in small but important improvements in cardiometabolic risk factors, including blood sugar levels and body weight, for people with diabetes, according to a University of Toronto study analyzing multiple clinical trials.

by British Reporter

August 22, 2021

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Lockdown weight gain: telling people to eat less has never been the answer

We ate a lot more during the pandemic. The latest figures by Public Health England suggest that more than 40% of British adults gained an average of 3kg during the pandemic. The reasons for the rise in body weights seem, at first

by British Reporter

August 20, 2021

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Health&Beauty

Post-Brexit Trade Agreements Could Lead to Unhealthier Diets

British Reporter — Post-Brexit free trade deals could lead to unhealthier eating in the UK and more diet-related deaths. But harms could be offset with targeted farming subsidies, now possible because of Brexit, and by making concerns for healthy eating central to

by British Reporter

June 29, 2021

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Health&Beauty

A Diet that’s Healthy for People, and the Planet

This year’s Harvard Nutrition and Obesity Symposium took a hard look at the relationship between the individual’s dietary health and the planet’s environmental well-being. Presented by the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Harvard in partnership with the Harvard Medical School Division of

by British Reporter

June 22, 2021

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