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Mar 16

Sylvester Stallone reveals ‘dangerous’ diet for ‘Rocky’ – New York Post

Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life.

We now know it was much more than an iconic catchphrase for Sylvester Stallone.

The starof the Rocky movie series took his heaviest hit while getting shredded for Rocky III with an insane diet and exercise routine.

The 70-year-old action movie star has revealed secret details of his preparation for the third Rocky film and just how closely he mirrored his iconic character while filming his bloody rematch against Clubber Lang, played by Mr. T.

Stallone says his diet was so intense, he was forced to do handstands during breaks in filming to get blood flowing back into his head.

Stallone made a number of scary admissions about his physical condition at the time of filming in 1981 in a post on Instagram, including:

Stallone has previously said his goal for Rocky III was to work on muscle definition compared to earlier Rocky films, where his exercise program was focused on building more muscle mass.

I wanted to look like Tarzan sleek, tight, almost catlike, he said. I wanted to forget the bulk and go for well-developed muscles.

Its been 35 years since the film was released, and in the intervening years, Stallone has repeatedly pushed his body to the limit to prepare for film productions.

The star of the Rambo movie franchise recently revealed his diet and exercise routine when filming Rambo 4 in 2007 and The Expendables in 2009.

Stallone told Borntoworkout.com last year his exercise routine during the 2000s involved four-week training camps before filming that included training twice a day, six days per week.

Chest, back and abs training:

Shoulders, arms and abs training:

Calves and thighs training:

Rear deltoids, traps and abs training:

The fitness site also reported Stallones diet while training for his recent movie roles.

His focus on high levels of protein and carbohydrate is similar to the diets used by bodybuilders.

Pre-breakfast: A glass of liquid amino acids

Breakfast: Three egg whites, half yoke, Irish oatmeal, toasted pumpernickel bread, fresh papaya, few figs

Lunch: Roasted summer squash, broiled skinless chicken, salad, figs or berries

Dinner: Salad, broiled fish, high-fiber toasted bread; occasionally eats veal.

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Mar 15

Which Diets Are Scientifically The Most Effective? – Forbes


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Which Diets Are Scientifically The Most Effective?
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As I clearly believe the worst offenders there are added sugars (sucrose and HFCS) and then refined, easily digestible carbohydrates, then the most effective diets are the ones that remove the sugars and high-GI carbs. And diets that work, regardless ...

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Mar 15

Genome-based diets maximise growth, fecundity, and lifespan – Phys.Org

March 14, 2017 Naturally, fruit flies feed on ripe fruits. A diet which matches the insects' amino acid composition makes the flies to grow even faster. Credit: MPI f. Biology of Ageing/ Grnke

A moderate reduction in food intake, known as dietary restriction, protects against multiple ageing-related diseases and extends life span, but can also supress growth and fertility. A research group from the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne has now developed a diet based on the model organism's genome, which enhances growth and fecundity with no costs to lifespan.

What is the best path to a long and healthy life? Scientists had a relatively simple answer for many years: less food. But it turned out that this could have unpleasant consequences. Experiments showed that putting flies or mice on diet could impair their development and fecundity. How could we take advantage of the beneficial effects of dieting, and at the same time avoid the damaging effects?

Genome-based diet

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne and UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing in London have now designed a diet based on the model organism's genome. In the study they calculated the amount of amino acids a fruit fly would need, thereby defining the diet's amino acid composition.

"The fly genome is entirely known. For our studies we used only the sections in the genetic material that serve as templates for protein assembly - the exons, which collectively make up the 'exome'. Then we calculated the relative abundance of each amino acid in the exome, and designed a fly diet that reflects this amino acid composition," explains George Soultoukis, scientist in the department of Linda Partridge, director at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne and at the UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing in London.

Using a holidic fly diet previously developed by the team to enable manipulation of individual nutrients such as amino acids, the group found that flies eating this exome-matched diet develop a lot faster, grow bigger in size, and lay more eggs compared to flies fed a standard diet. Remarkably, the flies on the exome-matched diet lived as long as slower-growing, fewer-egg-laying flies fed with "standard" diets. "The flies that had free access to the exome-matched diet even ate less than controls. Thus, high quality protein, as defined by the genome, appears to have a higher satiety value," said Matthew Piper, who conducted the work at UCL and is now working at Monash University.

The study also found that similar phenomena may occur in mice, and future mouse work could further improve our understanding of how and why diets affect mammalian lifespan. "Our aim now is to characterize the effects of genome-based diets upon mammalian lifespan," says Soultoukis.

Human diet

In theory this approach is applicable to all organisms with a sequenced genome including humans. Soultoukis explains: "Dietary interventions based on amino acids can be a powerful strategy for protecting human health. Obviously factors such as age, gender, health, and personal lifestyle also have to be taken into account. Future studies may still employ novel -omics data to design diets whose amino acid supply matches the needs of an organism with even higher precision. Understanding why we need amino acids in the amounts we do will be key, and such studies provide novel and powerful insights into the vital interactions between nature and nurture."

Explore further: High-sugar diet programs a short lifespan in flies

More information: Matthew D.W. Piper et al. Matching Dietary Amino Acid Balance to the In Silico-Translated Exome Optimizes Growth and Reproduction without Cost to Lifespan, Cell Metabolism (2017). DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2017.02.005

Journal reference: Cell Metabolism

Provided by: Max Planck Society

Flies with a history of eating a high sugar diet live shorter lives, even after their diet improves. This is because the unhealthy diet drives long-term reprogramming of gene expression, according to a UCL-led team of researchers.

Getting the correct balance of proteins in our diet may be more important for healthy ageing than reducing calories, new research funded by the Wellcome Trust and Research into Ageing suggests.

Regaining weight after weight loss is usually undesirable, but is this 'yo-yo effect' actually bad for your health? Scientists from Wageningen University recently investigated the influence of diet on the lifespan of fruit ...

Fruit flies deprived of specific essential nutrients alter their food choicesand even the way they search for food. A team of neuroscientists, led by researchers from the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal, "dissected" ...

Aphids suck up an almost endless supply of sugary sap from their plant hosts. They can survive on this junk food diet because bacterial partners help them convert the handful of amino acids in the sap into other, essential ...

Fruit flies live 16% longer than average when given low doses of the mood stabiliser lithium, according to a UCL-led study.

Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin have found that honeybees treated with a common antibiotic were half as likely to survive the week after treatment compared with a group of untreated bees, a finding that ...

It has long been suspected that spiders are one of the most important groups of predators of insects. Zoologists at the University of Basel and Lund University in Sweden have now shown just how true this is - spiders kill ...

Humans are not alone in continuing to support offspring who have "left the nest." It happens in Galapagos penguins, too.

Fish on the South Pacific island of Rarotonga have evolved the ability to survive out of water and leap about on the rocky shoreline because this helps them escape predators in the ocean, a ground-breaking new study shows.

(Phys.org)A team of Brazilian researchers has found a naturally fluorescent tree frog living in the Amazon basin and it represents the only known fluorescent amphibian. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National ...

Two new studies from the Francis Crick Institute shed light on how the malaria parasite grows inside a host's red blood cells and breaks out when it's ready to spread to new host cells.

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Mar 15

Ditching sugar is a new year diet that might actually work. Here’s why – Ararat Advertiser

1 Jan 2017, 3 p.m.

This year you're going to lose weight. Really. Not like last year, when you tried to eat less and exercise more and ended up no lighter.

This year you're going to lose weight. Really. Not like last year, when you tried to eat less and exercise more and ended up no lighter, but by approaching the problem differently. Because calories in and calories out is probably the worst way to think about it.

Here's another one.

Excluding waste and sweating, it's true that the calories we take in have to be turned into either energy or weight. So it ought to be true that taking in less will cut weight. But what usually happens first is that we get hungry (and add back the calories, leaving our weight unchanged) or lethargic (expending less energy so that more of what we take in is directed to maintaining our weight).

It's almost as if our weightwantsto be maintained; as if it has a will of its own and manipulates the rest of us to get what it wants.

Which is probably what happens.

Tumours act as if they have minds of their own. They press-gang whatever they can find into making themselves grow. Children do it. During growth spurts their growth hormones direct whatever's coming in to building bones and muscles, leaving the rest of the body bereft or hungry.

Only in a trivial sense is it true to say that children grow because they eat more. They eat more because they are growing. And that growth is regulated by hormones.

In 1977 Rosalyn Yalow won the Nobel Prize for tracking the hormone insulin. When it's released, fat cells start packing in fatty acids. And they also close the exits so the fatty acids can't escape while the insulin is there. It's why, oddly,we often feel weak or hungry after having sugar. The energy we thought we'd get isn't accessible. So we want to eat more, which also gets tucked into fat cells if there's insulin around; which there will be if what we've eaten is rich in sugar or other carbohydrates.

Veteran science journalist Gary Taubes has just set out his findings in a book entitledThe Case Against Sugar, which followsWhy We Get Fat, andGood Calories, Bad Calories. He is more of a forensic examiner of evidence than he is a purveyor of diets, and his main finding is that much of the evidence has been buried.

He says in the 1960s it was fairly widely accepted that carbohydrates (especially sugar) boosted the production of fat and increased appetites. It's one of the reasons we use bread as a starter at meals; it prepares us to eat.

Fat, by contrast, doesn't bring on the production of insulin at all. It may eventually be stored in fat cells, but it doesn't make those cells pack fat in and prevent them letting fat out. It's one of the reasons it rarely makes us hungry. Try eating half a slab of butter and see whether it boosts your appetite.

But in the 1970s, in the United States and in Australia, where ourdietary guidelines follow the US, a new more plausible theory took hold. It was that fat causes fat. Nutritionist Ancel Keys laid it out in the massiveSeven Countries Studywhich compared nations including the US, Finland and Japan and concluded that the nations that ate the most fat suffered the most heart disease.

Later research concluded that the results derived were particularto the seven countries chosen. Had Keys chosen other countries, such as France and Switzerland with high rates of fat consumption and low rates of heart disease, the correlation would have disappeared. But by then an abhorrence of fat had been written into the guidelines.

Consuming less fat meant consuming more carbohydrates, especially sugar which improves the taste of low-fat foods. So obesity climbed. The University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre is one of the few that disputes the connection. It produced a paper defending sugar thatlater had to be correctedafter economist Rory Robertsonripped into it for misuse of statistics. Columnist Peter Fitzsimons details links between sugar and those dietitians promoting sugar in his bookThe Great Aussie Bloke Slimdown.

Just last month anindustry-funded paper purporting to defend sugarfell apart when one of the funders, Mars Inc, disassociated itself saying it madeall industry-funded research look bad.

Naturally, I am unable to guarantee that giving up sugar will make you lose weight. But I can guarantee that if you are anything like me it'll make you less hungry. I ditched sugar several new year's days ago, lost weight, and never got it back.

Peter Martin is economics editor ofThe Age. This story was first published on The Age.

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Mar 15

Diet trends through the ages and why fads don’t work – Stuff.co.nz

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Last updated07:57, March 15 2017

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A cafe in Whangerei serves 'paleo coffee' in 2014: a long black mixed with a dollop of butter and a teaspoon of coconut oil.

"Want to lose weight fast?"

"YES" we all say in our heads, as we're paying attention to the carefully craftedsocial media post, or TV commercial.

Next come the convincing before and after shots,the guarantee on how "it's so easy",a smiling celebrity, andwe're climbing on the bandwagon.

The approachis so simple it's almost embarrassing, and yet it's worked on Kiwis for decades.

A far back as the 1930s, theEvening Post newspaper spouted 'recommendations' from the US on slimming: two weeks of bananas and skimmed milk, followed by two weeks of whatever you like.

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The lemon detox diet soared in popularity after it was revealed Beyonce used it for rapid weight loss for her role in the 2006 film, Dreamgirls.

Around that time, we also hailed smoking as a way to combat weight gain, ignoring mounting evidence about its health effects untilthe 1950s.

Looking back, it all seems so obvious. Smoking is bad for our health. Sugary drinks aren't good for us.

But fast forward to 2017and we still market sugar to children, we still get sucked in by celebrity weight loss stories, and we're still buying diet soda.

Perhaps the most influentialdiet of them all was one thatpeaked in the last decade, with a little help from Instagram filters and hipsters: paleo.

Arguably, paleoisn't restrictive enough to be labelled a fad,but the diet undoubtedlybecame trendy, peaking in popularity about 2013.

Itcoastedoff the movement towards clean eating, encouraging people to switch out grains and dairy for protein.

Shortly before paleo arrived, thelemon detox diet promoted rapid weight loss through consuming nothing but lemon water, with cayenne pepper and a sugary syrup for 10 days.

Although widely condemned by health professionals, the lemon detox diet is still marketed to anyone"looking for maximum weight loss in a short period of time," according to a New Zealand website which sells lemon detox kits.

Written online testimonials, including one from a 15-year-old,boast fast results,feelings of exuberance and glowing skin.

However, one nutritionist and UK registered dietitian,SiobhanMiller, says "fad diets just don't work".

"Fad dietsmight help you lose weight, until you get fed-up, start over-eating and choose less healthy foods and pile the pounds back on."

Miller emphasised the damaging long-term effects thatquick-fix, drastic dietscando to our bodies.

"Rapid weight loss is not sustainable and yo-yo dieting - where weight is lost and then regained over the years - leads to being heavier than when you first started.

"A very restrictive diet of any kind is most likely to be lacking in essential nutrients."

The tried-and-true celebrity endorsement should be taken with a grain of salt, she said.

"Remember that celebrities are not experts in nutrition and have limited knowledge of nutrition so don't be sucked in by fantastic claims."

Excess weight creepedup over many years, so we hadto give our bodies time to adjust to weight loss, she said.

"It's not a surprise that when someone feels the urge to tackle weight they look for a quick fix. [But] there is no magic bullet and weight is not going to be lost quickly."

All this noise just addedto the confusion about what and how we weresupposed to eat, Tauranga dietitian Fiona Boyle said.

"You have got to think of what you could sustain. Could you see yourself doing it in sixmonths, or sixyears?

"Lookat the whole picture."

HOW DOYOU SPOT A FAD DIET?

The Association ofUK Dietitians defines afad diet as:the kind of plan where you eat a very restrictive diet with few foods or an unusual combination of foods for a short period of time and often lose weight very quickly.

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Mar 15

What You Need To Know Before Starting A Diet If You Want It To Last – Elite Daily

Many people have this idea in their heads that eating healthy food is incredibly hard to do.

But the truth is, healthy eating and proper nutrition doesnt need to be that hard. Its all about knowing a few important rules before going into it.

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Below are a few common nutrition pitfalls and what you can do about them:

Whether youre eating too much or too little, the fact of the matter is, its hard to know exactly how much you should be eating.

For example, weve all read this on a nutrition label:

Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

But, how should you know if your daily values should be higher or lower? And furthermore, how much higher or lower should they be?

The amount of calories you should be eating is dependent on a number of factors, including height, weight, age, activity level and goals.

Determining how many calories you should be eating comes with a deep understanding of your body.

Sure, you can estimate how much you should be eating with online calculators, but if youre serious about eating a proper quantity for you, then youll want to determine the following:

1. How many calories you burn in a complete resting state (Basal Metabolic Rateor BMR) 2. How many calories you burn in total throughout the day (Total Energy Expenditureor TEE)

These two numbers, along with all those other facts listed above, are what will determine how much you should be eating.

The good news is, the more you burn, the more you can afford to eat. Thats not to say you should exercise like crazy just so you can eat more, but thats another article for another day.

Bottom line:Get to know your body and your activity habits. Evaluate from there.

There are two kinds of eaters in this world: grazers and loaders.

Grazers (commonly referred to as snackers) pick at small bits of food throughout the day. Loaders take in one or two gigantic meals a day, and they likely skip breakfast.

In a perfect world, wed all be part-grazer, part-loader.

When we go a long time without eating, we often end up overcompensating and overeating when it comes to mealtime because were so hungry.

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Not to mention, the big meals we do end up eating tend to be on the unhealthier side. (Think burgers, pasta, pizza, etc.)

These kinds of foods dont provide us the micronutrients, AKA vitamins and minerals, our bodies need to function optimally.

So, whats a loader to do? Eat a moderate-sized breakfast, lunch and dinner, and keep healthy snacks on hand.

Your main meals should be filled with a balanced plate of protein, fats and carbs, and your snacks should be low in sugar and high in fiber to help keep you running throughout the day.

Ever been on a diet before? *Raises hand*

Like most people, that diet likely didnt work out for you.

Why? Because the plethora of fad diets existing in our world today are focused on eliminating certain foods completely from your diet.

Atkins, for example, cuts out a huge amount of carbs. Juice cleanses have you only consuming the juice for a number of days, with maybe a bit of real food in addition.

The reality is, these diets or cleanses are not sustainable by any means.

We all know that we only want what we cant have. This is no different for food.

When were too strict with our food choices, we often end up overeating when we finally get our hands on whatever that forbidden food was.

Its the mentality of I havent had a chocolate chip cookie in two weeks, and I dont know when Ill ever have one again, so I need to have 15 right now! (If youre wondering, yes, Ive eaten 15 cookies in a row.)

Furthermore, being on an extremely rigid meal plan can often lead to obsessive and disordered behaviors.

So instead of committing to yet another diet, commit to eating nutrient-dense food and allow treats in moderation.

Heads up, one more cliche coming at you: Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

As much as you want to hate, its a true statement. And when it comes to nutrition, it certainly rings true.

A few key ways to keep your nutritional health thriving are food prepping, packing your lunch for work and having those healthy snacks on you throughout the day.

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Not only will you be doing your body good by giving it the proper fuel it needs, but youll also be saving money by bringing lunch instead of buying it.

New to food prepping? All it takes is five easy steps.

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Orian is a certified CF-1 trainer and a CrossFit junkie, psychology student, and the CEO and Editor of Snatcher, leading functional fitness magazine based in Israel.

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Mar 14

Genome-based diets improve growth, fertility and lifespan – HealthCanal.com (press release) (blog)

In flies and mice, diets based on an organisms genome enhance growth and fertility with no costs to lifespan, according to a team of researchers from UCL and the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne.

A moderate reduction in food intake, known as dietary restriction, protects against multiple ageing-related diseases and extends life span, but can also supress growth and fertility. To avoid these damaging effects, the scientists designed a special diet based on the genome of the model organism.

In the study, published today in Cell Metabolism, the team calculated the amount of amino acids a fruit fly would need, thereby defining the diets amino acid composition.

The fly genome is entirely known. For our studies we used only the sections in the genetic material that serve as templates for protein assembly the exons, which collectively make up the exome. Then we calculated the relative abundance of each amino acid in the exome, and designed a fly diet that reflects this amino acid composition, explained George Soultoukis, who works alongside Professor Linda Partridge, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne and at the UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing in London.

Using a chemically-defined fly diet previously developed by the team to enable manipulation of individual nutrients such as amino acids, the group found that flies eating the exome-matched diet develop a lot faster, grow bigger in size, and lay more eggs compared to flies fed a standard diet.

Remarkably, the flies on the exome-matched diet lived as long as slower-growing, fewer-egg-laying flies fed with standard diets. The flies that had free access to the exome-matched diet even ate less than controls. Thus, high quality protein, as defined by the genome, appears to have a higher satiety value, said Dr Matthew Piper, who conducted the work at UCL and is now working at Monash University.

The study also found that similar phenomena may occur in mice, and future mouse work could further improve our understanding of how and why diets affect mammalian lifespan including human lifespan.

Our aim now is to characterize the effects of genome-based diets upon mammalian lifespan. Dietary interventions based on amino acids can be a powerful strategy for protecting human health. Obviously factors such as age, gender, health, and personal lifestyle also have to be taken into account.

Future studies may still employ novel -omics data to design diets whose amino acid supply matches the needs of an organism with even higher precision. Understanding why we need amino acids in the amounts we do will be key, and such studies provide novel and powerful insights into the vital interactions between nature and nurture, concluded George Soultoukis.

Research paper inCell Metabolism

Professor Dame Linda Partridges academic profile

UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing

UCL Life Sciences

Researchers used the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster for their studies on genome-based diet (Credit: Sebastian Grnke/Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing)

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Mar 14

Planning A Detox Diet For Summers? Here Are Few Things You Should Know Before You Try One – Indiatimes.com

Detox diets have been quite a rage in the recent years and have almost become another choice for people looking to lose weight via dieting. Now that summers are here, many of you must planning to shed weight to fit in your summer outfits. To help you with that we have listed some common facts about detox diets that will help you choose the right path to hit your goals!

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It is true that our body has a natural mechanism to purify our body. Toxins that accumulate in the body (food, air, tobacco, cosmetics, drugs, heavy metals, stress) are eliminated at varying speeds depending on your metabolism. You can help your body detoxify all year long, especially with foods rich in antioxidants like fresh fruit and vegetables that are organic and dont contain pesticides.

Absolutely not! Fasting or drastic dieting is not the same as detoxing. The word diet gets confused with the concept of the detox in many places. Dieting and detoxing are two different approaches that may or may not have the same goal. In fact, the aim of detox is not necessarily to lose weight. However, you should definitely try and avoid sugar, junk food and barbequed food which hinder the work of the emunctories.

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Juices and soups are no good for health because they contain high quantities of sugar and salt, and have less fibre than eating the equivalent fresh fruit or vegetables whole. Second, a liquid-only diet isnt advisable, as you could end up starving yourself, since the body needs a minimum amount of protein to function. Small quantities of white meat or pulses are recommended.

A course of certain plant-based dietary supplements or herbal teas can be used to support and optimize detox performances in periods of burn-out, stress or fatigue, for example. Artichoke, milk thistle, rosemary, turmeric, fennel, birch, dandelion, black radish, queen-of-the-meadow and fumaria are the most effective. Some plants, like chlorella, spirulina and laminaria japonica help combat heavy metals (mercury, aluminum, lead).

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Massages in the abdominal region home to three groups of emunctory organs: the liver, the kidneys and the intestines can help flush out toxins. But lymphatic drainage is even more effective, promoting blood circulation and helping the lymphatic system to drain out waste substances which arent filtered out by blood.

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Mar 14

Study indicates promising new approach to prevent and treat cholesterol gallstones – Science Daily

Study indicates promising new approach to prevent and treat cholesterol gallstones
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"CGD is one of the most common gastroenterological disorders and the incidence rate is increasing because of improved standard of living, a chronic high-cholesterol diet, and over-nutrition. Our study indicated that the constitutive androstane receptor ...

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Mar 14

400000 American deaths linked to poor diet – Bel Marra Health

Home Healthy Eating 400,000 American deaths linked to poor diet

A new study has found that around 400,000 American deaths in 2015 could be attributed to bad diets. An unhealthy diet contributes to heart disease and stroke. Not only does consuming unhealthy foods lead to premature death and disease, but excluding healthy food options such as nuts, vegetables, and whole grains can also increase the risk of disease.

Lead researcher of the study Dr. Ashkan Afshin explained, Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in the United States, killing more people in 2015 than any other cause. Poor diet is the top risk factor for cardiovascular disease death and, therefore, deserves attention from decision-makers in the U.S. when setting health agendas.

The study suggests that nearly half of heart disease and stroke cases may have been prevented if Americans adhered to a healthier diet.

The focus on healthy eating is often surrounded by avoiding foods and ingredients that are unhealthy, but this leaves out what foods should be eaten instead. Ashin added, This study highlights the urgent need for implementation of policies targeting these unhealthy food groups as well healthy foods, such as nuts, whole grains and vegetables.

The study explored data collected between 1990 and 2012, along with data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other sources.

The researchers then looked at deaths in 2015 that were related to heart and vascular causes. They uncovered that unhealthy diet choices and a lack of eating healthy foods contributed to over 222,000 deaths among men and 193,000 among women.

A crummy diet means the body has to work at Mach-10 to battle the onslaught of biochemical, physiological, and inflammatory consequences. No wonder so many of us complain about being exhausted all the time and suffer from very serious and oftentimes preventable cardiovascular diseases, Heller added.

A plant-based diet has been linked with reduced inflammation, improved immune system, gastrointestinal health, and greater energy.

Heller recommended simple swaps that Americans can try in order to incorporate healthier foods into ones diet, which includes sliced avocado, tomato, and hummus on whole grain bread instead of a ham and cheese sandwich; a veggie burger topped with salsa instead of a cheeseburger; brown rice and vegetable-edamame paella instead of mac and cheese; and a salad pizza instead of a pepperoni pizza.

Heller concluded, The good news is it is never too late or too early to ditch unhealthy foods, dig into a plate of vegetables, legumes, fruits, nuts, seeds and whole grains, and watch how our bodies respond by getting healthier and happier.

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