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Premenopausal women assigned to follow the Atkins diet for one year lost more weight

Premenopausal women who were assigned to follow the Atkins diet for one year lost more weight when compared to women who were assigned to follow the Zone, Ornish and LEARN diets. Overweight and obesity are well-documented problems in the United States. National dietary weight loss guidelines ( a ...
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Calorie restriction may prevent Alzheimer's disease

A study, directed by Mount Sinai School of Medicine, suggests that experimental dietary regimens might calm or even reverse symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. The study, which is published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, is the first to show that restricting caloric intake, specifically carb...
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Age-related macular degeneration may be linked to quality of dietary carbohydrates

Age-related macular degeneration ( AMD ), one of the leading causes of vision loss in older adults and a person's risk may partly depend upon diet, could be due to quality of carbohydrates, rather than quantity. Their findings were reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Taylo...
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Statin use linked to reduced risk of nuclear cataract

The statins are associated with a lower incidence of nuclear cataract, the most common type of age-related cataract. Statins are widely used to decrease serum cholesterol for cardiovascular disease prevention. Statins have also been shown to have antioxidant activity. Oxidative stress ( a condi...
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High levels of homocysteine may be linked to increased age-related macular degeneration risk

People who have elevated homocysteine in their blood, an amino acid that is a known biomarker for cardiovascular disease, may also be at an increased risk of developing age-related macular degeneration ( AMD ). The study is published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology. This research was ...
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Eating less fat may lower breast cancer risk, have little impact on colon cancer, heart disease risk

Adopting a low-fat diet in later life and following such a regimen for nearly a decade does not appear to have a significant impact on reducing the overall risk of breast cancer, colorectal cancer or heart disease, according to a Women's Health Initiative study that involved nearly 50,000 postmenopa...
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Older adults may reduce risk of metabolic syndrome by eating more whole grains

In a study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University ( HNRCA ) found that consuming a diet rich in whole-grain foods may lower an elderly person's risk for cardiovascular disease and reduc...
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No effect from reducing total dietary fat on the risk of breast cancer, heart disease, stroke or colon cancer

Despite that a low-fat diet introduced in the middle-age years doesn't reduce the risk of breast cancer, heart disease, stroke or colon cancer, one of the researchers says people still need to focus on the types of fat they eat. The national diet study of almost 50,000 healthy postmenopausal wome...
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Statins not associated with reduced colorectal cancer risk

A study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, found that use of cholesterol reducing drugs is not associated with a reduced risk of colorectal cancer. Previous studies have investigated the association between statins, the most commonly used type of cholesterol lowering dru...
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Cataract incidence in men increases with height, waist size and body mass index

In a large prospective study of physicians followed over 14 years, Schaumberg et al. found that greater adult height and a pattern of abdominal adiposity were each independent risk factors for cataract in men. Cataract is the leading cause of blindness worldwide with an incidence of 20% of person...
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