Category: Nutrition

November 14, 2019 LAS VEGAS — Adults with type 2 diabetes can experience multiple diabetes-specific benefits beyond weight loss by undertaking a low-carbohydrate diet, although potential risks must be addressed, according to a speaker at ObesityWeek. “Carbohydrate restriction is a viable option for patients with type 2 diabetes,” Jeff Stanley, MD, medical director and practicing physician at Virta…

Does your doctor ever test your blood mineral levels?  What if you have a subclinical mineral deficiency?  This article shows that a subclinical magnesium deficiency is linked to diabetes, prediabetes, and high blood pressure. ~ Dr. Broussard Association of low serum magnesium with diabetes and hypertension: Findings from Qatar Biobank Study Diabetes Research and Clinical…

MedicalXpress Breaking News-and-Events | October 29, 2019 Move over, apples—new research from Penn State suggests that eating one avocado a day may help keep “bad cholesterol” at bay. According to the researchers, bad cholesterol can refer to both oxidized low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and small, dense LDL particles. In a randomized, controlled feeding study, the researchers…

This article looked at 50,000 cases of asthma in 468,836 people, and they found that sugar-sweetened soft drinks are positively associated with asthma.  This only shows a link and not causality yet, that’s why they recommend studying this issue more. ~ Dr. Broussarrd Association between soft drinks consumption and asthma: A systematic review and meta-analysis…

Newswise | October 01, 2019 Most people can continue to eat red and processed meat as they do now. A panel of international scientists led by researchers at Dalhousie and McMaster universities systematically reviewed the evidence and have recommended that most adults should continue to eat their current levels of red and processed meat. The…

This article shows that fish eaters and vegetarians had lower rates of heart attacks than meat eaters, but vegetarians had higher rates of stroke. ~ Dr. Broussard Risks of Ischemic Heart Disease and Stroke in Meat Eaters, Fish Eaters, and Vegetarians September 25, 2019 TAKE-HOME MESSAGE The EPIC-Oxford prospective cohort study examined incident cases of ischemic…

  By Robert Dillard -September 4, 2019 Consumption of total, sugar-sweetened, and artificially sweetened soft drinks is linked to all-cause mortality, according to the findings of a recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. In this population-based cohort study, researchers assessed 451,743 (mean age, 51, 71% women) participants in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer…

In this study published in the journal STROKE, the authors stated that people who have high blood pressure AND a zinc deficiency, defined as < 106.9 μg/dL, are at risk of suffering a hemorrhagic stroke. ~ Dr. Broussard Baseline plasma zinc and risk of first stroke in hypertensive patients: A nested case-control study Abstract Background and…