Category: Nutrition

The typical American diet is deficient in fruits and vegetables and contains excessive amounts of meat, refined grain products, and dessert foods. Such a diet can have numerous adverse biochemical effects, all of which create a proinflammatory state.  In this study, they relate chronic inflammation due to diet to the risk of depression in women,…

In this article, they reviewed what interventions practitioners used for intestinal hyperpermeability or “leaky gut syndrome”.  The main recommendations are Zinc, multistrain probiotics, Vitamin D, L-glutamine, curcumin and Saccharomyces boulardii.  There seems to be good evidence that these nutritional interventions can help.  I would add that Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, and alpha-ketoglutaric acid should be…

In the June issue of the British Medical Journal, they published two articles dealing with ultra-processed food. In one article, they found that if you eat more than 4 servings of junk food per day, your chances of dying early from anything is 62%, and for each additional serving, your hazard goes up by 18%. In…

Drinking coffee might keep us up at night, but new research has given us a reason to sleep easy knowing that the popular drink isn’t as bad for our arteries as some previous studies would suggest. The research from Queen Mary University of London has shown that drinking coffee, including in people who drink up…

Naveed Saleh, MD, MS, for MDLinx | May 23, 2019 You probably know that most sugary drinks—including sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) like soda, soft drinks, and fruit-flavored drinks—are bad for you. But what about 100% fruit juice, another type of sugary drink? Although there have been some declines in sugar consumption in recent years, people still…

If you take high doses of Vitamin B6 and B12, you may want to reconsider because it may put you at a higher risk of hip fracture after menopause. ~ Dr. Broussard May 16, 2019 Thomas L. Schwenk, MD reviewing Meyer HE et al. JAMA Netw Open 2019 May 3 Women who took high doses…

An article published in the  journal Circulation, they found that the more artificially sweetened beverages that women drank, the higher the risk of death due to cardiovascular disease. ~ Dr. Broussard Circulation — Malik VS, et al. | May 03, 2019 Among 37,716 men from the Health Professional’s Follow-up Study (HPFS; 1986-2014) and 80,647 women…

May 1, 2019 Rita Rubin, MA JAMA. Published online May 1, 2019. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.2927 Back in 1917, the same year that she cofounded the American Dietetic Association (now the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics), Lenna Frances Cooper authored an article in Good Health magazine that noted “in many ways the breakfast is the most important meal of the day, because…