Category: Nutrition
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Coffee Not As Bad For Heart As Previously Thought
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…
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Vitamin D and Back Muscle Atrophy – Not Good For Surgical Patients
This article found that patients that are vitamin D deficient, have weaker back muscles, and that if they have back surgery, they will have reduced possibilities of early and effective rehab after their surgery. ~ Dr. Broussard Vitamin D Deficiency Is Associated with Muscle Atrophy and Reduced Mitochondrial Function in Patients with Chronic Low Back…
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Is fruit juice as bad as soda?
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…
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Glucosamine Use Associated With Lower Cardiovascular Disease Risk
This article in the British Medical Journal found that the people who used glucosamine for their arthritis also had lower risks of cardiovascular disease. ~ Dr. Broussard Association of habitual glucosamine use with risk of cardiovascular disease: Prospective study in UK Biobank BMJ — Ma H, et al. | May 17, 2019 In order to…
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Hip Fracture After Menopause Was Associated with High Intake of Vitamins B6 and B12
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…
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Artificially Sweetened Beverages Increase Women’s Mortality
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…
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Does Skipping Breakfast Lead to Weight Loss or Weight Gain?
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…
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Glycine and Tryptophan Reduce Serum Uric Acid and Triglycerides
Date Posted: 4/30/2019 2:16:57 PM As a central characteristic of gout, hyperuricemia is defined as a serum uric acid concentration higher than 7.0 mg/dL. Hyperuricemia occurs as a result of an imbalance between uric acid synthesis and excretion but is thought to mostly be influenced by decreased renal excretion. Earlier studies showed glycine reduces uric…
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Ultra-processed Food and Incident Depressive Symptoms
In this British medical journal, they concluded that the more processed foods one eats, the higher the risk of developing symptoms of depression, and that diet may have a clinical effect in mental health. ~ Dr. Broussard Prospective association between ultra-processed food consumption and incident depressive symptoms in the French NutriNet-Santé cohort BMC Medicine —…
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Unpacking a Recent Study Linking Diet Soda With Stroke Risks
April 3, 2019 Jennifer Abbasi JAMA. Published online April 3, 2019. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.2123 Around 2 decades ago, researchers asked tens of thousands of participants in the Women’s Health Initiative study how often they consumed artificially sweetened beverages over the past 3 months. Recently, they looked at how the diet sodas and fruit drinks the women drank…