http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A combination of nontoxic dietary and hyperbaric oxygen therapies effectively increased survival time in a mouse model of aggressive metastatic cancer, a research team from the Hyperbaric Biomedical Research Laboratory at the University of South Florida has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-nontoxic-cancer-therapy-effective-metastatic.html Cancer Wed, 05 Jun 2013 17:00:02 EST news289669447 (HealthDay)—When it comes to eating pasta, bread and potatoes, timing could be everything. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-carbs-dinnertime-weight.html Overweight and Obesity Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:30:02 EST news274618761 New drugs derived from components of a specific diet used by children with severe, drug-resistant epilepsy could offer a new treatment, according to research published today in the journal Neuropharmacology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-discovery-treatment-epilepsy.html Neuroscience Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:20:05 EST news272649854 Colon cancer survivors whose diet is heavy in complex sugars and carbohydrate-rich foods are far more likely to have a recurrence of the disease than are patients who eat a better balance of foods, a new study by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers indicates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-starchy-high-carbohydrate-diet-recurrence.html Cancer Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:00:02 EST news271517732 The absence of a specific type of neuron in the brain can lead to obesity and diabetes in mice report researchers in The EMBO Journal. The outcome, however, depends on the type of diet that the animals are fed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-brain-neurons-diet-onset-obesity.html Medical research Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:01:23 EST news267184877 In an examination of the effect on energy expenditure and components of the metabolic syndrome of 3 types of commonly consumed diets following weight loss, decreases in resting energy expenditure and total energy expenditure were greatest with a low-fat diet, intermediate with a low-glycemic index diet, and least with a very low-carbohydrate diet, suggesting that a low-fat diet may increase the risk for weight regain compared to the other diets, according to preliminary research published in the June 27 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-effect-common-diets-energy-expenditure.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:00:01 EST news259940995 A 25 year study in Northern Sweden, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Nutrition Journal, is the first to show that a regional and national dietary intervention to reduce fat intake, decreased cholesterol levels, but a switch to the popular low carbohydrate diet was paralleled by in an increase in cholesterol levels. Over the entire 25 year period the population BMI continued to increase, regardless of either diet, and both the increase in body mass and increased cholesterol levels are indicators of increased cardiovascular risk. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-bad-dieting-cardiovascular-disease.html Cardiology Mon, 11 Jun 2012 03:45:57 EST news258605013 A new study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine reveals that in obese men with type 2 diabetes, weight loss improves erectile function, sexual desire and lowers urinary tract symptoms. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-weight-loss-sexual-health-overweight.html Overweight and Obesity Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:29:09 EST news231766098 Milk and soy protein supplements were associated with lower systolic blood pressure compared to refined carbohydrate dietary supplements, in a study reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-soymilk-protein-dietary-supplements-linked.html Cardiology Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:00:03 EST news230221567 Eating a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet may reduce the risk of cancer and slow the growth of tumors already present, according to a study published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-low-carbohydrate-high-protein-diets-tumor-growth.html Cancer Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:21:45 EST news227265690 A modest reduction in consumption of carbohydrate foods may promote loss of deep belly fat, even with little or no change in weight, a new study finds. Presentation of the study results will be Sunday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-carbs-body-fat-authors.html Health Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:31:49 EST news226571491