http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Scientists at the Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center, a U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Human Nutrition Research Center at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, led by Dr. Martin Ronis have determined that dietary substitution of saturated fats enriched in medium chain triglycerides (MCT) for polyunsaturated fat prevents the development of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). NAFLD occurs in patients with obesity and type II diabetes and is being seen at younger ages in association with the obesity epidemic. NAFLD is characterized by excessive accumulation of fat in the liver. In a proportion of NAFLD cases, liver pathology progresses to hepatitis, fibrosis and liver cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-dietary-medium-chain-triglycerides-nonalcoholic.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:46:46 EST news286037198 (Medical Xpress)—A newly published study has found that it would be relatively easy for New Zealanders to reach recommended levels of lower salt intake to reduce the risk of heart disease, stroke and stomach cancer. This is even if some meals have occasional high salt ingredients such as sausages or other processed foods. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-lowering-salt-intake-diets-important.html Health Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:30:01 EST news282208595 A 98-year-old researcher argues that, contrary to decades of clinical assumptions and advice to patients, dietary cholesterol is good for your heart – unless that cholesterol is unnaturally oxidized (by frying foods in reused oil, eating lots of polyunsaturated fats, or smoking). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-lipid-dietary-heart-disease.html Cardiology Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:01:31 EST news281199666 Certain saturated fats that are common in the modern Western diet can initiate a chain of events leading to complex immune disorders such as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) in people with a genetic predisposition, according to a study to be published early online in the journal Nature. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-western-diet-gut-bacteria-triggers.html Medical research Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:00:01 EST news258810652 Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered a new process that controls the ability of arteries to regulate blood pressure. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-treatments-cardiovascular-disease.html Cardiology Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:00:13 EST news252688404 Men's diets, in particular the amount and type of different fats they eat, could be associated with their semen quality according to the results of a study published online in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-fatty-diets-semen-quality.html Health Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:00:01 EST news250875714 (Medical Xpress) -- Mice genetically programmed to develop prostate cancer had smaller, slower growing tumors if they consumed a diet containing walnuts, UC Davis researchers report in the current issue of the British Journal of Nutrition. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-walnut-diet-tumor-growth-mice.html Cancer Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:16:38 EST news246705377 A major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and other health- and life-threatening conditions, obesity is epidemic in the United States and other developed nations where it's fueled in large part by excessive consumption of a fat-rich "Western diet." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-fatty-acid-health.html Medical research Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:31:02 EST news236518256