For several years, medical researchers, doctors and dieticians have known that a low carbohydrate diet and plentiful fat can prevent a range of lifestyle and age-related diseases and thus promote healthy aging. But researchers ...
Sep 15, 2017
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Ketogenic diets are back in the news with claims they are a "cure-all". Research shows that in epilepsy not controlled by current treatment, around 50% of children and adults following ketogenic diets have a reduction in ...
Sep 5, 2017
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Next time you drop an artificial sweetener into your coffee thinking of the weight you'll lose by avoiding sugar, think again.
Aug 1, 2017
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In an analysis of dietary patterns of postmenopausal women using data from the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study, researchers at the USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine ...
May 19, 2017
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Anna Gunby can't run around as smoothly as most 4-year-olds because her wobbly legs are affected by a rare brain disease that also hinders her intellect. She can't identify colors. She can't count objects. Her attention span ...
Apr 25, 2017
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More than 8 million individuals in the United States have gout, a disease that can cause intense recurrent episodes of debilitating pain, inflammation, and fever. The cause of gout is the accumulation of urate crystals in ...
Feb 28, 2017
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In a small phase I and II clinical trial, Johns Hopkins researchers and colleagues elsewhere found that the high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet was a safe and effective treatment option for the majority of adults experiencing ...
Feb 27, 2017
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(HealthDay)—Children with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis may be able to achieve relief without medications by eating a special diet, a small study suggests.
Jan 10, 2017
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Experimenting on mice with a genetic change similar to that found in people with a rare inherited disease called Kabuki syndrome, Johns Hopkins scientists report that a very low-carbohydrate diet can "open up" DNA and improve ...
Dec 19, 2016
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(HealthDay)—For patients with type 1 diabetes, a low-carbohydrate diet (LCD) results in lower incremental rises in plasma glucose (PG) after mild hypoglycemia compared with an isocaloric high-carbohydrate diet (HCD), according ...
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