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30 Mar How Can You Find Inner Peace
When you are struggling with your mind and mental health issues, it can be difficult to find peace and accept the situation you find yourself. However, finding inner peace can help you to get back onto your feet and lead a happier and healthier life both now and in the future. Take Up Yoga and Meditation
The first step that you should take to finding inner peace is to practice yoga and meditation regularly. Yoga and meditation can give you the chance to slow down and reflect, as well as to clear your mind of the worries and negative thoughts that are concerning you. Not only this, but deep breathing is also an important aspect of both yoga and meditation as this can help you to ground yourself and to reconnect with the world around you.
14 Mar Breast Cancer: Sugar-Sweetened Soda Consumption May Impact Mortality Risk
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: [caption id="attachment_56942" align="alignleft" width="200"]
Nadia Koyratty[/caption]
Nadia Koyratty PhD student
Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health
University at Buffalo
State University of New York
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: The literature suggests that sugars contribute to the incidence of breast cancer, but few exists on the prognosis after a breast cancer diagnosis.
MedicalResearch.com: What are the main findings?
Response: Compared to breast cancer patients who never or rarely drank non-diet soda, those who reported drinking non-diet soda five times or more per week had a 62% higher likelihood of dying from any causes, and were 85% more likely to die from breast cancer specifically.
18 Feb Diet Plays a Role in Colon Cancer Incidence
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: [caption id="attachment_56684" align="alignleft" width="142"] Dr. Chaiyakunapruk[/caption]
Nathorn (Nui) Chaiyakunapruk PharmD, PhD
Professor, Department of Pharmacotherapy
University of Utah College of Pharmacy
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?
Response: Colorectal cancer is one of the cancers for which we found that the risk can be significantly reduced by modifying diet. Individual components of your diet can contribute to an overall healthy diet pattern to lower the risk of colorectal cancer or increase it. Strong scientific evidence shows that limiting red meat and alcohol consumption, eating foods containing fiber and calcium, consumption of dairy products especially yogurt can help prevent colorectal cancer.
11 Dec Genetic Profile Links Red Wine and Cheese to Preservation of Cognitive Performance
Posted at 23:19h
in Alzheimer's - Dementia, Author Interviews, Cognitive Issues, Genetic Research, Nutrition
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
[caption id="attachment_56215" align="alignleft" width="120"]
Dr. Willette[/caption]
Auriel Willette, PhD
Assistant Professor
Food Science and Human Nutrition
Iowa State University
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: To date, pharmacology therapies done to slow down or halt Alzheimer's disease have been inconclusive. Lifestyle interventions like changes in diet and activity are also mixed but do show some promise. Dietary clinical trials or self-reported diet have tended to focus on groups of foods such as the Mediterranean or MIND diet. To build from this excellent work, we were curious if we could pinpoint specific foods that were correlated with changes in fluid intelligence over time. Fluid intelligence represents our ability to creatively use existing knowledge, working memory, and other components of "thinking flexibly."
Further, we tested if these patterns of association differed based on genetic risk. In this case, genetic risk was defined as having a family history of Alzheimer's disease or having 1-2 "bad" copies of the Apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene, which is the strongest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease.
10 Dec Breast Cancer: Diabetes Risk Reduction Diet Linked to Improved Survival
Posted at 11:22h
in Author Interviews, BMC, Breast Cancer, Brigham & Women's - Harvard, Cancer Research, Diabetes, Nutrition
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Tengteng Wang, PhD, MSPH, MBBS
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Channing Division of Network Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?
Response: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) has been associated with poor progression of breast cancer. Moreover, having a breast cancer diagnosis may also increase the risk of developing T2D. Therefore, identifying strategies for T2D prevention among breast cancer survivors may play a key role in improving their survival outcomes. One approach may be through a diabetes risk reduction diet (DRRD), a dietary pattern comprised of 9 components that has been associated with 40% lower T2D risk in a previous Nurses’ Health Study publication.1 However, no studies to date have evaluated the association between adherence to the DRRD (as measured by the DRRD score) and survival outcomes following breast cancer.
In this prospective cohort study among 8,320 breast cancer survivors, we found that greater adherence to the diabetes risk reduction diet after diagnosis was associated with a statistically significant 31% lower risk of overall mortality. Reduced breast cancer-specific mortality was also observed, which was more pronounced (20% lower risk) among those who improved adherence after diagnosis compared to women with consistently low DRRD adherence before and after diagnosis.
11 Nov Food Insecurity Exacerbates Effects of COVID-19, and Vice Versa
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: [caption id="attachment_55902" align="alignleft" width="132"] Dr. Nagata[/caption]
Jason M Nagata M.D., M.Sc
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine
Department of Pediatrics, University of California
San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: During the COVID-19 pandemic, food insecurity is expected to rise given economic uncertainty and job losses. Vulnerable and marginalized populations are disproportionately affected by both COVID-19 and food insecurity.
26 Oct Kid Influencers Generate Enormous Views for Unhealthy Food Products
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: [caption id="attachment_55746" align="alignleft" width="200"]
Dr. Bragg[/caption]
Marie Bragg, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health on Health Choice
NYU College of Global Public Health
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: We know from previous research that children who see food advertisements eat significantly more calories than children who see non-food advertisements. Those studies led the World Health Organization and National Academy of Medicine to issue reports declaring that exposure to food advertising is a major driver of childhood obesity.
What we don’t know is how frequently unhealthy food and beverage brands are appearing in YouTube videos posted by Kid Influencers. Kid influences are children whose parents film videos of the child playing with toys, unwrapping presents, eating food, or engaging in other family-friendly activities. The parents then post the videos to YouTube for other children and parents to view for entertainment.
30 Sep Fructose May Have Worsening Effect on Inflammatory Bowel Disease
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: David C. Montrose, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Pathology Renaissance School of Medicine Stony Brook Cancer Center Stony Brook University MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings? Response: Rates of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have been increasing worldwide. In parallel with this, fructose consumption has increased. This study demonstrates that feeding high levels of fructose worsens intestinal inflammation in mouse models of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). This fructose-induced worsening of disease is mediated through effects on gut bacteria.
29 Sep Greater Understanding of How High Fructose Corn Syrup Enhances Metabolic Risk Factors
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Kimber L. Stanhope PhD RD Department of Molecular Biosciences School of Veterinary Medicine University of California Dr. Bettina Hieronimus PhD Institute of Child Nutrition Max Rubner-Institut, Federal Research Institute of Nutrition and Food Karlsruhe MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: Sugar consumption is associated with increased body weight and other metabolic diseases. Fructose in particular seems to be detrimental to health as it causes higher increases in blood lipids compared to glucose. Our study assessed the effects of sugar consumption on cardiometabolic risk factors. We compared the effects of consuming glucose, two different doses of fructose or high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) with a non-caloric sweetener. Our subjects were healthy young individuals who drank three sweetened beverages per day over the course of two weeks.
28 Jul Scientific Dietary Guidelines Suggest Americans Consume Too Little Choline
The Committee's scientific report shines a light on the growing body of evidence that shows choline plays a critical role in health during specific life stages and is under consumed among all Americans at every life stage....
09 Jul How Do Non-Soda Fructose-Containing Foods Affect Metabolic Syndrome Risk?
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Zhila Semnani-Azad, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Nutritional Sciences Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: Dietary fructose-containing sugars have been suggested to be an important contributing factor to increased metabolic syndrome risk. Several studies have consistently shown a strong association between sugar-sweetened beverages and increased incidence of metabolic syndrome. There is little information, however, on the role of other food sources of fructose-containing sugars in the development of metabolic syndrome.
28 Jun Who Loses Benefits With Work Requirements for SNAP Benefits?
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: [caption id="attachment_54721" align="alignleft" width="200"]
Dr. Brantley[/caption]
Erin Brantley, PhD, MPH
Senior Research Associate
Department of Health Policy and Management
Milken Institute School of Public Health
Preferred pronouns: she/her/hers
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?
Response: We looked at what happened when work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation, or SNAP, were turned on in many places after the Great Recession.
We found large drops in participation in SNAP benefits due to work requirements, and that black recipients were more likely to lose benefits than white recipients. We think this is driven by the fact that black workers face higher unemployment rates than white workers, and work requirement policies do not take this into account.
We also found that some people who report having disabilities lost benefits, even though the intent of work requirements is that they apply to people without disabilities.
23 Jun Individual Responses to Food May Lead to Precision Nutrition
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: [caption id="attachment_54670" align="alignleft" width="200"] Dr. Valdes[/caption]
Ana M Valdes MA PhD
Associate Professor and Reader in Musculoskeletal Genetics
Professor in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology from 1 August 2020
Deputy Head of Division, Rheumatology Orthopaedics and Dermatology
NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre - Research Area Lead
School of Medicine
University of Nottingham
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: Given the relevance of blood sugar and blood lipid levels, we wanted to be able to quantify how much meal content, time of day, sleep, gut microbiome, other individual characteristics contribute to glucose and to develop models to describe how the interactions between individual characteristics, meal composition, other sources of variation on postprandial glycemia.
We also wished to compare glucose data to other postrpandial metabolic responses, specifically c-peptide and triglyceride levels.
01 Jun Another Side Effect of Quarantine: Weight Gain
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Zachary Zeigler PhD College of Science, Engineering, and Technology Grand Canyon University. Phoenix, AZ MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: We already know that during the COVID-19 pandemic, children alter eating, sleep, and activity behaviors in a manner that promotes weight gain. Additionally, the unprecedented self-quarantine mandate during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to widespread concern that adults may gain weight during the current pandemic.
29 May Giving Your Body What It Needs: 6 Nutritional Supplements Everyone Should Consider Adding Into Their Diet
It is important to remember that the FDA does not regulate dietary supplements. This means that, unlike medications and drugs, supplements do not have to meet any strict standards....
05 Mar Study Finds No Link Between Moderate Egg Consumption and Overall CVD Risk
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Jean-Philippe Drouin-Chartier, RD PhD Assistant Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy, Université Laval Researcher, NUTRISS Center of INAF, Université Laval Visiting Scientist, Department of Nutrition Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death worldwide. Eggs are a major source of dietary cholesterol, but they are also an affordable source of high-quality protein, iron, unsaturated fatty acids, phospholipids, and carotenoids. However, because of the cholesterol content in eggs, the association between egg intake and CVD risk has been a topic of intense debate in the past decades. Many prospective studies on the association between egg intake and cardiovascular disease risk have provided conflicting findings. The aim of our study was to prospectively examine the association between egg consumption and risk of CVD in three cohorts of US men and women, and to conduct a systematic review and a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies on eggs and CVD.
03 Mar “Snack Culture” Means Kids Get More Calories During Sports Than They Burn
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: [caption id="attachment_53374" align="alignleft" width="200"]
Dr. Spruance[/caption]
Lori Spruance PhD
Assistant Professor, Public Health
College of Life Sciences
Brigham Young University
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: I was interested in studying this phenomenon after I attended a research conference presentation where the presenter was describing results from a study where they found that children between ages 6-11 who were physically active drank more sugar-sweetened beverages than children in that age group who were not physically active. The presenter suggested that they believed this was due to youth sports and Gatorade consumption.
I was really intrigued by the fact that kids were getting physical activity, but had really high sugar-sweetened beverage intake. Prior to the study, I did some qualitative interviews with parents of children involved in youth sports. During these interviews, parents discussed the “snack culture” and the shame they sometimes feel being the “healthy parent”. I really wanted to investigate further what was happening.
03 Mar Complicated Effects of Omega-3 and Polyunsaturated Fats on Cardiovascular Diseases and Cancer
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: [caption id="attachment_53366" align="alignleft" width="200"] Dr. Hooper[/caption]
Lee Hooper PhD, RD
Reader in Research Synthesis, Nutrition & Hydration
Norwich Medical School
Norwich, UK
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: Polyunsaturated fats are common healthy eating choices, and fish oil (long-chain omega-3 including EPA and DHA) and flaxseed (containing alpha-linolenic acid, ALA, a plant-based omega-3) supplements are commonly consumed. Worldwide cardiovascular disease was responsible for 37% of premature deaths due to non-communicable disease in 2012, and cancers were responsible for 27%. Small effects of omega-3 and polyunsaturated fats on cardiovascular diseases and cancers could have big effects on worldwide health.
22 Jan When It Comes to Healthy Dieting, It’s the Quality of Nutrients That Counts
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: [caption id="attachment_52849" align="alignleft" width="135"] Dr. Shan[/caption]
Zhilei Shan PhD
Postdoctoral fellow on Nutritional Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: Long-standing controversies have focused on the health consequences of dietary fat and carbohydrate. Previous evidence has shown that different types of carbohydrates and fats have varying effects on disease risk and health. For example, carbohydrates from refined grains and added sugars may contribute to insulin resistance and other metabolic problems while carbohydrates from whole grains and whole fruits appear to be beneficial. Likewise, replacing saturated fat with unsaturated fat was associated with lower risk of heart disease and mortality.
Therefore, it is crucial to incorporate quality and types of carbohydrate and fat when investigating the associations of low-fat and low-carbohydrate diets with mortality.
21 Jan Sugar Has The Potential To Be Addictive
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: [caption id="attachment_52891" align="alignleft" width="133"] Dr. Winterdahl[/caption]
Michael Winterdahl PhD
Associate Professor in Neuroimaging,
Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Center
Aarhus University, Denmark
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: Opioids and dopamine mediate the rewarding effects of drugs. We aimed to determine whether the intake of palatable food could lead to changes in the brain similar to those triggered by addictive substances, so we studied the effects of repeated intermittent access to sugar on opioid and dopamine receptors in porcine brain using neuroimaging.
15 Jan Obesity Epidemic Linked to Ultra-Processed Foods
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: [caption id="attachment_52787" align="alignleft" width="200"] Dr. Frame[/caption]
Leigh Frame, PhD, MHS
Director for the Integrative Medicine Program
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
George Washington University
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: As food consumed in the U.S. becomes more and more processed, obesity may become more prevalent. Through reviewing overall trends in food, we concluded that detailed recommendations to improve diet quality and overall nutrition are needed for consumers, who are prioritizing food that is cheaper and more convenient, but also highly processed.
When comparing the U.S. diet to the diet of those who live in "blue zones" - areas with populations living to age 100 without chronic disease - the differences are stark. Many of the food trends we reviewed are tied directly to a fast-paced U.S. lifestyle that contributes to the obesity epidemic we are now facing.
14 Jan Does Increased Vegetable Consumption Affect Prostate Cancer Progression?
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: [caption id="attachment_52764" align="alignleft" width="160"] Dr. Parsons[/caption]
Kellogg Parsons, MD, MHS
Professor of Urology
Moores UC San Diego Comprehensive Cancer Center
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: Clinical guidelines for prostate cancer, circulated widely in the public domain, endorse the consumption of diets high in micronutrient-enriched vegetables. Drawing on expert opinion, epidemiological studies, and small preclinical experiments, these recommendations propose that vegetable-enriched diets may decrease cancer progression and death among prostate cancer survivors. However, data from randomized clinical trials focused on actionable clinical endpoints has been lacking.
We utilized a specific behavioral intervention, grounded in the field of social psychology, to “nudge” patients with prostate cancer toward healthier food choices. The intervention is telephone-based, like a call center: patient-focused, convenient, and simple.
08 Jan Could a Ketone Drink Help Keep Blood Sugar Under Control?
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: [caption id="attachment_52710" align="alignleft" width="200"] Dr. Little[/caption]
Jonathan P. Little PhD
Associate Professor Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar
Faculty of Health and Social Development
School of Health and Exercise Sciences
The University of British Columbia Syilx Okanagan Nation Territory
Kelowna, BC Canada
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: Ketones are energy-yielding molecules that are bodies naturally produce during periods of starvation or when we restrict carbohydrate intake. Recently, scientists from Oxford and the NIH have created exogenous ketone supplements, which now enable us to be able to drink ketones. This puts our body into a unique state – we can consume a drink that raises blood levels of ketones without having to starve or restrict carbohydrate intake. Some are even touting ketone supplements as a “fourth macronutrient”.
Ketone supplements are primarily marketed for athletes to provide an alternative fuel for improving endurance exercise performance. We were actually studying how ketone supplements impacted exercise performance when we noticed that they consistently lowered blood glucose after participants consumed them. We went to the literature and found some classic papers where it was shown that infusing ketones did in fact lower glucose and the mechanism seemed to involve reducing liver glucose output. This was very exciting to us because we also study type 2 diabetes, a condition where blood sugars are too high and elevated liver glucose output is one of the major reasons. So we came up with the hypothesis that ketone supplements might be a unique strategy to help with blood glucose control.
In the recent study, we tested this out in a randomized crossover experiment in 15 participants with overweight/obesity who were at risk for type 2 diabetes. Participants drank the ketone monoester supplement or a placebo and 30 minutes later they consumed an oral glucose tolerance test drink containing 75 grams of sugar. Blood samples were collected for 2 hours after the glucose test drink.
18 Dec Ultraprocessed Food Linked to Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Dr Mathilde Touvier, MPH, PhD Head of the Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team Dr Bernard Srour, PharmD, PhD Inserm, Inrae, University of Paris MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: We found that for an increase of 10 in the percentage of ultra-processed food quantity in the diet, we had a significant 15% increase in Type 2 diabetes risk. We have already shown, in the NutriNet-Santé cohort, associations between the consumption of ultra-processed foods and overall cancer, breast cancer, cardiovascular, coronary heart diseases risk, mortality and depressive symptoms. However, no prior study had studies the associations between ultra-processed food and Type 2 diabetes risk. We suspected that we would find these associations since some components of ultra-processed foods light have metabolic interactions with human health (some food additives for instance).
26 Sep Excess Sugar in Childhood Linked to Adult Obesity Epidemic
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: [caption id="attachment_51635" align="alignleft" width="171"] Dr. Bentley[/caption]
Professor Alex Bentley
Head of Anthropology
University of Tennessee
Knoxville TN
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?
Response: In recent years, considerable evidence has accumulated suggesting that excess sugar consumption, e.g. in sugar-sweetened beverages, has been a major driver of the U.S. obesity crisis. Critics of this idea, however, have asked: why did the rise in sugar consumption precede the U.S. obesity crises by a decade or more, and why did obesity continue to rise even after sugar consumption began declining the early 2000s?
We modeled the delayed onset of obesity by assuming that diet is a cumulative process that begins in childhood. On average, each age cohort (birth year) has its own specific cumulative exposure to excess sugar in their diets. The inherent delay in our model links childhood consumption of excess sugar with propensity for adult obesity as an adult. Our model explains a simple process by which excess sugar in diets of children of the 1970s and 1980s could explain the sharp increase of adult obesity that began in the 1990s.
24 Sep Snacking on Nuts Better for Weight Control than Chips
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Deirdre K Tobias, ScD Associate Epidemiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical SchoolMedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What types of nuts are helpful? Peanuts included?
Response: We did not have the granularity in our study to evaluate too many individual nut types, and did not perform head-to-head comparisons between types of nuts. All seemed to be better for long-term weight control compared with the snacks like potato chips that we know are not great for us on a regular basis.
22 Aug For Cardiovascular Health Plant Food Quality Matters
Posted at 11:25h
in AHA Journals, Author Interviews, Brigham & Women's - Harvard, Heart Disease, Nutrition, Vegetarians
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
[caption id="attachment_51018" align="alignleft" width="173"] Dr. Baden[/caption]
Megu Baden, MD, PhD
Department of Nutrition
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Boston, MA02115
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Would you give an example of healthful vs non-healthful plantbased diet?
Response: Plant-based diets are recommended for health and recently also for their environmental benefits. However, most previous studies defined it as either vegetarian or non-vegetarian, and importantly, without differentiation for the quality of plant foods. As you know, not all plant foods are equally good to our health.
Therefore, to capture the quality of plant-based diets, we established overall, healthful and unhealthful plant-based diet indices. A higher score on the overall plant based diet index indicates greater intake of all types of plant foods and less of animal foods. A higher score on the healthful plant based diet index indicates greater intake of only healthy plant foods (whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes, vegetable oils, tea/coffee), and less of less healthy plant foods (fruit juices, refined grains, potatoes, sugar-sweetened beverages, sweets/desserts) and animal foods. A higher score on the unhealthful plant based diet index indicates greater intake of only less healthy plant foods, and less of healthy plant foods and animal foods.
In this study, we used these plant-based diet indices and investigated the associations between 12-year changes in plant-based diet quality and subsequent total and cause-specific mortality in two large US cohorts.
20 Aug SNAP: After New Work Requirements More Than 1/3 Lost Food Assistance
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Leighton Ku, PhD, MPH
Professor, Dept. of Health Policy and Management
Director, Center for Health Policy Research
Milken Institute School of Public Health
George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: In this study, we examined how requirements that low-income adults work in order to keep their food assistance benefits (SNAP, formerly called food stamps) affects the number of people receiving benefits. Briefly, we found, based on analyses of data from 2,410 counties from 2013 to 2017, that soon after work requirements are introduced, more than a third of affected participants lose their food assistance. This meant that about 600,000 poor adults lost food assistance very quickly.
This is important for two reasons:
(1) Work requirements create greater hardship, including food insecurity and increased risk of health problems, when poor people lose their nutrition benefits.
(2) The Trump Administration is trying to broaden this policy, expanding it further in SNAP, but also applying work requirements to Medicaid (for health insurance) and public housing benefits. This is a massive effort at social experimentation that will cause tremendous harm.
And the sad part is that we already know, from other research, that these work requirement programs do not actually help people get jobs, keep them or to become more self-sufficient. This is because the work requirements do not address the real needs of low-income unemployed people, to learn how to get better job skills or to have supports, such as child care, transportation or health insurance, that let them keep working.
13 Aug Apples, Blueberries, Broccoli Decrease Mortality Risk
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Nicola Bondonno PhD
National Health and Medical Research Council Early Career Research Fellow
School of Medical and Health Sciences
Edith Cowan University
Joondalup Perth WA
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study?
Response: In an aging society, there could be a huge importance in appropriate evidence-based diets to reduce mortality risk. Therefore, our main question was ‘do diets high in flavonoids reduce the risk of all-cause and cause-specific mortality and is this relationship affected by lifestyle risk factors for early mortality’?
In brief, this is the largest study of flavonoid intake and mortality outcomes to date. This population based cohort study was conducted in 56,048 men and women of the Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health Cohort, followed for 23 years, with estimated intakes of 219 individual flavonoid compounds. The results provide a clarity not seen in previous smaller, often underpowered studies.