Dietetics
Alternate day fasting could be a simpler way to diet
A randomised controlled trial study found that four weeks of strict alternate day fasting (ADF) improved markers of general health in healthy, middle-aged humans while causing a 37% calorie reduction on average. No adverse effects occurred even...Healthy food more important than type of diet to cut heart disease risk
Everyone knows that achieving or maintaining a healthy body weight is one key to preventing cardiovascular disease. But even experts don't agree on the best way to achieve that goal, with some recommending eliminating carbohydrates and others...Even for the slim, cutting around 300 calories daily improves risk markers
Data from a two-year Duke Health trial suggests when it comes to cutting your risk for killer ailments such as diabetes and heart disease, there's always room for improvement. In adults already at a healthy weight or carrying just a few extra...Low-carb diet may reduce diabetes risk independent of weight loss
A low-carb diet may have benefits for people at risk of developing type 2 diabetes even if they don't lose any weight, a US study suggests. Researchers at The Ohio State University wanted to know what happens to obese people with metabolic...
PREDICT is in search of the Holy Grail of personalised nutrition
June 26th, 2019 PREDICT, a collaboration between King's College London, Harvard and Stanford in the US – is a study to measure thousands of people’s responses to different foods and discover why, when it comes to health, different diets suit different...
Eating ultra-processed food increases risk of weight gain
May 22nd, 2019 People eating ultra-processed foods ate more calories and gained more weight than when they ate a minimally processed diet, according to results from a National Institutes of Health study. The difference occurred even though meals provided to the...Middle-aged and severely obese increases mortality rate by 50%
People who are severely obese in middle age are 50% more likely to die early than those of a healthy weight, according to a large study of UK data. The Guardian reports that the research shows people with the highest levels of obesity are running...
Self-inflating capsule as alternative to intra-gastric balloon
May 1st, 2019 A team from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the National University Health System (NUHS) has developed a self-inflating weight management capsule that could be used to treat obese patients, as an alternative to...
Report on 'breakthrough' slimming pill — European Congress on Obesity
May 1st, 2019 A "breakthrough" slimming pill that expands in the stomach was twice as successful as a placebo, according to research presented at the European Congress on Obesity. Of those taking the drug, already given regulatory approval in the US, 59%...
60-year-old weight-loss drug now also shown safe to use in the long-term
April 3rd, 2019 An inexpensive weight-loss drug approved 60 years ago for only short-term use also may be safe and effective for longer-term treatment, according to a study conducted by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Health and the Patient Outcomes Research to...
Exercise better than meds to reduce dangerous visceral fat
February 13th, 2019 Exercise resulted in greater reduction in visceral adipose tissue (VAT) relative to weight loss than did pharmacological interventions, found a US meta-analysis. Researchers at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre analysed two types of...
Fasting may boost metabolic activity, slow ageing
February 6th, 2019 Fasting may help people lose weight, but a small new Japanese study suggests going without food may also boost human metabolic activity, generate antioxidants, and help reverse some effects of ageing. Scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science...
A 'myopic focus on weight' drives the popularity of keto diet
January 16th, 2019 This time last year, Google searches for the keto diet outranked those for paleo for the first time. Laura Thomas, registered nutritionist writes in The Guardian that twelve months on, keto recipe books are flying high in the publishing charts,...Review assesses low-fat/high-carb and high-fat/low-carb diets
A strong> US research review agreed that no specific fat to carbohydrate ratio is best and that an overall high-quality diet that is low in sugar and refined grains will help most people maintain a healthy weight and low chronic disease...
Being too fat or too thin 'can cost four years of life'
October 31st, 2018 Being overweight or underweight, as measured by the Body Mass Index, could knock four years off life expectancy, a five-year UK population cohort study of nearly 2m people found. Researchers found that, from the age of 40, people at the higher...