By GINA KOLATA
Published: June 5, 2008
How much truth is there to the myth that athletes should have a protein and carbohydrates mix within a certain time frame after workouts or else they risk slowing their recovery?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/health/nutrition/05Best.html?ex=1370404800&en=b18a01a83c755d7f&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
Friday, June 13, 2008
Mediterranean Diet May Cut Diabetes Risk
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
Published: June 10, 2008
Sticking to the Mediterranean diet — rich in olive oil, grains, fruits, nuts, vegetables and fish, and low in meats and dairy — may lower the risk for diabetes.
Scientists followed 13,380 healthy Spanish university graduates for an average of four and a half years, tracking their dietary habits and confirming new cases of diabetes through medical records. The study was published online May 29 in The British Medical Journal.
The researchers ranked the strictness of adherence to the diet on a 10-point scale, and found that those with the highest scores reduced their relative risk of diabetes by 83 percent compared with those with the lowest.
The authors acknowledge that the number of cases of diabetes they found was small, which limits the statistical power of the finding, and that the nutritional information is based on self-reporting, which is not always reliable.
Still, the large sample and the finding of a dose-response relationship between stricter adherence to the diet and lowered risk of diabetes give the study strength.
“There are good fats, like those in olive oil, that are quite healthful,” said Miguel A. Martínez-González, the lead author and a professor of epidemiology at the University of Navarra. “We have to change this belief that a low-fat diet is the key to good health.”
Published: June 10, 2008
Sticking to the Mediterranean diet — rich in olive oil, grains, fruits, nuts, vegetables and fish, and low in meats and dairy — may lower the risk for diabetes.
Scientists followed 13,380 healthy Spanish university graduates for an average of four and a half years, tracking their dietary habits and confirming new cases of diabetes through medical records. The study was published online May 29 in The British Medical Journal.
The researchers ranked the strictness of adherence to the diet on a 10-point scale, and found that those with the highest scores reduced their relative risk of diabetes by 83 percent compared with those with the lowest.
The authors acknowledge that the number of cases of diabetes they found was small, which limits the statistical power of the finding, and that the nutritional information is based on self-reporting, which is not always reliable.
Still, the large sample and the finding of a dose-response relationship between stricter adherence to the diet and lowered risk of diabetes give the study strength.
“There are good fats, like those in olive oil, that are quite healthful,” said Miguel A. Martínez-González, the lead author and a professor of epidemiology at the University of Navarra. “We have to change this belief that a low-fat diet is the key to good health.”
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Experts Revive Debate Over Cellphones and Cancer
By TARA PARKER-POPE
Published: June 3, 2008
What do brain surgeons know about cellphone safety that the rest of us don’t?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/health/03well.html?ex=1370232000&en=67e663973d172d0d&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
Published: June 3, 2008
What do brain surgeons know about cellphone safety that the rest of us don’t?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/health/03well.html?ex=1370232000&en=67e663973d172d0d&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
New Hints Seen That Red Wine May Slow Aging
By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: June 4, 2008
Red wine may be much more potent than was thought in extending human life span, a new report suggests.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/health/research/04aging.html?ex=1370318400&en=76bfeae177c1db5a&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
A Low Dose of Dietary Resveratrol Partially Mimics Caloric Restriction and Retards Aging Parameters in Mice(PLoS One)
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0002264
Published: June 4, 2008
Red wine may be much more potent than was thought in extending human life span, a new report suggests.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/health/research/04aging.html?ex=1370318400&en=76bfeae177c1db5a&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
A Low Dose of Dietary Resveratrol Partially Mimics Caloric Restriction and Retards Aging Parameters in Mice(PLoS One)
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0002264
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