In the large Rotterdam study looking
at dietary data from 4,000 adults over a period of 7 - 10 years, researchers found that those with the highest intakes of vitamin K2 had a 52 % reduced risk of severe arterial calcification and a 57 % lower risk of dying from heart disease (27).
For the new analysis — the first of its kind — the research team looked
at dietary data from 160,191 women and assigned inflammation scores based on 32 food components that the women reported consuming in the three months prior to their enrollment.
Not exact matches
Over the years,
data revealed that
dietary saturated fatty acids (SFAs) are not associated with CAD and other adverse health effects or
at worst are weakly associated in some analyses when other contributing factors may be overlooked.
«A very high percentage of Australians didn't meet their
dietary fruit intake recommendation by eating fruit alone *,» said Malcolm Riley, Research Scientist
at CSIRO Food and Nutrition who led the analysis of the Australian Health Survey 2011 - 2012
data.
«Contrary to the prevailing scientific opinion about the biological effects of nitrite and nitrate, our
data support the view that humans may require these
dietary components from birth — from nature's most perfect food,» said Norman G. Hord, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D., the study's lead author and an associate professor of food science and human nutrition
at Michigan State University (MSU).
At present, there are insufficient
data to document a protective effect of any
dietary intervention beyond 4 to 6 months of age for the development of atopic disease.
«These
data are fully in accord with recent work on the actions of reactive oxygen species in cells, although clearly
at odds with the popular concept that
dietary antioxidants are inevitably beneficial,» says Malcolm Jackson
at the University of Liverpool, UK, who was not involved in the research.
In an effort to find out, Stephen P. Juraschek, M.D., Ph.D., research and clinical fellow in general internal medicine
at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and his colleagues used
data from the DASH (
Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) clinical trial, a widely popular and often - cited study whose results were first published in 1997.
«Our study group has spent decades studying the health effects of diet quality and composition, and now this new
data also suggests overall
dietary habits can be important to lower risk of coronary heart disease,» said Eric Rimm, Sc.D., senior author and Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine
at the Harvard Medical School.
After crunching
dietary data gathered from more than 4,700 adults, researchers
at the University of California
at Berkeley found that soft drinks provide more than 7 percent of the average daily adult intake of calories — the largest single source.
Based on
data gathered when participants entered each study, the investigators used four AHA - defined lifestyle factors — no current smoking; lack of obesity, defined as a body mass index less than 30; physical exercise
at least once a week, and a healthy
dietary pattern — to determine a lifestyle score, whether participants had a favorable (three or four healthy factors), intermediate (two factors) or unfavorable (one or no healthy factors) lifestyle.
She is professor of statistics and former director of the Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology, where she led research and development for a national agro-environmental survey for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, pursued research in geospatial
data collection for land - based surveys, and developed statistical models for surveys aimed
at assessing
dietary intake and physical activity.
Their urinary potassium was measured
at the start of the study, and their
dietary data was collected
at 18 months.
We also repeated the analyses under the most conservative assumption that diet had no effect on mortality among those who had not provided
dietary data at baseline.
Further adjustment for other
dietary variables potentially related to inflammation (intakes of saturated fat, omega - 3 fatty acids, vitamin C or E, β - carotene, lutein and zeaxanthin, and coffee or fish consumption) and physical activity
at baseline or postsecondary school qualification did not affect the results (
data not shown).
Our
data suggests that high
dietary SF is protective in the AOM / DSS model of colon cancer, which may be due,
at least in part, to the ability of SF to maintain intestinal barrier integrity through increased colonic Muc2.
The DRI for sodium, the foundation publication for our current recommendations for salt consumption, clearly state
at the outset that «Because of insufficient
data from dose - response trials, an Estimated Average Requirement (EAR) could not be established, and thus a Recommended
Dietary Allowance could not be derived.
Diet was assessed
at baseline and
at the 4 additional
data collection periods by trained registered dietitians via telephone - based 24 - h
dietary recalls.
In one of the largest analyses of diet and various types of arthritis,
Dietary Interventions for Rheumatoid Arthritis by Norway's National Resource Centre for Rehabilitation in Rheumatology, researchers looked
at data on more than 800 patients from 15 studies.
So I think the amount of linoleic acid in the formula should be normalized to pre-1960
data for Americans, or, better, if they are available, to
data from breast milk concentrations of mothers from traditionally living populations that had not yet encountered
dietary vegetable oils
at the time the
data were collected.
For NHANES III, of 16274 nonpregnant adults aged 20 years or older, we excluded 588 participants with incomplete
data on first - day 24 - hour
dietary recall; 1321 who reported a history of myocardial infarction, stroke, or congestive heart failure; 996 who had diagnosed diabetes mellitus or were taking diabetes medications; and 452 who had cancer
at baseline.
Collectively, these
data are supportive of the recommendation made by the AHA
Dietary Guidelines to include
at least two servings of fish per week (particularly fatty fish).
Dr. Walter Willett, chairman of the nutrition department
at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, says: «Given the
data that we have today, we have shown the refined carbohydrates and especially sugar - sweetened beverages are risk factors for cardiovascular disease, but that the type of
dietary fat is also very important.»
Dietary data were collected from the Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ), a valid and reliable measure of estimated food and beverage consumption (Rogers and Emmett 1998); The FFQ was used to assess (a) mother's reported dietary patterns at 32 weeks gestation («pregnancy»), and (b) what the mother reported feeding her child at 38 months of age («3 years&r
Dietary data were collected from the Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ), a valid and reliable measure of estimated food and beverage consumption (Rogers and Emmett 1998); The FFQ was used to assess (a) mother's reported
dietary patterns at 32 weeks gestation («pregnancy»), and (b) what the mother reported feeding her child at 38 months of age («3 years&r
dietary patterns
at 32 weeks gestation («pregnancy»), and (b) what the mother reported feeding her child
at 38 months of age («3 years»).