Sentences with phrase «by dietary factors»

According to figures from the National Cancer Institute, thirty percent of all cancer cases can be attributed to tobacco, while 35 percent are caused by dietary factors.

Not exact matches

They explained that the decline in some crops could lead to massive global health problems «by changing the composition of diets and, with it, the profile of dietary and weight - related risk factors and associated mortalities.»

I would monitor my body - weight, composition, cholesterol profile, chronic inflammation indicated by C - Reactive Protein (CRP) and Heart Rate Variability (HRV) whilst doing so to help assess whether the diet was something to consider following periodically or continuously since insulin sensitivity is very important but not the sole factor determining the healthspan supporting virtues of a dietary template.

Some of the medical studies I used as a reference are: Caloric restriction and intermittent fasting: Two potential diets for successful brain aging and Dietary Factors, Hormesis and Health, found on the US National Library of Medicine Site, Cardioprotection by Intermittent Fasting in Rats on the American Heart Association Site and Effect of Ramadan intermittent fasting on aerobic and anaerobic performance and perception of fatigue in male elite judo athletes from the Journal of Strength and conditioning research.

Lifelong dietary patterns and behavioral choices are influenced by environmental factors.

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

Confounding by other known dietary factors was unlikely because the risk estimates were influenced only slightly by adjustments for covariates, eg, the amount of gluten consumed.

With regard to non-insulin dependent diabetics, then the limiting factors are the disturbance caused by the diarrhoeal infection and the carbohydrate restrictions imposed by dietary management.

The effects of the dietary intervention, mode of feeding (breast - fed or formula - fed), and time were evaluated by using three - factor repeated - measures ANOVA for the outcomes of reported number of egg yolks consumed; reported consumption of meat, chicken, and fish; reported consumption of baby cereal; reported consumption of adult cereal; erythrocyte DHA and AA; plasma cholesterol; and indexes of iron status.

Aside from dietary issues, the CMAH gene also proves to be a major factor in whether or not a transplanted organ from an animal would be accepted by a human because of the gene.

To understand how obesity occurs and how it may be treated requires an understanding of the genes that regulate body weight and how their function is influenced by environmental factors such as diets high in calories and dietary fat.

«When I work with women reporting low libido, I explore the health of their relationship in terms of communication styles, if they're feeling satisfied by sexual interaction, and also individual factors such as stress indicators (work, family, life) if experiencing anxiety, depression, exhaustion, on any medications or have dietary changes and even dealing with young children.»

Cardiologists are discovering that «high glycemic index» carbohydrates (sweet and starchy foods that cause blood sugar to rise rapidly) are, by far, the most important dietary risk factors in coronary artery disease.

Recent research indicates that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and conditions of similar pathology, like celiac disease and IBD, can be triggered by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors, including environmental toxins like glyphosate, dietary alterations, metabolic status, and intestinal permeability.

I believe that nutrition has some influence on the disease course, but as MS is a multifactoral illness (genetic AND SEVERAL environmental factors), it is too naive to think one could completley stop it only by dietary changes, as real life experience demonstrates.

The great news is that by adding fermented veggies into your foods, you are changing your gut health for better: «the composition of the gut microbiota has been shown to differ in lean and obese humans and animals and to change rapidly in response to dietary factors.

«From the chemical standpoint,» the critical difference between «efficient» native diets and diets characterized by the «displacing foods of modern commerce,» according to Dr. Price, was that «all the efficient dietaries were found to contain two to six times as high a factor of safety in the matter of bodybuilding material, as the displacing foods» (emphasis added).11 The foods that served a «bodybuilding» purpose varied substantially according to the group and location studied, but in all instances, traditional societies emphasized the most nutrient - dense land and sea animal and plant foods that could be obtained in their context, ranging from the exceptionally high - vitamin dairy products, whole rye sourdough bread and occasional meat of the isolated Swiss to the fish, cereals and sweet potatoes of Kenya's Maragoli tribe.

Likewise, a study by Assunção and colleagues (2009) demonstrated that dietary coconut oil reduces visceral adiposity and elevates HDL cholesterol in women, thus improving both anthropometric and biochemical risk factors for metabolic syndrome.

Aside from the fact that dietary carbohydrate intake is only weakly correlated to any factors seen by the baby in the womb (eg blood glucose, insulin, etc), 261 g / day is a substantial amount of carbohydrate — well above physiological needs.

At any rate, it's important to note that this study wasn't truly controlled (they compared to some historical patient values), and was confounded by a low - fat dietary change, so we can't know how much was the diet change, the flax, or any other potential factors since it didn't have a true control group.

By addressing dietary and lifestyle factors, the body can return to its natural state, which is one of balance and vibrant health.»

Dr. Greger has published a number of videos on the subject of Alzheimers disease and dementia, presenting compelling considerations that seem to point towards non-genetic factors that may very well be influenced by dietary choices.

«Clinically and cognitively normal individuals with and without AD risk factors, following dietary patterns characterized by high intakes of whole grains, fresh fruits, vegetables, legumes, fish, and low - fat dairy products (which provide higher intakes of vitamin B12, vitamin D, and n - 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids) and by low intakes of refined sugars, French fries, high - fat dairy products, butter, and processed meat, show lower accumulation of Aβ in the brain and higher cerebral glucose metabolism, as evidenced by neuroimaging analysis of gray matter volumes (a marker of brain atrophy), C - Pittsburgh compound B (to measure the accumulation of fibrillar Aβ), and F - fluorodeoxyglucose (to assess brain glucose metabolism.»

In fact, research shows 90 percent of strokes are caused by dietary and lifestyle factors, which means you can lower your risk with a few changes to how you live.

After adjusting for lifestyle and dietary risk factors, a major study involving 131,342 participants found that for every 3 - percent increase in plant protein the participants worked into their diets, they saw their risk for death from causes including heart disease drop by 10 percent over a 32 - year period.

More interestingly, the effects on infarction size, survival rates and cardiac function can be observed even if the dietary intervention is induced after the ischemic event, by increasing the expression of angiogenic factors and increased vascularization of the damaged myocardium, proposing a novel non-pharmacological therapy for subjects with chronic heart failure (43).

In addition, aging may be accelerated by free radicals from dietary and lifestyle factors that affect collagen and elastin.

And again, even if diet was the biggest factor, removal of animal foods was not the only dietary change made in these studies, by far.

For example, some women with PCOS have more inflammation triggered by stress, environmental factors, or dietary choices while others are more prone to insulin - resistance.

A direct benefit of dietary pulses, however, is supported by several systematic reviews and meta - analyses of randomized controlled trials of the effect of dietary pulses on cardiometabolic risk factors.

Dr. Lara Spector, ND discusses natural ways to help acne, an often frustrating skin condition that can be caused by hormonal influences, dietary factors, as well as bacteria imbalances.

Reversal of behavioral and metabolic abnormalities, and insulin resistance syndrome, by dietary restriction in mice deficient in brain - derived neurotrophic factor

Because we already factored in the exercise deficit by using an activity multiplier, the deficit we are concerned with here is the dietary deficit.

It leaves me wondering when in the future studies will show that calorie restriction, exercise and specific dietary factors influence the degree of inflammatory response in the gut and a diet opposite of the recommended diet may be a possible contributory cause of relapses in MS. Peak Physical Therapy Sports and Performance Center works side by side with Whole Health Nutrition.

But this lists reinforces the idea that the heart can be put at risk by more factors than the dietary fat, obesity, and smoking that share the majority of the blame.

Stratified analyses were also conducted by methodologic quality, sex, type of dietary assessment tool (food frequency questionnaires vs food records and 24 - hour recall), continental region (North America, Europe, and Asia), and type of prevention strategy (primary vs secondary) to assess the influence of these factors on the observed associations between diet and CHD.

Dietary phosphorus is readily absorbed in the small intestine, and in healthy individuals, excess phosphorus is excreted by the kidneys under the regulatory action of the endocrine hormones: parathyroid hormone (PTH), vitamin D, and fibroblast growth factor - 23 (FGF - 23).

Further, we were able to adjust our associations for a wide range of potential risk factors for type 2 diabetes and dietary factors, so the observed positive association between protein intake and type 2 diabetes is likely to be explained by proteins per se.

Likewise, odor, consistency, taste, and learned dietary habits determine which foods a cat prefers, but how much a cat will eat is affected by factors such as noises, lights, food containers, the presence or absence of people or other animals (including other cats), physiologic state, and disease.

Dietary Protein Adverse reactions to dietary staples are common in cats and dogs with chronic gastrointestinal disease, and can often be successfully managed by feeding selected - protein diets.8 - 11 Because antigenic determinants on proteins are incriminated as the precipitating factor in many cases of IBD, it is usually recommended to feed an elimination diet that is generally free of additives and preservatives, and contains a single, novel protein source that is highly digestible, or a hypoallergenic formula.12 There are no protein sources that are inherently hypoalleDietary Protein Adverse reactions to dietary staples are common in cats and dogs with chronic gastrointestinal disease, and can often be successfully managed by feeding selected - protein diets.8 - 11 Because antigenic determinants on proteins are incriminated as the precipitating factor in many cases of IBD, it is usually recommended to feed an elimination diet that is generally free of additives and preservatives, and contains a single, novel protein source that is highly digestible, or a hypoallergenic formula.12 There are no protein sources that are inherently hypoalledietary staples are common in cats and dogs with chronic gastrointestinal disease, and can often be successfully managed by feeding selected - protein diets.8 - 11 Because antigenic determinants on proteins are incriminated as the precipitating factor in many cases of IBD, it is usually recommended to feed an elimination diet that is generally free of additives and preservatives, and contains a single, novel protein source that is highly digestible, or a hypoallergenic formula.12 There are no protein sources that are inherently hypoallergenic.

The therapeutic dotential of dietary precursor modulation by a fish - oil - supplemented diet (n - 3 fatty acids), such as eicosapentaenoic acid (C20: 5,n - 3) and docosahexaenoic acid (C22: 6,n - 3) in the therapy of ulcerative colitis has been shown to result in a 35 % to 50 % decrease in neutrophil production of LTB4.28 Significant improvement in symptoms and histologic appearance of the rectal mucosa has been observed in several small series of patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis given fish oil at 3 to 4 g daily for 2 to 6 months in uncontrolled studies.29 However, a larger, randomized, double - blind trial comprising 96 patients with ulcerative colitis failed to reveal any benefit in remission maintenance or treatment of relapse on 4.5 g of eicosapentaenoic acid daily, despite a significant reduction in LTB4 synthesis by blood peripheral polymorphonuclear cells.30 It should be emphasized, however, that the anti-inflammatory actions of the fish oils, in addition to inhibition of LTB4, include suppression of IL - 1 and platelet activating factor synthesis and scavenging of free oxygen radicals.30 The impact of increased lipid peroxidation after fish oil supplementation should be considered when altering the n - 6: n - 3 fatty acid ratio.31 Antioxidant supplementation may be able to counteract the potentially adverse effects of n - 3 fatty acids.

Proposed causes for human IBD include defective immunoregulation of the gut - associated lymphoid tissue that may be precipitated by permeability defects, 14 infectious and parasitic agents, 15,16 and dietary allergies.13, 17 There is provocative evidence from clinical observations and animal models to incriminate normal luminal bacteria or bacterial products in the initiation and perpetuation of canine IBD.18, 19 The clinical response to hypoallergenic or elimination diets suggest that dietary factors may influence the pathogenesis of canine IBD.8 - 11 The term «hypoallergenic» refers to a diet that is generally free of additives and preservatives, and contains a hydrolyzed protein source.

After a meal, blood glucose surges appear to be regulated by multiple factors in the diet such as the chemical makeup of carbohydrates, the type of dog diabetes high protein diet selected, fat, dietary fiber, and the type of food processing used.

Feather chewing and plucking may be caused by a number of factors including dietary deficiencies.

While the greenhouse gas footprint of the production of other foods, compared to sources such as livestock, is highly dependent on a number of factors, production of livestock currently accounts for about 30 % of the U.S. total emissions of methane.316, 320,325,326 This amount of methane can be reduced somewhat by recovery methods such as the use of biogas digesters, but future changes in dietary practices, including those motivated by considerations other than climate change mitigation, could also have an effect on the amount of methane emitted to the atmosphere.327