Sentences with phrase «dozen randomized studies»

EMDR therapy has been empirically supported by more than two dozen randomized studies and is recognized as an effective treatment for PTSD by numerous organizations worldwide, including the American Psychiatric Association and the Department of Defense.

Not exact matches

With rudimentary laboratories, one could argue that more was accomplished with regards to the effect of diet on cancer in the former half of the century, as revolutionary researchers like Tannenbaum, Rous, and their colleagues provided us with dozens of animal studies linking diet and cancer by exposing mice to free radical - laden vegetable oils.32, 33 Several decades later, two other researchers, Dayton and Pearce, provided one of the few studies revealing what happens when we give humans vegetable oils and their accompanying free radicals when they randomized men to a corn oil solution and a similar rise in cancer followed.34 It is no surprise that corn oil is often used in animal studies to cause cancer, as the ingestion of damaging free radicals predictably hastens cancer development.35 Furthermore, these scientists were the first to show that fasting, restricting calories, and cutting carbohydrates could lower the chance of cancer in animals exposed to dangerous chemicals and carcinogens.

After decades of a ballooning population and dozens of randomized studies revealing the superiority of a higher fat and lower carbohydrate diet, 1,2 the tide is turning.