Sentences with phrase «large dietary study»

A large dietary study from 18 countries, across 7 geographic regions has found that even relatively moderate intake of fruit, vegetables and legumes such as beans and lentils may lower a person's risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and death.

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Most large studies have found only a very small decrease in risk of colon cancer with the consumption of higher levels of dietary fiber and no decrease in risk of colon cancer recurrence, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Still, the large U.S. Nurses» Health Study, among others, has shown a link between ovulation problems and dietary factors such as:

The prospective design of the IFPS II, the large sample size, as well as the extensive information on infant and maternal dietary practices make it useful for studying exclusive breastfeeding practices and testing hypotheses in a prospective manner [27].

The enamel structure the researchers identified in Pelagiarctos meant the walrus was unlikely to be up to crunching through large bones without cracking its teeth — suggesting that it was a dietary generalist like the modern New Zealand pinnipeds studied, she says.

He concludes, «Mounting evidence from ecological and observational studies, as well as studies of mechanisms, indicates that the Western dietary pattern — especially the large amount of meat in that diet — is strongly associated with risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and several other chronic diseases.

Willett's plan is based on the largest long - term dietary survey ever undertaken: the 121,700 - participant Nurses» Health Study, begun in 1976 by Harvard Medical School professor Frank Speizer, with dietary assessments supervised by Willett since 1980.

«We don't know what exposure is leading to this susceptibility to dietary glutamate, but this pilot study suggests the need for a large - scale clinical trial, since dietary change could be an effective low - cost treatment option for developing countries.»

With so little previously known about the larger Pacific striped octopus, the team hopes to continue studying the dietary needs of newly - hatched planktonic larvae to develop a captive breeding protocol and learn more about the animal's full life cycle.

Mark Uhen, a paleontologist at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, adds that the study is the «first real test of the idea that the evolution of large body size in cetaceans is a dietary adaptation.»

If confirmed in larger studies, the results suggest that the common dietary supplement may actually prevent schizophrenia.

She said: «Our study not only helps shed light on how meat consumption may affect the sections of the colorectum differently, it emphasises the importance of reliable dietary reporting from large groups of people.

The hypothesis on dietary differences between modern humans and Neandertals is based on the study of animal bones found in caves occupied by these two types of hominids, which can provide clues about their diet, but it is always difficult to exclude large predators living at the same time as being responsible for at least part of this accumulation.

The team of researchers studied stable carbon isotopes in the tooth enamel of the large primates — which are able to reveal information about the animals» dietary habits even after several million years.

«This is an interesting and important study, both because of its size and because of the use of objective measurements of blood - borne fatty acids known to depend to a large extent on eating habits, rather than relying on data from dietary questionnaires.

«[These] findings from the most comprehensive large study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease are challenging much of American dietary dogma.»

Since 1997, he has directed the investigation of neurodegenerative diseases in the Nurses» Health Study and other large cohorts comprising more than 400,000 men and women who have provided detailed information on their dietary habits and lifestyle in addition to blood or cheek cell samples for genetic and other laboratory analyses.

The study looked at the effect of dietary supplementation using 2,000 international units of nonprescription vitamin E daily in a large group of elderly Alzheimer's patients and compared their results over an average of around two years to similar patients who received a placebo, a pharmaceutical marketed as a «treatment» for Alzheimer's disease (memantine), or a combination of memantine along with vitamin E.

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).

A large scale human study called the Rotterdam Study showed that people with the highest dietary intake of vitamin K2 had a 50 % reduced risk of aortic calcification and cardiovascular death than those with the lowest dietary instudy called the Rotterdam Study showed that people with the highest dietary intake of vitamin K2 had a 50 % reduced risk of aortic calcification and cardiovascular death than those with the lowest dietary inStudy showed that people with the highest dietary intake of vitamin K2 had a 50 % reduced risk of aortic calcification and cardiovascular death than those with the lowest dietary intake.

The final nail in the coffin was the 2006 Women's Health Initiative, the largest randomized dietary study ever undertaken, which proved this notion false.

However, a larger 20 % reduction in dietary fat with no change in the percentages of calories from protein produced less weight loss (3.7 ± 0.6 compared with 4.9 ± 0.5 kg; P = 0.13) in our previous study (11).

Good Calories, Bad Calories proposes that dietary fat is of little importance in the development of heart disease and he supports his statements with results from a large array of scientific studies.

However, it should be noted that participants in our study were selected from 4 large socioeconomically diverse districts of Tehran, covering a broad range of dietary habits.

In these studies, an LGI was associated with larger amounts of fermentable dietary fiber than was a high GI (HGI).

Despite this study and a host of others (3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10) showing that low fat, high carbohydrate / sugar diets have been shown to increase heart disease risks by contributing to the conversion of large LDL particles to small particles, elevating triglycerides and lowering HDL and other saturated fat studies resulting in shifts to large buoyant LDL (5), the 2015 - 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans continues to encourage the public to adopt a low fat diet.

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.

«The positive ecological correlations between national intakes of total fat and saturated fatty acids and cardiovascular mortality found in earlier studies were absent or negative in the larger, more recent studies,» the authors wrote, concluding that «the harmful effect of dietary saturated fatty acids and the protective effect of dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids on atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease are questioned.»

Several large - scale, observational studies from Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) indicate that the long - term consumption of a diet with a high glycemic load (GL; GI × dietary carbohydrate content) is a significant independent predictor of the risk of developing type 2 diabetes (7, 8) and cardiovascular disease (9).

* Duration of a few weeks * An average dose more equivocal to a «loading» phase than a «maintenance phase» * A larger dose for potential responders who lack natural, dietary creatine * A smaller dose for potential non-responders with a significant amount of existing dietary creatine intake * A training protocol that emphasizes all phases of muscular energetics to take advantage of the ATP - CP, glycolytic, and oxidative effects of creatine supplementation (HIIT is ideal for cardiovascular exercise when supplementing creatine, due to the repeated bouts of high intensity work) * A training protocol that incorporates negatives in order to stimulate satellite cell fusion, as per Dr. Hatfield's theory of holistic training * A training protocol that emphasizes repeated bouts of work per the results of creatine studies * A nutrition protocol tailored to reduce post-workout cortisol levels, which would involve a post-workout shake and possible glutamine supplementation * A nutrition protocol that takes advantage of carb - load (super compensation) near the end of the cycle

A recent, very large European observational study published «Dietary Intake of Total, Animal, and Vegetable Protein and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in the Euorpean Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)- NL Studstudy published «Dietary Intake of Total, Animal, and Vegetable Protein and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in the Euorpean Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)- NL StudyStudy ``.

Dietary Protein Intake and Coronary Heart Disease in a Large Community Based Cohor: Results from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study.

Also, the present study clearly showed the interactive effects of RS and [Fiber] on large bowel SCFA and suggests that it is possible to maintain relatively high butyrate concentration in the distal large bowel by dietary manipulation.

«Although in the past... concerns have been expressed regarding intake of foods high in [phytates reducing] the bioavailability of dietary minerals, recent studies demonstrate that this [so - called] «anti-nutrient» effect... can be manifested only when large quantities of [phytates] are consumed in combination with a [nutrient - poor] diet.»

Studies suggest that dietary fiber from whole grains such as wheat and oats increases stool weight.31 The increase in stool weight is caused by the presence of fiber, water that the fiber holds, and partial fermentation of fiber and oligosaccharides, which increases the amount of beneficial bacteria in stool.32 The large intestine responds to the larger and softer mass of residue produced by a higher fiber diet by contracting, which speeds the movement of the bowel contents towards excretion.

Further observational and epidemiologic studies are necessary to confirm this preliminary finding and to extend it to larger representative groups of people and a wider range of dietary schedules.

Other types of studies examined overall dietary patterns of high fruit and vegetable intake or a vegetarian lifestyle typically incorporating large amounts of pulses.

In summary, the large - scale, adequately powered, prospective studies all show a substantial protective effect of Dietary Fiber for CHD.

The New York Times has referred to «The China Study» as the largest and most comprehensive ever undertaken on the relationship between dietary patterns and development of disease.

Studies in animals and humans have shown that dietary glutathione increases blood levels of glutathione, but one study in mice suggested that under ordinary conditions, dietary glutathione can not boost its own concentration in other tissues except in the lung, where large amounts of glutathione are needed to maintain the fluidity of mucus.

The study was able to adjust for a large number of potential confounding factors, including education, lifestyle (smoking, alcohol, physical activity), dietary factors, and BMI.

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.

The theoretical benefit for utilizing highly digestible «hypoallergenic» diets for patients with colitis includes reducing the digestive challenge to the large intestine and minimizing the likelihood of dietary antigens actually reaching the colon, thus lessening the likelihood of an immunological reaction.21 Several studies in the veterinary literature suggest that some patients may benefit from diets providing novel, highly digestible protein sources.9 - 11 One prospective study reported a resolution in clinical signs associated with idiopathic chronic colitis in 13 dogs fed rice and cottage cheese.

The large - scale study looked at the relationship between dietary patterns and heart disease risk; it is one of the first to include a regionally and socioeconomically diverse population.