Does an apple a day really keep the doctor away?
Though it may be in the April Fool’s issue of JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers have conducted a serious study assessing the medical evidence to support the famous proverb.
March 31, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: april-fool, famous, internal, internal-medicine, jama, medical, medical-evidence, nutrition / diet, serious-study, support-the-famous
Evidence does not support guidelines on fatty acid consumption to reduce coronary risk
Current evidence does not support nutritional guidelines that advocate high consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids and low consumption of total saturated fats, according to an article being published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
March 17, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: annals, article-being, evidence-does, fatty-acids, internal, not-support, nutritional counseling, total-saturated
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force publishes final recommendation statement on multivitamins to prevent cardiovascular disease and cancer
The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends against the use of beta-carotene or vitamin E supplements for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease or cancer, according to a recommendation statement being published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
February 24, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: against-the-use, annals, internal, oncalldiets, preventive, primary, primary-prevention, statement-being, united, united-states
Vitamin supplements a waste of money?
Physicians urge, ‘stop wasting money on vitamin and mineral supplements’Editorialists responding to three articles on vitamin and mineral supplementation being published in Annals of Internal Medicine urge U.S. adults to stop wasting their money on dietary supplements.
December 16, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: being-published, internal, mineral-supplementation, mineral-supplements, money, money-on-dietary, money-on-vitamin, nutrition, nutrition / diet, their-money
News from Annals of Internal Medicine: 12 November 2013
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November 13, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: annals, article-published, cvd, disease-or-death, healthy-adults, internal, mineral-supplements, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, published-studies, systematic-review
Mediterranean diet linked to longer lifespan and better health
New research suggests that middle-aged women who follow a Mediterranean diet or similar may increase their lifespan and avoid physical or cognitive impairments and chronic illnesses in older age. This is according to study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
November 5, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: avoid-physical, crete, diet-follows, diet-or-similar, eating, internal, mediterranean, nutrition / diet, people-living, similar-may, southern, the-eating
Vegetable Fats Reduce Prostate Cancer Death Risk
Prostate cancer patients who replace animal fats and some carbohydrates with vegetable fats have a lower risk of premature death, researchers from the University of California reported in JAMA Internal Medicine. In the United States alone, nearly 2.5 million men currently live with prostate cancer…
June 11, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: animal-fats, california, currently-live, from-the-university, internal, jama, lower-risk, million-men, on call diets, premature-death, united, university
Vegetarians Live Longer Than Meat-Eaters
Vegetarians may live longer than meat-eaters, according to a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. The research involved over 70,000 members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and showed that vegetarian diets are linked to reduced death rates with more favorable results for males than females…
June 4, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: adventist-church, church, internal, jama, may-live, more-favorable, new-study, nutrition, nutrition / diet, reduced-death, research-involved, seventh, seventh-day
Organic Food Not Safer Or Nutritionally Superior To Conventional Foods
Overall, organic foods are not nutritionally superior to conventional foods, neither are they safer regarding bacterial contamination, researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine reported in Annals of Internal Medicine. The scientists emphasized that they did not find any significant evidence pointing to nutritional benefits linked to the consumption of organic foods…
September 5, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: annals, benefits-linked, evidence-pointing, internal, medicine, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, organic-foods, school, scientists-emphasized, stanford, stanford-university, the-consumption
Cranberries Help Fight Urinary Tract Infections
Consuming products that contain cranberries seems to be linked to preventing urinary tract infections (UTIs), a common bacterial infection in some people. These are the results of a study published in JAMA’s Archives of Internal Medicine…
July 10, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: common-bacterial, contain-cranberries, diet, internal, jama, nutritional counseling, preventing-urinary, results, study-published, tract-infections, urology / nephrology