Could artificial sweeteners promote diabetes and obesity?

Artificial sweeteners are often recommended to aid weight loss and help manage type 2 diabetes.

Post-traumatic stress disorder in women linked to food addiction

Numerous studies have linked PTSD with increased obesity risk, now a new study may explain why.

Smokers with a high sodium diet are at ‘double the risk’ of rheumatoid arthritis

A new study finds that although having a diet high in sodium itself may not increase risk for rheumatoid arthritis, in people who smoke, this combination causes the risk to double.

Study: sodium’s influence on blood pressure statistically insignificant

A new study published in American Journal of Hypertension finds evidence that increased Body Mass Index, age, and non-sodium dietary factors are much more closely related to increases in systolic…

Expression of breast cancer-related genes adversely affected by soy supplementation

Soy supplementation alters expression of genes associated with breast cancer, raising concerns that soy could have adverse effects in breast cancer, according to a new study published in the JNCI…

Potassium-rich foods could lower stroke risk in older women

A new study has found that older women eating higher amounts of potassium-rich foods may be less likely to have a stroke than those with less potassium-rich foods in their diets.

American diet ‘improving’ but remains poor overall

Consumption of trans fats has fallen, but there is a widening gap in terms of diet quality between rich and poor, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health.

Soda tax is ‘the best option’ for reducing childhood obesity

A new study compares the impact three recommended federal policies will have on childhood obesity over 20 years. A 1¢ tax on sugary drinks is the researchers’ preferred option.

High salt intake may heighten MS symptoms

A new study finds that MS patients consuming moderate to high intakes of salt are four times as likely to have worse symptoms than those patients consuming less salt per day.

New data show value of oral nutritional supplements given in preoperative setting

Abbott has announced a new study, published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, that demonstrated preoperative standard oral nutritional supplements (ONS) provide similar benefits…

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