…according to a study in AJCN.
“Higher levels of accordance to both the DASH and Mediterranean dietary patterns were associated with consistently higher levels of cognitive function in elderly men and women over an 11-y period. Whole grains and nuts and legumes were positively associated with higher cognitive functions and may be core neuroprotective foods common to various healthy plant-centered diets around the globe.”
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When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
—Thomas Jefferson, author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence
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“America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.”
– John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the U.S.
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…according to an article in The Guardian. This finding is from the PREDIMED study of Spaniards aged 50 to 88. Those who drank between two and seven glasses of wine were less prone to develop depression.
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…according to an article at MedPageToday. The Mediterranean diet provides copious fruit, perhaps partially explaining why it too is linked to lower diabetes risk.
You’ll get all the fruit you need in my Advanced Mediterranean Diet. And lose excess weight, to boot!
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Low-carb doesn’t mean “meat-only”: You can eat these low-carb fruits
A low-carb diet was superior to a traditional low-fat weight loss diet, and without adverse effects on markers of systemic inflammation, according to a report at ScienceDaily. Some medical professionals are still hesitant to accept the validity of low-carb dieting, fearing that relatively high fat and protein content may promote inflammation, leading to atherosclerosis. The study at hand should be reassuring in that regard.
Some quotes from ScienceDaily:
The researchers measured the participants’ blood levels for three common markers of inflammation — C-reactive protein, interleukin 6 and tumor necrosis factor-alpha — at the beginning and end of the study. They also measured body weight, body mass index (BMI) and total body and belly fat. At the start, both groups were similar in the various measures, including elevated levels of inflammation markers.
The participants on the low-carb diet lost more weight, on average, than those on the low-fat diet — 28 pounds versus 18 pounds [over the six month trial.
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“In both groups, there was a significant drop in the levels of all three measures of inflammation,” says [Kerry] Stewart, indicating that a diet higher in fat and protein doesn’t interfere with the ability to lower inflammation, as long as you are losing weight.
Despite reading several online articles on this study, I can’t determine which low-carb diet was used, nor the level of carbohydrate restriction. Both diet groups exercised three times a week. I expect full details to be published in a scientific journal within a couple years. The research was done at Johns Hopkins University and was not funded by Atkins Nutritionals. U.S. taxpayers funded it.
If you’re looking for a low-carb diet, consider the Low-Carb Mediterranean Diet. Carb restriction starts at under 30 grams a day, but allows for increases over time as long as you’re making weight-loss progress. The typical American eats 250 to 300 grams of carbohydrate daily.
Read the rest at ScienceDaily.
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The Well blog at the New York Times has details. The study at hand involved only 11 women with insomnia, mostly in their 60s. A key take-away is that it took as long as four months for some to see an improvement. So don’t get discouraged and stop exercising too soon.
It doesn’t take much exercise.
Read the whole thing (it’s brief).
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MedPageToday has the details. For instance:
“The only consistent finding among the [diet] trials is that adherence — the degree to which participants continued [their diet] or met program goals for diet and physical activity — was most strongly associated with weight loss and improvement in disease-related outcomes,” they wrote online in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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“And most disturbingly, I see a massive growth by the profession of pharmacy to leverage its professional credibility to sell all types of modern-day snake oil, ranging from detox kits and “cleanses” to dubious “food intolerance” testing, and even the ethically questionable decision to sell homeopathic remedies (an elaborate placebo system of sugar pills) on pharmacy shelves alongside real medicine. And don’t forget the enormous wall of vitamins that seems to get larger and larger. Yes, complementary and alternative medicine is booming, and pharmacy wants its share. What do my pharmacy colleagues tell me? They’ll tell me it’s customer demand, and that they don’t recommend the quackery. To me, I see this trend as damaging the credibility of pharmacists in the eyes of the public and of other health professionals.”
— Scott Gavura, pharmacist
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…at least in the DIRECT trial, and whether or not the dieter has type 2 diabetes.
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