Increased risk of type 2 diabetes associated with sugar-sweetened drinks
It’s been shown in the US. Now, researchers from Imperial College London and the InterAct consortium report an association with...
Dietary fructose and the risk of metabolic diseases
Concern arises from the increased use of fructose and high-fructose corn syrup as a sweetener. Researchers in Switzerland and Belgium...
Walking vs weights for the metabolic syndrome
Metabolic syndrome is the name for a group of risk factors that occur together and increase the risk for coronary...
Vegetarian diet and the risk of the metabolic syndrome
Researchers at Loma Linda University, in California, compared dietary patterns.
Benefits of a whole grain-enriched diet on cardiovascular risk
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, in Hershey, studied the response to including whole-grain foods in a hypocaloric...
Effect of blueberries on the metabolic syndrome
A PubMed search of “blueberry” and “antioxidant” revealed 140 studies — all based on the results of animal or laboratory...
Importance of vitamin D screening and supplementation in diabetes
During the Endocrine Society’s Annual Meeting, Researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Sinai Hospital, in Baltimore, Maryland,...
Risk from low vitamin D levels during adolescence
Researcher from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, in Baltimore, Maryland looked at the relationship between low vitamin D levels and the...
Soft drinks reportedly not a cause of obesity in children
The article abstract is jargon-riddled, but an article in BeverageDaily.com “translates” the results into English.
Magnesium and the metabolic syndrome
Fifteen years after enrollment of more than 600 people between 18 and 30 years of age, researchers from the Department...
Cod protein improves insulin sensitivity
In this study, dietary cod protein improved insulin sensitivity in insulin-resistant individuals. The researchers think it could help “prevent type...
Soft drinks and the risk of the metabolic syndrome
Yes, there’s an association. And it doesn’t seem to matter whether the soda pop you drink is “regular” or diet....
Magnesium and the metabolic syndrome
Young adults with higher magnesium intake have a lower risk of developing the metabolic syndrome. This is the conclusion from...
Transcendental meditation for heart disease
An article in the Archives of Internal Medicine reports that trancendental meditation (also known as TM) may alter the physiological...
A problem endemic to clinical medicine: treating the symptoms, not the cause
Here’s a series of quotes from the October (Volume 12, 2006) editorial in Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine that...
More positive data on the Mediterranean diet for impotence
In an earlier post, the positive effect of the Mediterranean diet on erectile dysfunction in men with the metabolic syndrome...
Studying the effects of plant extracts on the metabolic syndrome
Even as researchers debate its importance, the NIH has awarded an $8 million, five-year grant to evaluate the effects of...