According to a research team from Melbourne, UK, consumption of spinach leaves may have the same effect on the human gut as a probiotic tablet. They found that spinach leaves contain significant amounts of a newly discovered enzyme, sugar sulfoquinovose (SQ), which nourishes good gut bacteria. The lead author of the study, Dr. Ethan Goddard-Borger […]
March 13, 2020 Is olive oil associated with total cardiovascular disease (CVD), coronary heart disease (CHD) and risk of stroke? This was the question asked by the research team at the Nutrition Department of the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts. The results of the study were recently published (March 5, 2020) in the Journal […]
March 11, 2020 According to a 2020 study, adults who do not follow a regulat sleep schedule are nearly twice as likely to develop cardiovascular diseases as people with more regular sleep patterns. This study is important, because it is among the largest of its kind in recent years and specifically associates these patterns of irregular sleep with […]
March 11, 2020 An article published in January 2020 (1) reported the results of a study that tracked the relationship between lifestyle and breast cancer incidence for 950 women. Of these, 750 were healthy at the start of the study and 350 were already diagnosed with breast cancer. For each participant in the study, a healthy lifestyle score […]
February 25, 2020 A study published February 3, 2020 in JAMA and included 29.862 USA subjects show: The consumption of red meat (processed or unprocessed) is associated with a mortality of any significantly higher cause. Eating fish and chicken meat is not associated with a mortality of any higher cause. Consumption of red meat (processed or unprocessed) and […]
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