Health Tip: Evaluate Your Diet - U.S. News & World Report

Health Tip: Evaluate Your Diet - U.S. News & World Report

Health Tip: Evaluate Your Diet
U.S. News & World Report, DC - 9 hours ago
health problems or risk factors that can be controlled or improved with a better diet. These conditions include high blood pressure or high cholesterol.

Dietary intervention improves cholesterol level: a low-fat diet is safe and effective, but if the child’s LDL cholesterol level is very high, diet is not enough.(Clinical Rounds)
WASHINGTON — Attention to diet will successfully manage cholesterol in many children, especially young ones, said Samuel S. Gidding, M.D., of the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Del. Cholesterol levels are determined by genetics, plus or minus how bad your diet is, he noted

Publication: Pediatric News

Lower kids' cholesterol the old-fashioned way - Globe and Mail

Lower kids' cholesterol the old-fashioned way
Globe and Mail, Canada - Jul 23, 2008
In the study, children assigned to the cholesterol-lowering diet used soft margarine and vegetable oils instead of butter, and after one year of age,

New Rx for kids is a tough pill for this dad to swallow - American Chronicle

New Rx for kids is a tough pill for this dad to swallow
American Chronicle, CA - 4 hours ago
Studies have found that a plant-based diet rich in soy foods and soluble fiber can reduce cholesterol levels by as much as one-third. As an added benefit,

‘Ape diet’ shown to lower cholesterol
‘Ape diet’ shown to lower cholesterol Foods rich in soy, fiber, work almost as well as statin drug in study By JOHN FAUBER jfauber@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel Wednesday, July 23, 2003 One of the major health hazards of modern living — high cholesterol — can be dramatically improved by

Publication: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Cholesterol, diet & heart disease.(Shorts)
In their article The Role of Cholesterol and Diet in Heart Disease, public health scientists Alice Ottoboni, PhD, and Fred Ottoboni, MPH, PhD, explain the fallacies that underlie the hypothesis that cholesterol and high-fat diets cause heart disease. Although cholesterol (particularly

Publication: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients

Tanya’s Tasty Tips: Super Foods - FOXNews

Tanya’s Tasty Tips: Super Foods
FOXNews - 8 hours ago
“Scientific evidence suggests that eating 1.5 ounces per day of most nuts, including pistachios, as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol may

Whipping Cholesterol Levels Into Shape; Without Physical Activity, Diet’s Effect Will Be Limited, Study Finds
People with unhealthful cholesterol levels are typically told to adopt a low-fat diet. Yet unless they also do a modest amount of moderate exercise, their cholesterol levels won’t improve, an important new study suggests. “Diet alone doesn’t do what people think it will,” says Marcia Stefanick,

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Cholesterol drugs unproven for kids - Baltimore Sun

Cholesterol drugs unproven for kids - Baltimore Sun


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Cholesterol drugs unproven for kids
Baltimore Sun, United States - Jul 18, 2008
The Sun's editorial about focusing on diet instead of medication as the proper approach to treatment of obesity and elevated cholesterol levels for children
High Cholesterol In Toddlers - Low-Fat Milk May Be The Key TheMedGuru
Cholesterol Drugs for Children? 3 Perspectives New York Times
New: Reduced-fat milk OK for tubby toddlers Xinhua
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Lower cholesterol, not the flavor - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

Lower cholesterol, not the flavor
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN - 12 hours ago
So, even though technically you’re not supposed to have too good a time when your changing your “diet” (yes, diet is a four-letter word), there’s no reason

Study: Low-carb diet best for weight, cholesterol
The Atkins diet may have proved itself after all: A low-carb diet and a Mediterranean-style regimen helped people lose more weight than a traditional low-fat diet in one of the longest and largest studies to compare the dueling weight-loss techniques. A bigger surprise: The low-carb diet improved

Publication: AP Worldstream

Chattanooga: Statin use in children worries some doctors - Chattanooga Times Free Press

Chattanooga: Statin use in children worries some doctors
Chattanooga Times Free Press, TN - 18 hours ago
set the age of 10 as the youngest age at which cholesterol-lowering statin drugs should be prescribed, if efforts to control diet and exercise failed.

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The Never-Ending Diet Wars - Huffington Post

The Never-Ending Diet Wars - Huffington Post


ABC News
The Never-Ending Diet Wars
Huffington Post, NY - Jul 17, 2008
As a result, they have a lower risk of a heart attack or stroke than those who eat a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet who have lower HDL levels.
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The truth about cholesterol. (includes related articles on different opinions about fat in the diet)
THE TRUTH ABOUT CHOLESTEROL Just when you had glumly routed your diet around eggs, butter and bacon cheeseburgers forever, the headlines did an about-face. Suddenly, some doctors were saying that cholesterol was not so bad after all and that lowering it did not do that much good for the vast

Publication: U.S. News & World Report

Study: Greater weight loss with low-carb diet - Chicago Tribune

Study: Greater weight loss with low-carb diet
Chicago Tribune, United States - Jul 17, 2008
protein and cholesterol, which have long been demonized. "It is time to reconsider the low-fat diet as the first choice for weight loss and for

Low-carb diet best for weight, cholesterol: study (CTV.ca)
The Atkins diet may have proved itself after all: A low-carb diet and a Mediterranean-style regimen helped people lose more weight than a traditional low-fat diet, says a study.

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Search BostonHerald.com for Past 7 days Archives - Boston Herald

Search BostonHerald.com for Past 7 days Archives - Boston Herald

Search BostonHerald.com for Past 7 days Archives
Boston Herald, United States - 8 hours ago
“All the saturated fat and cholesterol in chicken wings, pork chops, and steak eventually leads to flabby thighs and love handles.

Healthy Diet Lowers Death Risk for Women - Atlanta Journal Constitution

Healthy Diet Lowers Death Risk for Women
Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA - Jun 23, 2008
MONDAY, June 23 (HealthDay News) — Women can protect themselves against death from heart disease and other causes by sticking with a diet that is low in

Heart disease kills one person every second in USA alone - Pravda


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Heart disease kills one person every second in USA alone
Pravda, Russia - 8 hours ago
Diet is a major contributing factor to the presence (or lack thereof) of heart disease. For example, a diet high in cholesterol may lead to coronary heart
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Genzyme and Isis Complete Licensing of Mipomersen - Earthtimes (press release)

Genzyme and Isis Complete Licensing of Mipomersen
Earthtimes (press release), UK - 8 hours ago
LDL apheresis is a blood-filtering procedure that targets "bad" cholesterol, and is indicated for individuals for whom diet and maximum drug therapy has

Blueberries lower pig cholesterol levels - PigProgress.net

Blueberries lower pig cholesterol levels
PigProgress.net, Netherlands - 10 hours ago
Canadian researchers have discovered that supplementing a pig’s diet with blueberries may reduce cholesterol levels by over ten per cent.

Memory Loss Linked To Poor Diet, Study Suggests - Science Daily (press release)

Memory Loss Linked To Poor Diet, Study Suggests
Science Daily (press release) - Jun 19, 2008
Effects of a Saturated Fat and High Cholesterol Diet on Memory and Hippocampal Morphology in the Middle-Aged Rat. Journal of Alzheimer%u2019s Disease,

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Making a Case for a Raw-Food Diet: Food Said to Aid Enzymes in … - RedOrbit

Making a Case for a Raw-Food Diet: Food Said to Aid Enzymes in … - RedOrbit

Making a Case for a Raw-Food Diet: Food Said to Aid Enzymes in
RedOrbit, TX - 5 hours ago
Dodge said a benefit of the diet is that it is high in fiber and low in sodium, fat, cholesterol and transfat but that the diet would be very difficult to

10 minute nutrition - Telegraph.co.uk


Telegraph.co.uk
10 minute nutrition
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 31 minutes ago
Oily fish has a potent anti?inflammatory effect and may improve cholesterol levels. Two portions are recommended each week. Choose from sardines, pilchards,

The Sensible Diet - News Today Online

The Sensible Diet
News Today Online, Philippines - Jun 12, 2008
What the chronic (long term) effects of this high-fat and high-cholesterol diet on the human body are unknown and remain suspect.

Tips for preventing heart disease - Newsday

Tips for preventing heart disease
Newsday, NY - 49 minutes ago
CHOLESTEROL: Less than a total of than 200 milligrams per deciliter with an HDL (good) cholesterol of at least 40 mg/dL is desirable.

Researchers Link Memory Loss to Poor Diet (Newswise)
Loss of memory with advanced age is a significant problem within most societies, and appears particularly severe in advanced industrialized nations. In a seemingly unrelated issue, high obesity rates, particularly in the United States, are often due to a food supply high in cholesterol and saturated fat. Through a new study, researchers have been able to link memory loss to a poor diet.

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