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BE GONE Trial: Dietary Bean Intervention Enhances Gut Microbiome

HCPLive

Adding navy beans to one’s usual diet may be a viable dietary strategy for modulating the gut microbiome and regulating host markers associated with metabolic obesity and colorectal cancer.

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Can the Recent Stanford Vegan vs. Omnivore Twin Study Inform Us about the “Optimal” Diet for Cardiometabolic Health?

Physiologically Speaking

The quest to determine whether plant-based diets surpass omnivorous diets in their heart healthfulness has been ongoing for decades, yielding inconclusive results despite dedicated research endeavors. Both observational and clinical studies have suggested potential advantages associated with plant-based diets.

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Can the Recent Stanford Vegan vs. Omnivore Twin Study Inform Us about the “Optimal” Diet for Cardiometabolic Health?

Physiologically Speaking

The quest to determine whether plant-based diets surpass omnivorous diets in their heart healthfulness has been ongoing for decades, yielding inconclusive results despite dedicated research endeavors. Both observational and clinical studies have suggested potential advantages associated with plant-based diets.

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Revolutionary Results: How Modern Weight Loss Medications are Changing the Game

Dr. Paddy Barrett

That’s what the field of obesity therapeutics feels like right now. There is even emerging evidence that the use of such therapies may even reduce the risk of colorectal cancer by up to 50% 6. What seems clear, however, is that a higher protein diet minimises the degree of lean mass loss 8. They eat a high-protein diet.

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Is Ultra-Processed Food Really That Bad For You?

Dr. Paddy Barrett

For every 10% increase in ultra-processed food consumption, the risk of cancer increases by 10% 2. The relationship to dying from any cause or cancer is not subtle. If you take people with obesity and feed them only ultra-processed food for a year, what do you think happens? Probably not. They lose weight. How much weight?

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Beating the Odds: Inside the Tribe with a Near-Zero Rate of Heart Disease.

Dr. Paddy Barrett

It kills almost twice as many people globally when compared to all cancers combined. For other significant risk factors, the trend is also the same, with almost nonexistent rates of obesity, abnormal glycemic control and very low rates of smoking 14. This does not mean everyone should eat this type of diet.

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Physiology Friday #237: An Evolutionary Perspective on Why Exercise Promotes Longevity

Physiologically Speaking

In my opinion, it’s even more important than diet and sleep, to an extent. Let’s admit that we face an energy abundance today — in most industrial societies, the problem is caloric surplus and overweight/obesity rather than malnutrition or food scarcity. Source: Pinckard et al.

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