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Physiology Friday #228: Identifying Sleep Patterns that Influence Chronic Disease Risk

Physiologically Speaking

We talk about the ketogenic diet as a metabolic therapy for type 1 diabetes. Dozens if not hundreds of (albeit observational) studies have linked a short sleep duration to a number of health conditions including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The cardiovascular system appears to be primarily affected here.

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Abstract 4136796: The effect of replacing typical snacks with pecans on vascular health and diet quality: a randomized controlled trial

Circulation

Background:Poor diet quality accounts for approximately half of all deaths from cardiometabolic diseases. data suggests that replacing typical snacks consumed with tree nuts will improve diet quality. However, few clinical trials have assessed the potential for tree nuts to improve diet quality. The HEI-2020 was 11.1

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Living Past 100: Insights from Centenarians on a Long, Healthy Life

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Their diets are often poor. They get the diseases of ageing about 20 to 25 years later than everyone else. It’s not that they don’t get cardiovascular disease, cancer or dementia; they just get it way later than everyone else. But let’s look at WHEN centenarians get these diseases.

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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. 2019 These two hypotheses are placed in the context of physical activity’s robust effect on reducing the incidence of two major killers throughout the world — cardiovascular disease and cancer. Source: Pinckard et al.

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Sugar-sweetened beverages linked with about three hundred and forty thousand deaths from type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease globally – Study

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

A study published in Nature Medicine evaluated the burden of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar sweetened beverages in 184 countries [1]. In case of cardiovascular disease, the corresponding figure was 1.2 Inflammatory cytokines causing unstable plaques lead on to cardiovascular events [1].

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Why Preventing Diabetes With Lifestyle Measures Can Add Over A Decade To Your Life

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Share Why you die earlier is likely down to the earlier onset of the two major diseases that are the leading causes of death worldwide: Cardiovascular Disease Cancer. A diagnosis of diabetes in your 30s is associated with about a FOUR TIMES higher risk of both cardiovascular and cancer mortality. This is a numbers game.