Physiologically Speaking

JANUARY 17, 2025

For decades, high-carbohydrate diets have been considered the gold standard for fueling endurance activities, largely due to their ability to optimize muscle glycogen stores. Advocates of low-carb diets argue that fat adaptation can enhance endurance by increasing fat oxidation. What’s this all mean?

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

MARCH 17, 2025

Switching daily snack foods to pecans improved cholesterol levels and enhanced overall diet quality, according to a new study by researchers in the Penn State Department of Nutritional Sciences.

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Physiologically Speaking

JANUARY 24, 2025

Last week, I wrote about a new study comparing low-carb and high-carb diets for endurance performance. 1 If you want the tl;dr, here it is: After 6 weeks on either a low- or high-carb diet, athletes experienced similar performance outcomes during a time-to-exhaustion test , a result that vindicates low-carb diets once and for all.

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American Heart News - Heart News

MARCH 20, 2024

Research Highlights: After 16 weeks of free, weekly home delivery of fresh produce, study participants boosted their fruit and vegetable consumption by almost ½ of a serving per day and added 42 minutes to their weekly level of physical activity.

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Physiologically Speaking

JULY 24, 2024

Andrew is a research scientist at Sansum Diabetes Research Institute, where he’s investigating metabolic therapies for health and disease. Part I: 10-Years longitudinal data on KETOGENIC DIET and Safety, Efficacy & Advanced Cardiovascular Physiology in a patient with HIGH RISK cardiovascular disease (Type 1 Diabetes)?

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JULY 9, 2024

Researchers from King's have identified evidence to suggest that lifestyle changes could offset the risk of some adult heart disorders that result from maternal obesity and changes in fetal heart development.

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

While management can be challenging, research-backed behavioral strategies are delivering promising results. 1 Dietary Modifications: Evidence-Based Approaches Low-Fat vs. Low-Carb Diets A meta-analysis of 48 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) revealed no significant difference in weight loss outcomes between low-fat and low-carb diets.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JULY 1, 2024

Eating patterns that align with the Mediterranean diet or the dietary approaches to stop hypertension (DASH) diet could help lower cardiovascular disease risk in adults with type 1 diabetes, according to results from a six-year study.

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Physiologically Speaking

DECEMBER 27, 2023

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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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

APRIL 18, 2025

Yet up to 90% of liver diseases are preventable through modifiable risk factors such as diet, weight management, and physical activity. Personalized Nutrition: Diets rich in whole, unprocessed foods and low in added sugars and saturated fats support liver health. The most effective diet is the one the patient can sustain.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Researchers have found a potential method to slow heart failure progression. They fed mice a diet high in soybean protein, which influenced gut bacteria and supported heart health. Analysis showed that this diet increased the production of the short-chain fatty acids in the gut that help to protect the heart.

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HCPLive

MAY 19, 2024

Damas explains what inspired her research about the impact of a low-calorie plant-based diet on clinical response to medication in patients with ulcerative colitis.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

From diet soda to zero-sugar ice cream, artificial sweeteners have been touted as a guilt-free way to indulge our sweet tooth. However, new research published in Cell Metabolism shows that aspartame, one of the most common sugar substitutes, may impact vascular health.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

APRIL 7, 2025

The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, in collaboration with researchers across multiple institutions, has published a new study that challenges the long-held belief that high cholesterol correlates and even directly causes coronary artery disease, or plaque buildup in the arteries in metabolically healthy (..)

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In a first-ever trial, researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) have provided abdominal aortic calcification (AAC) imaging results to attempt to elicit behavioral changes to improve diet, physical activity, and other cardiovascular disease risk factors in older men and women.

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HCPLive

MAY 24, 2024

Singh explains a potential new approach to the low FODMAP diet based on findings from research he presented at DDW suggesting a simplified step-up method.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Eating a diet with a higher ratio of plant-based protein to animal-based protein may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and coronary heart disease (CHD), according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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The Beat Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

It may come as no surprise that the practice of medicine often goes beyond prescriptions and test results, often integrating diet and lifestyle patterns as effective mechanisms to promote heart health. When we move from one diet to another, we must think about reducing and replacing foods with better choices.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Drinking a small or moderate amount of wine may lower the risk of serious cardiovascular disease in people at a higher risk who are following a Mediterranean diet, according to research published in the European Heart Journal.

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Science Daily - Stroke

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Acute spinal cord injury (SCI) patients lose body weight and muscle mass, despite being on a high-calorie diet while in the intensive care unit. Their muscle wasting is substantial and extends beyond what can explained by inactivity or denervation (loss of nerve supply) alone.

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Physiologically Speaking

DECEMBER 27, 2023

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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Physiologically Speaking

JANUARY 31, 2024

Poor sleep is associated with worse diet quality, and sleeping less causes people to eat more — and more of the wrong things. This article will discuss the bi-directional relationship between sleep and diet, explore the mechanisms of sleep-promoting foods, and explain why you might crave junk food when you’re sleep-deprived.

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Physiologically Speaking

MAY 24, 2024

This period left me searching for answers about my health, researching why my injuries kept happening, and overhauling my approach to training and nutrition (something I continue to iterate on). But one of the biggest contributors to poor bone health in athletes is diet. link] Back to bone health.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Researchers have discovered the mechanism by which cholesterol in our diet is absorbed into our cells. This discovery opens up new opportunities for therapeutic intervention to control cholesterol uptake that could complement other therapies and potentially save lives.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Incidence of stroke and ischemic heart disease are declining around the world, except for in a handful of regions, according to research in PLOS Global Public Health.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

APRIL 2, 2024

Individuals with heart disease stand to gain the most from a low-sodium diet but, on average, consume over twice the recommended daily sodium intake, according to a study being presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session.

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DAIC

JANUARY 4, 2024

Building on evidence from several studies that found prolonged fasting may be unnecessary, a randomized, controlled trial at a Midwest heart hospital determined that allowing patients to eat a heart-healthy diet before elective cardiac catheterization posed no safety risk, while improving patient satisfaction and overall care.

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Physiologically Speaking

JANUARY 31, 2025

Here an Army research team followed a large number (827) of incoming cadets at the U.S Before and after 9 weeks of training, the researchers measured a range of “running spatiotemportal parameters” like stride length, stride cadence, and the contact time of each footfall. Military Academy. ” Why?

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DAIC

JANUARY 14, 2025

9, 2025 Gender-based racism through microaggressions may be linked to higher blood pressure postpartum and beyond, according to new research published in Hypertension , a peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association. Photo: American Heart Association tim.hodson Tue, 01/14/2025 - 16:05 Jan.

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Hypertension Journal

JANUARY 16, 2024

BACKGROUND:The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet score lowers blood pressure (BP). minor allele frequency, 0.03) and the DASH diet score (Pinteraction=4e−8;Pfor heterogeneity, 0.35) in European population, where the interaction effect size was 0.42±0.09 mm Hg (Pinteraction=9.4e−7)

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DAIC

JUNE 18, 2024

Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology and director of the cardiac critical care unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Mass. Excluding people with high blood pressure, researchers project 15% of the population will have developed cardiovascular disease by 2050, up from 11.3% and Susan F. to 61% of the U.S.

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Cardiovascular Diabetology

APRIL 14, 2024

The long-term high-fat diet (HFD) can cause myocardial lipotoxicity, which is characterized pathologically by myocardial hypertrophy, fibrosis, and remodeling and clinically by cardiac dysfunction and heart fa.

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

JANUARY 30, 2024

“Once I got to meet Sarah, I realized her TED success was no coincidence; she’s simply a force of nature.” – Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, founder of Diet Doctor On Saturday, February 24, at 9:00 AM EST , the Cardiometabolic Health Congress (CMHC) will host a 4.5-hour million views (at the time of this writing it surpasses 10 million views).

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Researchers find that in East and West Sub-Saharan Africa, East and Central Asia and Oceania, ischemic heart disease is increasing, which may be attributed to eight factors that include diet, high BMI, household air pollution and more.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

AUGUST 15, 2024

Over the past few decades, scientists have generated a pile of evidence suggesting that a diet rich in saturated fats is enough to cause heart diseases. Besides other problems like diabetes and atherosclerosis, saturated fats have also been linked to life-threatening arrhythmias.

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American Heart News - Heart News

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Research Highlights: A randomized trial comparing the effects of high-sodium and low-sodium diets on blood pressure in adults with normal blood pressure and high blood pressure found that following a low-sodium diet significantly lowered blood.

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Cardiovascular Diabetology

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Methods and results We used db/db mice and high fat diet-streptozotocin induced diabetic mice to investigate the underlying mechanisms of fenofibrate’s beneficial effects on heart function. Fenofibrate reduced fibrosis, and lipid accumulation, and suppressed inflammatory and immunological responses in the heart via TNF signaling.

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