The Diet Diary

Researchers have found another gene that may keep you from fitting in your jeans. You can’t blame this gene, named FTO, for all the extra girth. But British scientists discovered that people who carry two copies of a variation of the FTO gene weighed, on average, seven pounds more than people who lack it.

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You know how this guy called “Homo Erectus” would eat if you invited him over for Thanksgiving dinner? He’d eat until he was stuffed, and then he’d eat some more. Just like I do if I don’t force myself to stop.
Or at least that’s what I infer from Can’t Stop Eating When You’ve […]

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Hey, look what Medical News Today reports:
People watching the Super Bowl who saw how much they had already eaten — in this case, leftover chicken-wing bones — ate 27 percent less than people who had no such environmental cues, finds a new Cornell study. The difference between the two groups — those eating at […]

Here it is, from Medscape Medical News:
In a pooled study, roughly 100 g of flavonol-rich chocolate reduced systolic and diastolic blood pressure by amounts comparable to beta-blocker or angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor monotherapy. (CME)
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My sister loves tea. I love hot cocoa. Maybe it’s the blood pressure lowering effect […]

A recent study shows heart patients benefit equally from following either the Mediterranean or the American Heart Association (AHA) low fat diet.
Dr Katherine E Tuttle, the lead author of a dietary study involving high-risk patients who have survived a first MI says the study provides more dietary options for patients. Basically, […]