The Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) trial randomly assigned 5,145 overweight or obese adults with type 2 diabetes to an intensive lifestyle intervention or to “usual care” (advice…
Author: Bonnie Liebman
Taking high doses of selenium or vitamin E could raise a man’s risk of prostate cancer. Starting in 2001, the SELECT trial gave roughly 35,500 men either selenium (200 micrograms…
Eating slowly may help you eat less. Scientists offered 35 normal-weight and 35 overweight or obese men and women a huge portion of the same lunch (pasta with tomatoes, olive…
Aerobic exercise like walking or running lowers the risk of diabetes. But what about muscle-strengthening exercise like weight lifting or lower-intensity muscle-conditioning exercise like stretching, toning, or yoga? [DD] Scientists…
After age 30, your arteries get stiffer and less able to widen when they need to, and that may boost your risk of heart attack, stroke, and memory loss. Cutting…
Tomato sauce and other lycopene-rich foods may help protect men against lethal prostate cancer. [HD] Researchers followed nearly 50,000 male health professionals for 23 years. Those who consumed the most…
Added sugars—including ordinary sugar and high-fructose corn syrup—have been linked to a higher risk of dying of a heart attack or stroke. Researchers tracked roughly 11,700 people in the National…
The vast majority of kidney stones are made of calcium oxalate. “Oxalate comes from some foods we eat, and the body also produces oxalate,” explains Gary Curhan, a nephrologist and…
To lower your risk of kidney disease: • Lose (or don’t gain) excess weight. • Minimize sodium and sugar (sucrose and fructose). • Fill half your plate with vegetables or…
Taking calcium carbonate or eating calcium-rich foods may make processed meats (like ham, sausage, bacon, and hot dogs) less likely to raise the risk of colorectal cancer. [VS] Scientists told…