A widely reported Israeli study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, compared three popular weight loss diets – low fat, which was attributed to the American Heart Association, low carbohydrate/high protein based on the Atkins diet, and Mediterranean style. The researchers found that people on the low carbohydrate/high protein diet lost slightly more [...]
Hailed by experts as keeping people slim, healthy and long-lived, the Mediterranean diet has followers all over the world – but is increasingly disregarded around the Mediterranean.
According to FAO Senior Economist Josef Schmidhuber, over the past 45 years the famed diet revolving around fresh fruit and vegetables has “decayed into a moribund state” in its [...]
Research on the safety and effectiveness of different diets has been previously limited due to the high number of participants who drop out of studies and because the length of time that the participants are followed is often too short. Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel, and at Brigham and [...]
The U.S. is at a crossroads when it comes to nutrition advice. For decades, Americans have heard a lot about what not to eat, and much less about nutrient-rich foods to enjoy when building a healthy diet. Various stamps, stars and seals on food packaging labels also tend to focus on what foods don’t contain [...]
Snacking — at least on the right kind of food — may help with weight control, according to a recently completed pilot study at The Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center. In the pilot study, 20 overweight adults consumed two KIND Fruit %26amp; Nut Delight Bars per day for eight weeks along with their habitual diet. The [...]
A groundbreaking new study published in the November 2008 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1 shows that eaters of lower energy dense breakfast have improved diet quality, and may have a better ability to maintain a healthy weight. The study found that those who enjoy a less energy dense morning meal have [...]
The Almond Board of California maintains that simple changes in one’s diet can help overcome dietary challenges, especially during the holiday season. Resolutions for healthier eating habits during this festive time should be maintained throughout the year, as heart disease takes 17.5 million lives worldwide annually, according to the World Health Organization report (2004). One [...]
In a new study led by the University of Michigan Health System, women more than doubled their fruit and vegetable intakes and dramatically increased their consumption of “good” fats when they were counseled by registered dietitians and provided with a list of guidelines on the amount of certain foods they should eat each day.
The six-month [...]
Adopting a vegetarian diet has many benefits, including reducing the risk of heart disease, stroke and cancer, while also conserving fresh water, fertile topsoil and other limited resources that go into creating a meat-based diet.
Here are five tips to help get you started from Beaumont Hospital dietitian and vegetarian Catherine Welemirov:
* Look at Some [...]
All the latest nutritional studies confirm that the best way to eat well and to keep in shape is to follow the Mediterranean diet. The authentic Mediterranean diet that combines taste, flavor and traditional, genuine cuisine while keeping top of mind the best possible physical wellbeing, is the Italian diet.
Italiandiet.com was created in order to [...]