dietary Archives - Life Science Review

17 May 202017 May 2020

Scientists, public health practitioners and parents need to better understand the content of their child’s screen time, how they use screens to fulfill specific needs, and how their interaction with screens has an impact on their health and choices

In May 2020 researchers from the USA published their review on the association of extended television viewing with obesity in adolescents. The researchers stated that on a global basis, adolescent … Read more

31 March 20195 January 2020

The Mediterranean diet significantly reduced dietary inflammatory index scores but it did not translate to an improvement in inflammatory biomarkers in individuals with coronary heart disease

In July 2018 researchers from Australia, Ireland, Spain and the USA published the results of their study to assess whether a Mediterranean diet produced a lower dietary inflammatory index score … Read more

31 March 20195 January 2020

Each one-point increase in the dietary inflammatory index score appears to result in an 8% increase in the risk of cardiovascular disease

In February 2018 researchers from the USA and the UK published the results of their review of the medical scientific literature to assess the association between a dietary inflammatory index … Read more

26 March 20195 January 2020

The MIND diet may help to prevent or delay complaints about memory in older individuals with no history of depression

In January 2019 researchers from France published the results of their study to assess whether adherence to the Mediterranean-DASH diet intervention for neurodegenerative delay (MIND) was associated with subjective memory … Read more

24 July 20183 January 2020

A higher dietary calcium intake appears to reduce the risk of oesophageal cancer

In May 2017 researchers from China published their review of the scientific literature which assessed the association between calcium and risk of oesophageal cancer. 17 studies were identified which involved … Read more