Nutrition and Fitness News

SAN FRANCISCO — Nutritional psychiatry is a new term that encompasses the bidirectional brain-gut microbiome activity, Bhagwan A. Bahroo, MD, says in this Healio video at the American Psychiatric Association meeting.

Healthy low-fat diets were associated with lower risks for all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, whereas overall and unhealthy low-carbohydrate diets were linked to increased risks, according to researchers.

Following a healthy plant-based diet, Mediterranean diet, the MIND diet or having a high recommended food score at midlife was associated with a reduced risk for dementia, according to research in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Almonds could be incorporated into the diets of habitual snackers to improve diet quality without concerns about weight gain, according to the results of a year-long randomized controlled trial published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

For National Women’s Health Week, the Healio Editors compiled news on nutrition of interest to women’s health providers.

WHO has issued a new guideline recommending against the use of non-sugar sweeteners to lose weight, as available evidence suggests it “does not confer any long-term benefit in reducing body fat in adults or children,” the organization said.

The FDA has issued marketing denial orders to 10 companies that manufacture and market approximately 6,500 flavored e-liquid and e-cigarette products.

A high-quality diet may be tied to better cardiorespiratory fitness, independent of age, sex, total daily energy intake, CV risk factors and physical activity, according to a study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

An outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in Tennessee was caused by raw milk consumption among members of a cow-share, according to a study.

Most adults with diabetes who used continuous glucose monitoring, or CGM, reported at least one disruption over the past year, with device malfunction and insertion problems being the most common reasons, data show.