Nutrition and Fitness News

NEW ORLEANS — Certain traditional risk factors including severe high cholesterol, diabetes, hypertension and smoking may increase CV risk among those following a low-carbohydrate, high-fat “keto-style diet,” a speaker reported here.

People from low socioeconomic status areas who also had low levels of physical activity had worse health outcomes than those with low levels of physical activity from more affluent areas, according to researchers.

SAN DIEGO — Physicians should emphasize the importance of diet and lifestyle change in patients with MS and consider home environment, cultural challenges and other factors when making recommendations, a presenter noted at ACTRIMS 2023.

Healio has announced that it is now offering a special report on nutrition that physicians can use as a resource to guide conversations with patients about healthy diet options.

The keto and paleo diets had the lowest scores for overall nutritional quality among popular diets, while having the highest carbon emissions, a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found.

Engaging in moderate-intensity physical activity for 11 minutes a day could prevent nearly 16% of all premature deaths, according to researchers.

A popular artificial sweetener, erythritol, was linked to worsened risks for heart attack and stroke, according to new research published in Nature Medicine.

All modes of physical activity were effective in improving both anxiety and depression, highlighting the need for using exercise “as a mainstay approach” for managing mental health, according to researchers.

High consumption of processed foods was associated with greater variability in systolic BP during sleep and greater odds of extreme nocturnal dipping, researchers reported.

Exercising 20 minutes more every day was associated with a reduced hospitalization risk for a variety of common health conditions, including infection, stroke, venous thromboembolism and more, according to data in JAMA Network Open.