Nutrition and Fitness News

A dairy food-based nutrition and exercise intervention during pregnancy that optimized protein and calcium intake improved mothers’ bone health compared with usual care, according to a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

In women with a high-sodium diet, every 1 g increase in daily potassium intake was associated with a 2.4 mm Hg lower systolic BP, according to data from a large cohort study.

COVID-19 restrictions resulted in a 20% decrease in children’s levels of physical activity during the pandemic, according to the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Consumption of one avocado daily was not found to reduce visceral adiposity and only had a slight effect on cardiometabolic disorder risk factors, researchers reported in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Daily administration of vitamin D during pregnancy decreased the risk for atopic eczema in children, according to data published in the British Journal of Dermatology.

There has long been debate about which low-carbohydrate diets — specifically, Mediterranean vs. ketogenic — offer the greatest health benefits to patients with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes, but a randomized study may offer an answer.

“Weekend warriors” who completed the recommended amount of weekly physical activity in fewer days experienced similar health benefits as those who were regularly active throughout the week, according to researchers.

Dementia cases in the United States were largely associated with modifiable risk factors, such as hypertension, obesity and physical inactivity — especially among Black and Hispanic people, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Childhood obesity incidence was higher and came at younger ages during the 2000s compared with the previous decade, according to a study in Pediatrics.

Several health benefits have been linked to the Mediterranean diet, and researchers just added “may prevent frailty” to the list.