Nutrition Fitness News

The FDA has updated the definition of “healthy,” so food labels will have to abide by new rules to earn the title, according to a press release.

Compared with a low-fat diet, nutritional ketosis with or without exogenous ketones may positively impact self-reported menses for women, restarting or realigning menstrual cycles, according to study results published in PLOS ONE.

Prenatal diets that meet U.S. dietary guidelines reduce the risk for slow or rapid infant growth, but the association between infant growth and low-inflammation diets is unclear, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

Among pregnant women, having low persistent organic pollutant exposure enhanced the protective association of an alternate Mediterranean diet against gestational diabetes, according to results published in Diabetes Care.

Among nonexercising women, those who initiated a few minutes of vigorous lifestyle physical activity daily had substantially lower risk for any major adverse cardiovascular event, including myocardial infarction and heart failure, data show.

CHICAGO — Black and Hispanic women who adhered to components of a Mediterranean-style diet were less likely to experience any adverse pregnancy outcome, regardless of overweight or obesity status, researchers reported.

In this Healio video exclusive, Joanne Stone, MD, MS, and Susan S. Khalil, MD, discussed highlights from the second annual Mount Sinai Women’s Health Forum, a 1-day conference dedicated to the latest updates in care for midlife women.

Exercise interventions reduced the risk for postpartum depression and the severity of depression and anxiety in women who recently gave birth, in the British Journal of Sports Medicine showed.

Women with polycystic ovary syndrome who initiated any weight-loss intervention saw improvements in some glycemic and hormonal measures as well as improved menstrual frequency, data from a meta-analysis show.