Nutrition Fitness News

Adopting a “One Health” approach to diet choices and nutrition recommendations can offer health and environmental benefits, according to findings published in Science of the Total Environment.

Among women with obesity and unexplained infertility, weight loss before infertility treatment did not increase the likelihood of having a healthy live birth, according to findings published in PLoS Medicine.

The Mediterranean diet has been named the best overall diet for the fifth year in a row by the editors of U.S. News & World Report.

A structured antenatal diet in addition to lifestyle interventions that are based on physical activity may reduce gestational weight gain as well as adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes, researchers reported in JAMA Internal Medicine.

A structured Mediterranean diet or mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy, compared with usual care, significantly reduced the proportion of newborns at risk for low birth weight being born below the 10th percentile, data showed.

Women with long COVID experience heart-rate irregularities after physical exertion, which could constrain their exercise tolerance and their free-living physical activity, according to a study published Experimental Physiology.

Phthalates and replacement plasticizers, chemicals used in food packaging and processing, were commonly found in fast-food items, according to a study published in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology Qualitative.

Older women who primarily ate alone were more likely to have angina and worse nutrition than those who ate with others, according to a South Korean study published in the journal Menopause.

Studies used to determine nutritional recommendations in the U.S. and Canada often lack women, including those who are pregnant, according to findings published in Science Advances.

Women with obesity receive inconsistent counseling about the impact that their weight can have on fertility and about weight loss strategies before they begin infertility care, at ASRM Scientific Congress & Expo.