Diet

Young adults in the U.S. may increase their life expectancy by more than a decade if they optimize their diet to include more legumes, whole grains and nuts, and less red and processed meat, according to findings published in PLoS Medicine.

A diet rich in ultra-processed food was found to be associated with increased hazards of all-cause and CVD mortality among patients with preexisting CVD, according to data published in European Heart Journal.

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 meta-analysis of studies between 2000 and 2020 revealed a “substantially high” percent of patients on hemodialysis do not adhere to diet and fluid restrictions.

Ahead of the New Year’s resolution season, Healio recaps some of its 2021 coverage on diet and exercise research.

Diets with a common metabolic pattern regarding cysteine catabolism can protect from ischemia-reperfusion injury-induced AKI, according to a speaker at ASN Kidney Week.

In the top story in cardiology last week, researchers reported that most suspected cases of COVID-19 vaccine-related myocarditis were mild and resolved quickly in patients aged younger than 21 years.

Higher diet quality was associated with lower risk for incident CVD in U.S. adults with normal weight and overweight, but not in those with obesity, researchers reported in the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

The stewards of the Mayo Clinic Diet recently updated the 72-year-old eating plan.