Diet

Lifestyle interventions are the recommended first steps for treatment of diabetes and other cardiometabolic disorders. Changes to diet and physical activity can ultimately lead to weight loss and its proven benefits.

Sustained lifestyle modifications in middle-aged women reduced the 26-year risk for ischemic stroke and total stroke, according to a study published in Stroke.

According to data published in JAMA, children’s healthy diet scores improved by 27% during a recent 18-year period. The scores were based on the American Heart Association’s continuous diet score, which measures targeted consumption of total fruits and vegetables, whole grains, fish and shellfish, sugar-sweetened beverages and sodium.

A healthy diet and lifestyle intervention utilizing daily text messages may help improve the behaviors of patients with chronic kidney disease, according to results of a pilot intervention that were presented at the virtual National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings.

Better adherence to a plant-based diet was associated with lower risk for CVD, but the effect of healthy or unhealthy food choices on long-term CVD risk was more prominent in women.

Eating higher quantities of tofu and isoflavones lowers the risk for CHD, especially in young women or postmenopausal women who do not use hormones, according to a study published in Circulation.

Winning the lottery may not lead to more healthy habits or better overall health, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Women with polycystic ovary syndrome assigned a diet rich in chickpeas, lentils, dry beans and split peas as part of a lifestyle intervention were just as likely to experience an improvement in metabolic outcomes after 16 weeks as women with PCOS who adhered to the Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes, or TLC, diet, according to findings from a randomized controlled trial published in Clinical Endocrinology.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — In addition to recommending physical activity and restful sleep, physicians and rheumatologists should also focus on their patients’ diets, with specific attention to the difference between “real foods and manufactured calories,” according to Roxanne Sukol, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic.

The value of a healthy diet in disease prevention and overall health has been well-established in the scientific literature and among the general public.