Mediterranean Diet

NEW YORK — In this Healio video from the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Bhagwan A. Bahroo, MD, discusses the relationship that nutrition and mental state have with an individual’s overall health.

Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDN, CDCES, FADCES, talks with Melanie Betz, MS, RD, CSR, FNKF, FAND, about preventing kidney stones through diet and nutrition.

PHILADELPHIA — Some dietary change may improve cardiometabolic measures beyond weight loss and providers should create a diet that will most benefit each individual with obesity, according to a speaker.

An intervention combining yoga and the Mediterranean diet improved nutrition, balance and body strength in community-dwelling older adults, according to results a randomized controlled trial published in Nutrients.

Greater adherence to the Mediterranean diet was associated with a reduced risk for all-cause mortality among women, data in JAMA Network Open showed. Researchers said the association can be partly attributed to cardiometabolic risk factors.

In this video, Maria Danila, MD, discusses how dietary changes can impact rheumatoid arthritis.

Results from the PREDIMAR trial revealed that, among patients with atrial fibrillation who underwent ablation, following an extra-virgin olive oil-enriched Mediterranean diet reduced the risk for arrhythmia recurrence at 18 months.

In patients with atrial fibrillation who had ablation, those assigned a Mediterranean diet enriched with extra-virgin olive oil were less likely to have arrhythmia recurrence than those with no dietary restrictions, researchers reported.

SEATTLE — In this video, Eleonora M. Lad, MD, PhD, vice chair of ophthalmology clinical research at Duke Health, discusses highlights in age-related macular degeneration from the ARVO meeting.

The power of biologics in treating rheumatoid arthritis bested the benefits of the Mediterranean diet in this year’s RheumMadness tournament, coming out ahead as the most “practically perfect” nugget to carry forward into practice.