Mediterranean Diet Could Help You Live Longer: Study

by | Nov 6, 2013 | High Fat Diet, Low carb diet | 0 comments

mediterranead diet We may be one step closer in that eternal quest to find the fountain of youth. A new study suggests eating a Mediterranean diet might increase lifespan.

The findings, published in the journal AGE, show that elderly people who eat a Mediterranean diet — which is high in fish and vegetables and low in animal products like milk and red meat — have about a 20 percent increased chance of living longer compared with their non-Mediterranean-eating counterparts.

“This means in practice that older people who eat a Mediterranean diet live an estimated 2-3 years longer than those who don’t,” Gianluca Tognon, scientist at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, said in a statement.

The study was based on data from the H70 study in Sweden; the H70 study has gone on for more than 40 years in the Swedish region, and included thousands of 70-year-olds, researchers said.

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The benefits of a Mediterranean diet

by | Oct 23, 2013 | High Fat Diet, High Protein Diet, Low carb diet | 0 comments

Olive Oil Many believe that diet and lifestyle are contributing factors to your health experience, but it is your genetics that will ultimately determine your fate. Some people even neglect their own nutrition, believing that their health in later years is already decided regardless of what they eat or how active they are.

However, new evidence suggests the determining force of our genetics is not absolute.

A study conducted at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University and the CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición in Spain has yielded what looks to be a significant leap forward for nutrigenomics, or the study of how nutrition and gene function affect our health and risk of getting chronic and degenerative diseases.

The study followed 7,000 men and women over five years as they were given either a Mediterranean diet or a low-fat control diet and then monitored for cardiovascular disease, stroke and heart attack. Within the sample about 900 individuals had genetic variations that typically put them in a higher risk category for heart disease, which is usually preceded by type two diabetes.

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Improve health with avocado – Research

by | Oct 16, 2013 | Low carb diet | 0 comments

Avocado Health conscious Kiwis and foodies alike now have even more reason to celebrate the arrival of the New Zealand avocado season – latest research proves they can make a vast improvement to overall health and well being.

As well as being a delicious addition to many meals, avocados are one of the most nutritionally complete foods in the world and new international research published in the Nutrition Journal shows that people who regularly eat them weigh 3.4 kilograms less on average and have waistlines around four centimetres smaller, than those who don’t.

Avocado consumers also have significantly lower BMIs than non-consumers; significantly higher intakes of important nutrients (such as fibre, vitamin E, magnesium, potassium and vitamin K), plus more good fats and a lower intake of added sugars.

The findings of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) in the United States, published in the Nutrition Journal, proved eating avocado every day boosted people’s HDL (“good”) cholesterol levels and resulted in a 50 per cent less chance of metabolic syndrome (a group of risk factors that occur together and increase the risk for coronary artery disease, stroke, and type-2 diabetes).

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