|
|
|
|
|
|
Mediterranean Diet & Mortality Risk
Just published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings is an analysis of the link between the “Mediterranean lifestyle” (comprised not only of dietary food and habits but also such things as napping, physical activity, and time socializing with friends) and all-cause mortality, as well as cardiovascular and cancer-specific mortality. This observational study was conducted among over 110,000 participants in the UK Biobank cohort, who were aged 40 to 75 at the onset of the study, and followed for a mean of just under 10 years.
|
|
|
|
Recent Blog Posts
|
Taking a Look at Huntington’s Disease
Results of a recent study published in Nature Communications provide encouraging results in the study of Huntington’s disease, suggesting a new physiological target in this progressive and currently incurable neurodegenerative disease. Using single-nucleus RNA sequencing, a method of studying the transcriptome in the nucleus only, researchers attempted to map out the specific pathologies found in both animal and post-mortem human tissues.
|
|
|
Gluten Introduction & Celiac Disease
A review recently published in Frontiers in Immunology describes what is known about the develop-ment of celiac disease, and possible dietary strategies to prevent it. Observational studies have suggested that the incidence of celiac may depend on multiple factors, including genetic pre-disposition, season of birth, viral infections, etc., but the dose and/or timing of gluten introduction has emerged as a possible variable.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
