Wednesday, November 02, 2005

American J Clinical Nutrition Highlights

It has been a while. Below are September and October highlights.

  • Finding from the Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study indicate an association between dietary glycemic index (how fast carbohydrates turn into sugar) in foods and selected predictors of type 2 diabetes on older adults, particularly in men. The more high glycemic index foods consumed, the higher the diabteic risk.
  • Vitamin D may reduce susceptibility to gingival inflammation through its antiinflammatory effect.
  • A dietary pattern higth in sugar-sweetened soft drinks, refined grains, diet soft drinks, and processed meat but low in wine, coffee, cruciferous vegetables, and yellow veegtables, was associated with an increased risk of diabetes in women participating in the prestigious Nurse's Health Study.
  • Greater adherence to the Mediterranean diet is associated with elevated antioxidant capacty and low LDL cholesterol concentrations which help explan its benefit with the cardiovascular system.
  • In addition to adequate deitary calcium intake, appropriate intakes of vegetables and fruit have a beneficial effect of total bone mineral content in boys aged 8-20.
  • Dietary habits were significant predictors of poor hospitalized outcome in very old hospitalized patients. A questionnaire on dietary habits can serve as a useful tool in assessing nutritional status and prognosis.

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