Heart Disease and Diet
Heart disease is a broad term for any condition that affects the heart and blood vessels. This includes:
heart attack
stroke
high blood pressure
stable angina
unstable angina
congestive heart failure
poor circulation
arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats. Read more…
Diet for Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus, often called diabetes, makes it hard for the body to control the level of glucose in the blood. Glucose is the main form of sugar in the body.
There are three main types of diabetes:
Type 1 diabetes. This type used to be known as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, IDDM, or juvenile-onset diabetes mellitus. A person who has this type of diabetes makes little or no insulin. Most will need to take insulin shots one or more times a day. Read more…
Diet for Kidney Disease
There are two types of diets for kidney disease. One type of diet is specifically for people who have progressive chronic renal failure, or kidney failure, but are not on dialysis yet. Along with medicine, a low-protein diet may slow the worsening of kidney failure. The other more restrictive type of diet is for people on dialysis whose kidneys have totally failed and are no longer working at all. This is called end stage renal disease, or ESRD.
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Diet for Liver Disease
A diet for liver disease provides the vitamins and minerals needed to stay healthy. It also limits nutrients that will cause further liver damage.
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A healthy liver is like a processing plant. Carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals all go to the liver where they are broken down and stored. Later, they are remade into whatever the body needs and carried through the bloodstream to wherever they will be used.
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Diet and Pregnancy
Pregnancy is the time period between the conception and the birth of a child. Measured from the start of a woman’s last normal menstrual period, called LMP, it usually lasts about 40 weeks, or roughly 9 calendar months. The process of childbearing, though, can be said to last longer. Often, it is divided into three stages: Read more…
Diet and Calories
Calories are a way of measuring the potential energy in foods. They also measure the amount of energy, in units, that the body uses. Food supplies calories to the body. The body burns calories to stay alive and to move. The nutrients that provide calories in food are limited to fat, protein, and carbohydrates. These 3 nutrients can be found in foods in all of the major food groups. Foods may have one or more of these nutrients. Even though it is not a nutrient, alcohol has calories too. Read more…
Diet for Age
Nutrition needs and developmental skills change as a child grows. An age-appropriate diet is one that provides the nutrients a child needs to grow and to develop. It also includes foods that a child likes and can eat easily.
The Food Guide Pyramid from the US Department of Agriculture shows the kinds and amounts of foods that are needed to provide adequate nutrition for children. A healthy diet includes grains, fruit, vegetables, meat and meat substitutes, and dairy products. Some foods are hard or unsafe for children to eat because their chewing and swallowing skills are not yet fully developed.
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Healthy Diet Lowers Death Risk for Women
MONDAY, June 23 (HealthDay News) — Women can protect themselves against death from heart disease and other causes by sticking with a diet that is low in saturated fats and sugar and high in vegetables, fruits and whole grains, a new study suggests.
“We investigated a Western eating pattern — lots of red and processed meat, French fries, refined grains and sweets — and a prudent pattern — lots of fruit, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, fish and poultry — in relation to mortality,” explained study author Christin Heidemann, who conducted her research while in the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. She is now a research scientist in the department of epidemiology at the German Institute of Human Nutrition in Nuthetal. Read more…
Diet Key to Diabetes Risk
MONDAY, July 28 (HealthDay News) — Packing on the pounds by drinking too many sugary drinks and not eating enough fruits and veggies appears to be associated with increased risk for type 2 diabetes, while a low-fat diet doesn”t alter your risk of developing the blood sugar disease. Read more…
Water-Rich, Low-Fat Foods Encourage Weight Loss
FRIDAY, June 8 (HealthDay News) — If you”re trying to lose weight, eating the right foods may be more effective than eating less, U.S. researchers say.
A team at Pennsylvania State University found that low-calorie-density diets can help shed pounds and control hunger.
Low-calorie-density foods have high water and low fat content. They include fruits and vegetables, soups, lean meat, and low-fat dairy products.
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