Researchers compare the competitive endurance of vegetarian and omnivorous athletes, and if vegetarian athletes can perform just as well as their omnivore opponents. The results are surprising.
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A gut feeling about eczema
Researchers look at the gut bugs in infants with eczema and the association between the microbiome and risk of eczema among infants. This is what they found.
What does a good diet really mean?
Australian research has found that focusing on your whole diet rather than obsessing on individual nutrients pays off in terms of obesity and blood pressure. The study scored the diets of 5,000 men and women.
Can a probiotic supplement help with weight loss?
A review of clinical trials that use probiotics as part of a weight loss program points to them having a small, but significant benefit on weight loss.
Diet clues to surviving cancer
A research team collated together 117 studies involving over 200,000 cancer survivors into a single meta-analysis. What they found was perhaps not too surprising.
Why does weight go back on?
Research into a drug for type 2 diabetes may inadvertently help to explain that weight regain for people that diet to lose weight is not a simple matter of poor self-control.
Is there a link between dairy food and chronic kidney disease?
Researchers studied a group of older adults to assess whether consumption of dairy products and total calcium intake reduced the incidence of Chronic kidney disease (CDK) over a 10 year period. This is what they found.
Do fruit and vegetables make you happy?
Eating more fruits and vegetables has been linked to substantial increases in people’s level of happiness and now we have the research to to back up this claim.
Dark chocolate exercise benefits uncovered
New research has provided insights into how the active compounds in dark chocolate can regulate the mitochondrial powerhouse factories in muscle needed for endurance exercise.
The mysteries of fermenting milk
Research shows that Lactic acid bacteria (LAB), involved in the yoghurt making process, produce a range of small proteins that can benefit human health.
