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While the data continues to pour in on the benefits of the Mediterranean diet for cardiac health, the lack of information on how this diet affects the aging process has not gone unnoticed by the scientific community. As such, an international team of investigators, led by researchers at the University of Cork, set out to determine the effects of the Mediterranean diet on older populations. Amazingly, the five-country study found that eating a Mediterranean diet for a year boosts the types of gut bacteria linked to “healthy” aging while reducing those associated with harmful inflammation in older people.
The researchers published their findings yesterday in Gut through an article titled “Mediterranean diet intervention alters the gut microbiome in older people reducing frailty and improving health status: the NU-AGE 1-year dietary intervention across five European countries.”
The study is part of a larger randomized controlled trial of 1,200 people called the European Project on Nutrition in Elderly People or NU-AGE that began in 2012. Previous publications from the ongoing study found those who followed the diet closely had improved episodic memory and overall cognitive ability. Higher adherence to the diet also reduced the rate of bone loss in people with osteoporosis and improved blood pressure and arterial stiffness.
Researchers are interested in learning how and why populations on this particular traditional diet are so healthy.
I think the finding is great news for older people who think it's too late for them to become healthier.
If there is one thing I can say about the diet industry is that theories are projected and data is ignored even more so than politics. For example most people agree that the president's first name is Donald.
Its not the only diet that avoids pizza and a coke.
If there is one thing I can say about the diet industry is that theories are projected and data is ignored even more so than politics. For example most people agree that the president's first name is Donald.
Its not the only diet that avoids pizza and a coke.
Sure, but that is not the point of the study or this thread.
This study of people aged 65-79 from 5 countries found that those who began this pattern of eating had microbiome changes linked to improvements in cognitive function, memory, immunity, bone strength, and prevention of chronic diseases. This is news.
Until researchers find these positive microbiome changes in diets that avoid pizza and coke, this is where we are:
OK, call me very suspicious when it comes to claims about diet.
Now the big thing is pushing plant-based and nearly plant-based....is that because they have been proven to be oh-so healthy, or because they are currently very trendy?
Sure, but that is not the point of the study or this thread.
This study of people aged 65-79 from 5 countries found that those who began this pattern of eating had microbiome changes linked to improvements in cognitive function, memory, immunity, bone strength, and prevention of chronic diseases. This is news.
Until researchers find these positive microbiome changes in diets that avoid pizza and coke, this is where we are:
Typpical JAMA crap. with all the usual epidemythology.
Exposures:
Intake of whole grains, their subcomponents (bran and germ), and dietary fiber (cereal, fruit, and vegetable) were collected and updated almost every 4 years using validated food frequency questionnaires.
Unreliable BS....I give you my scouts honor that I ate that and not this......Carefully managed over 100 k people......
Cohort study of the intake of whole grains, their subcomponents (bran and germ), and dietary fiber (cereal, fruit, and vegetable) in 125 455 participants from 2 cohorts from the Nurses' Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study.
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Results:
After an average follow-up of 24.2 years, we identified 141 patients with HCC among 125 455 participants (77 241 women and 48 214 men (mean [SD] age, 63.4 [10.7] years). Increased whole grain intake was significantly associated with lower risk of HCC (the highest vs lowest tertile intake: HR, 0.63; 95% CI, 0.41-0.96; P = .04 for trend). A nonsignificant inverse HCC association was observed for total bran (HR, 0.70; 95% CI, 0.46-1.07; P = .11 for trend), but not for germ. Increased intake of cereal fiber (HR, 0.68; 95% CI, 0.45-1.03; P = .07 for trend), but not fruit or vegetable fiber, was associated with a nonsignificant reduced risk of HCC.
So 141 out 125 455 of get Hepatocellular Carcinoma or:
.001 of the group after about 25 years.
With an HR of .63 we can then reduce that danger to .00063 or about 50 on the one hand and 90 on the other.
All done by not easting pizza and a coke which can also be done with saw dust.
Great, fantastic , very convinced now.......
A 90% chance a few dozens of lives were changed out of hundreds of thousands buy find something that displaces pizza and a coke.
OK, call me very suspicious when it comes to claims about diet.
Now the big thing is pushing plant-based and nearly plant-based....is that because they have been proven to be oh-so healthy, or because they are currently very trendy?
Mediterranean diet is a generic term for the traditional pattern of eating in countries bordering the Mediterranean. Dishes vary by region and cultures, but the proportions are basically the same. It has been studied for decades after it was observed that populations with these eating habits have lower incidences of chronic diseases and lived longer.
There are mountains of data from decades of research on this way of eating. This thread is about the latest finding published last Monday. Many health organizatons, doctors and dieticians have been recommending it for years, but it usually gets drowned out by fad or trendy diets and products promising quick fixes.
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Follow your roots.
