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Mediterranean Diet Prevents Sudden Cardiac Death in Women
A Mediterranean-style diet is one of four factors helping to greatly reduce the risk of sudden cardiac death in women, as reported by Reuters on June 5, 2011. The other factors reducing risk were...
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High-Carbohydrate Eating Promotes Heart Disease in Women
Women double their risk of developing coronary heart disease if they have high consumption of carbohydrates, according to research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Men’s hearts, however,...
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Mediterranean Diet Cuts Stroke Risk In Women
The journal Circulation in 2009 reported that the Mediterranean diet reduces risk of stroke in women by 13%. This supplements our prior knowledge that the healthy diet is associated with lower risk of...
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Glycemic Index and Chronic Disease Risk (Mostly in Women)
I’ve written about glycemic index (GI), glycemic load (GL), and glycemic diets in preparation for today’s post. The concept of glycemic index was introduced by Jenkins et al in 1981 at the University...
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Mediterranean Diet Failed to Prevent Mental Decline in Women With Vascular...
Unfortunately, the Mediterranean diet failed to preserve cognitive function over the course of five years in the Women’s Antioxidant Cardiovascular Study (WACS). The 2,500 women in the study, all over...
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Alcohol Consumption and Cancer in Women
The Million Women Study (2009) looked at the association between alcohol consumption and the incidence of various cancers in middle-aged women in the United Kingdom. Here’s the conclusion from the...
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The Role of Exercise in Maintenance of Weight Loss In Women
A 2008 article in Archives of Internal Medicine teaches us the role of regular physical activity in keeping lost weight from returning to once-overweight women. Methodology 201 overweight women (body...
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FDA Cuts the Women’s Dose of Sleeping Pill Ambien (Zolpidem) By Half
Details are at MedPageToday. Tagged: ambien, women, zolpidem
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