Diet guide news 2006-09

2006-09-22 Satiety: The New Diet Buzzword

Satiety: The New Diet Buzzword

All of these new foods offer what dieticians refer to as "satiety," or satisfying hunger. "Satiety is the anti-diet, because when people think of diet, they think of deprivation," says Lara Jackle, chief executive of LightFull Foods. "These foods are about feeling full, satisfied, and not depriving yourself. " Indeed, satiety, as peculiar as it sounds, is becoming a buzzword in weight-management circles and might soon become as ubiquitous as "low-carb" and the "Atkins diet" were in their heydays.

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Several food companies claim their new low-calorie snacks and drinks can help keep the weight off by making you feel fuller.

2006-09-04 Healthyeating

Innovative and cutting edge technology is being used in Lipgene to develop foods with modified fat compositions; for example, milks with a more unsaturated fatty acid profile and plant oils containing long chain omega-3 fatty acids. Such foods have the potential to play an invaluable role, in the future, in the battle against the rising tide of the metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, without consumers having to make major changes to their dietary habits. However, for novel foods to have an impact they must first be accepted by consumers. Acceptability of such food products will be explored. The cost implications of their production will be compared with the total costs to the EU economy of treating the metabolic syndrome and its complications.

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2006-09-06 Lets Blame Evolution for our Obesity Epidemic

Why Those finches with smaller beaks were able to meet their nutritional requirements where those with larger beaks couldnt as large seed availability dwindled. Those with the smaller beaks didnt radically alter their diet to consume a different set of nutrients - in fact, they adapted to the food source available, smaller seeds, within the same context of nutrients as their previous diet contained with larger seeds. Those finches who were at a disadvantage with smaller beaks unable to extract nutrients from larger seeds were now at an advantage when the larger seeds were limited, and their characteristics prevailed as they reproduced with off-spring having smaller beaks.

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2006-09-26 Health 24 - Diet, DietDocs articles

Survivors often exhibit symptoms of nutrient deficiencies. For example, in Survivor Africa, Kim Senior suffered from peripheral oedema - her legs were swelling up. This was probably due to a protein deficiency, as that group of Survivors were not able to supplement their monotonous diet of maize meal with fish or pork like their Australian counterparts. This shows us that we need to eat a variety of foods, including protein derived from animals like meat, fish, milk, cheese, yoghurt and eggs. Vegans should take this lesson to heart and switch over to a lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet instead.

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2006-09-07 A Meaty, Salty, Starchy Diet May Impact Chronic Lung Disease (press release)

Chinese Cohort, developed and validated a 165-item quantitative food frequency questionnaire in this population. The participants were presented with a list of 147 food items and 18 beverages and asked about the frequency of consumption of each item over a one-year period. For this paper, researchers used these data to analyze dietary patterns of the population, rather than simply looking at individual foods or nutrients as is usually done.

As researchers, we rarely look at the impact of dietary patterns on health. We typically look at vitamins and specific foods, but not how overall dietary patterns affect non-malignant respiratory diseases or symptoms, said Dr. London. These data show us the important contribution that diet can have on the development of diseases, such as COPD. Choosing foods with less saturated fat, lower in refined starches and

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2006-09-23 Fat chance - TV and Radio - Entertainment . au

And more importantly, he consistently creates great, accessible, healthy food. Not diet food. Healthy food. The taste test in the first two episodes is a perfect example: mussels au gratin (kind of cheesy and toasty), veal tartare (raw lean veal, herbs, shallots, olive oil), and a freshly shucked, perfectly unadorned oyster. Hell use butter where a dish needs butter, and knows a rasher of bacon isnt going to kill you. If a dish needs cheese hell use real cheese, not some dairy by-product with the flavour and consistency of a wetsuit. But hell prepare a great salad or simple vegetable dish with equal enthusiasm, and his quest to get everyone, everywhere to understand that food can taste great and be good for you is both well-documented and clearly genuine.

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2006-09-22 Diabetes Control Requires Options Based on Data

Re-read the second part of her statements - she acknowledges that blood glucose, lipid and blood pressure control keeps people healthy long-term but then opines that dietary advice should be "realistic," and from her opening statement, such a diet should be "enjoyable" to the person attempting to use diet as a means of controlling their blood glucose. Forget glycemic control is the priority, its critically important to eat and enjoy your food even if it is going to kill you slowly with progressive damage.

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2006-09-13 Preventing Cavities through Diet and Dental Care - published in . - Stay on top of the days business and technology news.

A good diet is also very important to having healthy teeth. Bacteria in your mouth feed off of carbohydrates and sugars, which can cause any plaque on your teeth to become acidic. One of the problems is not actually the quantity of food that is consumed, but rather how often it is. The acid reaction occurs after every time you eat and lasts for about twenty minutes. For this reason, you should limit yourself to only three meals and no more than two snacks during a day. Treats that are normally served an hour or two after dinner should be served with or right after the meal instead. This way, you can minimize the acid reactions.

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2006-09-12 The Herald

Admittedly, it seems logical for schools to set some sort of example to youngsters in banning sugary drinks and fatty snacks from premises even though this will make them more appealing to the childish mind, but Ian Bells (tongue-in-cheek) suggestion about banning certain foodstuffs entirely and your own assuredly well-meaning editorial about dragging working parents in for school dinner tasting sessions while encouraging grannies everywhere to impart baking skills in an attempt to halt the slide into dietary oblivion seem alternately misguided, implausible, even deluded.

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2006-09-22 A rough guide to minerals: Calcium - Tenerife News - News from Tenerife Canary Islands Spain

As we all know, it is essential for strong bones and there is a continuous movement of calcium between the skeleton and blood and other parts of the body, which is finely controlled by hormones. Vitamin D is important in this process as it increases the re-absorption of calcium by bones. Calcium is transported into the body by a carrier protein, which also requires the vitamin for its synthesis. It aids absorption of calcium in the gut as well, so it is essential to get enough vitamin D, either from the diet or exposure to the sun. The British Food Standards Agency says that adults need 700mg of calcium a day, though pregnant women and those who are breast-feeding are generally advised to raise their calcium and vitamin D intake.

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Our bodies need various minerals to perform healthily. They are crucial to the regulation and production of bones, blood, nerves, skin, teeth, hair, vitamins, enzymes and hormones as well as the healthy functioning of nerve transmission, blood circulation, muscles, fluid regulation, cells and energy production. A normal, healthy person should be able to meet all their requirements through