BACKGROUND In our recently published study, including walnuts in the diets of adults with prediabetes led to overall improvement in diet quality. This report adds to those study findings by examining the food groups displaced during walnut inclusion in the diets of those adults with prediabetes. METHODS Randomized, controlled, modified Latin square parallel design with 2 treatment arms. The 1...

Ecuador, like many countries in the Americas, has seen a rise in the prevalence of overweight and obesity. Yet data in Ecuador on these chronic nutritional disorders are scarce. A review of the data that have been reported, however, suggests that important patterns are emerging. Rapid economic and demographic changes in developing countries such as Ecuador may facilitate the replacement of low-...

Objective: This study aimed to analyze the effect of a combination calorie restriction and moderateintensity continuous exercise on FFA levels visceral fat weight in female mice exposed high-caloriediet.Material Method: research was randomized posttest used only control group design with femalemice as sampl Balb/c (Mus musculus), 8 weeks old, 20-30 grams. It randomly divided into fourgroups, na...

This review examines the merits of 'food addiction' as an explanation of excessive eating (i.e., eating in excess of what is required to maintain a healthy body weight). It describes various apparent similarities in appetites for foods and drugs. For example, conditioned environmental cues can arouse food and drug-seeking behaviour, 'craving' is an experience reported to precede eating and drug...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that dieting, or the restriction of caloric intake, is ineffective because it increases chronic psychological stress and cortisol production--two factors that are known to cause weight gain; and to examine the respective roles of the two main behaviors that comprise dieting--monitoring one's caloric intake and restricting one's caloric intake--on psychological a...

We analyzed eating patterns of 4643 adults (1988 men and 2655 women) aged 65 years and older at the time of their enrollment in the Cardiovascular Health Study. Diet was assessed with a qualitative, picture-sort food frequency questionnaire along with supplemental questions on other eating pattern variables. Consumption of high fat foods and low fiber foods was more frequent in older participan...