There are many things you can do to lower your blood pressure if you do not want to take medicines. Eat a diet high in vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. One way to do this is to follow the DASH diet. More information is available at: http://fnic.nal.usda.gov/dietand-disease/heart-health http://fnic.nal.usda.gov/ dietary-guidance/dietaryguidelines Reduce salt intake. Consume no more than 2,4...

The role of starchy plants in early hominin diets and when the culinary processing of starches began have been difficult to track archaeologically. Seed collecting is conventionally perceived to have been an irrelevant activity among the Pleistocene foragers of southern Africa, on the grounds of both technological difficulty in the processing of grains and the belief that roots, fruits, and nut...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between the Alternate Healthy Eating Index 2010 (AHEI-2010)--a measure of diet quality--and the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Participants in the Nurses' Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, United States. PARTICIPANTS 73,228 female nurses from 1984 to 2000 and 4...

Since the beginning of the 1990s, increasing evidence supports beneficial effects of nut consumption on health. A new analysis of the Spanish PREDIMED trial, published in BMC Medicine, has expanded our knowledge. The study showed that individuals eating nuts more than three times per week died less often from cardiovascular disease and cancer than non-consumers. The study also adds an important...

BACKGROUND Although the typical diet of the Mediterranean region has received much recognition over the past several years for its association with substantial health benefits, it remains unknown whether its favorable effects are mediated through changes in adiponectin concentrations. OBJECTIVE The objective was to determine whether adherence to a Mediterranean-type diet is associated with hi...

Worldwide cancer is now becoming leading cause of death. Main aim therapy to stop progression disease. Disease fighting aspect major concern in all fields health. Now we are trying cure these with help natural things. Food items containing Phytoestrogens considered important treatment cancer. Either chemotherapy that involve use chemicals suppress growth and invasion. These products part our ev...

Aflatoxins are highly toxic compounds that are produced as secondary metabolites by some Aspergillus and Emericella species. Despite huge progress on aflatoxin research during the past 50 years, we have witnessed many cases of food contamination with aflatoxins all over the world. Aflatoxins have mutagenic and carcinogenic effects and they are capable of inducing hepatocellular carcinoma in hum...

Vegetarian dietary patterns have been reported to be associated with a number of favourable health outcomes in epidemiological studies, including the Adventist Health Study 2 (AHS-2). Such dietary patterns may vary and need further characterisation regarding foods consumed. The aims of the present study were to characterise and compare the food consumption patterns of several vegetarian and non...

Because many diseases of the Western Hemisphere are hormone-dependent cancers, we have postulated that the Western diet, compared to a vegetarian or semivegetarian diet, may alter hormone production, metabolism, or action at the cellular level by some biochemical mechanisms. Recently, our interest has been mainly focused on the cancer-protective role of some hormonelike diphenolic phytoestrogen...