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Better Adherence to a Mediterranean Diet Lowers Risk for Death and Disease

Better adherence significantly lowered risk for all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality and for cancer, Alzheimer disease, and Parkinson disease during 3 to 18 years of follow-up.

Surprising Origin of Brown Fat Could Have Implications for Treating Obesity

Brown fat and muscle cells come from one lineage; white fat cells come from another.

Short Sleep Duration and Risk for Childhood Obesity

Each 1-hour reduction in sleep was associated with a 40% increase in the risk for obesity.

Something Fishy for the Brain: Do Supplements and Fish Help?

At least in the short term, effects are modest and limited to specific subgroups.

Diet’s Effect on Diabetes Risk: Is It the Fat? Or the Carbs?

In older women, lowering fat intake alone did not affect diabetes risk; in black women, sugar-sweetened drinks were associated with excess diabetes risk.

Healthy Lifestyle’s Effect on Mortality Risk

Five lifestyle factors had individual and combined effects on risk for all-cause, CV, and cancer mortality.

To Maintain Weight Loss, Exercise Even More

Women who maintained a 10% weight loss during a 2-year study had better eating habits and more leisure-time physical activity than did those who regained weight lost during the first 6 months.

How Fat Am I? Or, How Am I Fat?

Two new studies address how obesity relates to cardiovascular risk factors.

Eat Differently and Avoid Preeclampsia?

Women in the highest quartile of dietary fiber intake during early pregnancy had lower triglyceride levels and preeclampsia risk.

Is Weight Status Associated with Scholastic Achievement?

Middle-school children who were not overweight had better grades than overweight children.

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