Articles by Shari Barbanel
New Study Debunks Notion That Salt Consumption Contributes to Weight Loss
A new study led by Stephen Juraschek, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), sheds new light on these conflicting findings. The researchers found that reducing sodium intake in adults with elevated blood pressure or hypertension decreased thirst, urine volume (a marker of fluid intake), and blood pressure, but ...
ANA Proposes Personalized Nutrition Definition
Leaders of the newly established American Nutrition Association (ANA) have published a proposed definition of Personalized Nutrition in order to promote and scale efforts in research, education, clinical practice, and policy. The ANA recognizes personalized nutrition as core to human health and as key to turning the tide on the chronic disease epidemic. As one thrust of its work to ...
Walnuts May Be Good For the Gut and Help Promote Heart Health
Walnuts may not just be a tasty snack, they may also promote good-for-your-gut bacteria. New research suggests that these “good” bacteria could be contributing to the heart-health benefits of walnuts. In a randomized, controlled trial, researchers found that eating walnuts daily as part of a healthy diet was associated with increases in certain bacteria that ...
NPA Urges Health Care Professionals to Report Adverse Events for Dietary Supplements
In a letter to leading medical societies, the Natural Products Association (NPA) is urging that health care professionals make recommendations for reporting adverse events for dietary supplements. Manufacturers of dietary supplements are required to submit all information pertaining to adverse events associated with their products to the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration). “Adverse events ...
Logan University Partners with Shanghai University of Medicine & Health Sciences
Logan University (Missouri) has established a partnership with the Shanghai University of Medicine & Health Sciences (SUMHS) in Shanghai, China which will present unique educational opportunities for students and faculty from both institutions beginning in 2020. For several months, a team consisting of Logan President Clay McDonald, DC, MBA, JD; Dean of the College of ...
Bacterial Link in Celiac Disease
Bacterial exposure has been identified as a potential environmental risk factor in developing celiac disease, a hereditary autoimmune-like condition that affects about one in 70 Australians. It is estimated that half of all Australians are born with one of two genes that cause celiac disease, and approximately one in 40 are likely to develop the ...
Half the U.S. Population Projected to Have Obesity By 2030, Study Says
Approximately half of the adult U.S. population will have obesity and about a quarter will have severe obesity by 2030, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Massachusetts. The study, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, also predicts that in 29 states, more than half of ...
New Coalition to Push For Low-carb Diet to Be Added to U.S. Nutrition Guidelines
A new group called the Low-Carb Action Network (LCAN), a coalition of doctors, academics, and average Americans with personal success stories using low-carb diets, has launched to urge U.S. nutrition leaders to include a true low-carb diet as part of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA). LCAN members point to a large and rapidly ...
EHS to Address Toxic Substance Exposure and its Impact on Immune System Health
With millions of patient visits to physicians’ offices resulting in an infectious disease diagnosis last year in the United States, the impact of toxin and toxicant exposure on immune system health has never been more critical for the health care provider community. It’s in this context that the issue of immunotoxicity will anchor the 8th annual ...
Large Study Links Sustained Weight Loss to Reduced Breast Cancer Risk
A large new study finds that women who lost weight after age 50 and kept it off had a lower risk of breast cancer than women whose weight remained stable, helping answer a vexing question in cancer prevention. The reduction in risk increased with the amount of weight lost and was specific to women not ...
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