Author: Catherine

Plants may be good for your heart. Not political plants, which can be bad if you are the victim of such a scheme, but fruits and vegetables in your diet. An analysis just published in the Journal of the American Heart Association did "produce" more evidence that plant-based diets are associated with a decreased risk of cardiovascular disease. Lettuce takes a closer look at this latest analysis conducted by a team that included Hyunju Kim, Laura E. Caulfield, Vanessa Garcia‐Larsen, Josef Coresh, and Casey M. Rebholz from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) and Lyn M. Steffen from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. They analyzed a salad of data on 12,168 men and women who had participated in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. Ea...

Search for "hormone diet" and there are more than 30 recent diet books on the topic. The authors allege that the reason people over 35 struggle to lose weight doesn't have to do with eating too much or not exercising enough. They say it's your hormones working against you. According to these books, you can "trick your metabolism" and "feed your thyroid". They claim that all you need to do is eat the right foods and take the right supplements, and you'll unlock the secret to lasting weight loss. But is there any evidence these diets work? The 20/30 Fast Track Hormone Weight Loss Plan isn't a book; it's a pricey program. It's sold at weight-loss centers across the United States and Canada and is led by "wellness experts" who take the company's private training but have no other cred...