Topic: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Low-fat diet may not increase diabetes risks

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - While the low-fat diet craze led some doctors to worry that Americans would instead start eating too many carbohydrates, a new study suggests that eating low-fat doesn't have to increase carbohydrate-fueled health risks.Instead, if extra carbohydrates are ...

Diet soda doesn't raise diabetes risk: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Diet soda and other artificially-sweetened drinks - previously implicated in raising the chance of developing diabetes - are not guilty, suggests a new study from Harvard University researchers.In a large group of men followed for 20 years, ...

Little evidence soy helps blood sugar control

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Soy foods and supplements probably don't help control high blood sugar, according to a new report.Some clinical trials have linked soy to better blood sugar control. But for the new study, researchers combined the results of two ...

Eating made easy

Who can keep it all straight? When you eat a bad carb alone, your body digests it so quickly that you get a surge followed by a dip in blood sugar. "Calories that come from carbohydrates&#8212good or bad&#8212are stored as fat only ...

Fish Intake May Increase Diabetes Risk

Eating two or more servings of fish a week may increase diabetes risk, according to a new study from the Harvard School of Public Health.. The study, published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, examined the link between fish and omega-3 fatty ...

Health News for late August 2007

An article published in the August 22/29 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association warns that hypertension and prehypertension often go undiagnosed in kids. According to a paper published early online on August 28 in Biology Letters, to maximize the ...

Low Carb Diets in the News

This past month or so has been a good one for the health benefits of low carb diets in the news. An article in the current issue of the prestigious journal The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reviews a lot of the ...