May
2003 Newsletter
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Update
on Protein More
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WHAT'S
NEW IN NUTRITION RESEARCH
Walking
reduces waistline (without
reducing body weight overall)
Do
you want to reduce your waistline or reduce
your tummy fat, but you are not sure which
is the best exercise? A study published
in the Journal of the American Medical
Association vol 289, p 323, 2003 (Irwi
M et al) showed that brisk walking or
riding a stationary bike for about 3 hours
per week for a year (without going on
a diet) resulted in a loss of almost 7%
of intra-abdominal fat even though total
body weight did not change much. 173 sedentary
overweight menopausal women took part
in this US study aged between 50 and 75.
Abdominal body fat is associated with
diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol
levels and heart disease. Try walking
for at least 30 minutes daily!
A healthy breakfast may reduce risk of
obesity, diabetes and heart disease
In
March 2003, Pereira et al reported at
the American Heart Asssociation's 43rd
Annual conference that breakfast habits
appeared to influence the incidence of
obesity and diabetes in young black and
white adults. The Harvard Medical School
researchers found that compared to those
people who ate breakfast less than three-times
per week, people who ate breakfast everyday
had
a 35% to 50% lower risk of obesity and
diabetes.
Breakfast may help control appetite and
reduce the risk of overeating later in
the day. However, if the breakfast was
not healthy (i.e was low in fibre and
made up of refined cereals) there was
no reduction in obesity/diabetes risk.
The
Australian Consumers Association analysed
188 breakfast cereals, of which 65 were
found to be nutritionally acceptable according
to salt, fat, carbohydrate, sugar and
fibre contents. Here are some of the cereals
recommended (published in May 2003 issue
of CHOICE magazine)
more....:
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