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Nutrition and diet

  • A 24-hour fast could reverse chronic gut problems in the elderly

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    A 24-hour fast could reverse chronic gut problems in the elderly image If you're over the age of 60 and you suffer from gut problems, a day-long fast could be the answer. New research has discovered that fasting kick-starts the regeneration of the stem cells in our intestines, a natural function our body loses as we get older.

    Gastrointestinal infections and other gut problems can become a chronic, long-term problem as we lose the ability to naturally regenerate intestinal stem cells, the source of all new cells in the gut.

  • B sharp: the vitamins that help you focus

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    The B vitamins play a key role in mental wellbeing. They can improve focus and attention—and it may be because they reduce levels of homocysteine, an amino acid that's usually linked to the development of heart disease.

    They are especially beneficial for people suffering from schizophrenia, say researchers from Orygen, the National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health.

  • Changing your mealtimes is a sure way to lose weight

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    Changing the time when you eat breakfast and dinner could be a quick way to lose some body fat.

    Eating your breakfast 90 minutes later and dinner 90 minutes earlier—and yet still eating as much as you wish between those two times—could help you lose double the body fat as those sticking to usual meal times.

    Although there are no restrictions on what or how much you eat, you're dramatically reducing your 'window' when you can eat, and so you're introducing a mini-fast and eating less because you'll be less hungry, say researchers from the University of Surrey.

  • Plastic teabags release 12 billion particles into each cup

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    Plastic teabags release nearly 12 billion micro-plastics into every cup we drink—and these could be interfering with our behaviour and neurodevelopment.

  • Protein shakes: muscles today, health problems tomorrow

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    Muscle-building protein shakes and snack bars could be doing more harm than good in the long run.

    They'll certainly help bulk you out, but they could cause health problems in middle-age and could even reduce your lifespan, researchers are warning.

    The shakes are rich in one type of amino acid—the branch-chain amino acids (BCAAs)—and we need more, and different, amino acids if we're going to have a healthy diet, researchers from the University of Sydney have found.

  • Saturated fats guard against heart disease, top cardiologists told

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    Saturated fats guard against heart disease, top cardiologists told image

    The world's leading cardiologists have been told that the advice they've been handing out for 30 years about heart health is wrong: far from causing heart disease, saturated fats from cheese and red meat protect us from ever getting the condition and could cut the risk of an early death by 25 per cent.

    The amount we eat can be safely doubled from the levels that current dietary guidelines advise so, for instance, we can have 4.5 oz a day of red meat—equivalent to a small steak—every day and not the 2.5 oz currently being recommended.

    Those who are eating more meat and dairy have a 25 per cent lower risk of heart disease, and a 22 per cent reduced risk of a heart attack, leading cardiologists have been told at their annual conference.

  • Third of 'gluten-free' options in restaurants contain gluten

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    Third of 'gluten-free' options in restaurants contain gluten image

    Be warned—gluten-free food served in restaurants may be nothing of the sort. Around a third of meals listed as being gluten-free contain traces of the protein that's found in wheat and other grains.

    Pasta and pizzas are the foods most likely to contain some traces of gluten, which can cause a life-threatening reaction in the 1 per cent of people who are celiacs, and unpleasant side effects in the gluten-intolerant, estimated to be around half the adult population.

  • Vitamin D deficiency? Then take this vital nutrient as well

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    Vitamin D deficiency? Then take this vital nutrient as well image

    Magnesium and vitamin D go together like bread and butter. We're probably deficient in both, but it's magnesium that plays the key role in regulating levels of the 'sunshine vitamin', researchers have discovered.

    Although people often supplement with vitamin D, they don't realise that magnesium is just as important. It optimises levels in those who are deficient and lowers it in the very few of us who have high levels, say researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

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