FDA starts Phase II of efforts to reduce salt levels in food
Aug 15, 2024
The new targets support reaching a recommended daily sodium intake limit of 2,750 mg per day per person.
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Aug 14, 2024
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Remission of type 2 diabetes feasible with soup and shake diet intervention
Aug 09, 2024
32% of those who completed the program had remission, with mean weight loss of 14.4%, or 15.9 kg.
Another listeria death, dozens of hospitalizations in outbreak tied to Boar’s Head deli meats
Aug 08, 2024
The death toll from listeria linked to tainted Boar’s Head deli meats has risen to three, with nine more cases of the bacterial illness reported in the outbreak, an update issued Thursday by the...
Boar’s Head recall tied to listeria expands to 7 million more pounds of deli meat
Jul 31, 2024
“Listeria is especially harmful to people who are pregnant, aged 65 or older, or with weakened immune systems,” the FDA said.
Mediterranean diet may aid mental health in rheumatoid arthritis patients
Jul 23, 2024
Higher diet adherence was tied to lower odds of depression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
Certain diets may protect against heart disease with type 1 diabetes
Jul 16, 2024
Higher adherence was tied to lower inflammatory marker levels over time.
Increases in incidence of certain foodborne diseases seen during 2023
Jul 08, 2024
The increasing numbers of infections may reflect changing diagnostic practices, with an increase in diagnosis by culture-independent diagnostic tests.
Less than one-quarter of patients hospitalized for CVD receive dietary counseling
Jun 18, 2024
The findings were seen across hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure and percutaneous coronary intervention.
1999 to 2020 saw diet quality improve among U.S. adults
Jun 17, 2024
However, disparities in diet quality were persistent or worsened by age, sex, race and ethnicity, education and income.