of death in the United States, accounting for $444 billion in healthcare expenditures in 2010.1, 2 Reducing dietary cholesterol has long been part of the American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) guidelines on lifestyle management. Current AHA/ ACC guidelines state that insufficient evidence exists to determine whether lowering dietary cholesterol intake reduces ...

Introduction Obesity has affected an approximated 300 million people in the worldwide (1). Its prevalence is expanding in both developed and developing countries. Type 2 diabetes may be the most destructive result that related to obesity (1). The risk of type 2 diabetes increases as body mass index (BMI) increases (2). The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is 3-7 times more in obese adults (3). The...

Abstract Background The adherence to a Dietary Approaches Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet may have bidirectional relationship with mental wellbeing. We aimed evaluate the association between compliance DASH and neuro-psychological function in young women. Methods In this cross-sectional study, total of 181 girls aged 18 25 years were recruited. dietary intakes study participants evaluated using v...

OBJECTIVES As Japanese societies rapidly undergo westernisation, the prevalence of hypertension is increasing. We investigated the association between dietary quality and the prevalence of untreated hypertension in Japanese male workers. DESIGN AND METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study of 433 male workers who completed a brief food frequency questionnaire. Adherence to the WHO-based He...

Poor nutrition in the first year of a mother's life and undernutrition in utero, infancy, childhood, and adulthood predispose individuals to stroke in later life, but the mechanism of increased stroke risk is unclear. Overnutrition also increases the risk of stroke, probably by accelerating the development of obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, and diabetes. Reliable evidence suggests that ...

The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure recommends lifestyle modification for all patients with hypertension or prehypertension. Modifications include reducing dietary sodium to less than 2.4 g per day; increasing exercise to at least 30 minutes per day, four days per week; limiting alcohol consumption to two ...