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Have you recently been diagnosed with Crohn’s disease? Diet is a key influencer of the gut environment and there is ... the research being done? This study aims to understand the role that diet may play in the causes and mechanisms of Crohn’s disease. To ...
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... research to find novel and simple ways to reduce cardiovascular disease using dietary supplements in everyday foods. Professor Manohar ... research to find novel and simple ways to reduce cardiovascular disease using dietary supplements in everyday foods. Professor Garg and ... manner, providing greater risk reduction against cardiovascular disease than either of the supplements alone. This has the potential for ...
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... cent of the Australian population were eating a primarily plant-based diet. Many people adopt plant-based diets due to concerns over animal ... these questions and put vegetarian diets to the test. The Plant-Based Diet (PBD) Cohort study aims to study the health effects of different ... levels of animal product consumption and link them to health and disease. Ms Austin said gaining a deeper understanding of the ...
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Arthritis is a disease that affects more than 350 million people affected around the ... including about four million Australians. But can supplements or diet reduce the symptoms of arthritis? Arthritis is a disease that ... group on arthritis, recently published a detailed critique on diet and supplement use in arthritis . It synthesised findings from 24 ...
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Children and adolescents face greater risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) when exposed to antibiotics or a Western diet at early ages, or when their family has higher socioeconomic ... bowel disease (IBD) when exposed to antibiotics or a Western diet at early ages, or when their family has higher socioeconomic ...
Category: Research
... and how healthy interventions can help to prevent cardiovascular disease development . Around 62 per cent of Australians adults do not ... of children and adults including the SHED-IT (Self-Help, Exercise, Diet and Information Technology) study, Healthy Dads and Healthy Kids , ... Centre for Obesity Prevention in Australia in 2014. The role of the diet is an important factor to consider in cardiovascular health. With ...
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... a pivotal role in the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), paving the way for new therapeutic treatments. Dr Kurtis ... COPD patients resulting from dietary interventions. "Enhancing the diet of a small select group of human COPD patients through dietary ... in disease symptoms. Likewise, providing a high-resistant starch diet to mice with COPD yielded beneficial outcomes. These discoveries ...
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... to test the effectiveness of personalised interventions to improve diet quality. Technology will be the tool of choice to target the poor ... to test the effectiveness of personalised interventions to improve diet quality. The Advice, Ideas and Motivation for My Eating (AIM 4 ME) ... Collins said poor eating habits increased the risk for heart disease, diabetes and the cost of health care. “Young adults can be a ...
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Having a ‘balanced diet’ means you’re getting enough of all the right nutrients - not ... eating habits are half good and half bad, does that make my overall diet balanced? The short answer is “No!” So what is a balanced diet ... daily intakes and upper levels of nutrients to help prevent chronic disease. Not everyone meets their nutrient reference value. Not meeting ...
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... to a new role for fibre, and has shown that eating a higher fibre diet may be more important for people with asthma.” The study results ... controlled trial to say definitively that if we change their diet it will improve asthma symptoms,” Ms Berthon said. Good sources ... likely to be important in the development and progression of airway disease. “The recent publication by Berthon et al. provides an ...