A US cohort analysis revealed that moderate weight gain from 18 or 21 to 55 years old was associated with significantly increased risk of major chronic diseases and mortality. A total of 92 837 women (97% white; mean weight gain: 12.6 kg over 37 years) and 25 303 men (97% white; mean […]
A US study showed that improved diet quality over 12 years was consistently associated with a decreased risk of death. The study used Cox proportional-hazards models to calculate adjusted hazard ratios for total and cause-specific mortality among 47,994 women and 25,745 men from 1998 through 2010, with changes in diet […]
A large US population based cohort study revealed that increased risks of all cause mortality and nine specific causes of death were associated with both processed and unprocessed red meat, accounted for, in part, by heme iron intake and nitrate/nitrite from processed meat. Replacing the intake of red meat with […]