February 2017 – garyskitchen.net

Small study with interesting findings.

HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE VEGAN? HOW MANY EAT VEGAN WHEN EATING OUT? THE VEGETARIAN RESOURCE GROUP

4% Vegetarian (Including Vegans) (Never eats meat, fish, seafood, or poultry) 2% Vegan (Never eats meat, fish, poultry, dairy, or eggs) Read the entire survey at this link.

Gallup Poll: Vegetarian and Vegan Americans

5% of Americans say they are vegetarians, unchanged from 2012 3% say they are vegans, little changed from 2% in 2012 Source: Gallup Poll: Vegetarian and vegan Americans Reality check.

Food Neophobia (or hell no I’m not eating that)

Food neophobia, or fear of new foods, may lead to poorer dietary quality, increase the risk factors associated with chronic diseases, and thus increase the risk of developing lifestyle diseases, including cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes. Read the full Science Daily article here. And yet another reason why people don’t eat more fruits and […]

Cardiovascular Events and Mortality in White Coat Hypertension: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Limitation: Paucity of studies evaluating isolated cardiac outcomes or reporting participant race/ethnicity. Conclusion: Untreated WCH, but not treated WCE, is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality. Out-of-office BP monitoring is critical in the diagnosis and management of hypertension. Read the abstract at Annals of Internal Medicine

When should you be tested for vitamin B12?

How does one get deficient in B12? The classic cause, most frequent in older adults, particularly those of northern European ancestry, is pernicious anemia, in which the body is unable to absorb B12 due to lack of the protein needed to allow it to pass through the intestine into the body. It was thought that […]

Month: February 2017

It’s The Cheeseburgers

Benefits of Oatmeal for Fatty Liver Disease – NutritionFacts.org