Healthy Diet Index facilitates the assessment of diet quality
The Healthy Diet Index developed by Finnish nutrition experts facilitates the assessment of diet quality. Its effectiveness was demonstrated in a recently published study.
Dietary counselling plays a crucial role in the prevention and treatment of chronic lifestyle diseases. In healthcare settings, dietary counselling is often provided by professionals without specific training in nutrition, and there is a demand for tools for reliable and easy assessment of diet quality. One such tool is the Healthy Diet Index developed in the recently completed Stop Diabetes (StopDia) project.
The Healthy Diet Index describes the quality of the diet in relation to nutrition recommendations, and to a diet that prevents type 2 diabetes. The scale of the index is from 0 to 100. In addition, the Healthy Diet Index also gives a score to different domains of the diet, including meal pattern, grains, fruit and vegetables, fats, fish and meat
Today, in the fourth part of our life-changing series, pioneering GP Dr David Unwin explains why cutting carbs could lower your blood pressure level, while chef and food writer Katie Caldesi offers more of her super-quick recipes to tempt your tastebuds.
Earlier this week I explained how a better diet can improve not just type 2 diabetes but obesity, fatty liver disease even high blood pressure.
I ve seen this effect in more than 200 of my patients, and experienced it myself!
The thing about high blood pressure is that you don t really see its effects until you have a heart attack or a stroke so some people tend not to bother with their pills. But imagine if you could take the uncertainty away just by eating the right food.
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Osteosarcoma a painful and aggressive form of bone cancer is more common in larger dog breeds like Great Danes and Rottweilers, a study has confirmed.
Experts led from the University of Bristol analysed health data on 906,967 dogs to identify those breeds and characteristics that might increase the risk of the cancer.
The team found that larger, heavier dogs and those with longer legs and skulls are typically at a greater risk of developing osteosarcoma.
The findings could help pave the way to new therapies for dogs suffering from osteosarcoma, and may also inform treatments for the bone cancer in humans.