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Adherence to the Rainbow Diet helps prevent cardiovascular disease, Type-2 diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome
The colourful Mediterranean Diet, or Rainbow Diet, has moderate to high evidence that it has a beneficial effect on type-2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome and obesity, according to a clinical-standard meta-analysis (1). What is Metabolic Syndrome? People with ‘Metabolic Syndrome’ have at least three of the following 5 conditions: high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high triglycerides, low ‘good’…
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High fibre diet reduces risk of death from chronic illness
A meta-analysis of the health benefits of a high fibre diet has shown once again that a diet rich in grains, vegetables and fruit improves health and reduces risk of death from chronic illnesses such as cancer, stroke and heart disease. A team of researchers from the University of Otago, New Zealand and led by Dr. Andrew Reynolds of the…
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Italian style coffee cuts prostate cancer risk in half
A study involving 7,000 men found that those who drank more than 3 cups of Italian style coffee a day (for example, expresso or cappuccino), had a 53 per cent lowered prostate cancer risk. The reason was put down to the intake of caffeine as no such benefit was seen with those who used decaffeinated coffee. The research was conducted…
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Mediterranean Diet reduces Type-2 diabetes risk
The PREDIMED study has shown that the colourful Mediterranean Diet, or Rainbow Diet, can reduce the risk of Type-2 diabetes, by up to 50 per cent and is better than the standard low fat diet offered by doctors. Researchers actually found that the colourful Mediterranean Diet, or Rainbow Diet, was better that the standard low fat diet recommended by doctors…
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Meta-study confirms Mediterranean Diet prevents and controls diabetes
Adopting a colourful Mediterranean diet (a Rainbow Diet) helps prevent and even reverse type-2 diabetes, and also improves glycaemic control and cardiovascular risk in persons with established diabetes, according to a 2009 meta-analysis. A Rainbow Diet can prevent and even reverse early type-2 diabetes Over the seventeen studies used in the meta-analysis(1), two large prospective studies report a substantially lower…
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What is healthy fibre?
There are two types of healthy fibre: soluble fibre, which feeds your helpful gut bacteria and makes compounds to help you live a healthier life, and insoluble fibre which helps clear waste from the gut. Here are examples of fibre, and benefits. Dietary fibre – essential for health Dietary fibre (also called roughage) is the part of your food that…
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