• Dieta Paleo – Artigo 05

    Cutting through the Paleo hype: The evidence for the Palaeolithic diet Background: General practitioners (GPs) are commonly asked about popular diets. The Palaeolithic diet is both highly popular and controversial. Objective: This article reviews the published literature to establish the  evidence for and against the Palaeolithic diet. Discussion: The Palaeolithic diet remains controversial because of exaggerated claims for it ...
  • Dieta Paleo – Artigo 04

    Compliance, Palatability and Feasibility of PALEOLITHIC and Australian Guide to Healthy Eating Diets in Healthy Women: A 4-Week Dietary Intervention Background/Objectives: The Paleolithic diet has been receiving media coverage in Australia and claims to improve overall health. The diet removes grains and dairy, whilst encouraging consumption of fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs and nuts. Our aim was to compare the diet to the Australian ...
  • Dieta Paleo – Artigo 03

    Childhood Absence Epilepsy Successfully Treated with the Paleolithic Ketogenic Diet Introduction: Childhood absence epilepsy is an epilepsy syndrome responding relatively well to the ketogenic diet with one-third of patients becoming seizure-free. Less restrictive variants of the classical ketogenic diet, however, have been shown to confer similar benefits. Beneficial effects of high fat, low-carbohydrate diets are often explained in ...
  • Dieta Paleo – Artigo 02

    Cardiovascular, Metabolic Effects and Dietary Composition of Ad-Libitum Paleolithic vs. Australian Guide to Healthy Eating Diets: A 4-eek Randomised Trial Abstract: (1) Background: The Paleolithic diet is popular in Australia, however, limited literature surrounds the dietary pattern. Our primary aim was to compare the Paleolithic diet with the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating (AGHE) in terms of anthropometric, metabolic and cardiovasc...
  • Dieta Paleo – Artigo 01

    BEYOND THE PALEOLITHIC PRESCRIPTION: INCORPORATING DIVERSITY AND FLEXIBILITY IN THE STUDY OF HUMAN DIET EVOLUTION Abstract Evolutionary paradigms of human health and nutrition center on the evolutionary discordance or “mismatch” model whereby human bodies, reflecting adaptations established in the Paleolithic era, are ill-suited to modern industrialized diets resulting in rapidly increasing rates of chronic metabolic disease. Whereas ...
  • Nutrição e Depressão – Artigo 20

    White blood cell inflammatory markers are associated with depressive symptoms in a longitudinal study of urban adults INTRODUCTION Unipolar depression is a chronic condition1,2 accounting for a major part of the health care system,3 with a lifetime prevalence among American adults of ~ 12% in men and ~ 21% in women.3 Depression and elevated depressive symptoms in general were linked to altered immunity.4–37 Several studies included in ...
  • Nutrição e Depressão – Artigo 19

    Vitamin D supplementation to prevent depression and poor physical function in older adults: Study protocol of the D-Vitaal study, a randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial Background: Depressive symptoms and decreased physical functioning are interrelated conditions and common in older persons, causing significant individual and societal burden. Evidence suggests that vitamin D supplementation may be beneficial for both mental and ...
  • Nutrição e Depressão – Artigo 18

    Vitamin D levels and perinatal depressive symptoms in women at risk: a secondary analysis of the mothers, omega-3, and mental health study Background: Vitamin D insufficiency may be associated with depressive symptoms in non-pregnant adults. We performed this study to evaluate whether low maternal vitamin D levels are associated with depressive symptoms in pregnancy. Methods: This study was a secondary analysis of a randomized trial ...