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 by wellness bloggers and celebrity chefs, and the ...
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 Guide to Healthy Eating (AGHE) in terms of compliance, ...
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 evolutionary terms. However, the paleolithic diet ...
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 cardiovascular
risk factors, with a secondary aim to examine ...
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 this model remains useful, we argue that its ...
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 metaanalyses found an association of elevated ...
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 physical functioning. However, previous randomized ...
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 designed to assess whether prenatal omega-3 fatty ...
