Thursday, April 18, 2013

'Western' Diet ?


Does Overall Diet in Midlife Predict Future Aging Phenotypes? A Cohort Study



'Western' Diet Doesn't Make for Healthy Seniors


A diet high in fried, sweet, and processed foods is not associated with healthy aging, a large cohort study found.
Participants on a Western-style diet had lower odds of ideal aging, defined as the absence of chronic diseases and mental health problems, as well as good cardiometabolic, respiratory, musculoskeletal, and cognitive function, according to Tasnime Akbaraly, PhD, of INSERM in Montpellier, France, and colleagues.
The odds of participants in the Western diet group aging ideally were low (OR 0.58 for top tertile versus bottom tertile, 95% CI 0.36 to 0.94, P=0.02), researchers wrote in an early online release of a study in the May edition of the American Journal of Medicine.
Researchers characterized the Western diet as one consisting of fried food, processed food and red meat, pies, sweetened desserts, chocolates, refined grains, high-fat dairy products, and condiments./.../

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