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  • Mediterranean Diet

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    Because of the prevalence of anxiety during pregnancy, a study was conducted at a hospital in Spain to see if the Mediterranean diet could help prevent this condition (Casas et al., 2023).  This study was a randomized controlled trial, where 680 women whose pregnancies were considered to be high risk were randomly assigned to either…

  • Air Pollution

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    Hong et al. (2016) investigated the mechanisms behind how particulate matter, which contains chemicals such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), causes rhinitis. This was an in vitro experiment, but they found that in cells exposed to particulate matter, reactive oxygen species were increased, while superoxide dismutase, catalase, and glutathioneperoxidase were decreased. When the cells were…

  • Dietary Pattern Metabolites

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    Tong et al.(2020) analyzed serum metabolites against adherence to the Mediterranean Diet and against cardiometabolic risk factors, in participants of the Fenland cohort study, to see which metabolites might be involved in the ability of the Mediterranean Diet to prevent cardiometabolic disease, citing Sofi et al. (2014) as an example of this preventative effect.  They…

  • Mediterranean Diet

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    Townsend et al. (2023) found in a systematic review that studies showed the Mediterranean diet to be associated with better cognitive performance, reduced rate of cognitive decline, less global cognitive decline, reduced chances for mild cognitive impairment, lower risk of dementia, lower risk for Alzheimer’s disease, improved cognition, increased processing speed, and less likelihood for…