Thereafter, participants assigned to the control diet received personalized advice and were invited to group sessions with the same frequency and intensity as those in the Mediterranean-diet groups, with the use of a separate 9-item dietary screener (Table S3 in the Supplementary Appendix).
Investigators in Spain randomized 7447 people at high risk for cardiovascular disease to one of three diets: a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil, a Mediterranean diet supplemented with nuts, or a control diet for which people were advised to lower their intake of dietary fat.
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The effect of this tardiness has been to put physical activity in reverse gear compared with population trends and advances in tobacco and alcohol control and diet.
Others dislike the weight-loss and insomnia that are commonly associated with the drugs, and would prefer to find a way to manage their child's behaviour or control his diet.
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And in a study published last year, researchers in Australia showed in a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial that subjects with suspected gluten sensitivity had substantially fewer symptoms on a gluten-free diet than control subjects who unknowingly ingested gluten.
Low-fat diet advocates point out that while the control group participants were advised to follow a low-fat diet, they didn't necessarily do so.
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Facing many CPG brands is a movement where consumers are taking more control--there are four diet soda brands in the top 10--and pushing back on conceived notions on what "permission" they should give to brands.
Better adherence to diet and exercise could help control that and reduce the risk associated with the medicines, he added.
Abe is on a mission to reinvigorate the Japanese economy, win control of the upper house of the Diet (National Assembly) in summer elections and push through constitutional revision to remove constraints on Japan's military.
In an article in the Huffington Post, he notes that at no time in the trial did the control group test a true low-fat diet.
And in retrospective studies, he says, it's harder to control for common risk factors-- such as diet-- that might contribute to both prostate cancer and heart problems.
The other was told to eat 30 grams of nuts (walnuts, almonds and hazelnuts) every day. (The participants were given the olive oil and nuts.) The control group was told to follow a low-fat diet consisting of fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy products, bread, pasta and fish.
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GlaxoSmithkline executives believe that anticipating negative Web buzz around Alli, the over-the-counter diet drug it introduced in June, helped it control the conversation about the drug and its embarrassing side effects.
He said it was still important that people tried to control their weight, as healthy lifestyle choices like a balanced diet and taking exercise would overwhelmingly impact on visceral, and not subcutaneous fat levels.
To keep the disease under control he now takes tablets daily and has to stick to a special diet.
Patients on this vegetarian diet for four weeks reduced their bad cholesterol levels just as much as a control group on Merck's Mevacor.
After 4.8 years of follow-up a primary endpoint event (the composite of MI, stroke, and death from CV causes) occurred in 3.8% of patients in the Mediterranean diet extra-virgin olive oil group, 3.4% in the Mediterranean diet with nuts group, and 4.4% of patients in the control group.
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Individual metabolism is not something governments can control (not yet), nor can they isolate the fat input from the rest of the diet, much less unknowns such as genetics, lifestyle, and exercise regimens.
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But even if Abe secures a comfortable majority in the Lower House, given its lack of control of the Upper House, it might struggle to secure the working majorities it will need in the Diet to pass legislation comfortably.
The lower intensity of dietary intervention for the control group during the first few years might have caused a bias toward a benefit in the two Mediterranean-diet groups, since the participants in these two groups received a more intensive intervention during that time.
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