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Ultra-processed Foods and Cardiometabolic Health Outcomes: from Evidence to Practice
Poor diet quality is the leading risk factor related to the overall cardiometabolic disease burden in the USA and globally. We review the current evidence linking ultra-processed foods and cardiometabolic heal...
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Open AccessFood insecurity among households with children during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a study among social media users across the United States
In the United States, approximately 11% of households were food insecure prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The present study aims to describe the prevalence of food insecurity among adults and households with ch...
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The influence of the sugar-sweetened beverage industry on public policies in Mexico
The objective of this study was to map and describe the different corporate political activity (CPA) strategies used by the sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) industry to influence public health policymaking geare...
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Quantity, Quality, and Timing of Carbohydrate Intake and Blood Pressure
This review discusses recent evidence on the association of dietary carbohydrates (quantity, quality, and timing of intake) with hypertension (HTN) risk and out-of-clinic blood pressure (BP) measures.
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Nutrition Literacy among Cancer Survivors: Feasibility Results from the Healthy Eating and Living Against Breast Cancer (HEAL-BCa) Study: a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Knowledge of nutrition among breast cancer patients is insufficient, despite their motivation to seek valid information about healthy food choices. This study examines the feasibility of nutrition education wo...
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Open AccessRacial and ethnic disparities in predictors of glycemia: a moderated mediation analysis of inflammation-related predictors of diabetes in the NHANES 2007–2010
Racial/ethnic disparities in type 2 diabetes (T2D) outcomes exist, and could be explained by nutrition- and inflammation-related differences. The objective of this study is to identify associations between rac...
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Open AccessIncreasing mortality in the United States from cholangiocarcinoma: an analysis of the National Center for Health Statistics Database
While mortality in the United States has decreased for most cancers, mortality from combined hepatocellular liver cancer and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) has increased and ranked 1st in annual percent...
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Insulin receptor variants and obesity-related cancers in the Framingham Heart Study
The insulin-signaling pathway plays a pivotal role in cancer biology; however, evidence of genetic alterations in human studies is limited. This case–control study nested within the Framingham Heart Study (FHS...
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Concordance with World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research (WCRF/AICR) guidelines for cancer prevention and obesity-related cancer risk in the Framingham Offspring cohort (1991–2008)
This prospective cohort study evaluates associations between healthful behaviors consistent with WCRF/AICR cancer prevention guidelines and obesity-related cancer risk, as a third of cancers are estimated to b...
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Racial differences in the association of insulin-like growth factor pathway and colorectal adenoma risk
Insulin resistance is believed to play an important role in the link between energy imbalance and colon carcinogenesis. Emerging evidence suggests that there are substantial racial differences in genetic and a...
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Treatment and outcomes in diabetic breast cancer patients
Effective breast cancer management is more complex with diabetes present and may contribute to poor outcomes. Therefore, we conducted two simultaneous systematic reviews to address the association of diabetes ...
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Consumption of sugary foods and drinks and risk of endometrial cancer
Consumption of foods high in sugar promotes insulin production, which has been linked to endometrial carcinogenesis. We evaluated the impact of dietary intake of sugary foods and beverages, as well as added su...
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Diabetes mellitus as a risk factor for gastrointestinal cancers among postmenopausal women
While diabetes has been linked to several cancers in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, findings have been mixed for sites other than colorectal and liver cancer. We used the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) data...
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Open AccessSugary food and beverage consumption and epithelial ovarian cancer risk: a population-based case–control study
Ovarian cancer is the deadliest gynecologic cancer in the US. The consumption of refined sugars has increased dramatically over the past few decades, accounting for almost 15% of total energy intake. Yet, ther...
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Longitudinal associations of blood markers of insulin and glucose metabolism and cancer mortality in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Insulin and glucose may influence cancer mortality via their proliferative and anti-apoptotic properties. Using longitudinal data from the nationally representative Third National Health and Nutrition Examinat...
