On Knowing What You (Really) Eat

Diabetes Care for December reports some research done in France.  Seems that people in the study who have diabetes systematically underreported the amount of food they consumed.  Researchers determined this by asking specifically what they had eaten in the previous days and calculating the calories.  Taken at face value, diabetics thought they had consumed MUCH less.  Are the French different from Americans in this way?

See a synopsis in Reuters Health online.

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Lifestyle Factors Affect Heart Disease Risks

Researchers at the University of Washington in St. Louis found that dietary and exercise routines lowered the risk of a test group of older adults (65 or older).  A comparison group not given the lifestyle factor changes did not gain these benefits.  Published in September in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

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