AAHH: updates and questions answered

 Here we are again, ready to extol the virtues of the Mediterranean diet.  In our last post, we shared some new information about how a pregnant mother's food choices impact that child's growth in childhood and risk of obesity.  Now we know that following that time-honored eating tradition is not only good for mothers, but also good for developing babies in the womb!  But today we will travel to the other end of the life spectrum and share good news about an issue that is of crucial importance to older men (and the grandchildren who love them!) In a study published just last month, in the prestigious journal Cancer, from the equally prestigious M.D. Anderson Cancer Center,  ( Cancer . 2021 Mar 1; 127(5):720-728. doi:10.1002/cncr.33182) we find new data on how the Mediterranean diet slows the progression of prostate cancer.  First, you should know that nearly half of men who are newly diagnosed with prostate cancer are found to be eligible for "active surve...

I have lost track of the number of times I have recommended that one of my patients follow a traditional Mediterranean diet, and lost track of all the reasons I may have said that.  But after all that, it's great to know there is still more to learn about this gift that has been passed down to us over generations and oceans.  For the next three blog posts, I will give a short summary of some things you may not have known, in addition to some food ideas you can cook up in your own kitchen!  Let's talk about food! Did you know... ... that a pregnant mom's food choices affect a child's growth and risk of obesity later in life? Absolutely.  Researchers from Harvard tracked 1459 mother-child pairs for up to 18 years after they had collected data on mom's food choices in pregnancy.  It turns out that when pregnant moms eat a diet that is pro-inflammatory and less closely adheres to a traditional Mediterranean diet pattern, children born of those pregnancies are more l...