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Research Matters
Finding the best recipe for health
Published April 1, 2025
For the past 25 years, Professor Lawrence Appel's DASH diet has helped patients lower their blood pressure and avoid heart disease
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Weight loss
Benefits of intermittent fasting questioned
Published April 22, 2024
Both time-restricted eating and regularly planned meals led to similar weight loss results in study, suggesting total calories may be more important than meal timing
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Fact or fiction?
Experts take on top food myths
Published Spring 2023
Navigating today's conflicting nutrition advice can be confusing. Johns Hopkins Magazine turned to a panel of Hopkins experts for the truth—the science-backed, evidence-based, fact-checked truth—behind some common food myths. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Hope sprouts eternal
Published Spring 2023
Johns Hopkins researchers are pitting the humble broccoli sprout against ulcers, autism, schizophrenia, cardiovascular disease, COVID, colds, cancer, and more / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A plate of salmon and vegetables
Health
Mediterranean diet reduces preeclampsia risk, study shows
Published April 21, 2022
Study of more than 8,000 women showed eating a diet of vegetables, fruits, fish, nuts, olive oil, and whole grains while pregnant lowered risk of the blood pressure disorder by at least 20%
Blood test surrounded by fruits and veggies
No more cheat days
Published Fall 2018
Clinical trials of nutrition and diets are often complicated by the simple fact that study participants might not adhere to the rules of the study. What if there were a way to change that? / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Pile of red apples and tomatoes
Nutrition
Lung benefits seen from apples, tomatoes
Published Dec 21, 2017
Study finds decline in lung function among ex-smokers slower for those who ate tomatoes or fruit each day for a decade