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Adherence to a Healthy Lifestyle is Associated With a Lower Risk of Diverticulitis among Men.

​Adoption of healthy lifestyle habits, such as consuming of diets low in meat and high in fiber, exercising regularly, maintenance of healthy weight, and avoidance of cigarette smoking, may help protect individuals from diverticulitis.

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  • 2017
  • Liu PH, Cao Y, Keeley BR, Tam I, Wu K, Strate LL, Giovannucci EL, Chan AT.
  • Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA. Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA. Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Yes, Free full text of study was found:
  • No. Source of funding disclosure not found
  • No. Potential conflicts disclosure not found
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Health effects of saturated and trans-fatty acid intake in children and adolescents: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

​Children and adolescents on low-fat diets are less prone to develop cardiovascular disease.

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  • 2017
  • Te Morenga L, Montez JM.
  • Department of Human Nutrition, Edgar Diabetes and Research Centre, and Riddet Institute, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Department of Nutrition for Health and Development, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Yes, Free full text of study was found:
  • No. Source of funding disclosure not found
  • No. Potential conflicts disclosure not found
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Fiber Intake and Survival After Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis.

​Colorectal cancer patients on high-fiber diets may have a low tendency of dying from the disease.

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  • 2017
  • Song M, Wu K, Meyerhardt JA, Ogino S, Wang M, Fuchs CS, Giovannucci EL, Chan AT.
  • Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston. Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts. Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts. Division of MPE Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts. Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, Connecticut. Department of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut. Department of Medical Oncology, Smilow Cancer Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut. Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • No, Free full text of study was not found.
  • No. Source of funding disclosure not found
  • No. Potential conflicts disclosure not found
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Whole-Grain Intake and Mortality from All Causes, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer: A Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies.

​A decline in total, cancer, and cardiovascular mortality risk is associated with frequent consumption of generous portions of whole grains.

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  • 2016
  • Benisi-Kohansal S, Saneei P, Salehi-Marzijarani M, Larijani B, Esmaillzadeh A.
  • Food Security Research Center, Department of Community Nutrition, School of Nutrition and Food Science, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. Department of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center and. Obesity and Eating Habits Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Molecular Cellular Sciences Institute, and esmaillzadeh@hlth.mui.ac.ir. Department of Community Nutrition, School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
  • Yes, Free full text of study was found:
  • No. Source of funding disclosure not found
  • No. Potential conflicts disclosure not found
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Cigarette smoking and the risk of mucinous and nonmucinous epithelial ovarian cancer.

​Cigarette smoking may promote the development of mucinous type of epithelial ovarian cancer in women.

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  • 2002
  • Modugno F, Ness RB, Cottreau CM.
  • Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, 516A Parran Hall, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA. fm@cs.cmu.edu
  • Yes, Free full text of study was found:
  • No. Source of funding disclosure not found
  • No. Potential conflicts disclosure not found
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Carotenoids as Potential Antioxidant Agents in Stroke Prevention: A Systematic Review.

​Frequent consumers of foods packed with carotenoids may have a low tendency of developing stroke and other cardiovascular disorders.

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  • 2017
  • Bahonar A, Saadatnia M1, Khorvash F, Maracy M, Khosravi A.
  • Isfahan Neurosciences Research Center, Alzahra Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. Hypertension Research Center, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
  • Yes, Free full text of study was found:
  • No. Source of funding disclosure not found
  • No. Potential conflicts disclosure not found
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A prospective cohort study of cigarette smoking and pancreatic cancer in Japan.

​Individuals who are cigarette smokers may be highly vulnerable to pancreatic cancer.

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  • 2002
  • Lin Y, Tamakoshi A, Kawamura T, Inaba Y, Kikuchi S, Motohashi Y, Kurosawa M; JACC Study Group. Japan Collaborative Cohort
  • Department of Public Health, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
  • No, Free full text of study was not found.
  • No. Source of funding disclosure not found
  • No. Potential conflicts disclosure not found
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Carotenoid intake and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of observational studies.

A decline in non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk is associated with frequent consumers of foods high in carotenoids, such as alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, and beta-cryptoxanthin.

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  • 2017
  • Chen F, Hu J, Liu P, Li J, Wei Z, Liu P.
  • Department of Hematology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, 180 Fenglin Road, Shanghai, 200032, People's Republic of China. Department of Radiation Oncology, Shanghai Proton and Heavy Ion Center, Shanghai, China. Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. School of Nursing, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China. Department of Hematology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, 180 Fenglin Road, Shanghai, 200032, People's Republic of China. liu.peng@zs-hospital.sh.cn.
  • No, Free full text of study was not found.
  • No. Source of funding disclosure not found
  • No. Potential conflicts disclosure not found
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Smoking increases rectal cancer risk to the same extent in women as in men: results from a Norwegian cohort study.

Smoking is associated with increased predisposition to rectal cancer in both men and women.

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  • 2014
  • Parajuli R, Bjerkaas E, Tverdal A, Le Marchand L, Weiderpass E, Gram IT.
  • Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT, The Arctic University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway. inger.gram@uit.no.
  • Yes, Free full text of study was found:
  • No. Source of funding disclosure not found
  • No. Potential conflicts disclosure not found
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Protective effect of total carotenoid and lycopene intake on the risk of hip fracture: a 17-year follow-up from the Framingham Osteoporosis Study.

​Hip and non-vertebral osteoporotic fractures are less likely to occur in individuals who are habitual consumers of foods loaded with carotenoids, especially lycopene.

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Increased dietary and circulating lycopene are associated with reduced prostate cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

​Marked reduction in the risk of prostate cancer is associated with high consumption and elevated plasma concentrations of lycopene.

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  • 2017
  • Rowles JL 3rd, Ranard KM, Smith JW, An R, Erdman JW Jr
  • Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
  • Yes, Free full text of study was found:
  • No. Source of funding disclosure not found
  • No. Potential conflicts disclosure not found
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Do dietary lycopene and other carotenoids protect against prostate cancer?

​Frequent consumption of foods loaded with lycopene, lutein, zeaxathin, beta-carotenoids, alpha-carotenoids, and beta-cryptoxanthin may help boost an individual's defenses against prostate cancer.

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