Rainbow Diet Research Centre - latest news
Rainbow Diet Research Centre - latest news

The research centre for the Mediterranean diet and its key components and chronic illnesses like cancer, diabetes, Alzheimers, dementia and obesity


Welcome to the Rainbow Diet Research Centre, where we cover the latest research studies on the colourful Mediterranean Diet and a variety of illnesses. We also include research on components of the diet - like extra virgin olive oil and walnuts. No diet has more quality research studies from top medical research centres.
 
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Rainbow Diet - a lifestyle, not merely a diet
Rainbow Diet - a lifestyle, not merely a diet
A higher adherence to the Mediterranean lifestyle, rather than simply the diet, is associated with lower all-cause and cancer mortality in British middle-aged and older adults in a dose-response m ...
Cancer drugs inhibit benefits of mRNA Covid-19 vaccines
Cancer drugs inhibit benefits of mRNA Covid-19 vaccines
Mayo Clinic researchers have found that a wide array of anticancer drugs renders Covid-19 mRNA vaccines far less effective at boosting the cancer patient's immune system.   Cancer p ...
The Rainbow Diet and Fibre
The Rainbow Diet and Fibre
The true Rainbow Diet, or colourful Mediterranean diet, is naturally a high fibre diet. All those vegetables, nuts, seeds, pulses and fruit could not be anything else. And natu ...
Mediterranean Diet best for reducing and treating Type-2 diabetes
Mediterranean Diet best for reducing and treating Type-2 diabetes
The Rainbow Diet, or colourful Mediterranean Diet has numerous research studies showing it is the best diet for both preventing and treating type-2 diabetes. "The Rainbow Diet" Click here go to ...
Heart risk reduced by switching to a Mediterranean diet
Heart risk reduced by switching to a Mediterranean diet
Several research studies in 2018 and 2019 have shown that the colourful Mediterranean Diet, or Rainbow Diet, is capable of reducing Heart attack risk, blood pressure and Stroke risk by a sign ...
Olive oil consumption shown to lengthen life
Olive oil consumption shown to lengthen life
Don´t say we didn´t tell you: In his best selling book, The Rainbow Diet, Chris Woollams makes the point that natural compounds in certain foods can both ´protect´ and ...
Fasting boosts the immune system and aids cancer treatments
Fasting boosts the immune system and aids cancer treatments
Fasting helps regenerate the immune system Scientists at the University of Southern California led by Dr. Valter Longo have shown that fasting for as little as 3 days seems capable of regen ...
Not Following The Mediterranean Diet Results in Greater Brain Shrinkage.
Not Following The Mediterranean Diet Results in Greater Brain Shrinkage.
"The Rainbow Diet" Click here go to: Not Following The Mediterranean Diet Results in Greater Brain Shrinkage. A study which followed 70 year-old Scottish people for 6 years has found t ...
Breast cancer risk slashed by Rainbow Diet
Breast cancer risk slashed by Rainbow Diet
  A colourful Mediterranean Diet, or a Rainbow Diet, can reduce the risk of post-menopausal breast cancer by 40 per cent, according to research by the World Cancer Research Fund. It was pa ...
Low Carb Mediterranean Diet; Ketogenic Mediterranean Diet and diabetes
Low Carb Mediterranean Diet; Ketogenic Mediterranean Diet and diabetes
Often discussed are the ‘Low carbohydrate Mediterranean Diet’ or the ‘Ketogenic Mediterranean Diet’ (KMD), both of which really argue for the Rainbow Diet which is based on ...
Rainbow Diet slashes TNBC breast cancer risk
Rainbow Diet slashes TNBC breast cancer risk
A colourful Mediterranean Diet can reduce the risk of post-menopausal breast cancer by 40 per cent. It was particularly effective at reducing breast cancers that were not estrogen-responsive (ER-) ...
Meta-study concludes Rainbow Diet lowers mortality
Meta-study concludes Rainbow Diet lowers mortality
  In a 2008 Meta study, researchers concluded that the diet reduced almost all chronic illness risk from diabetes to dementia.   In the conclusions it states “Grea ...
Meta-study confirms Mediterranean Diet prevents and controls diabetes
Meta-study confirms Mediterranean Diet prevents and controls diabetes
  A systematic review of the available studies up to 30 November 2009 assessed the effect of a Mediterranean diet in type 2 diabetes. Over seventeen studies, two large prospective ...
Colourful Mediterranean Diet linked to less heart attacks and strokes
Colourful Mediterranean Diet linked to less heart attacks and strokes
A global study led by Professor Ralph Stewart of Auckland City Hospital, New Zealand, has shown that adherence to the Rainbow Diet greatly reduced heart attack, stroke and cardiovascular ris ...
Rainbow diet factors have anti-aging properties
Rainbow diet factors have anti-aging properties
Researchers from Virginia Tech, Raoanoke College and the National Institute on Ageing in the USA believe a low carbohydrate diet and resveratrol, a compound found in red grape skins and red wine, ...
The Rainbow Diet and Lifestyle
The Rainbow Diet and Lifestyle
The evidence base for the colourful Mediterranean Diet is now huge. It started life as the ‘Seven Countries Study’ (those where olive trees grew) as long ago as the 1950s when research ...
The Rainbow Diet and Olive oil
The Rainbow Diet and Olive oil
Olive oil is a mono-unsaturated fatty acid. It is the prime source of fat in the Mediterranean Diet. Other such oils are consumed in certain areas, for example seed oils such as sesame, and nut oi ...
The Rainbow Diet and Alcohol
The Rainbow Diet and Alcohol
We are asked about this constantly. The French Paradox offers that alcohol is no bad thing, although there is research showing regular large volumes leads to more cancer. So what is the truth? ...
The Rainbow Diet and Spices
The Rainbow Diet and Spices
Spices are widely used throughout the Mediterranean, reflecting a strong multi-cultural, and particularly Arab, influence. Spices have been used to treat and cure a wide variety of ailments. For e ...
The importance of pulses in the Rainbow Diet
The importance of pulses in the Rainbow Diet
Pulses are very important ingredients in the Mediterranean diet. Pulses are also termed ’legumes’. They help control blood glucose and blood lipid levels. They reduce the risk of cardi ...
Rainbow Diet beats other diets for sugar and weight control
Rainbow Diet beats other diets for sugar and weight control
Diet is now being emphatically shown to help reduce diabetes risk and help significantly in its management.Several ’health experts’ have talked of diets such as the ‘Low carbohydrate Mediter ...
The Rainbow Diet, gut bacteria and Gluten
The Rainbow Diet, gut bacteria and Gluten
Gluten is a hot topic at the moment and some people are clearly ‘gluten intolerant’ – adopting a gluten-free diet gives them more energy, vigour and stops numerous stomach proble ...
Good oils and phytosterols in Rainbow Diet reduce bad cholesterol
Good oils and phytosterols in Rainbow Diet reduce bad cholesterol
You may have been told to reduce your consumption of high-cholesterol foods like eggs, red meats and dairy, and shrimp, if you want to avoid high-cholesterol in your body. This is almost certainly ...
Mediterranean diet greatly reduces brain shrinkage
Mediterranean diet greatly reduces brain shrinkage
A study which followed 70 year-old Scottish people for 6 years has found that a low adherence to the colourful Mediterranean Diet results in greater brain shrinkage. And a greater adherence result ...
Rainbow Diet ingredients reduce anxiety and depression
Rainbow Diet ingredients reduce anxiety and depression
Curcumin and the potent Mediterranean spice, saffron, have been shown in research to act in a powerful combination to reduce anxiety and also depression.While there have been previous studies show ...
Goat’s milk wins the day over cows milk in the Rainbow Diet
Goat’s milk wins the day over cows milk in the Rainbow Diet
Cows’ dairy has no place in a Mediterranean diet   There are not too many cows living around the Mediterranean shores! Typically, the herds from the French hills to the Greek I ...
Nuts, olive oil and breast cancer
Nuts, olive oil and breast cancer
A Spanish study (part of PREDIMED) took three identical groups of women and followed them for 5 years. The first group ate a low-fat diet; the second ate a colourful Mediterranean Diet  ...
Meta study shows high fat Rainbow Diet reduces risk of cancer, diabetes and heart disease
Meta study shows high fat Rainbow Diet reduces risk of cancer, diabetes and heart disease
A meta-analysis of 56 unique studies, reviewed by Hanna E. Bloomfield, MD, MPH, from the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minnesota and colleagues has shown that the high fat content o ...
Colourful Mediterranean diet reduces womb cancer risk
Colourful Mediterranean diet reduces womb cancer risk
  A colourful Mediterranean diet reduces the risk of womb cancer by a massive 57 per cent, a new study in the British Journal of Cancer has claimed.   Read more on the benefits ...
Cutting back on salt reduces cancer risk
Cutting back on salt reduces cancer risk
  The World Cancer Research Fund has recently confirmed what several studies in Cancer Watch have previously reported. Namely that cutting common salt intake cuts colorectal cancer ris ...
Drinking cows milk during adolescence increases prostate cancer risk
Drinking cows milk during adolescence increases prostate cancer risk
At CANCERactive we have covered the link between teenage girls’ cows’ milk consumption and an increased risk of breast cancer later in life. Now it’s the turn of the boys. ...
Carotenoids lower risk of breast cancer
Carotenoids lower risk of breast cancer
According to a recent analysis of international studies, "Circulating Carotenoids and Risk of Breast Cancer: Pooled Analysis of Eight Prospective Studies," women whose diet include high caroteno ...
Italian style coffee cuts prostate cancer risk in half
Italian style coffee cuts prostate cancer risk in half
A study involving 7,000 men found that those who drank more than 3 cups of Italian style coffee a day (for example, expresso or capuchino), had a 53 per cent lowered prostate cancer risk. The reas ...
Vitamin D levels predict breast cancer survival
Vitamin D levels predict breast cancer survival
Researchers from University of California, San Diego analyzed five past studies of breast cancer patients, accounting for 4,443 people. Women with a greater chance of surviving breast cancer had a ...
Bioactive foods stop cancer stem cell re-growth
Bioactive foods stop cancer stem cell re-growth
A poor diet can encourage the re-growth of cancer tumours from the cancer stem cells at their heart, while a good diet containing Biotic compounds like sulforaphanes, curcumin, piperine, EGCG and ...
Vitamin D can reduce gut inflammation
Vitamin D can reduce gut inflammation
Two articles in as many weeks confirm what CANCERactive has been telling readers for more than 12 years. Vitamin D is essential to your health. And if you cannot derive enough from sunshine, yo ...
Eat your greens, your gut bacteria like them
Eat your greens, your gut bacteria like them
In fact, your commensal bacteria (the good guys) feed off a sugar called sulfoquinovose produced during normal photosynthesis. Certain ‘unharmful’ strains of E Coli in the gut b ...
Carrots reduce risk of breast cancer
Carrots reduce risk of breast cancer
A study published I the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition concludes that eating more than your far share of carrots can reduce breast cancer risk. Unfortunately this phenomenon had no effect ...
Rainbow diet beats low-fat diet for breast cancer prevention
Rainbow diet beats low-fat diet for breast cancer prevention
A Spanish study (part of PREDIMED) took three identical groups of women and followed them for 5 years. The first group ate a low-fat diet; the second ate a colourful Mediterranean Diet with the ad ...
Gut bacteria shown to break down oestrogen and reduce breast cancer risk
Gut bacteria shown to break down oestrogen and reduce breast cancer risk
Postmenopausal women with diverse gut bacteria have a reduced risk of breast cancer according to research published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (Associations of the F ...
Exercise prolongs life of prostate cancer patients
Exercise prolongs life of prostate cancer patients
According to a recent study by researchers from Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Womens Hospital and the University of California, exercise may help reduc ...
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