Ateronon is believed to be the world’s first compound to provide the natural heart-protecting antioxidant properties of the Mediterranean diet in a form which can be reliably absorbed by the human body.
The treatment, which is taken as one capsule per day, is being detailed to over 25,000 European heart specialists during the five day European Society of Cardiology congress in Barcelona.
The independent doctors who have embarked on the Ateronon studies hope that their work will highlight the flaws in a variety of extensive and costly vitamin and dietary supplement trials for heart disease, all of which have produced negative results.
They believe that the combination of compounds in Ateronon will provide the breakthrough scientists have been looking for by providing a formulation free from side-effects.
Mediterranean diet
The principal ingredient of Ateronon is lycopene, derived from tomatoes which are known to be a significant dietary factor in promoting good cardiovascular health.
Until now, it has been impossible to convert large lycopene crystals into smaller molecules more easily absorbed by humans.
Ateronon combines lycopene with a lactose-based milk protein, thus reducing the size of lycopene molecules and making them easier to absorb.
Lycopene is well-known as a powerful antioxidant that is, a substance which blocks the breakdown of fats in the blood which leads to the release of cholesterol and low-density lipoproteins, which form fatty deposits on artery walls.
Each pill provides the equivalent of eating three kilos of ripe tomatoes. Studies have shown eating an Italian-style diet rich in tomatoes, fish, vegetables, nuts and olive oil can significantly reduce cholesterol and help prevent cardiovascular diseases.
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October 8th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
A MEDITERRANEAN diet of fish, vegetables and whole grains can help fight depression.
The monounsaturated fatty acids found in olive oil – which is used abundantly in Mediterranean cooking – is thought to lower the rates of severe depressive symptoms.
Researchers from the University of Las Palmas in Gran Canaria monitored the diets and moods of 10,000 volunteers for six years, getting each to write down what they consumed on a daily basis.
The data was used to work out how much people adhered to eating foods from the nine facets of the diet, which include the fatty acids, fruits, vegetables, nuts, cereals, fish and low meat consumption.
After just over four years the scientists found 480 new cases of depression in 156 men and 324 women but those following the Mediterranean diet were 30% less likely to be struck by the black dog than others.
Even after the figures were adjusted to take other mental health affecting variables into account such as being married the link remained.
Reporting their findings in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry, the scientists wrote: “The specific mechanisms by which a better adherence to the Mediterranean dietary pattern could help to prevent the occurrence of depression are not well known.
“However, the role of the overall dietary pattern may be more important than the effect of single components.”
February 18th, 2010 at 5:28 am
Being happy and staying positive may help ward off heart disease, a study suggests.
US researchers monitored the health of 1,700 people over 10 years, finding the most anxious and depressed were at the highest risk of the disease.
They could not categorically prove happiness was protective, but said people should try to enjoy themselves.
But experts suggested the findings may be of limited use as an individual’s approach to life was often ingrained.
At the start of the study, which was published in the European Heart Journal, participants were assessed for emotions ranging from hostility and anxiousness to joy, enthusiasm and contentment.
They were given a rating on a five-point scale to score their level of positive emotions.
By the end of the analysis, some 145 had developed heart disease – fewer than one in 10.
But for each rise in the happiness scale there was a 22% lower risk of developing heart disease.
May 26th, 2010 at 9:27 pm
A “HEALTHY” Mediterranean diet boosting levels of good cholesterol may actually harm some patients, a study suggests.
Patients have been advised for decades that a diet rich in oily fish, olive oil and nuts – similar to that consumed in much of southern Europe – can reduce bad LDL cholesterol while boosting good HDL cholesterol levels.
But it now emerges that a number of heart attack patients may have genetic mutations that mean the diet actually increases their risk of suffering further cardiac problems.
Experts say they now need to work out how they can identify these patients earlier, so they are not given treatments to boost their levels of good HDL.
Cutting down on bad cholesterol found in high-fat foods through diet and medication and boosting good cholesterol levels remains the best way to reduce the risk of heart attacks, stroke and heart disease for most people.
But pathologist Professor James Corsetti, of the University of Rochester, New York, has found some people are exceptions.
“We’ve confirmed high HDL cholesterol is in fact associated with risk in a certain group of patients,” he said.
The researchers also found that the subgroup of heart attack patients also had more of a protein known as CRP which causes inflammation and they believe this might explain why some patients have a detrimental reaction to high levels of good cholesterol.
The findings, published in the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, could be the reason behind disappointing results from a trial of an experimental drug called Torcetrapib, which is designed to increase HDL cholesterol.
Manufacturers Pfizer had to halt it in 2006 due to a surprisingly excessive number of unexplained heart attacks and deaths that were linked with higher levels of good cholesterol.
June 5th, 2010 at 12:56 am
Children who eat a Mediterranean diet have a lower risk of developing asthma, but eating three or more burgers a week is linked to a higher risk, research suggests.
Researchers looked at 50,000 children from 20 countries.
Writing in the journal Thorax, they said eating fruit, vegetables and fish appeared to protect against asthma.
But they said eating burgers could be linked to other unhealthy habits, which may be the real trigger factor.
The study looked at the habits of children in both wealthy and poorer countries between 1995 and 2005. Parents were asked about their children’s diets, and whether they had ever been diagnosed with asthma or had suffered wheezing.
The effects of their diet seemed to vary depending on where they lived.
Fruit and vegetables appeared to be more protective in less affluent parts of the world, while eating lots of fish was more helpful in richer countries.
Eating at least three burgers a week was linked to a greater risk of asthma and wheezing, but only in wealthier countries.
September 20th, 2010 at 7:10 pm
Milk fortified with vitamin D can make our bones not only stronger but also prevent heart disease and cancer, a new study says.
In colder countries with poor or erratic sunshine, half the population is likely to be low in the ‘sunshine vitamin’.
The vitamin is vital for calcium absorption and bone health and may help to prevent Alzheimer’s, reports the Daily Mail.
Vitamin D-rich foods include oily fish and eggs but with 90 percent coming from the action of sunlight on the skin there are concerns that advice on abstaining from sunbathing is unnecessarily restrictive.
Recent research has shown that vitamin D supplements are as good as some drugs at keeping prostate cancer under control.
It is also being said that taking vitamin D supplements in pregnancy and childhood could wipe out 80 percent of cases of multiple sclerosis.
Susan Lanham-New, the member of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition and Surrey University nutritionist, said a study of 14,000 pregnant women in Bristol during the 1990s found that more than 90 percent of them were not getting enough of the vitamin.
She said: “Vitamin D is known to be vital for a wide range of body functions. A lot of us are very worried about (deficiencies) and think it needs looking at.”