Publications by authors named "L H Bogl"

Background & Aims: Suboptimal diets increase morbidity and mortality risk. Epigenetic clocks are algorithms that can assess health and lifespan, even at a young age, before clinical manifestations of diseases. We investigated the association between dietary patterns and biological aging in young adult twins.

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Consumption of plant-based diets, including vegan diets, necessitates attention to the quality of the diet for the prevention and early detection of nutritional deficiencies. Within the VEGANScreener project, a unique brief screening tool for the assessment and monitoring of diet quality among vegans in Europe was developed. To provide a standardized tool for public use, a clinical study will be conducted to evaluate the VEGANScreener against a reference dietary assessment method and nutritional biomarkers.

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Background: Plant-based diets are not inherently healthy. Similar to omnivorous diets, they may contain excessive amounts of sugar, sodium, and saturated fats, or lack diversity. Moreover, vegans might be at risk of inadequate intake of certain vitamins and minerals commonly found in foods that they avoid.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study explored how maternal consumption of specific nutrients (like folate and phosphatidylcholine) around pregnancy affects the weight of offspring from birth to young adulthood.
  • Data was analyzed from over 2,400 mother-child pairs participating in health studies, using dietary information from food frequency questionnaires.
  • Results showed that higher maternal intake of phosphatidylcholine was linked to an increased risk of offspring being overweight, especially in families with high red meat consumption.
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Background: Vegan diets have recently gained popularity in Switzerland as well as globally. The aim of the present study was to develop a diet quality score for vegans (DQS-V) based on the Swiss dietary recommendations for vegans.

Methods: The dataset included 52 healthy vegan adults.

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