Home food availability, parental diet, and familial eating habits seem to play an important role in the diet quality of children. Interventions targeting family education on healthful dietary habits at home could have a positive impact on children's diet quality and overall health.

Compared with the commonly consumed US diet, the traditional Mexican diet modestly improved insulin sensitivity under conditions of weight stability in healthy women of Mexican descent, while having no impact on biomarkers of inflammation. This trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT01369173.

These findings suggest that greater adherence to a traditional Mexican diet could help reduce the future risk of systemic inflammation and IR in women of Mexican descent.

PURPOSE To examine cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality risk in women with breast cancer (BC) by cancer therapy received relative to women without BC. METHODS The study population comprised Kaiser Permanente Northern California members. Cases with invasive BC diagnosed from 2005 to 2013 were matched 1:5 to controls without BC on birth year and race/ethnicity. Cancer treatment, CVD outcomes, and covariate data were from electronic health records. Multivariable Cox proportional hazards models estimated hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% CIs of CVD incidence and mortality by receipt of chemotherapy treatment combinations, radiation therapy, and endocrine therapy. RESULTS A total of 13,642 women with BC were matched to 68,202 controls without BC. Over a 7-year average follow-up (range < 1-14 years), women who received anthracyclines and/or trastuzumab had high risk of heart failure/cardiomyopathy relative to controls, with the highest risk seen in women who received both anthracyclines and trastuzumab (HR, 3.68; 95% CI, 1.79 to 7.59). High risk of heart failure and/or cardiomyopathy was also observed in women with BC with a history of radiation therapy (HR, 1.38; 95% CI, 1.13 to 1.69) and aromatase inhibitor use (HR, 1.31; 95% CI, 1.07 to 1.60), relative to their controls. Elevated risks for stroke, arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, venous thromboembolic disease, CVD-related death, and death from any cause were also observed in women with BC on the basis of cancer treatment received. CONCLUSION Women with BC had increased incidence of CVD events, CVD-related mortality, and all-cause mortality compared with women without BC, and risks varied according to the history of cancer treatment received. Studies are needed to determine how women who received BC treatment should be cared for to improve cardiovascular outcomes.

Background Prior research suggests a relationship between overall diet quality and breast cancer survival, though few studies have reported on this topic. We evaluated whether four dietary quality indices consistent with healthy eating recommendations around the time of breast cancer diagnosis were associated with risk of recurrence, cause-specific and all-cause mortality. Methods A total of 3,660 women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer were included. Diet was assessed an average of 2.3 (range = 0.7–18.7) months after diagnosis, from which four dietary quality indices were derived: the American Cancer Society guidelines (ACS), the alternate Mediterranean Diet Index (aMED), the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) and the 2015 Healthy Eating Index (HEI). Over 40,888 person-years of follow-up, 461 breast cancer recurrences and 655 deaths were ascertained. Cox models were used to estimate hazards ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Results Adjusted comparisons between extreme quintiles showed all four dietary quality indices to be inversely associated with all-cause mortality, suggesting a 21%–27% lower risk (ACS HR = 0.73 [95%CI = 0.56–0.95], aMED HR = 0.79 [95%CI = 0.61–1.03], DASH HR = 0.76 [95%CI = 0.58–1.00], HEI HR = 0.77 [95%CI = 0.60–1.01]). Similar patterns were noted for non-breast cancer mortality (ACS HR = 0.69 [95%CI = 0.48–0.98], aMED HR = 0.73 [95%CI = 0.50–1.05], DASH HR = 0.55 [95%CI = 0.38–0.79], HEI HR = 0.67 [95%CI = 0.48–0.94]). None of the dietary quality indices were associated with recurrence or breast cancer-specific mortality. Conclusion Food intake patterns concordant with dietary quality indices consistent with recommendations for healthy eating may be beneficial for women with breast cancer.