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Limiting fructose may boost weight loss

Contact: Kristen Holland Shearkristen.hollandshear@utsouthwestern.edu214-648-3404UT Southwestern Medical Center  Limiting fructose may boost weight loss, UT Southwestern researcher reports DALLAS – July 24, 2008 – One of the reasons

Low carb diet effective at helping weight loss for a short term

Editor's note: The New York Times raised a very good question: Did the dieters in the low carb diet group follow Atkins diet? ...
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Fruit juice linked to increased diabetes risk

WEDNESDAY July 16, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) -- When it comes to type 2 diabetes, whole fruit and fruit juice do not have equal effects. A ...
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Vitamin A pushes breast cancer to form blood vessel cells

Contact: Karen Malletkm463@georgetown.edu414-312-7085Georgetown University Medical Center Washington, DC – Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have discovered that vitamin A, when applied to breast cancer cells, ...
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Low vitamin D harms bones of IBD patients

MONDAY JULY 14, 2007 (foodconsumer.org) -- Maintaining adequate levels of vitamin D in the body may help ward off bone disease in patients with inflammatory ...
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Eating too much soy may cause memory loss

FRIDAY JULY 11, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) -- A new study says that eating too much of some soy products including tofu may raise the risk of ...
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What can you eat to prevent prostate cancer

Much research has been done on how foods could affect the risk of prostate cancer. The following are citations from news articles published earlier on ...
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Save the Gorillas

Copyright 2008 Permission to reprint is granted with attribution so long as article is intact without alteration. "The Committee on the Feeding of Laboratory Animals of the ...
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Not all sugars have an equal effect on obesity

A new study suggests that consuming fructose containing sweeteners including high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and sucrose in beverages or processed food may increase the odds for a person to become obese....
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Eating a carb-rich breakfast helps lose more weight

If you are really serious about weight loss, start eating a big breakfast with high amounts of carbohydrates, a new study suggests....
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