A campaign bulletin asks readers to help Fluoride Free New Zealand fight a national fluoridation mandate, through petition signatures and donations for two television commercials. It also promotes a limited-edition t-shirt sale that ends August 15.
Food Consumer
Lifestyle
Mouthwash use linked to oral cavity cancer, oropharynx cancer
Pooling 12 case-control studies, researchers found mouthwash users were 11 percent more likely to be diagnosed with oral cavity cancer and 28 percent more likely with oropharyngeal cancer, with no link to head and neck cancers overall. The study does not establish cause.
Food
Food News: New foods, flavors, ingredients
A roundup of new products pitched to food writers: Crush Cubes fresh-frozen pre-portioned flavor cubes, Vegi Bacon Bits made from pinto bean pulses, and New Zealand Pacific Sea Salt.
Diet
Trans fat, omega 6 fat linked to breast cancer
In the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort, high saturated fatty acids in plasma phospholipids were associated with 64% higher breast cancer risk, while omega-6 and trans fatty acids tracked with ER-negative/PR-negative tumours. Women with the most DPA, DHA and EPA were 43% less likely to be diagnosed.
Diet
Low-fat dietary pattern cuts risk of death from breast cancer
A Women's Health Initiative analysis presented at AACR 2016 reports that a low-fat diet with more fruits, vegetables and grain products cut deaths from all causes and from breast cancer and raised 10-year survival among 48,835 postmenopausal women.
Diet
Chinese foods, Mexican foods, vegetarian diet lower risk of cancer death
In the REGARDS cohort, a convenience diet of Chinese, Mexican, pasta and pizza dishes or a vegetarian diet was tied to roughly 20 percent lower cancer death risk. A southern diet of fried food, added fat, organ meat and sweet drinks raised it over 100 percent in African Americans.
Supplements
Bromelain and N-acetylcysteine help gastric cancer?
A bare citation to a 2014 Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research paper by Amini, Masoumi-Moghaddam and colleagues on bromelain and N-acetylcysteine inhibiting gastrointestinal cancer cell proliferation and survival in vitro.
Phytochemicals
Lycopene, beta-carotene fight breast cancer?
A short citation-led note on a 2014 Anticancer Research paper reporting that lycopene and beta-carotene induced cell-cycle arrest and apoptosis in human breast cancer cell lines, with background on the foods that contain the two pigments.
Supplements
Could aged black garlic extract prevent colon cancer?
A citation for a 2014 Biomedical Reports paper reporting that aged black garlic extract inhibited the growth of HT29 colon cancer cells through the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway.
Herbs
Ursolic acid may help fight cancer
A pointer to two 2013 papers reporting that ursolic acid kills cancer cells by inducing autophagy, one in apoptosis-resistant colorectal cancer cells. The compound occurs in apple peel, berries and herbs such as rosemary and thyme, and is sold as a dietary supplement.
Food
Cancer patients should limit protein intake
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis report that restricting dietary protein slowed prostate and breast tumor growth by up to 75 percent in human xenograft models, and that plant-derived protein promoted growth less than animal protein.
Food
Bitter melon may help prevent colon cancer
A citation for a 2013 paper by Kwatra and colleagues reporting that methanolic extracts of bitter melon inhibited colon cancer stem cells by affecting energy homeostasis and autophagy.
Phytochemicals
Curcumin helps lung cancer
Mice fed a diet with 0.6% curcumin before receiving human lung cancer cells developed tumors 36% smaller than controls and were more likely to survive, Tel-Aviv University scientists found. Curcumin lowered inflammation markers and promoted apoptosis in cancer cells.
Politics
What Would Gandhi Do? newsletter 080516 from Organic Consumer Association
Ronnie Cummins responds to Obama signing S.764, which preempts Vermont's mandatory GMO labeling law and substitutes a federal measure that OCA says requires no readable label and exempts most GMO ingredients. He argues consumers should turn to boycotts and marketplace pressure.
Politics
Not so fast, DARK Act from Center for Food Safety
The Center for Food Safety says President Obama quietly signed the DARK Act, which could make existing GMO labeling disappear, and asks supporters to fund a federal lawsuit it plans to file within two weeks challenging the law's constitutionality.
Books
Casino Healthcare: Searing New Book Exposes America’s Biggest Gamble – our Healthcare System
A press release for Dan Munro's book 'Casino Healthcare,' which argues the $3.4 trillion U.S. health system is not broken but working as designed, optimized for revenue rather than safety, with flaws dating to World War II. It notes family PPO coverage now costs nearly $26,000 a year.
Healthcare
Huntsman Cancer Institute One of the Top in the Nation; University of Utah Hospital Best in Utah, according to latest U.S. News & World Report Rankings
U.S. News & World Report's 2016-2017 rankings placed Huntsman Cancer Institute among the top 50 cancer hospitals nationally and University of Utah Hospital first in Utah and the Salt Lake City area. The health system also rated high-performing in a dozen specialties.
Diet
High fat diet may raise lung cancer risk - study
A high-fat diet promoted tumor growth in two mouse models of K-ras-driven lung cancer, according to work presented at an AACR meeting. The researchers speculate the diet acts by raising systemic IGF-1; K-ras mutations appear in about 25 percent of human lung cancer cases.
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