Abbott Nutrition suggests five green foods for St. Patrick's Day: green tea for antioxidants such as EGCG, spirulina for protein and micronutrients, kiwi for vitamin C, edamame for protein, and spinach for vitamins A, B6 and C plus calcium, iron and potassium.
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Vitamins
Why Your Body Needs Multivitamins
An argument that most people should take a multivitamin even while eating well, with advice to build meals around fruits, nuts, vegetables, whole grains and healthy oils, and notes that pregnant women, children, older adults and vegetarians have differing needs.
Politics
Food & Water Watch Applauds Defeat of DARK Act
Food & Water Watch director Wenonah Hauter welcomes the Senate's refusal to advance Senator Pat Roberts' bill, which she says would have blocked state GMO labeling laws and replaced them with voluntary measures. She calls for mandatory on-package labeling.
Food
Winners of 9th Annual Produce Excellence in Foodservice Awards
Seven chefs and foodservice professionals will be honored at the ninth annual United Fresh Produce Excellence in Foodservice Awards during the association's June convention in Chicago, recognizing innovative use of fresh produce. PRO*ACT LLC sponsors the program.
Sci-Tech
Ancient Grains Make Healthful, Tasty Cookies
USDA Agricultural Research Service chemist George Inglett and colleagues blended amaranth flour and finely ground chia with oat products containing beta-glucan to make gluten-free sugar cookies. The amaranth dough held water better than wheat and the cookies rated acceptable.
Politics
URGENT: Your Senator Will Vote Today on the DARK Act!
An alert urging readers to call senators before an 11:45 a.m. vote on S. 2609, the bill opponents call the DARK Act, with talking points defending Vermont's GMO labeling law and opposing QR codes. It lists Monsanto's 2014 contributions to Democrats who might cross over.
Supplements
Omega 3 fatty acids EPA, DHA help depression
In a secondary analysis of a placebo-controlled trial, depressed patients who remitted after EPA and DHA supplementation carried higher red blood cell levels of both fatty acids than those who did not. Everyone took sertraline; only the treatment group received 930 mg EPA and 750 mg DHA daily.
Politics
Your tax dollars will be used to promote Monsanto
The Organic Consumers Association points to Section 294 of S. 2609, which would direct the government to promote information on the benefits of agricultural biotechnology to build consumer acceptance. Mercola.com will match donations up to $250,000 by March 15.
Supplements
Fish oil helps nonsmall cell lung cancer
In a study in Cancer, advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients who took 2.5 g of EPA plus DHA daily alongside chemotherapy had a 60% response rate against 26% for controls, and 60% one-year survival against 39%. The supplements appeared safe.
Disease
Early menarche linked to gestational diabetes mellitus
Among 27,000 women in the Nurses' Health Study II, those whose first period came at 11 or younger were 34 percent more likely to develop gestational diabetes than those starting at 14 or older. The extra risk was largely mediated by pre-pregnancy body fat.
Drug
Estrogen plus progestin hormone therapy raise lung cancer risk
After 14 years of Women's Health Initiative follow-up, women given estrogen plus progestin were 9% more likely to die of lung cancer than those on placebo, a difference the researchers called not statistically significant. The earlier eight-year figure had been 71%.
Food
Cranberry Compound May Help Prevent Urinary Tract Infections
USDA Agricultural Research Service scientists and collaborators purified a compound they call the SSGG fraction from enzyme-treated cranberry pulp. In laboratory tests it kept E. coli, the most common cause of UTIs, from sticking to human cells. The work was supported by Ocean Spray.
Politics
Monsanto, Coca-Cola and General Mills
An Environmental Working Group fundraising appeal asks readers to donate before a Senate floor vote on the DARK Act, which would block state GMO labeling laws. EWG says Big Food companies spent more than $101 million last year lobbying against labeling.
Food
Sonoma Flatbreads™ introduces taste bud tempting, USDA Organic Certified pizzas
Jane's Dough Foods added a USDA Organic, non-GMO line to its Sonoma Flatbreads gluten-free pizzas, offering four varieties on a thin, crispy crust with no artificial colors, flavors or preservatives.
Vitamins
Vitamin D cuts colorectal cancer risk
A case-control study in Gut led by Harvard's Shuji Ogino linked high plasma 25(OH)D to 90% lower colorectal cancer risk, but only in people whose tumors showed a strong intratumoural periglandular immune reaction, not in those with a weaker response.
Politics
It's worth fighting for, Mr. Frodo
An Organic Consumers Association fundraising letter quoting Tolkien. It asks for donations that Mercola.com will match up to $250,000 by midnight March 15, and previews the arguments it expects from senators pushing a voluntary GMO labeling standard.
Food
16 Handles Launches MMMilk & Cereal Flavor
16 Handles launched MMMilk & Cereal frozen yogurt for National Cereal Day, blending real Corn Flakes bits into a sweet yogurt base. The chain, founded in 2008, introduces a new flavor on the first of every month and now runs 38 locations across six states.
Food
Potato Industry Teams with United Fresh Start Foundation To Move Salads Bars to Schools
The U.S. Potato Board challenged the potato industry to donate 300 school salad bars a year and matched every one. Through February 2016 the industry gave 84 bars; with the Board's match and extra donations, 180 salad bars have reached schools in 16 states.
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