Benita Lee of LabDoor lists five ways to look after your heart, beginning with diet and exercise. She cites a study of over 12,000 people in which the heaviest processed-food eaters were 37% more likely to become depressed, and the AHA's 150-minutes-a-week guideline.
Food Consumer
Drug
Radiation therapy for prostate cancer can cause rectal cancer
A study compared irradiated and non-irradiated sites and found directly irradiated rectal tissue in prostate cancer patients who had radiation was almost twice as likely to develop rectal cancer as untreated sites in patients who had surgery.
Disease
Diabetes mellius linked to dementia
The Rotterdam Study, published in Neurology, found diabetes almost doubled the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, with patients on insulin 330% more likely to develop dementia. The author notes this could reflect either the severity of the disease or the insulin treatment itself.
Politics
Tell Congress: Consumers Want the Right to Choose Raw Milk!
The Organic Consumers Association asks readers to back HR 4307 and HR 4308, which would bar the federal government from interfering with interstate raw milk shipments, or with trade between states where sale is already legal. Raw milk is the only food banned in US interstate commerce.
Chemical
Fluoridation: Worsening the Lead Crisis in Flint, and Beyond
A Fluoride Action Network special report argues that fluoridation may be intensifying America's lead crisis by making water more corrosive, easing lead's uptake into blood and worsening its effects on the brain, and says the problem extends well beyond Flint.
Chemical
“Glyphosate’s impact on the neurological system: Autism, IBS & Alzheimer’s”
Jeffrey Smith invites readers to a free February 16, 2016 webinar with Dr. Zach Bush on gut problems such as leaky gut, gluten intolerance and irritable bowel syndrome, noting glyphosate use has risen almost 15-fold since Roundup Ready crops arrived in 1996.
Diet
Prudent diet linked to lower cardiovascular disease risk
Drug
What type, dose of aspirin best for cardiovascular disease prevention?
A review of aspirin data from 11 randomized trials covering 104,101 subjects indicates a daily dose near 100 mg most likely lowers death, cancer and cancer death, while higher doses work better against cardiovascular events. Coated and controlled-release forms differed.
Books
Holt on: The Plant Protein Revolution: - New Book Urges West to Shift from Animal to Plant-Based Protein. The Results?...Literally Life-Changing!
A press release for Stephen Holt, M.D.'s book, which argues that shifting from animal to plant protein makes ecological and health sense and criticizes the Western diet's calories, saturated and trans fats, cholesterol, simple carbohydrates and animal protein.
Diet
Western diet linked to ADHD, obesity
Mayo Clinic researchers comparing 336 people diagnosed with ADHD in childhood against more than 600 without it found girls with ADHD were twice as likely to become obese later in life. A separate Australian study linked a Western dietary pattern to doubled odds of an ADHD diagnosis.
Food
Child-bearing women not using birth control should not drink alcohol - CDC
CDC says 3 million US women aged 18 to 45 are at risk of an alcohol-exposed pregnancy and advises sexually active women who stop using birth control to stop drinking, warning that alcohol can damage a baby even in the first few weeks.
Chemical
New Video: fluoride discussed on the Dr. Oz show
Erin Brockovich spent a 13-minute segment on the Dr. Oz show on February 1 opposing water fluoridation and discussing fluoride in foods, beverages and toothpaste. FAN welcomes the exposure while disputing Oz's claim that dental fluorosis is fluoride's only adverse effect.
Supplements
Green tea, green tea extract prevent fructose induced renal damage
Rats drinking 10 percent fructose water for eight weeks developed mild proteinuria and renal cortex fibrosis, but rats whose diet also supplied 20 mg/kg of epicatechin daily escaped or reduced that damage, implying green tea extract may blunt fructose-driven kidney injury.
Supplements
Fish oil cuts risk of death from cardiovascular disease
A review in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found fish, fish oil and marine omega-3s tied to lower cardiovascular and all-cause mortality across most trials and cohorts, while plant-derived alpha-linolenic acid was not. The benefit was absent in defibrillator patients.
Food
Bitter melon can treat all sorts of diseases
A new review calls bitter melon a panacea, saying its fruit, leaves and seeds all carry medicinal properties. The authors write that studies suggest it may treat bacterial, fungal, viral and HIV infections, obesity and immune dysfunction, and may protect the liver and brain from injury.
Cancer
Eating sugar increases breast cancer risk
A Cancer Research report finds sucrose raised breast cancer and lung metastasis risk in part by increasing 12-lipoxygenase, which produces 12-HETE, a metabolite found at high levels in breast tumors. Fructose, half of sucrose, accounted for the metastasis and the 12-HETE production.
Drug
Statins may cut pancreatic cancer risk in diabetes mellitus patients
Drawing on Taiwan's National Health Insurance data from 1997-2010, researchers found pancreatic cancer in 0.14 percent of diabetes patients taking higher annual statin doses, against 0.25 percent among those taking little or none. Risk fell as the annual dose rose.
Food
Red meat may boost gestational diabetes mellitus risk
A Diabetic Medicine meta-analysis of studies published from January 1995 to July 2015 found each one-unit rise in the iron marker ferritin was linked to a 41 percent higher risk of gestational diabetes, while two trials indicated iron supplementation did not raise the risk.
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