A USPSTF review of 19 trials with 71,344 participants found statin users had 14%, 31%, 29% and 36% lower risks of death from any cause, cardiovascular death, stroke and heart attack. It found no rise in serious harms, though other reports tie statins to muscle pain and myopathy.
Food Consumer
Biotech
Are Cloned Animals on the U.S Dinner Table?
Six years after the BBC reported cloned products had entered the U.S. food supply, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in 2010 he could not say whether cloned cattle or their offspring had reached it. A 2008 FDA report describes Large Offspring Syndrome in cloned newborns.
Vitamins
Vitamin C helps stage 3 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
A case report describes a 69-year-old woman with stage III diffuse large B-cell lymphoma who took five weeks of radiation and intravenous vitamin C but refused chemotherapy, and showed no sign of the disease 10 years later. Researchers believed the vitamin C played a part.
Supplements
FDA MedWatch - GNC Women’s Ultra Mega Time Release 180 count Dietary Supplement by Nutra Manufacturing: Recall - Undeclared Milk
Nutra Manufacturing is recalling one lot of GNC Women's Ultra Mega Time Release, 180-count, lot 3044FQ2024, expiring June 2018, because it may contain undeclared milk. Buyers should check the lot number and return the bottle to a GNC store for a refund.
Environment
Mt. Hood Meadows Presents a Pray for Snow Day and Party Saturday
Mt. Hood Meadows picked up 10 inches of snow this week, not enough to run lifts, and is holding a Saturday event with a free snowshoe demo, a rail jam, a coat and clothing drive for Saint Vincent de Paul, dinner with CEO Matthew Drake and an evening party.
Diet
Vegan diet prevents prostate cancer
Among 26,346 men in the Adventist Health Study-2, those eating a vegan diet were 35 percent less likely to develop prostate cancer than non-vegetarians, with a stronger effect in white men than black men. Vegans need vitamin B12 to avoid deficiency.
Food
Food News: Vegetarian/Vegan Options For Thanksgiving & The Holiday Season
A publicist's pitch promoting Vegetarian Plus meat alternatives, including a four-pound vegan whole turkey, a vegan turkey roll and a vegan ham roll, as holiday centerpieces, citing the brand's ranking in Organic Authority.
Disease
Got stage 4 kidney cancer? You don't have to die
The American Cancer Society puts five-year survival for stage 4 kidney cancer at 8 percent in the U.S. and 5 percent in the UK. The piece describes one man who had two surgeries, then changed his diet and took supplements, and has lived seven years. It calls him lucky and invites inquiries.
Supplements
Resveratrol supplements may fight ovarian cancer
In mice with implanted ovarian cancer cells, resveratrol cut tumor glucose uptake, and combined with cisplatin it significantly reduced cancer burden and suppressed regrowth compared with placebo. The authors report a significant antineoplastic effect in this preclinical model.
Politics
Biotech Bullies Will Rule the New FDA and EPA - newsletter 111716 from Organic Consumers Association
The Organic Consumers Association argues Monsanto and its allies are tightening their grip on food and farming after the 2016 election, citing Politico's report on Trump's agriculture talking points and his EPA transition pick. It urges state and local organizing and more food testing.
Food
Soy foods prevent breast cancer
A study in Cancer reports that long-term soy consumption raised expression of tumor suppressor genes and lowered oncogene expression in triple-negative breast cancer tissue. The piece adds that avoiding medical radiation and hormone replacement therapy is the best prevention.
Supplements
Soy protein supplements benefit type 2 diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome
A 2015 review of randomized trials found soy protein supplementation significantly lowered fasting plasma glucose, fasting insulin, HOMA-IR, diastolic blood pressure, LDL and total cholesterol, and C-reactive protein in people with type 2 diabetes or metabolic syndrome.
Disease
Allergies during pregnancy contribute to changes in the brains of rat offspring
Ohio State researchers found allergen exposure during pregnancy changed the brains of rat fetuses and newborns, and that exposed animals grew into adults showing hyperactivity, antisocial behavior and less anxiety. Lenz says prenatal allergens may be an underappreciated developmental factor.
Supplements
Mistletoe cancer treatment reviewed
A review reports that mistletoe therapy improves quality of life in cancer patients, and cites recent studies in which it raised the odds of surviving advanced pancreatic cancer and, at high doses, produced regression of several tumour types.
Herbs
Essiac tea fights prostate cancer
In a 2004 laboratory study, an Essiac tea preparation slowed the growth of both prostate cancer cells and noncancerous cells, with the cancer cells more sensitive to it. Low doses raised T-lymphocyte proliferation while high doses suppressed it.
Disease
Hypertension is more dangerous than diabetes mellitus in older while adults
In the Rancho Bernardo Study, white adults 55 and older with hypertension were 93% more likely to die from any cause over about 14 years, against 40% for those with diabetes. After adjusting for other risk factors, hypertension still carried the higher mortality.
Vitamins
Breast cancer patients should take vitamin D supplements
A study by Brian Feldman at Stanford, published in Endocrinology, suggests keeping serum vitamin D sufficient may help prevent breast cancer from spreading. In two animal models vitamin D suppressed the Id1 gene, whose protein takes part in tumor progression.
Food
High fat diet causes more than obesity
An animal study in Molecular Psychiatry suggests a high-fat diet in the young risks not only obesity but later cognitive problems, because fatty foods can cause a deficiency of reelin, a protein important to synapse function, affecting behavioral flexibility and memory.
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