A Mexican case-control study of 1,000 breast cancer cases and 1,074 controls found women with 25(OH)D above 30 ng/mL were 47 percent less likely to have breast cancer than those below 20 ng/mL, with a 40 percent reduction before menopause and 63 percent after.
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Avoiding Illness
How diet and lifestyle affect cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and other illnesses.
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Cancer
New Study Shows This Potent Vitamin Helps Prevent Breast Cancer
Researchers report that calcitriol, the active form of vitamin D, curbs growth of estrogen receptor positive breast cancer cells by arresting replication, promoting apoptosis and blocking invasion and metastasis, and by suppressing COX-2 and aromatase while raising the tumor suppressor 15-PGDH.
Heart & Blood
Vitamin D cuts risk of death from heart failure - new study
Among 3,009 heart failure patients and 46,825 controls followed 518 days, vitamin D deficiency was linked to 52 percent higher mortality in patients and 91 percent in controls, while taking vitamin D supplements was independently tied to 32 percent lower mortality in heart failure.
Cancer
Vitamin D may help low-risk prostate cancer
Of 44 men with low-risk prostate cancer who took daily vitamin D3 for a year, 55 percent had fewer positive biopsy cores or a lower Gleason score, 34 percent worsened, and PSA did not change significantly. No adverse effects were reported.
Cancer
High fructose corn syrup may up pancreatic cancer risk?
A meta-analysis of ten cohort studies in Annals of Oncology, led by D. Aune, linked each extra 25 grams of fructose a day to a 22 percent higher risk of pancreatic cancer. Glycemic index, glycemic load, total carbohydrate and sucrose showed no association.
Cancer
Weight loss may help premenopausal women cut breast cancer risk
Drawing on two large prevention trials, a Cancer Prevention Research study found obese premenopausal women were 70 percent, and overweight women 59 percent, more likely to develop invasive breast cancer than women with a normal BMI. No such link appeared after menopause.
Cancer
This humble vitamin cuts lethal prostate cancer risk by 57%
In a Journal of the National Cancer Institute study, Edward Giovannucci's team found men in the highest quartile of plasma 25(OH)D were 57 percent less likely to suffer lethal prostate cancer than those in the lowest. The levels were not correlated with prostate cancer overall.
Cancer
Vitamin D prevents ER+ breast cancer - new study
Stanford researchers writing in Steroids describe how calcitriol, the active form of vitamin D, may curb estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer: it suppresses COX-2 and aromatase, raises the tumor suppressor 15-PGDH and down-regulates ER-alpha, weakening estrogen signaling.
Cancer
Sugar-sweetened beverages linked to high risk for pancreatic cancer
Pooling 14 cohort studies covering 853,894 people, researchers found those drinking more than 8 or 9 oz of sugar-sweetened drinks daily were 19 percent more likely to develop pancreatic cancer. They call the link suggestive and modest; tea showed no association.
Diabetes
How Diet Foods and Drinks Can Actually Cause, NOT Prevent Diabetes
Dr. Mercola cites a new mouse study reporting that aspartame alone raised fasting blood glucose and lowered insulin sensitivity, and that pairing it with MSG raised both weight and fasting glucose. He urges readers to drop diet foods containing the two additives.
Diabetes
Red meat linked to high risk of Type 2 diabetes mellitus
In a prospective study of 66,118 French women followed from 1993 to 2007, those eating five or more servings of processed meat a week ran a 30 percent higher risk of type 2 diabetes. Unprocessed red meat showed no significant association.
Diabetes
Use vegan diet to reverse diabetes
Cancer
Blacks more likely to die from cancer due to vitmain D deficiency
A study in Dermato-Endocrinology attributes cancer mortality among African-Americans as much as 30 percent higher than others to vitamin D deficiency, after adjusting for socioeconomic status, stage at diagnosis and treatment. Darker skin needs about six times longer in the sun.
Cancer
May Alleviate Cancer Without Chemo, But it's Forbidden
Police sergeant Rick Schiff says his young daughter's brain cancer was cured by Stanislaw Burzynski's non-toxic treatment but that she died from the effects of chemotherapy. Mercola argues patients can reach such treatments only after conventional therapy has done its damage.
Obesity
Are Soft Drinks the Only Reason We're Fat?
Two thirds of U.S. adults are overweight and a third obese. The piece weighs the dispute over whether obesity always harms health, citing Lancet projections of extra U.K. heart disease, diabetes and cancer cases by 2030, higher dementia risk, and the job and cost figures from the OECD.
Heart & Blood
Dietary fiber may cut risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease
Among 559 Georgia adolescents, those eating the least fiber had larger waistlines and higher inflammatory markers, both risk factors for heart disease and diabetes. On average the teens ate a third of the recommended fiber, and only about 1 percent met the daily target.
Heart & Blood
Dietary Fats and Coronary Heart Disease - new report
Writing in the Journal of Internal Medicine, Harvard's Walter Willett argues specific fatty acids matter for coronary heart disease while total fat as a share of energy does not, and that trans fats should be eliminated. Foods under 0.5 grams a serving may still be labeled trans-fat free.
Cancer
Low fat diet may help prostate cancer patients
In 50 mice carrying prostate cancer grafts, a low-fat diet and an IGF-1R blocking antibody each slowed tumor growth on their own. Together they cut tumor cell proliferation and ERK activation, and those mice also had lower serum insulin than mice on the high-fat diet.
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