Mercola's weight-management advice: avoid sugar, fructose and refined grains, eat more vegetables and healthy fats, and keep fructose under 25 grams a day, or under 15 if you are overweight or have a chronic condition. He also relays seven habits attributed to naturally thin people.
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Avoiding Illness
How diet and lifestyle affect cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and other illnesses.
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Diabetes
Processed Meat Linked to Diabetes in Native Americans - studies
Researchers followed more than 2,000 Native Americans who were free of diabetes and found those eating processed meat such as sausage and bacon were more likely to develop diabetes over five years. The association was particularly strong with Spam.
Obesity
This Trick May Force Your Body to Burn 400-500 Extra Calories/Day
Mercola describes a study in which cooling activated brown fat in adult men, who burned more calories and lost white fat, plus animal work suggesting exercise converts white fat to brown by way of irisin. He relays Tim Ferriss's ice-pack, ice-water and cold-shower suggestions.
Obesity
The Root Cause of Excess Flab Almost Everyone Ignores
The U.S. PIRG report Apples to Twinkies calculates that a year of farm subsidies buys each taxpayer 19 Twinkies but less than a quarter of an apple. Mercola argues subsidies prop up agribusiness while another arm of government funds anti-obesity campaigns.
Cancer
Cancer news: Whole walnuts may help prevent prostate cancer
Mice on a high-fat diet containing whole walnuts had slower prostate tumour growth and lower tumour weight than controls on soybean-oil diets, plus lower prostate weight, IGF-1, resistin and LDL at 18 weeks, across a 24-week feeding study.
Obesity
Would you stop eating out to lose weight? (PR)
Thirty-five perimenopausal women who eat out often took a six-week Mindful Restaurant Eating course aimed at preventing weight gain. Reported in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, the intervention group lost significantly more weight and ate fewer calories and less fat.
Obesity
When overeating, calories, not protein, contribute to increase in body fat
In a JAMA study, 25 healthy volunteers overate diets drawing 5, 15 or 25 percent of calories from protein under inpatient conditions. The low-protein group gained the least weight, but calories rather than protein appeared to drive the increase in body fat.
Cancer
10 tips for cancer prevention
A translated list of everyday cancer prevention tips. It opens with walking an hour a day, which it says research links to halved risk of pancreatic and colorectal cancer, and with airing rooms daily to clear radon and formaldehyde. The site notes the content is unverified.
Cancer
The Innocent Cooking Mistake that Could Cause Cancer
Ori Hofmekler summarizes experimental work suggesting proteins, carbohydrates and fats cooked at very high heat can promote colon cancer. Ultra-heating leaves protein less digestible, sending more to the large bowel, and cooking above 180C forms carcinogens such as benzopyrene and HCAs.
Cancer
Milk boosts prostate cancer risk, studies suggest
Following 8,894 Icelandic men for 24 years, Johanna Torfadottir's team found men who drank milk daily as teenagers but stopped later were three times as likely to be diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. The study is observational and proves no cause.
Cancer
Hormone Replacement Therapy, Trans Fat, Dietary Cholesterol Linked to Ovarian Cancer Risk
Following 126,920 post-menopausal women for nine years, a Cancer Causes Control study tied current hormone therapy use to 29 percent higher ovarian cancer risk. Estrogen-only users were at 63 percent; the 20 percent rise for estrogen plus progestin was not statistically significant.
Other Diseases
Doctor Reverses MS in 9 Months by Eating These Foods
Dr. Terry Wahls describes reversing her multiple sclerosis on a Paleo-style diet of fresh raw foods chosen for nutrients said to support myelin and mitochondria, among them omega-3 fats, creatine, coenzyme Q10, B vitamins and iodine.
Obesity
Taking dieting breaks helps weight loss
In a four-month study of 115 women, those who restricted calories just two days a week lost about 9 pounds against 5 pounds on a standard Mediterranean diet, and cut insulin and cancer-promoting hormones more. Researchers note the setting was tightly controlled and want more work.
Other Diseases
Caloric restriction keeps the brain young - new study
Giovambattista Pani's team found that cutting calories activates a molecule called CREB1 in mice, which in turn switches on sirtuins and other genes tied to longevity, memory and learning. The researchers now hope to find drugs that activate CREB1 without restricting food.
Obesity
10 Things You May Not Know About Your Weight (Opinion)
Mercola argues weight says little about health, since people can lose muscle and gain fat without the scale moving, and points to insulin and leptin resistance as the main drivers. He suggests keeping fructose under 25 grams a day, or 15 for those already unwell.
Cancer
The Surprising Cause of Melanoma (And No, it's Not Too Much Sun)
Mercola argues that three decades of rising melanoma rates reflect more diagnoses of non-cancerous lesions classified as stage 1 melanoma rather than sun exposure, citing British Journal of Dermatology research, and says UVB and the vitamin D it produces are protective.
Other Diseases
Folic acid supplements in early pregnancy may reduce the risk of severe language delay in children (PR)
Among nearly 39,000 Norwegian children, 204 had severe language delay at age 3. Mothers who took folic acid from four weeks before to eight weeks after conception reported a 0.4 percent prevalence, lower than among the roughly 9,000 children whose mothers took none.
Heart & Blood
Eating Beans, Vegetables May Cut Risk of Coronary Heart Disease
A meta-analysis of 15 studies tied the highest dietary folate intakes to 31% lower coronary heart disease risk, each extra 200 micrograms a day to 12% lower risk, and the highest blood folate levels to 26% lower risk. The authors note the observational data cannot prove cause.
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