Researchers followed more than 10,000 Chinese adults for about 5.5 years and found those eating the most MSG, a median of 5 grams a day, were roughly 30 percent more likely to become overweight. The link held after accounting for total calories eaten.
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Avoiding Illness
How diet and lifestyle affect cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and other illnesses.
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Cancer
Cancerous Cells Cannot Thrive Without This
Mercola highlights an MD Anderson review calling curcumin one of the most promising chemopreventive and anticancer agents, which reports that it works through epigenetic modulation: changing how DNA is regulated rather than altering the genes themselves.
Heart & Blood
To Tackle Heart Disease, Diet Changes Beat Drugs Any Day
Other Diseases
This Vitamin Can Radically Reduce Damage from Radioactivity from Fukushima
Mercola cites a paper in the International Journal of Low Radiation arguing calcitriol deserves serious consideration as a protective agent against sublethal radiation injury. He also notes the EPA found only very low and declining radiation levels in the US after Fukushima.
Cancer
Major New Report: How Americans Can Lower Risk for Colorectal Cancer
A WCRF/AICR review upgraded the evidence that fiber-containing foods protect against colorectal cancer from probable to convincing, and reaffirmed convincing evidence that red and processed meat, excess body fat and inactivity raise risk.
Heart & Blood
Eating lean fish linked to lower risk of stroke
Among 34,670 Swedish women followed 10.4 years, those eating more than three servings of fish a week had 16 percent fewer strokes than those eating less than one. Only lean fish carried the link, at 33 percent lower risk. The study is observational and shows no cause.
Cancer
Eating too much red meat, processed meat boosts colorectal cancer
A WCRF/AICR update covering 263 studies published since 2007 found 3.5 ounces of red meat a day linked to 17% higher colorectal cancer risk, and more than 7 ounces a day to 34% higher. Fiber-rich plant foods were tied to lower risk.
Autoimmune Diseases
Lupus patients should avoid high fat diet
Lupus-prone mice fed a high-fat diet for 14 weeks developed albuminuria far more often than controls, 57 percent against 20 percent, and showed impaired carotid artery relaxation and more ovarian fat. The authors say such a diet would raise cardiovascular risk in lupus.
Diabetes
The fatty Mediterranean diet cuts diabetes risk
In a four-year trial of 418 Spanish adults aged 55 to 80, diabetes developed in 10.1% eating a Mediterranean diet with nuts and 11.0% with virgin olive oil, against 17.9% on a low-fat control diet, with no significant change in weight or physical activity.
Heart & Blood
Animal protein linked to high blood pressure in elderly people
Among 2,241 people in the Rotterdam Study, protein intake overall showed no link to new hypertension over six years. But among 559 participants aged 70 and older, high animal protein intake was tied to 37 percent higher risk, which the authors say warrants further investigation.
Cancer
Mediterranean diet cuts cancer risk - study
Scoring adherence among 142,605 men and 335,873 women in the EPIC cohort, researchers estimated that close adherence to a Mediterranean diet could avoid 4.7% of cancer cases in men and 2.4% in women. Each two-point rise in score corresponded to 4% lower risk.
Heart & Blood
Sex, coffee, cola all can boost stroke risk
Dutch researchers questioned 250 people who had suffered an aneurysmal brain hemorrhage and identified eight triggers, led by coffee drinking and physical exercise, that briefly raise blood pressure. The study looked for triggers rather than causes, and its authors note its limits.
Obesity
The Controversial Trick for Blasting Away Up to a Pound of Flab a Day
hCG injections paired with a near-starvation diet still sell on promises of about a pound of loss a day, though the NY Times reports scant evidence they work. The FDA warned in January that homeopathic hCG lozenges and sprays sold online are fraudulent and illegal when they claim weight-loss powers.
Heart & Blood
The Missing Nutrient to Blame for Heart Attacks and Osteoporosis (Nope - NOT Calcium or Vitamin D)
Mercola argues vitamin K2 is the overlooked partner to vitamin D3, with new research focused on how the two work together for bone strength and cardiovascular health. He puts the share of Americans with insufficient vitamin D at about 85 percent.
Heart & Blood
Eat for a Healthy Heart
FDA nutrition expert Barbara Schneeman's rules for a heart-healthy diet: balance calories, eat at least 4.5 cups of fruits and vegetables a day, swap seafood for some meat, get three servings of whole grains, use oils instead of solid fats, and hold sodium under 2,300 mg.
Heart & Blood
Fruit, vegetables cut ischemic heart disease risk
In EPIC data on more than 300,000 Europeans, with 1,636 ischemic heart disease deaths, those eating 640 grams of fruit and vegetables a day were 22% less likely to die of it than those eating under 240 grams, with each extra portion linked to 4% lower risk.
Obesity
Use breakfast to fight obesity
A Nutrition study of more than 300 people who logged what they ate found they consumed the same calories at lunch and dinner regardless of breakfast size, so a larger breakfast simply added to the day's total. The authors suggest wiser breakfast choices could help cut daily intake.
Cancer
Preventing prostate cancer by suppressing a common protein
MD Anderson researchers report that the microRNA miR-34a kept prostate cancer from spreading by suppressing CD44, a surface protein on prostate cancer stem cells. The effect held in cell lines, human tumours grafted into mice, and primary human prostate cancer samples.
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