Drawing on a Discovery Health list, the piece credits nuts for antioxidant vitamin E, orange-red and leafy green vegetables for beta-carotene and vitamin A, and citrus for the vitamin C used to build collagen. Mercola adds that no cream substitutes for diet and lifestyle.
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Avoiding Illness
How diet and lifestyle affect cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and other illnesses.
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Cancer
Cigarette smoke damages DNA within minutes, selenium, green tea reduce the risk
University of Minnesota researchers gave 12 volunteers cigarettes spiked with a labeled carcinogen and found blood levels of a DNA-damaging breakdown product peaked 15 to 30 minutes after inhaling. Separate research suggests dietary selenium may curb smoke-related DNA damage.
Obesity
Fighting childhood obesity one hot lunch at a time
USDA proposed the first update to school meal standards in 15 years, capping calories, limiting french fries and salt and adding fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat milk for nearly 32 million children. CSPI's Margo Wootan calls it an enormous improvement.
Cancer
Low fat diet cost-effective in preventing breast cancer, ovarian cancer
Modelling the Women's Health Initiative dietary change as a public programme, researchers put its cost at $13,773 per quality-adjusted life year for 50-year-olds and $10,544 for women at high breast cancer risk, cost-effective for society and Medicare but not for private insurers.
Obesity
A third of 9-month-olds obese or at risk of obesity - study
Researchers who weighed 8,900 U.S. infants born in 2001 found about a third were obese or at risk of obesity at nine months, rising to 34.3 percent by age two. Hispanic and low-socioeconomic-status children faced higher risk; girls and Asian/Pacific Islanders lower.
Other Diseases
"No Anorexia" Model Isabelle Caro Dies at 28
French model and actress Isabelle Caro, who had anorexia nervosa from age 13 and appeared in the No Anorexia ad campaign, died at 28 in Tokyo two weeks after being admitted with acute respiratory disease. The cause of death remains unknown.
Obesity
The skinny on diabetes and dairy fats
A study of 3,736 adults aged 65 and older in the Annals of Internal Medicine found people reporting more whole-fat dairy had higher blood trans-palmitoleate three years later, and those with higher levels showed better cholesterol markers and were less likely to have developed diabetes.
Diabetes
Dairy products may lower diabetes risk
Among 3,736 Cardiovascular Health Study participants followed 20 years, those with the highest baseline trans-palmitoleic acid were 60 percent less likely to develop type 2 diabetes and had healthier cholesterol, inflammation and insulin measures. The study is observational, not causal.
Heart & Blood
Job stress, cholesterol boost cardiovascular disease risk
Among 17,415 healthy women followed over a decade in the Women's Health Study, those reporting high job stress faced 40 percent higher risk of heart attack, stroke, bypass surgery, angioplasty or death. Job insecurity tracked with risk factors but not with events.
Cancer
Eating vegetables, seafood may cut breast cancer risk - study
Comparing 357 Korean women with breast cancer to 357 age-matched controls, researchers found those eating the most vegetables and seafood were 86 percent less likely to be diagnosed. A meat-and-starch pattern showed no association, and menopausal status did not change the result.
Cancer
Cigarette smoking may boost pancreatic cancer risk - study
In a study following 120,852 people for 16.3 years, current smokers had an 82 percent higher risk of pancreatic cancer and former smokers 34 percent, compared with never-smokers. Risk fell gradually after quitting and was no longer raised 20 years on.
Cancer
Meat, dairy products, sugar may up breast cancer risk - studies
Two studies tie insulin-like growth factor I to breast cancer: French researchers measured higher average serum IGF-I in 44 patients than in 92 controls, 26 versus 20 ng/ml, and a second found top-quartile women 92 percent more likely to be diagnosed, an association seen only in Caucasian women.
Avoiding Illness
Panel Recommends Booster Shot for Meningitis
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices now recommends a meningococcal booster at 16, after the shot given at 11 proved to last five years or less rather than ten. The panel estimated the booster would prevent 24 deaths a year against 9 under current practice.
Cancer
Soft drinks boost pancreatic cancer risk - study
A Nature study timed pancreatic cancer at an average 11.7 years to the first cancer cell, 6.8 more years before it can spread and 2.7 years to kill, suggesting a window for prevention. A Singapore cohort study found people drinking two or more soft drinks a week had an 87 percent higher risk.
Heart & Blood
Hypertension news: Phosphorus may help cut high blood pressure risk
A study in Hypertension found participants in the highest fifth of phosphorus intake had lower baseline systolic blood pressure than those in the lowest fifth, with no significant effect on diastolic pressure. CDC data showed hypertension prevalence barely changed from 1999-2000 to 2007-2008.
Cancer
Pancreatic cancer, linked to dietary habits, grows slowly - studies
Johns Hopkins researchers modelling mutations from patients who died of pancreatic cancer estimate about 11.7 years for the first cancer cell to arise in a high-grade lesion, 6.8 more years before spread, and 2.7 years to death, leaving a window for earlier detection.
Diabetes
Drinking coffee may reduce risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus
A redirect notice pointing readers to a piece titled 'Drinking Coffee May Cut Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Risk.'
Cancer
HRT Linked to Breast Cancer Death Risk
A study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association found women assigned to hormone replacement therapy were twice as likely to die of breast cancer as those on placebo, contradicting the belief that HRT-linked tumors are easier to treat.
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