Martina Navratilova, 53, said she was diagnosed with breast cancer after resuming mammogram screening she had skipped for four years, and doctors call her prognosis excellent. The writer pairs the news with arguments that screening radiation itself raises risk.
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Avoiding Illness
How diet and lifestyle affect cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and other illnesses.
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Obesity
Cutting Fat--and Calories--from Cakes and Frostings
ARS scientist Mukti Singh is building cake mixes and frostings around Fantesk, trans-fat-free oil droplets encapsulated in cornstarch or wheat flour. Cakes made with it need no added oil and have better texture and more volume; the frostings spread like buttercream with up to 50 percent less fat.
Heart & Blood
Robert Culp Dies of Heart Attack, What You Need to Know
Culp, 79, collapsed outside his Hollywood home Wednesday; reports differ on whether he died from a fall or a heart attack. The piece then covers heart attack basics: blocked arteries starve heart muscle of oxygen, and about 1.1 million Americans have one yearly, 460,000 fatally.
Cancer
Infertile men more likely to get prostate cancer, what you can eat to prevent the disease
Drawing on records from 22,000 California men seen at fertility centers between 1967 and 1998, a study in Cancer found 1.2% of infertile men developed prostate cancer against 0.4% of fertile men, about 2.6 times the risk. The piece then lists foods studied for prostate cancer risk.
Cancer
Dr. Lawrence Kushi Makes the Connection Between Food and Cancer (PR)
An announcement for PCRM's Vital Signs continuing education seminar in Universal City, California on April 10, 2010, where Lawrence Kushi of Kaiser Permanente Northern California will present food and nutrition recommendations for cancer prevention.
Heart & Blood
Big Star singer Alex Chilton dead, what you need to know
Alex Chilton, the singer and guitarist behind the Box Tops and Big Star, died Wednesday at 59 after being rushed to a New Orleans emergency room, probably of a heart attack, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported. The piece goes on to review heart attack symptoms and causes.
Diabetes
Soy products beat drugs for type 2 diabetes prevention?
A five-year trial in more than 8,300 overweight adults found nateglinide prevented neither diabetes nor cardiovascular events, while valsartan modestly cut new diabetes without reducing cardiovascular risk. A Japanese cohort study separately tied soy and isoflavone intake to lower diabetes risk.
Other Diseases
Vitamin D as effective as vaccine in preventing flu
In a randomized Japanese trial in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 10.8 percent of schoolchildren taking 1,200 IU of vitamin D3 daily tested positive for influenza A against 18.6 percent on placebo — 42 percent lower. The effect was largest in children not already taking vitamin D.
Cancer
Mango fights cancer
Texas A&M researchers tested polyphenol extracts from five mango varieties against several cancer cell lines. Ataulfo and Haden showed the strongest activity; Ataulfo cut growth of SW-480 colon cancer cells by about 72 percent in culture without inhibiting normal colon cells.
Cancer
Papaya extract slows cancer growth
A University of Florida team reports a papaya leaf extract slowed the growth of cultured cells from 10 cancer types, including breast, cervix, liver and pancreas, without harming healthy cells. The work was done in vitro.
Obesity
How to Easily Cut Your Calories -- Eat Slowly
Eating fast appears to mean eating more. In one study, people given identical servings of ice cream released more fullness hormones when they took 30 minutes over it than when they took five. Chewing longer also curbs portions and aids digestion, since most digestive enzymes are in the mouth.
Cancer
The Vitamin D Newsletter: Vitamin D fights cancer
The Vitamin D Council newsletter highlights a BMJ study of more than 500,000 people confirming that low vitamin D levels precede colorectal cancer in a dose-response pattern, and argues its authors underplayed their own finding that vitamin A appears to blunt that protection.
Cancer
Bitter melon extract kills breast cancer cells
Ratna Ray's team at Saint Louis University reports bitter melon extract induced death in breast cancer cells and slowed their growth and spread. Ray calls the result encouraging but says animal studies and clinical trials are still needed before any claim about treating the disease.
Cancer
Meat and fat linked to pancreatic cancer
Chan and UCSF colleagues compared 532 pancreatic cancer cases with 1,701 controls and found the highest intake of beef or lamb carried 120 percent greater risk, with raised risk also for hamburger, eggs, butter and total dairy. Eating more lean chicken or turkey tracked with 30 percent lower risk.
Diabetes
Avandia raises heart risk, what you can eat to help diabetes
A Senate committee report says GlaxoSmithKline knew for years that its diabetes drug Avandia carried a significantly higher heart attack risk and failed to warn patients. Nutrition notes for diabetes patients follow, covering biotin, bitter melon and chromium supplements.
Cancer
Louis Gossett diagnosed with prostate cancer
Louis Gossett Jr., 73, says he has early stage prostate cancer and went public to urge African-Americans to seek early examination and treatment. The piece notes men 70 and older are not advised to screen routinely, since diagnosis and treatment may do more harm than good.
Other Diseases
Top 7 Foods That Slow Your Aging
Mercola argues that keeping an ideal weight through whole foods chosen for your nutritional type adds years of healthy life, and that processed foods, diet pills and quick-fix diets worsen health over time. He then introduces seven superfoods.
Obesity
Even moderate obesity not a death risk factor
A University of Michigan analysis of Health and Retirement Study data found moderately obese and overweight middle-aged adults faced no excess death risk, while a BMI above 35 did raise it. Morbid obesity accounted for 4 percent of women's deaths against smoking's 36 percent.
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