A case-control study of 186 type 2 diabetes patients and 180 healthy people in China found higher plasma omega-3 fatty acids tracked with lower insulin resistance. A separate meta-analysis linked coffee and tea to lower diabetes risk, though neither set of studies was a trial.
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Avoiding Illness
How diet and lifestyle affect cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and other illnesses.
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Diabetes
Coffee, tea may help prevent diabetes
Pooling 18 studies of 458,000 people, Rachel Huxley's team found each extra daily cup of coffee linked to 7% lower diabetes risk, with similar reductions for decaffeinated coffee and tea. The studies were observational and do not show that coffee prevents diabetes.
Cancer
Vitamin D May Boost Lymphoma Survival
Of 374 patients newly diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma at the Mayo Clinic, half were vitamin D deficient. Those patients were 1.5 times more likely to see the cancer progress and twice as likely to die of it as patients with optimal levels.
Cancer
Long chain omega 3 fatty acids help fight bowel cancer
Participants in the highest quartile of long-chain omega-3 intake had a 39% lower risk of distal large bowel cancer, researchers reported at an AACR prevention conference. The inverse association appeared among the 1,509 white participants but not the 369 black participants.
Cancer
Low fat diet slows prostate cancer growth
Aronson's UCLA team put 18 untreated prostate cancer patients on a low-fat, high-fiber, soy-supplemented diet or a 40%-fat Western diet for four weeks. Serum from the low-fat group slowed LNCaP cell growth, alongside more omega-3 and less omega-6 fatty acid.
Heart & Blood
Can Alcohol Really Protect Your Heart?
A study reported that men who drank moderate, high and very high amounts of alcohol had lower coronary heart disease risk, but other scientists called it flawed and said it should not encourage anyone to drink more. Dr. Mercola treats it as an example of bad science.
Obesity
CoQ10 Found to Fight Obesity
Mice fed a high-fat, high-fructose diet plus coenzyme Q10 had lower inflammatory and metabolic stress markers in their livers than mice on the diet alone, according to a Biochemical Pharmacology study suggesting CoQ10 may protect against or slow fatty liver linked to obesity.
Cancer
Don't count on coffee to fight prostate cancer
A roundup of short items on prostate cancer risk: exercise, sunlight and vitamin D, and green tea have each been linked to lower risk, red and processed meat to higher risk, and the piece calls coffee's reported benefit controversial.
Heart & Blood
High fat low carb diet may raise heart risk
In an 8-week trial of 24 overweight and obese adults, a 60 percent fat, 20 percent carbohydrate diet matched a low-fat, high-carb diet on weight loss and glucose metabolism, but researchers concluded its heart disease risks outweighed the benefits.
Cancer
Drinking coffee may lower advanced prostate cancer risk
Harvard researchers following 50,000 men found those who drank the most coffee were 60 percent less likely to develop aggressive prostate cancer than men who drank none. Caffeine showed no association, and which components might protect remains unknown.
Other Diseases
Top 12 Foods for Healthy Immune Response
Mercola lists the foods he considers the strongest immune support for flu season, starting with raw grass-fed organic milk and whey protein, and argues that eating this way beats taking handfuls of supplements or getting a flu vaccine.
Obesity
It's the genetics, stupid!
A Nature study scanned the genomes of 300 severely obese children and 7,000 controls and found missing copy number variants, including a deleted part of chromosome 16 that carries SH2B1, a gene involved in regulating weight and handling blood sugar.
Obesity
Genetic variants linked to severe obesity
Cambridge and Wellcome Trust researchers scanned genomes of 300 severely obese children and 7,000 controls and report in Nature that a missing segment of chromosome 16, including the SH2B1 gene, is linked to severe childhood obesity. An earlier study tied a variant at 10q11.22 to BMI.
Heart & Blood
Heart failure linked to gene variant affecting vitamin D activation
Among 617 patients from the Marshfield Clinic Personalized Medicine Project, those with high blood pressure who carried a variant in CYP27B1, a gene needed to activate vitamin D, were twice as likely to have congestive heart failure. Co-author Robert Simpson says larger studies must confirm it.
Cancer
Green Tea Extracts May Protect You From Oral Cancer
In an M. D. Anderson trial, almost 60 percent of people on the two highest doses of green tea extract showed a clinical response, against 36 percent on the lowest dose and 18 percent on placebo. The lead researcher calls the results early and not proof that green tea prevents oral cancer.
Heart & Blood
High salt intake boosts stroke risk
Pooling 13 studies of 177,025 people, Italian researchers linked higher salt intake to 23 percent higher stroke risk and 14 percent higher risk of cardiovascular disease. They say imprecise measurement of salt intake likely means these effects are underestimated.
Cancer
Misleading Research Links Vitamin Supplements to Cancer
Two supplement trade groups say a JAMA study linking folic acid and B12 supplements to cancer deaths among Norwegian heart patients is misleading. CRN's Andrew Shao notes that 94 percent of those who developed lung cancer were current or former smokers.
Heart & Blood
Trans fat raises risk of sudden cardiac death in women
In the Nurses' Health Study of 86,762 women, those already diagnosed with coronary heart disease who ate the most trans fat were 224 percent more likely to die of sudden cardiac death; across the wider analysis the researchers found no significant association.
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