In 12 people with hyperglycemia, six weeks of 300 mg thiamine daily lowered 2-hour plasma glucose from baseline and prevented the rises in fasting glucose and insulin seen on placebo. The authors say high-dose thiamine may slow progression toward diabetes.
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Avoiding Illness
How diet and lifestyle affect cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and other illnesses.
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Obesity
Here are some reasons why curcumin prevents obesity
A Biofactors review by P. G. Bradford argues curcumin may help prevent obesity by damping the chronic low-grade inflammation that comes with it, acting on white fat cells, NF-kB and TNF-alpha while inducing adiponectin. He cites six grams a day taken long term without adverse effects.
Cancer
Vitamin D may help prevent breast cancer
Comparing 120 Saudi women with breast cancer to 120 hospital controls, researchers found those with serum vitamin D below 10 ng/mL were six times as likely to be diagnosed as women above 20 ng/mL. The authors note this was not a trial and establishes no causal relationship.
Other Diseases
Telomere length indicator of your health and lifespan
The piece describes telomere shortening as driven by oxidative stress, which makes diet, lifestyle and environment relevant to telomere length. It says studies suggest antioxidants such as vitamins C and E, green tea, omega-3s, lipoic acid and resveratrol may help preserve them.
Diabetes
High-Fat, High-Protein Diets Linked to Type 2 Diabetes
Following 66,485 women in the E3N-EPIC study for 14 years, researchers found those eating a meat-heavy, low-carbohydrate diet the authors called acidic had a 56 percent greater chance of developing type 2 diabetes than women eating a fruit- and vegetable-rich alkaline diet.
Cancer
Calcium carbonate, vitamin E prevent cured meat induced colorectal cancer
A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reports that cured meat raised the formation of nitroso compounds and lipid peroxidation in rats, and that adding calcium carbonate and alpha-tocopherol to the meat offset those effects.
Heart & Blood
Trans fat increases risk of coronary heart disease
Among 85,095 women in the Nurses' Health Study, those in the highest quintile of trans fat intake had 50 percent higher coronary heart disease risk over eight years, and women using margarine more than ten years had 67 percent higher risk. The study was observational, so cause is not established.
Obesity
Obesity boosts breast cancer risk
In a study of 270 breast cancer cases and 540 matched controls, postmenopausal women with four or more metabolic risk factors faced 136% higher breast cancer risk. Obesity was the most influential single factor, tied to a 124% increase.
Cancer
Breaking news: Taking vitamin D supplements prevents lung cancer
A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition linked more than 400 IU of vitamin D3 a day to 63% lower lung cancer risk among never-smoking postmenopausal women. It drew on 128,779 women in the Women's Health Initiative; smokers showed no such benefit.
Obesity
Check out how gymnast loses fat, body weight
A British Journal of Sports Medicine case study details the six-week plan built for an injured elite male gymnast: 2 g of protein per kg body mass, 1,000 mg calcium from low-fat dairy, omega-3s from seeds and a supplement, low-GI carbs, and creatine and branched-chain amino acids to hold lean mass.
Other Diseases
Alzheimer's disease prevention: What you need to know *****
A Korean study comparing 424 people with normal cognition, 382 with mild cognitive impairment and 56 dementia patients found higher serum homocysteine and lower folate in the impaired groups. Moderate hyperhomocysteinemia carried five times the odds of dementia; low folate nearly four.
Cancer
Soy foods help prevent breast cancer in BRCA mutation carriers
In the Korean Hereditary Breast Cancer Study, women with BRCA mutations in the top quartile of soy intake were 61% less likely to have breast cancer, while those eating the most meat faced 97% more risk, against 41% more for non-carriers.
Diabetes
Food proteins help fight type 2 diabetes mellitus
A review in Proceedings of the Nutrition Society reports that peptides from milk protein inhibit DPP-IV, the enzyme that inactivates incretins, and help regulate blood sugar. The authors call food-derived inhibitors a possible approach to managing type 2 diabetes.
Cancer
Vitamin D supplements may better breast cancer survival
Among 585 breast cancer survivors followed an average of 9.2 years, those with sufficient serum vitamin D were 42 percent less likely to die than deficient women. The authors stress the observational design cannot establish that vitamin D causes longer survival.
Cancer
Breast cancer, nutrition and physical activity - Breast Cancer Awareness Month
R.T. Chlebowski's review in the journal Breast ties lower dietary fat, weight loss, vitamin D and moderate activity of three to four hours of walking a week to reduced breast cancer risk and recurrence. He notes it is unknown whether the fat cut or the weight loss drives the benefit.
Obesity
Harvard Researchers Address Obesity and Toxic Food
Built around a Huffington Post video panel on the toxic food environment, the piece cites the American Heart Association's finding that 5 percent of American children are severely obese, an estimated 110,000 obesity-related U.S. deaths a year, and the AMA's vote to classify obesity a disease.
Heart & Blood
Cutting out Meat Boosts Heart Attack Victims' Chances for Survival
Researchers scored the diets of 4,098 heart attack survivors in two Harvard cohorts. Over nine years, those eating the least red and processed meat and sugar and the most whole grains, fruit and vegetables had a 40% lower risk of dying from heart disease than those who changed nothing.
Cancer
Dietary vitamin C prevents breast cancer
Among 3,405 Swedish women with invasive breast cancer, those in the highest quartile of vitamin C intake before diagnosis were 25 percent less likely to die of the disease than those in the lowest, H.R. Harris and colleagues report in the British Journal of Cancer.
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