University of East Anglia researchers are starting human trials after lab work showed sulforaphane, a broccoli compound, blocked an enzyme that damages cartilage in human and cow cartilage cells, tissue and live mice. Lead researcher Ian Clark calls the results “very promising.”
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Avoiding Illness
How diet and lifestyle affect cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and other illnesses.
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- Anemia
- Angiogenesis
- Animal Protein
- Animals
- Anorexia
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- Anti-Obesity
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Cancer
Western diet linked to breast cancer
Franco Berrino's team randomized 104 postmenopausal women with high testosterone to intensive dietary counseling or no change for 4.5 months. The diet group raised sex hormone-binding globulin 25% versus 4% and cut testosterone 20% versus 7% in controls.
Cancer
Raw garlic, green tea prevent lung cancer
In a Chinese case-control study of 1,424 lung cancer cases and 4,543 controls, doubling raw garlic intake tracked with 44 percent lower risk in a dose-dependent pattern. A second study found a smaller 21 percent reduction and tied green tea to 22 percent lower risk.
Cancer
Height Associated With Cancer Risk
An analysis of 144,701 postmenopausal women in the Women's Health Initiative found risk of thyroid, kidney, colon, ovarian and breast cancer rose with height. The authors caution height is not a risk factor itself but a marker for childhood diet and IGF-1 levels.
Diabetes
Eating walnuts may cut type 2 diabetes mellitus risk
Among roughly 138,000 women in the Nurses' Health Studies, those eating two or more servings of walnuts a week were 33 percent less likely to develop type 2 diabetes. Adjusting for body mass index weakened the reduction to 26 percent.
Cancer
Compared with poultry, red meat can pose a higher risk for colorectal cancer
Among 19,771 women in the Nurses' Health Study II, higher poultry intake as adolescents corresponded to 20% lower colorectal cancer or adenoma risk later. Swapping one daily serving of red meat for poultry or fish was tied to 41% and 35% lower adenoma risk.
Cancer
Salted, smoked fish linked to advanced prostate cancer
Men in an Icelandic cohort of 2,268 who ate the most salted and smoked fish were twice as likely to develop advanced prostate cancer as those eating the least. Overall fish intake carried no such risk, and fish oil in later life was tied to 57% lower odds.
Diabetes
Psyllium helps fight type 2 diabetes mellitus
A Duke-led double-blind trial of 37 patients with type 2 diabetes found 3.4 g or 6.8 g of psyllium twice daily lowered fasting blood glucose against placebo at weeks 4, 8 and 12, and both doses lowered HbA1c by week 12, in people already on medication and a restricted diet.
Obesity
Losing Weight Improves Memory
Twenty overweight postmenopausal women who lost an average of 6.4 pounds over a six-month diet showed improved memory performance and brain activity, according to findings presented at The Endocrine Society's annual meeting.
Obesity
Obesity—One Third of All Cancers are Directly Related to It
Writing about the documentary Killer at Large, Mercola cites CDC estimates that obesity kills about 110,000 Americans a year and that roughly a third of all cancers are directly related to it. Two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, and childhood obesity has tripled in 30 years.
Diabetes
Red meat boosts type 2 diabetes mellitus risk in men
Among 27,425 Japanese men followed five years, those eating the most total meat and the most red meat were 35 and 48 percent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes. No link showed up in women, or for processed red meat and poultry in either sex.
Heart & Blood
Sugar also bad for the heart
A review in Internal Medicine argues that excess sugar intake is more likely than saturated fat or salt to lead to atherosclerotic disease, and recommends that people at high cardiovascular risk restrict sugar as well as saturated fat and salt.
Cancer
Cholesterol promotes breast cancer development?
A Current Opinion in Pharmacology report gathers epidemiological, laboratory and animal evidence that abnormal plasma cholesterol may contribute to breast cancer. It suggests women eat fewer cholesterol-raising foods and more of those that lower it; statins work but carry side effects.
Cancer
Veggies high in carotenoids may prevent breast cancer
Pooling eight cohort studies, Harvard and Brigham researchers reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute that women in the highest quintile for alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, lutein plus zeaxanthin, lycopene and total carotenoids had 13% to 22% lower breast cancer risk.
Cancer
So what to eat to reduce cervical cancer risk?
Comparing 104 women with cervical cancer or neoplasia against 936 controls in Wuhan, researchers linked green tea drinking to a 45 percent lower risk and vegetable intake to a 10 percent lower risk. Smoking, alcohol, fruit, meat and other dietary factors showed no association.
Cancer
Trans fat boosts cancer risk
Drawing on a 1994-97 survey across eight Canadian provinces, researchers found people in the highest quartile of trans fat intake faced 38 to 60 percent higher risk of colon, premenopausal breast, prostate and pancreatic cancers than those in the lowest quartile.
Cancer
Drinking alcohol boosts cancer risk
In a Lithuanian cohort of men, drinking 140 grams or more of alcohol a week corresponded to 36% higher total cancer risk, 179% higher upper aerodigestive tract cancer risk and 88% higher alcohol-related cancer risk. The authors attribute about 13% of cancers to alcohol.
Cancer
Here is why calorie restriction, physical exercise prevent cancer
A review in Experimental Biology and Medicine argues calorie restriction and exercise protect against cancer by lowering IGF-1, insulin and leptin, partly blocking the IGF-1 signalling that drives cell proliferation. Much of the supporting work cited comes from animal models.
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