Comparing 2,999 Ontario women with breast cancer to 3,370 controls, researchers found those eating flaxseed at least once a week were 18 percent less likely to be diagnosed, and weekly flax bread eaters 23 percent less likely.
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Avoiding Illness
How diet and lifestyle affect cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and other illnesses.
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Cancer
Saturated fat boosts death risk among breast cancer patients
A review of 18 studies in Nutrition found higher saturated fat intake before diagnosis linked to greater breast cancer and all-cause mortality, while trans fat intake after diagnosis was tied to 45 and 78 percent higher risks. Two studies suggested omega-3 fat may aid survival.
Heart & Blood
Low salt diet helps cardiovascular health
In 17 men and women averaging 62 years old with moderately elevated systolic blood pressure, four weeks of dietary sodium restriction improved markers of vascular endothelial function, which the authors attribute to better nitric oxide availability and less oxidative stress.
Diabetes
Eating meat linked to type 2 diabetes
Following 340,234 people in eight European countries for nearly 12 years, EPIC researchers found each extra 50 grams of meat a day went with an 8 percent higher risk of type 2 diabetes, rising to 12 percent for processed meat. The link was weaker in obese participants.
Diabetes
Diabetes risk lower in those with higher vitamin D
A Diabetes Care meta-analysis of 21 prospective studies covering 76,220 adults, led by Yiqing Song, found people with the highest serum vitamin D were 38 percent less likely to develop type 2 diabetes. Each 10 nmol/L increment corresponded to a 4 percent lower risk.
Heart & Blood
Component of Animal Products Increases Risk of Heart Disease
A New England Journal of Medicine study of 4,007 people found those with the highest levels of a byproduct of dietary choline, abundant in animal products, were 2.5 times as likely to suffer a heart attack, stroke or death. The authors note a vegetarian or high-fiber diet cuts choline intake.
Cancer
Bitter melon fights breast cancer
Bitter melon extract cut proliferation and triggered apoptosis in two human breast cancer cell lines, Saint Louis University researchers report in Cancer Research. They suggest it could serve as a dietary supplement for prevention; the work was done in cells, not in people.
Heart & Blood
Fish oil helps prevent cardiovascular disease
Large epidemiological studies and randomized trials suggest oily fish, fish oil and omega-3 fats may help healthy people avoid cardiovascular disease and help coronary patients manage it. A 2003 report found plant-derived ALA appears less potent than the EPA and DHA in fish.
Cancer
High salt diet/Helicobacter pylori linked to gastric cancer
Vanderbilt researchers report that Mongolian gerbils infected with H. pylori and fed a high-salt diet all developed stomach cancer and showed more inflammation than infected gerbils on a regular diet. The authors suggest cutting dietary salt to help prevent gastric cancer.
Obesity
Clinical study with NuShape - one of the first to document sustainable weight loss with a dietary supplement (PR)
NuSirt Sciences said it would present four studies at Experimental Biology 2013, including two 24-week placebo-controlled trials of NuShape, its leucine and vitamin B6 supplement, in 44 mildly obese people. With calorie restriction, it reports 50 to 80 percent more weight and fat loss.
Cancer
New evidence: Omega-3 fatty acids fight cancer
UC Davis researchers report in PNAS that EDP, a metabolite of the omega-3 fat DHA, blocked the formation of new blood vessels and reduced tumour growth and spread in mice, while a metabolite of omega-6 arachidonic acid slightly increased angiogenesis and tumour progression.
Cancer
Calorie restriction lowers breast cancer risk
Comparing 1,775 women with breast cancer to 2,529 of their unaffected sisters, Tufts researchers found those eating the fewest calories were 60 percent less likely to develop the disease, an association seen only in premenopausal women and hormone-receptor-positive cancers.
Cancer
Vitamin D cuts cancer death risk
A review reports that cancer patients with higher serum vitamin D died less often from several cancers: breast and colorectal patients above 81 nM were about 63 and 60 percent less likely to die than those at 46 nM or below. The cited safe upper intake is 2000 IU a day.
Other Diseases
Silicon rich mineral water helps Alzheimer's disease
Two reviews make the case that aluminum is a major Alzheimer's risk factor. One describes aluminum triggering reactive oxygen species and cutting ATP synthesis; the other argues chronic aluminum neurotoxicity is largely responsible in many cases, citing processed foods and alum-treated water.
Cancer
Western diet linked to pancreatic cancer
An Annals of Epidemiology study found people eating the most meat were twice as likely to develop pancreatic cancer as those eating the least, and those eating the most starchy food had 69 percent higher risk. The highest fruit and vegetable intakes came with 45 percent lower risk.
Heart & Blood
Vegetarian diet linked to lower risk for ischemic heart disease
Among 44,561 people in the EPIC-Oxford study followed about 11.6 years, vegetarians were 32 percent less likely to develop ischemic heart disease than non-vegetarians. They also had lower BMI, non-HDL cholesterol and systolic blood pressure.
Cancer
Vitamin D helps fight Merkel cell carcinoma - study
Among 89 Merkel cell carcinoma patients whose blood was tested within three years of diagnosis, 65 percent were vitamin D deficient. Deficiency was associated with larger tumors at diagnosis and with nearly twice the likelihood of metastatic recurrence.
Cancer
Fruit and vegetables may reduce colorectal cancer risk
An Italian case-control study of 1,953 colorectal cancer patients and 4,154 hospital controls found total dietary antioxidant capacity inversely related to risk: those in the lowest fifth were about 30 percent more likely to be diagnosed than those in the highest.
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