Mercola, who warns against fructose, reviews a British Medical Journal analysis of three cohort studies finding whole fruits - particularly blueberries, grapes, prunes and apples - may lower type 2 diabetes risk, while fruit juice was tied to greater risk.
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Stop. Do You Really Want to Eat That Egg?
The piece gathers journal findings against eggs: a 2008 Circulation report tying one egg a day to heart failure risk in doctors, studies linking eggs to diabetes, and a Cancer Epidemiology paper whose authors suggest eggs may be causally linked to some ovarian cancers.
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Fructose consumption linked to kidney stones
Pooling 48 years of follow-up across three large cohorts and 4,902 kidney stone cases, researchers found participants in the highest quintile of fructose intake faced significantly higher stone risk than those in the lowest. Starch and glucose showed no such association.
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59% of the ‘Tuna’ Americans Eat Is Not Tuna
Oceana's DNA testing of more than 1,200 US fish samples found a third mislabeled: 87 percent of snapper and 59 percent of tuna were other species, 74 percent of sushi restaurant samples were wrong, and 84 percent of sushi white tuna was actually escolar.
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Drinking alcohol increases breast cancer risk
A Journal of the National Cancer Institute study of 91,005 nurses found that one drink a day between a girl's first period and her first full-term pregnancy was linked to 13 percent higher breast cancer risk and 15 percent higher risk of proliferative benign breast disease.
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How Sugar Can Become Toxic
In a 58-week University of Utah study, mice fed a diet of 25 percent sugar, the equivalent of three cans of soda a day, were twice as likely to die as sugar-free controls. Males held 26 percent less territory and produced 25 percent fewer offspring, without obvious metabolic disease.
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Broccoli compound helps type 2 diabetes mellitus
Z. Bahadoran's report describes type 2 diabetics eating high-sulforaphane broccoli sprouts who gained antioxidant capacity and lost oxidative stress, triglycerides, insulin resistance and C-reactive protein, and argues sulforaphane could serve as a supplement.
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Preserved foods linked to ovarian cancer
Comparing 500 ovarian cancer patients with 500 controls in Guangzhou, researchers found women eating more than 13.5 grams of preserved vegetables and meats a day were 78% more likely to be diagnosed with epithelial ovarian cancer, a Gynecologic Oncology study reports.
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High fructose corn syrup linked to NAFLD
Collison and colleagues report in Obesity that liver cells exposed to high fructose corn syrup-55 built up triglycerides, produced more reactive oxygen metabolites and showed disrupted insulin signaling, changes they link to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
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Protein supplements do not help resistance training
In a 24-week trial, 60 healthy men and women around age 70 did resistance training with or without 15 g of protein a day. Both groups raised strength by more than 40 percent and gained muscle mass; the extra protein did not further increase muscle, strength or functional capacity.
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Cocoa powder may help Alzheimer's disease - study
In a human cell model of Alzheimer's disease, cocoa powder extract high in polyphenols activated a BDNF survival pathway and countered neurite damage, an Italian team reports in the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. The authors suggest cocoa may help reduce risk.
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The 11 Worst "Health Foods" You Can Eat
Mercola endorses trainer Kris Gunnars' list of 11 supposed health foods, beginning with fruit juice. Commercially prepared orange juice is pasteurized, then held in giant tanks with the oxygen stripped out to preserve it, leaving a drink that little resembles fresh-squeezed.
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Sugar may shorten women's lifespan, harm men's sexual life
University of Utah researchers fed mice a diet drawing 25% of calories from a glucose-fructose mix like high fructose corn syrup. Female mice on the sugar diet died at twice the rate of controls, and males lost territories and had fewer mates, Nature Communications reports.
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Eating meat may increase risk of dementia
Among 5,386 older adults followed about 2.5 years in a study in Annals of Neurology, the highest intakes of saturated fat, total fat and cholesterol were linked to 90%, 140% and 70% higher dementia risk, while the highest fish intake was tied to 60% lower risk.
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Breastfeeding reduces type 2 diabetes risk in later life
A review in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found breastfed infants had a 38% lower risk of type 2 diabetes later in life than formula-fed infants, across seven studies of 76,744 people. Breastfed subjects also had 3% lower fasting insulin; glucose did not differ.
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Diet Soda May Do More Harm Than Good
A report in Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism found diet soda drinkers suffer the same problems as regular soda drinkers, including weight gain, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and stroke. The authors suggest sweet taste without calories disrupts energy regulation.
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French Fries' Oil Content: It's Lower with Infrared Heat
USDA scientist Zhongli Pan's team found that heating raw fries with infrared for three minutes before deep frying cut oil uptake by about a third. Of 77 taste-testers, more than half found the taste and color no different from conventional fries and more than half preferred the crunchier texture.
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Alcohol Facts: Alcohol kills even in a very lose dose
Guerin's team estimated alcohol caused 49,000 deaths in France in 2009, 13 percent of male and 5 percent of female mortality, including 15,000 cancer deaths. They report that intake as low as 13 grams a day accounted for 1,100 deaths, and note alcoholic beverages are a recognized carcinogen.
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