Mark Pendergrast discusses his expanded history of Coca-Cola, which began in 1886 as a patent medicine containing cocaine and caffeine. He describes how Frank Robinson shifted the advertising to delicious and refreshing, and how a wartime tax fight pushed the company to drop medicinal claims.
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The 9 Foods You Should Never Eat
Mercola expands on Jared Koch's list of staples sold as healthy, starting with canned tomatoes, whose acidity leaches BPA from can linings, and processed deli meats, which carry sodium nitrite that can form nitrosamines linked to colorectal, stomach and pancreatic cancer.
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Sugar sweetened soft drinks, diet soda again linked to type 2 diabetes
Harvard researchers followed about 114,000 nurses and health professionals for more than two decades. Each daily serving of sugar-sweetened beverages was tied to up to 23 percent higher risk of type 2 diabetes; each serving of coffee was tied to up to 8 percent lower risk.
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Diet soda linked to high type 2 diabetes mellitus risk in men
In a seven-year study of 2,037 Japanese factory employees, 170 developed type 2 diabetes. After adjustment, men drinking at least one serving of diet soda a day were 70 percent more likely to develop it, and sugar-sweetened beverage drinkers 35 percent more likely.
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Red Meat Not a Healthful Iron Source for Infants
Ulka Agarwal of the Physicians Committee argues in a new paper that feeding infants red meat is unnecessary and possibly harmful, noting people who avoid red meat show no higher rate of iron-deficiency anemia. She suggests leafy greens, legumes and whole grains instead.
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CDC Study: New data shows Americans drinking less sugar-sweetened beverages
CDC's NHANES data for 1999 to 2010 show U.S. youth cut sugar-sweetened beverage intake by 68 calories a day and adults by 45. Declines spanned most age and race groups, at home and away, though sports and energy drinks showed no drop.
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Learn How to Make Cultured Veggies at Home to Boost Your Immune System
Mercola argues the gut houses about 85 percent of the immune system, largely through the 100 trillion bacteria living there, and that balancing those microbes matters for allergies and autoimmune disease. He also relays a sieve hypothesis of how the stomach blocks infection.
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Eggs Harmful to Health
A meta-analysis of 14 studies in Atherosclerosis found people who ate the most eggs had a 19 percent higher risk of cardiovascular disease and a 68 percent higher risk of diabetes than those who ate the fewest. Among people who already had diabetes, the heart figure rose to 83 percent.
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Learn How to Make Cultured Veggies at Home to Boost Your Immune System
Mercola argues that tending the roughly 100 trillion bacteria in the gut, which houses about 85 percent of the immune system, heads off allergies and autoimmune problems before they start. He also cites a Scientific American sieve hypothesis that the stomach filters out some infections.
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Coffee, caffeine, and cardiovascular disease
Montagnana's team reports that epidemiological studies link both low coffee intake, under a cup a day, and high intake of four or more cups to lower cardiovascular risk, while two to four cups matched higher risk. They credit caffeine and chlorogenic acids for the benefits.
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Baby Boom + Fast Food = Dementia Boom
The piece ties the rise in dementia partly to saturated and trans fats that spread with fast food, citing a Chicago study in which people eating the most saturated fat had more than triple the Alzheimer's risk, and trans fats linked to a more than fivefold increase.
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Garlic Reduces Alzheimer's disease, Heart Disease Risk
Carmia Borek's report argues that cardiovascular risk factors such as high cholesterol, homocysteine, hypertension and inflammation also raise dementia risk, and that garlic preparations including aged garlic extract may reduce the risk of both conditions.
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Eating whole grains prevents type 2 diabetes
Among 72,215 diabetes-free women in the Women's Health Initiative followed a mean eight years, those eating the most whole grains were 43 percent less likely to develop type 2 diabetes, in a dose-response pattern. The reduction was larger among non-smokers and women whose weight stayed steady.
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Drinking coffee may prevent oral/pharyngeal cancer
In the American Cancer Society's Cancer Prevention Study II, people drinking more than four cups of caffeinated coffee a day were about half as likely to die of oral or pharyngeal cancer as rare or occasional drinkers. Tea and decaf showed no link, and the authors are not recommending four cups.
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Eating fish in early and midlife does not lower prostate cancer risk
An Icelandic study of 2,268 men found no link between overall fish consumption in early or midlife and prostate cancer. Salted or smoked fish doubled the risk of advanced disease, while fish oil later in life was tied to 57% lower advanced-cancer risk.
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Trans fat increases all cause mortality
Among 18,513 REGARDS participants followed seven years, those eating the most trans fat were 24 percent more likely to die than those eating the least, and researchers attributed 7 percent of all-cause mortality in the population to trans fat intake.
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Eating oily fish or fish oil cuts fatal prostate cancer risk
In the NIH-AARP study of 293,464 men, eating fish was associated with a 21 percent lower risk of fatal prostate cancer and omega-3 intake with a 6 percent lower risk. Higher scores on two diet-quality indices tracked with slightly lower overall prostate cancer risk.
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Walnuts lower risk of type 2 diabetes in women
Drawing on two Nurses' Health Study cohorts, Frank Hu's team found women eating walnuts more than twice a week were 33% less likely to develop type 2 diabetes over 10 years. Adjusting for body mass index weakened the reduction to 24%.
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