Tesco apologized in full-page newspaper ads after its beef burgers were found to contain nearly 30 percent horse meat, and at least 16 people in the US were sickened by salmonella-tainted ground beef. Mercola recommends organically raised, grass-fed or pastured meat instead.
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Dairy Products Increase Risk of Prostate Cancer
Tracking 21,660 men in the Physicians' Health Study for 28 years, researchers found those eating more than 2.5 daily servings of dairy had a 12 percent higher risk of prostate cancer, and men drinking more than a glass of whole milk a day had double the risk of fatal disease.
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Whole grain foods lower risk of type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, hypertension
Reviewing 11 major prospective studies, Lillioja's team concluded people should eat at least 40 grams of whole grains a day, about one bowl of whole grain cereal, and noted 80 percent of the population falls short. They point to aleurone, magnesium, zinc and ferulic acid as active components.
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High protein intake may prevent osteoporosis?
Using Korean national survey data, researchers found adults with the lowest protein intake more likely to have lumbar osteoporosis, by 39 percent in women and 31 percent in men. The article cautions that Korean intakes are far lower than Western ones, so the finding may not transfer.
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Binge drinking boosts risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus
Mount Sinai researchers fed rats alcohol for three days to simulate binge drinking and found higher plasma insulin afterward, a sign of insulin resistance. They report alcohol inflames the hypothalamus and disrupts insulin-receptor signaling.
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Eating fruit, vegetables may cut risk of ER- breast cancer
Pooling 20 cohort studies of 993,466 women, Jung's team found women in the top quintile of vegetable intake were 12 percent less likely to develop estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer. Fruit and vegetables together gave a 6 percent reduction. Overall breast cancer risk did not change.
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Eating bright-colored fruits and vegetables may prevent or delay ALS
An Annals of Neurology study reports that diets high in carotenoids, particularly beta-carotene and lutein, may prevent or delay the onset of ALS, while high intakes of lycopene, beta-cryptoxanthin and vitamin C showed no reduction in risk.
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Eating fried foods linked to prostate cancer
Men eating deep-fried foods such as French fries, fried chicken, fried fish or doughnuts at least once a week were 30 to 37 percent more likely to develop prostate cancer than men eating them less than monthly, in a study of 1,549 cases and 1,492 age-matched controls.
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Fruit and vegetable intake is associated with lower risk of ER- breast cancer (PR)
Pooling 20 cohort studies for the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Seungyoun Jung and colleagues found no link between total fruit and vegetable intake and overall breast cancer risk, but higher vegetable intake was associated with lower risk of estrogen receptor-negative tumors.
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Pancreatic cancer risk lower in fish-eaters
Among 66,616 adults aged 50 to 76 followed an average 6.8 years, those in the top third for long-chain omega-3 intake and for non-fried fish were 38 and 45 percent less likely to develop pancreatic cancer. Fried fish and shellfish showed no significant link; DHA mattered more than EPA.
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Eating eggs boosts risk of coronary heart disease in diabetics
A BMJ meta-analysis of 17 reports by Liegang Liu's team found no clear overall link between egg consumption and coronary heart disease or stroke. Among people with diabetes, though, those eating the most eggs were 54 percent more likely to develop coronary heart disease.
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High fat diet harms infertility in men
Among 701 young Danish men examined for military service, those in the highest quartile of saturated fat intake had 38% lower sperm concentration and 41% lower total sperm count than those in the lowest, with a dose-response pattern. Published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
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Saturated fat linked to coronary heart disease mortality
A Current Nutrition and Food Science study of 7,819 residents aged 30 and older found high saturated fatty acid intake was associated with increased coronary heart disease death in women but not men. Since saturated fat comes largely from meat, the authors say it indirectly implicates meat.
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Sugar, tea, coffee affects risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus
Harvard researchers tracking 74,749 women and 39,059 men linked each daily serving of caffeinated sugar-sweetened drinks to 13% higher type 2 diabetes risk, caffeine-free versions to 11% and artificially sweetened ones to 6%, while each serving of coffee tracked with about 8% lower risk.
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Drinking coffee does not reduce breast cancer risk
A review of 16 cohort and 10 case-control studies found coffee drinking was not tied to a significantly lower risk of breast cancer, with reductions of 4% for high intake and 1% for low to moderate. An inverse association did appear for ER-negative tumors in subgroup analysis.
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Probiotics help constipation in Parkinson's disease patients
In a pilot study of 40 Parkinson's patients with constipation, five weeks of a daily 65 ml fermented milk drink containing Lactobacillus casei Shirota improved stool consistency and reduced bloating, abdominal pain and the sense of incomplete emptying, researchers in Milan reported.
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Alcoholic beverages cause variety of cancers
Writing in Maedica, G. Testino reports that all types of alcoholic beverages carry increased risk of cancers including those of the mouth, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, colon, rectum, liver and breast. He says risk rises with intake and sees no data supporting a safe threshold.
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GE Crops and Unsustainable Agricultural Practices are Destroying our Planet’s Soil and Food Supply
Mercola argues biotech firms rush genetically engineered seed to market without weighing the long-term consequences of altering food DNA, citing Forbes' retraction of its 2009 Company of the Year award to Monsanto and a fraud and cover-up finding against agricultural scientists in India.
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