A Dutch case-control study in the Journal of Nutrition followed 2,318 cohort members and 845 diabetes cases for about 10 years. People in the highest quartile of plasma uric acid were four times as likely to develop type 2 diabetes, falling to 43 percent higher after full adjustment.
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Drinking coffee prenatally boosts spontaneous abortion risk
An observational study of 88,482 Danish pregnancies linked heavy coffee drinking to fetal death, with risk up to 59% higher among women drinking eight or more cups a day. The association held for losses after 20 completed weeks of gestation.
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Alcoholic beverage consumption may boost recurrence of breast cancer
Following 9,329 breast cancer patients for a mean 10.3 years, M.L. Kwan's team found drinking 6 to 12, 12 to 24 and over 24 grams of alcohol a day raised recurrence 3%, 12% and 34%. Postmenopausal women saw a 19% rise; no link to mortality appeared.
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Eating red, processed meat linked to pancreatic cancer or not?
Drawing on 477,202 Europeans in the EPIC cohort and 865 cases, Sabine Rohrmann's team found red and processed meat carried no link to pancreatic cancer. Eating 50 grams of poultry a day, however, went with a 72 percent higher risk, which the researchers did acknowledge.
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Alcohol drinking, tobacco smoke linked to pancreatic cancer
Using the Pancreatic Cancer Collaborative Registry, University of Michigan researchers found heavy drinkers 61% more likely and tobacco smokers 169% more likely to develop pancreatic cancer, they report in the American Journal of Gastroenterology. Median age at diagnosis was 66.3.
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Toxicology Expert Explains Why Aspartame is so Dangerous to Your Health
Dr. Woody Monte, who has studied methanol toxicity for three decades, argues aspartame's weak methyl ester bond breaks down into methyl alcohol, particularly when sweetened drinks warm. Mercola says aspartame accounts for over 75 percent of adverse food additive reactions reported to the FDA.
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Dietary fatty acid intake affects breast cancer risk
In the VITamins and Lifestyle Cohort, postmenopausal women in the highest quintile of monounsaturated fat intake were 61 percent more likely and those highest in saturated fat 47 percent more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer; EPA and DHA were tied to lower risk.
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Fish, marine n-3 fatty acid use may reduce heart failure risk
Drawing on a case-control study of 1,572 people and a cohort of 19,097, researchers linked plasma ALA and DPA, but not EPA or DHA, to lower heart failure risk. Eating fish more than once a month corresponded to 30% lower risk; the highest marine n-3 intake to 19%.
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Fish Oil Helped Save Our Son
Mercola tells the story of Bobby Ghassemi, a 17-year-old left comatose by a car crash whose family credits omega-3 fats with his recovery, and argues that hospital food quality matters for patients trying to heal from trauma.
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Fish oil, soy food lower blood pressure
In a small 90-day trial of 65 women with metabolic syndrome, those taking both 3 g of fish oil and 29 g of soybean kinako daily lowered systolic and diastolic blood pressure from baseline. Adiponectin and nitric oxide rose in the fish oil and soy groups.
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Could farmed fish spread prions that cause mad cow disease?
Robert Friedland and colleagues write in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease that farmed fish could pick up infectious prions from cows with BSE and pass variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease to people who eat them. They raise the same concern about untested milk.
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Milk may promote prostate cancer growth
Tate's team at Clemson found organic cows' milk raised the growth rate of LNCaP prostate cancer cells by more than 30 percent in all 14 experiments, while almond milk cut it by more than 30 percent. Soy milk increased breast cancer cell growth.
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Drinking tea may prevent ovarian cancer
Comparing 500 Chinese women with ovarian cancer to 500 without, researchers found tea drinkers about 70% less likely to be diagnosed. Tea drinking was more common among controls, 78.8% versus 51.4%, and the link varied with duration, cups and quantity of leaves used.
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Diet soda linked to higher leukemia risk
Men drinking a serving or more of diet soda a day had 31 percent higher non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk and 102 percent higher multiple myeloma risk in pooled data from two long-running cohorts. Leukemia risk ran 41 percent higher in men and women; critics called the evidence weak.
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Breast cancer linked to dietary saturated fat
Measuring hormones in 393 premenopausal Japanese women with regular cycles, researchers found higher saturated fat intake significantly associated with higher total and free estradiol. Other fats, fiber, soy isoflavones and alcohol showed no such correlation.
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Soft drinks boost stroke risk in women
Following 39,786 Japanese adults for 18 years, researchers found women with the highest soft drink intake were 21 percent more likely to have any stroke and 83 percent more likely to have an ischemic stroke than those drinking least. No link showed for ischemic heart disease.
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Eating meat/dairy products linked to early puberty
German researchers following 112 children found those in the top third of animal protein intake at ages 5 to 6 started their pubertal growth spurt 0.6 years earlier than those in the bottom third, after adjusting for sex, energy intake, breastfeeding and other factors.
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Eating too much red meat may raise risk of diabetes mellitus type 2
A meta-analysis of 11 prospective studies found people with the highest heme iron intake were 33 percent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, with each extra milligram a day matching a 16 percent rise. Total, non-heme and supplemental iron showed no such link.
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