Among 377 Chinese coronary heart disease patients and 753 controls in Shanghai, total urinary isoflavonoids showed no link to the disease, but women with the highest urinary equol, a soy isoflavone metabolite, were 54% less likely to have it. The authors call the finding a first.
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Soy foods may help fight prostate cancer
In prostate cancer cell lines, 25 micromolar genistein suppressed the oncogenic microRNA miR-151 and cut cell migration and invasion, San Francisco researchers report. The work is laboratory-based; whether it would block metastasis in the body remains untested.
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Walnuts boost sperm quality
In a 12-week trial, 58 men who ate about half a cup of walnuts daily showed better sperm shape, movement and vitality and fewer chromosomal abnormalities than 59 men avoiding tree nuts. An outside andrologist called the gain small but statistically significant.
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Organic food does your body good?
A Stanford review concluded organic food is no more nutritious than conventional. A survey of 566 organic consumers in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture found 70 percent reported better resistance to illness and more energy, with smaller shares citing mood, digestion and skin.
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To Lose Weight, Cut Down on Meat and Cheese
A study of 481 overweight and obese postmenopausal women found long-term weight loss went with eating less meat, cheese and sweets and more fruit and vegetables. Women counselled on cutting fat and raising fiber lost the most over the long run.
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Eating legumes cuts risk of metabolic syndrome
Comparing 80 people with metabolic syndrome to 160 matched controls in Tehran, researchers found cases ate 1.4 servings of legumes a week against 2.3 for controls. Those in the highest intake quartile were 75% less likely to have the syndrome, even after adjusting for BMI.
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Here is why cow-milk boosts prostate cancer risk
A review argues cow's milk, but not human milk, promotes prostate cancer by over-stimulating mTORC1 signaling, which is upregulated in nearly all advanced cases. The authors point to branched chain amino acids from milk's fast-digesting whey proteins.
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Dietary cholesterol raises cancer risk
In a Canadian study of thousands of cancer patients and controls, higher dietary cholesterol intake tracked with raised risk of stomach, colon, rectal, pancreatic, lung, breast, kidney and bladder cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, but with lower prostate cancer risk.
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Drinking whole milk raises risk of prostate cancer death - study
Among 3,918 men with localized prostate cancer, those drinking the most whole milk after diagnosis were 115 percent more likely to progress to advanced disease, while the highest low-fat dairy intake went with a 38 percent lower risk. Overall milk and dairy intake showed no association.
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Red and Processed Meats Increase the Risk of Stroke
A meta-analysis published by the American Heart Association, covering 329,495 people in Europe, Japan and the United States, found stroke risk rose 11 percent for each daily serving of red meat and 13 percent for each daily serving of processed meat.
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Alcoholic beverage raises breast cancer risk
A meta-analysis of studies published through November 2011 tied up to one drink a day to 4% higher breast cancer risk and three or more drinks a day to 40-50% higher. The authors estimate light drinking alone accounts for 1-2% of cases in Europe and North America.
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U.S. Kids Drowning In Diet Drinks
Mercola cites Emory University researchers who found 12.5% of US children drank artificially sweetened beverages by 2008, roughly double a decade earlier, and argues that trading sugary soda for diet versions is a bad swap because of the artificial sweeteners they contain.
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Dark Chocolate Helps Congestive Heart Failure Patients
Twenty congestive heart failure patients ate two high-flavanol chocolate bars daily for four weeks in a placebo-controlled trial. Flow-mediated vasodilatation rose from 4.98 to 6.86 percent and platelet adhesion fell. Effects of long-term consumption remain unknown.
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Dairy Products May Raise Prostate Cancer Risk
Among 533 African-American men with prostate cancer and 250 controls, those in the highest quartile of dietary calcium were twice as likely to have localized or advanced disease. Men with the VDR Cdx2 GG genotype had 59% lower risk of advanced cancer.
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Dietary Fats and Risk of Sudden cardiac Death in Women
Over 30 years in 91,981 Nurses' Health Study participants, women eating the most saturated fat were 44 percent more likely to die suddenly of cardiac causes, and those eating the most polyunsaturated fat 43 percent less likely. Adjusting for heart disease erased the saturated fat link.
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Red meat linked to higher risk of stroke
Following 84,010 women and 43,150 men for more than two decades, researchers found that compared with a daily serving of red meat, a serving of poultry corresponded to 27% lower stroke risk and nuts or fish to 17% lower. The study was not a trial.
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Have Chronic Kidney Disease? Don't Eat High Fructose Corn Syrup
Twenty-eight patients with stage 2 or 3 chronic kidney disease cut fructose from 60 to 12 grams a day for six weeks in a Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation study. Fasting serum insulin fell significantly and blood pressure improved overall, though significantly only in dippers.
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Is it True that Eggs are as Bad for Your Arteries as Smoking?
Mercola disputes headlines calling egg yolks nearly two-thirds as bad as smoking for arterial plaque. He notes the study rested on stroke patients' recall of egg intake and smoking, that its authors called the finding a hypothesis, and that its funders take heavy pharmaceutical money.
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