Mercola interviews Beatrice Golomb about chocolate, separating cacao, cocoa and chocolate and arguing only good-quality chocolate is worth eating. An editor's note warns that chocolate is often high in fat and sugar and should not be used to prevent heart disease.
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Avoiding Sugar with Diet, Low-Calorie, and Sugar-Free Alternatives? Think Again...
Liz Lang argues “low-calorie” and “sugar-free” labels say nothing about what replaced the sugar, and points to aspartame - now in cereals, gum, soft drinks and yogurts - as a substitute that may carry side effects of its own despite repeated FDA safety affirmations.
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The Hidden "Cancer-Trigger" You Probably Swallow Every Day
Johns Hopkins researchers added lime juice to water contaminated with bacteria and viruses, then exposed it to sunlight, and E. coli and MS2 bacteriophage levels fell well below solar disinfection alone in about 30 minutes. Noroviruses were not significantly reduced.
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Has the once Revered "Berried Treasure" Goji Berry Diasppeared?
In a 14-day randomized, placebo-controlled trial, 16 healthy adults drinking 120 ml of GoChi juice a day reported more energy, better sleep, sharper focus, calmness and less fatigue and stress than at the start. Goji has long been used in Chinese, Indian and Tibetan herbal medicine.
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Coffee but not espresso may prevent liver fibrosis
Among 195 severely obese European patients who had liver biopsies, drinking regular coffee was linked to a 25 percent lower risk of fibrosis, while espresso was not. Espresso intake instead ran higher in patients with low HDL, high triglycerides and metabolic syndrome.
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Prostate Health Through Tomatoes
In a Cancer Prevention Research study of men aged 50 to 83 with prostate abnormalities, those given lycopene showed a significant rise in blood antioxidant levels, and the lead researcher concluded it may help prevent prostate cancer. Cooked tomato sauce supplies more lycopene than raw tomatoes.
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Binge drinking ups risk of cognitive decline in older adults
Among 5,075 US adults aged 65 and over, those binge drinking at least monthly were 62% more likely to fall into the worst 10% for cognitive decline, and twice-monthly binge drinkers about 2.5 times more likely, researchers told an Alzheimer's conference.
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Soy foods help fight breast cancer
Pooling 9,514 breast cancer survivors from two US cohorts and one Chinese cohort over 7.4 years, researchers linked soy isoflavone intake to fewer recurrences. Eating 10 mg or more a day tracked with 13 percent lower all-cause and 17 percent lower breast cancer death risk, neither significant.
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Eating fructose leads to high plasma uric acid level
Older overweight and obese adults drank glucose- or fructose-sweetened beverages supplying 25 percent of energy for 10 weeks. Fasting uric acid rose in both groups but higher with fructose, and only fructose raised 24-hour uric acid, GGT activity and RBP-4.
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Hot-Dog Eaters, Save Your Buns
PCRM took a banner to the Nathan's Famous July Fourth contest and put a billboard near Kauffman Stadium showing hot dogs in a cigarette pack. Chief medical officer Ulka Agarwal says one hot dog a day raises colorectal cancer risk by 21 percent and wants warning labels on processed meat.
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Foods with high glycemic index or glycemic load raise cancer risk
A Canadian study in Annals of Oncology linked a high dietary glycemic index to prostate cancer, and a high glycemic load to 28, 44 and 41 percent higher risks of colorectal, rectal and pancreatic cancer. The other cancers examined showed no positive association.
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Fried, baked starchy foods may kill sperm
Male rats given 20 mg/kg of acrylamide daily for 28 days had lower sperm counts and more dead sperm, and vitamin E only partly offset the damage, a Toxicology International study found. Recovery came faster with vitamin E once acrylamide feeding stopped.
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Roasted, fried and grilled meat linked to pancreatic cancer
Among 62,581 people followed for a decade in a screening trial, 248 developed exocrine pancreatic cancer, and those eating the most meat-derived mutagens faced up to 86 percent higher risk than those eating the least. People who preferred well-done meat were also at higher risk.
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Red meat linked to deadly prostate cancer risk
In the California Collaborative Prostate Cancer Study, men eating the most red meat cooked at high temperature, pan-fried or well done were more likely to have advanced prostate cancer, while baked poultry tracked with lower risk. A PTGS2 interaction appeared.
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Coffee may help people with cancer, but not healthy people?
At 0.5 to 5 mM, chlorogenic acid damaged DNA in both normal and cancerous cells, apparently by producing hydrogen peroxide. Lung cancer cells proved more sensitive than normal ones, which the researchers say may explain suggestions that the coffee compound selectively kills cancer cells.
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Soy germ protein concentrate helps you lose fat
Wistar rats fed a soy germ protein concentrate diet for 16 weeks carried significantly less abdominal fat and more hindlimb muscle than rats fed casein, Japanese researchers reported. Because the work was done in animals, it only suggests the same might happen in people.
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Drinking green tea helps elderly people
Yasutake Tomata's team followed nearly 14,000 Japanese aged 65 and over for three years and found less functional decline among those drinking five cups of green tea a day than among those drinking one or less: 7% versus 13% became disabled.
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Freschetta pizza is now editor-recommended!
An editor endorses Freschetta's naturally rising four-cheese pizza, praising its $4.85 price, cheese quality and ingredient list, and gives baking directions.
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