The National Toxicology Program has listed alcoholic beverage consumption as known to be a human carcinogen since the 9th Report on Carcinogens in 2000, on the basis of IARC's classification. The piece reproduces the nomination record and the review groups' votes.
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Research on specific foods and drinks, from coffee and eggs to fruit and meat.
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Soy Reduces Inflammation
Among 1,005 middle-aged Chinese women in the Shanghai Women's Health Study, the more soy foods they ate, the less inflammation they showed, a Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics study reports. Researchers propose phytoestrogens or omega-3 fats as possible explanations.
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Coronary heart disease linked to sugar-sweetened beverages
Among 42,883 men followed 22 years in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, those in the top quartile of sugar-sweetened drink intake were 20 percent more likely to develop coronary heart disease. Artificially sweetened drinks showed no significant association.
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Soybean oil, canola oil, high fructose corn syrup linked to metabolic syndrome
An open-access paper by Gabriel Shaya of Georgetown University, published in 2012 in the Journal of Obesity & Weight Loss Therapy, examines how rising dietary linoleic acid and fructose in modern diets contribute to the metabolic syndrome.
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Drinking coffee may help prevent Alzheimer's disease
Among 124 people aged 65 to 88, those with mild cognitive impairment who progressed to dementia over two years had significantly lower blood caffeine. Nobody whose caffeine topped 1200 ng/mL converted to Alzheimer's. Coffee was the participants' only source of caffeine.
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Eating these foods lowers death risk from breast cancer
Among 3,116 Swedish women with breast cancer, those in the top quartile of dietary folate intake were 22 percent less likely to die of the disease and 21 percent less likely to die of any cause. The link was strongest in ER-negative cases, at 58 percent.
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Red meat and health: What you need to know
A reference piece on red meat. Gastronomy calls meat red when it is red raw, while the nutritional definition turns on myoglobin: under 0.05 percent in chicken, 0.4 to 1.0 percent in young beef, 1.5 to 2.0 in old. It lists red meat's iron, zinc, B vitamins and alpha lipoic acid.
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Raises Your Uric Acid in Minutes - Wreaks Havoc on Blood Pressure, Insulin, and Kidneys
Mercola highlights a 60 Minutes report that sugar acts as a toxin linked to obesity, heart disease and cancer, citing trials in which subjects fed high-fructose corn syrup developed cardiovascular risk factors within two weeks. Fructose raises uric acid within minutes.
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Eat variety of fruit/vegetables for better health
A color-by-color guide to produce: red and purple foods supply anthocyanins, greens supply indoles and sulforaphane, onions and garlic supply allicin, and yellow-green foods supply lutein and zeaxanthin, linked to protection of the eyes.
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Coconut oil cure for Alzheimer's disease?
A roundup of coconut oil claims sourced to Natural News: it is heat stable and slow to go rancid, its lauric acid converts to monolaurin that disrupts microbes, and it is credited with hair and skin benefits, faster metabolism and quicker relief in a 2008 pneumonia study.
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Is it really moderate drinking during pregnancy is safe for the baby?
Danish researchers who followed 1,628 children found those whose mothers drank 1 to 6 servings of alcohol a week in pregnancy did as well at age 5 on IQ, attention and executive function as children of non-drinkers. The piece notes other research links prenatal alcohol to harm.
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New study hints drinking sugar-sweetened soda boosts heart risk
Harvard's Frank Hu and colleagues followed 42,883 men for 22 years and found those drinking the most sugar-sweetened sodas were 20 percent more likely to develop coronary heart disease than the lightest drinkers. Artificially sweetened beverages showed no such association.
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Dietitian Perspective: Are Soft Drinks the Only Reason We're Fat?
A letter from registered dietitian Melissa Herrmann Dierks disputing the site's claims about high-fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners, citing the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and noting that she consults for food and beverage companies including Coca-Cola.
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9 Things You Need to Know about the Food You Eat
Mercola lists nine facts about the American food supply, starting with rBGH: about a third of US dairy cows get the synthetic growth hormone, which is banned in Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the EU yet remains the country's largest-selling dairy animal drug.
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Drinking too much tea during pregnancy may boost risk of birth defects
Comparing 518 spina bifida cases with 6,424 controls, Mahsa Yazdy's team linked drinking three or more cups of tea a day to about double the risk of the birth defect in 1976-1988 and triple the risk after 1988, among women getting over 400 ug of folic acid.
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Can Celery Be Useful to Treat Breast Cancer?
In animal studies, apigenin, a flavonoid in celery, parsley and thyme, slowed growth of fast-moving breast tumors and lowered expression of a gene tied to malignancy, with no side effects seen even at high doses. Human research is stalled for lack of funding.
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Superfood that you may like
Drawing on Natural News, this piece recommends chlorella, spirulina, aloe vera juice and barley grass, describing chlorella as an immune booster and, with cilantro, a heavy metal chelator. The powders taste unpleasant enough that the author suggests mixing them into juice or taking tablets.
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Apple cider vinegar
The piece presents apple cider vinegar as a leading natural remedy and lists ten claimed uses, from balancing the body's inner ecosystem and aiding weight loss to easing allergies, skin problems and heartburn. It advises buying raw, unfiltered, unpasteurized organic vinegar.
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