Mercola traces how Procter & Gamble's Crisco displaced lard and butter, and argues later studies have not tied saturated fat to heart disease. He and other nutrition writers, he says, believe most people need 50 to 70 percent of their diet to come from healthful fats.
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Foods that detoxify your body
The liver filters toxins and makes bile, and an overworked one can throw the body off balance. Seven foods may support it: garlic's sulfur compounds activate detox enzymes, grapefruit supplies vitamin C and antioxidants, and green tea's catechins have been shown to curb liver fat accumulation.
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Foods that fight cancer
A list credited to Natural News: cruciferous vegetables, turmeric's curcumin, medicinal mushrooms, garlic and onions, flax lignans, capsaicin from hot peppers, folate-rich leafy greens, dark red grapes with resveratrol, and fucoidan from brown seaweeds such as kombu.
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Eating these meats may boost type 2 diabetes risk
In 4,366 Dutch adults followed about 12 years, the highest red meat intake came with 42% higher odds of type 2 diabetes and the highest processed meat intake with 87% higher odds, while chicken showed no link. Adjusting for body mass index cut the red meat figure to 18%.
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Green tea fights cancer - review study
A review in Molecular Nutrition and Food Research reports that four case-control studies combine to show an inverse link between green tea intake and ovarian cancer risk, and that green tea catechin ointment may help premalignant cervical lesions and genital warts.
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Drinking alcohol ups breast cancer risk - study
A Pediatrics study found a dose-dependent link between drinking alcohol in adolescence and proliferative benign breast disease, a condition tied to four times the risk of breast cancer. Other work puts the added breast cancer risk at 7 to 10 percent per 10 grams of alcohol daily.
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Eating this humble food may prevent breast cancer
Breast cells treated with diallyl trisulfide, a garlic compound, before or alongside the carcinogen benzo(a)pyrene showed sharply less BaP-driven proliferation, altered cell cycle progression, and at least 54 percent less peroxide formation, which may have prevented DNA strand breaks.
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This Food Contains 100 TIMES More Probiotics than a Supplement
Mercola interviews neurologist Natasha Campbell-McBride about her GAPS program, which aims to heal and seal the gut lining. She says fermented foods carry far more probiotics than supplements, and warns newcomers to start with as little as a teaspoon of sauerkraut.
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Could coffee lower bladder cancer risk?
Meta-analysing 23 case-control studies, researchers linked 2, 3 or 4 cups of coffee a day to 15%, 22% and 29% lower bladder cancer risk. Five cohort studies showed reductions of 9% or less, and the researchers call the two sets of findings inconsistent.
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Avocados - a superfood
Avocados are rich in the monounsaturated oleic acid, the carotenoid antioxidants lutein and zeaxanthin, vitamin E, potassium and folate. Hass avocados run 18 to 30 percent fatty acids against about 3 to 5 percent for the larger Florida variety.
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Seaweed breaks the sushi mold (PR)
The Korea Agro-Fisheries Trade Corporation and the Culinary Institute of America launched an English cookbook of gim, Korean seaweed, at CIA's Hyde Park campus, where chef Phil Crispo demonstrated dishes from gim-filled phyllo triangles to gim ice cream.
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Six Surprising Foods with More Sugar than a Twinkie
Mercola names yogurt, tomato sauce, granola bars, fat-free salad dressing, muffins and canned fruit as foods sold as healthy that can hold more sugar than a Twinkie, and argues sugar and especially fructose drive inflammation, fat around the organs, and insulin and leptin resistance.
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Product News: Blue Bell introduces new Red Velvet Cake Ice Cream
Blue Bell adds Red Velvet Cake Ice Cream in May, mixing pieces of red velvet cake and a cream cheese icing swirl, sold in half gallons and pints. Key Lime Pie and Southern Hospitality return to freezers the same month.
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The Hidden Reason You Get Flabby (Not Calories or Lack of Exercise)
Dr. Mercola argues that a calorie is not simply a calorie: the same calories from fructose or glucose produce entirely different metabolic effects. He cites figures that about 80 percent of obese people and 40 percent of normal-weight people have impaired metabolic function.
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Can Milk Transmit Mad Cow Disease?
Officials say milk does not transmit mad cow disease, but a 2010 Journal of Virology article found sheep with a related prion disease infected nearly 90 percent of suckling lambs through their milk, and warned of possible prion spread through pooled sheep milk or milk products.
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Low fat dairy products may help cut stroke risk
Following 74,961 Swedish adults for a decade, Larsson's team found those in the top quintile of low-fat dairy intake were 12 percent less likely to have a stroke and 13 percent less likely to suffer a cerebral infarction. Total dairy, full-fat dairy, milk, cheese and cream showed no link.
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Eating meat boosts premature death risk
Across two studies of 37,698 men and 83,644 women followed 22 to 28 years, with 23,926 deaths, a daily three-ounce serving of unprocessed red meat was tied to 13% higher mortality and processed meat to 20%. Swapping in poultry, nuts or legumes lowered risk up to 19%.
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The Beverage that is Even WORSE than High Fructose Corn Syrup Soda
Pepsi Next advertises 60 percent less sugar, but high fructose corn syrup remains its second ingredient and the sweetness is topped up with aspartame, acesulfame potassium and sucralose. Mercola cites research tying artificial sweeteners to cravings and weight gain.
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