Sugar and high fructose corn syrup hide in most processed foods, condiments and sauces, sometimes labelled as dextrose or corn syrup. HFCS is cheaper than sugar, goes mostly to the liver, and what is not used for energy is stored as fat; US sugar use has climbed steeply.
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This humble spice garlic helps hypertension in diabetes patients
Indian researchers gave rats with drug-induced diabetic hypertension 8 mg/kg of allicin, garlic's active compound, for up to eight weeks and reported both antidiabetic and antihypertensive effects, which they attribute to selective opening of SUR2 channels.
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Americans Eat the Cheapest Food in the World, But What is It Really Costing?
Mercola notes Americans spent just over 9% of disposable income on food in 2010, against 17% in the early 1960s, and argues the cheap, processed, GM-heavy supply feeds obesity, diabetes and heart disease. He urges making 90% of the diet whole organic food.
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This Near Ideal "Fitness Food" Feeds Muscles in Just 10-15 minutes
Dr. Mercola reports on a study of 16 healthy young men who trained at 8pm: protein taken just before sleep stimulated muscle protein synthesis and improved overnight whole-body protein balance. He recommends whey protein and avoiding sugar around workouts.
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Eating this seafood may increase risk of thyroid cancer
Tracking about 53,000 Japanese women aged 40 to 69 for 14 years, researchers recorded 134 thyroid cancers and found daily seaweed eaters 1.7 times more likely to be diagnosed than those eating it twice a week or less, with a 3.8-fold risk after menopause.
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April Is Alcohol Awareness Month
CDC marks April's Alcohol Awareness Month by focusing on binge drinking among women, defined as four or more drinks per occasion. It contributes to more than 11,500 US deaths of women a year and raises risk of breast cancer, heart disease and stroke.
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AICR's foods that fight cancer - apples
AICR's profile of apples: a good source of fiber and vitamin C, plus quercetin, epicatechin, anthocyanins in red varieties and triterpenoids, with a third or more of the phytochemicals in the peel. Gut bacteria can turn apple pectin into compounds that protect colon cells.
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Citric fruit lowers risk of ischemic stroke - study
Women eating the most oranges and grapefruit had a 19% lower stroke risk than those eating no citrus regularly, in an analysis of 14 years of data from nearly 70,000 women. Researchers credit a subclass of flavonoids concentrated in citrus fruit.
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Avoid hormone therapy, instead use soy to fight hot flashes - studies suggest
Pooling 19 studies of more than 1,200 women, researchers found soy isoflavones cut the frequency and severity of hot flashes by up to 26% compared with placebo. At least 54 mg a day for six weeks to a year reduced hot flash frequency by 20.6%.
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Fast food, baked food may boost depression risk
A Public Health Nutrition study of 8,964 people in the Spanish SUN Project found those eating fast food were 51 percent more likely to develop depression, with higher intake linked to greater risk. The authors stress it was not a trial and no causal link was established.
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They Outnumber Your Cells Ten to One but Researchers Show they Play Crucial Role in Your Health
Only one in 10 of the roughly 100 trillion cells in your body is human; the rest are bacteria, fungi and other microbes. Mercola surveys research tying this microflora to cancer, asthma, obesity, diabetes and behaviour, and urges a low-sugar diet with fermented foods or probiotics.
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How to Save Up to 89% on Your Organic Food
A Portland State University study for the Bulk is Green Council found shoppers could save an average of 89 percent buying organic coffee, pasta, beans, spices, nut butters, dried fruit, flour and confections in bulk rather than packaged, while cutting packaging waste.
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Alcohol linked to diabetes - study
In a Swedish cohort, total alcohol intake and binge drinking raised the risk of pre-diabetes and diabetes in men while low intake lowered it in women. Reviewers noted the authors skipped their own finding that non-drinkers had the highest risk in nearly every comparison.
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Eating Chocolate helps lose weight?
Beatrice Golomb's team surveyed 1,000 healthy adults and found frequent chocolate eaters consumed more calories and saturated fat yet weighed less, about 5 to 7 pounds less at five servings a week. Frequency, not total amount, tracked with weight.
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Eating This Fatty Snack Can Protect Your Heart and More
Mercola cites an epidemiologic study of more than 13,000 people in which nut eaters had lower weight, body mass index, waist circumference and systolic blood pressure, plus less diabetes and metabolic syndrome, than non-nut eaters. He advises choosing raw, organic, unpasteurized nuts.
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Hot pepper compound could help hearts
At an American Chemical Society meeting, Zhen-Yu Chen reported new detail on how capsaicin and related capsaicinoids in chili peppers act on genes and mechanisms governing cholesterol and blood vessel health. Earlier work tied chilies to lower blood pressure and cholesterol.
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High blood sugar lowers chances of surviving a heart attack (PR)
Petur Petursson's University of Gothenburg thesis found patients with high blood sugar more likely to die after a heart attack, and diabetics less likely to survive in-hospital cardiac arrest. He says type 2 patients on insulin had lower survival, possibly because their disease is more severe.
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Surprise! Popcorn has higher antioxidant levels than fruits and vegetables (PR)
Joe Vinson told an American Chemical Society meeting that popcorn holds more polyphenols than fruits and vegetables, largely because it is about 4 percent water while produce is about 90 percent. The hulls carry the highest concentration of polyphenols and fiber.
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