A translated compilation of older claims linking meat to cancer, including a 1976 Senate committee report and National Research Council figures attributing 40% of cancers in men and 60% in women to meat. The piece notes names and organizations may not be rendered accurately.
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Research on specific foods and drinks, from coffee and eggs to fruit and meat.
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Doctor Warns: Eat This and You’ll Look 5 Years Older
Mercola argues most of soy's health claims are marketing rather than science, notes that 94 percent of US soy is genetically engineered, lists the names soy derivatives hide under, and says only organic fermented soy foods such as tempeh, miso and natto carry benefits.
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Why is This Soda's Evil Twin?
Dr. Mercola argues fruit drinks often hold little juice and can carry more sugar and calories than soda. Labels reading fruit drink, beverage or cocktail signal less than 100% juice, he writes, and he names fructose as a driver of obesity, recommending water instead.
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Babies who consume fish early in life have a lower risk of wheezing
A Swedish cohort study found babies who ate fish before nine months had a 40 percent lower risk of recurrent wheezing. Broad-spectrum antibiotics in the first week of life doubled that risk and nearly tripled the risk of multiple-trigger wheezing up to age 4.5.
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Effective fruits for breast cancer prevention
The piece names mango, citrus, hawthorn and jujube as fruits that may help lower breast cancer risk, crediting mango's tannins and other polyphenols with disrupting cell division and citrus vitamin C with blocking nitrosamine formation.
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Eating broccoli and cauliflower cuts prostate cancer risk
Ben Liu's meta-analysis of seven cohort and six case-control studies found men eating cruciferous vegetables were 10% less likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer. Cohort studies alone showed no significant link; case-control studies suggested up to 21%.
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Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Lower in Those Eating Baked, Broiled Fish
Among 260 cognitively healthy volunteers, those eating baked or broiled fish at least weekly showed better-preserved gray matter on MRI in brain areas at risk for Alzheimer's ten years later, and their five-year risk of decline to mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's fell to one-fifth of normal.
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Help Your Heart: 71% of Those Who Drank This Lowered Their Blood Pressure
Mercola makes the case for coconut water, describing it as low in sugar but rich in electrolytes, vitamins, minerals and amino acids, and the richest dietary source of cytokinins, with claimed benefits for rehydration, the heart, skin and blood glucose.
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Processed red meat may boost diabetes risk in women
Among 66,118 French women followed from 1993 to 2007, those eating five or more servings of processed red meat a week were 30 percent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes. A Harvard analysis put the excess at 51 percent for 50 grams of processed meat a day.
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Banish These "Healthy Oils" to Guard Your Heart (Comment)
A Circulation: Heart Failure study of nearly 85,000 postmenopausal women found baked or broiled fish may lower heart failure risk while fried fish may raise it. Mercola blames the vegetable oils used for frying and, citing mercury and PCB contamination, suggests krill oil instead of fish.
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These Two Natural Foods Will Throw Your Blood Sugar Out-of-Whack (comment)
Mercola covers a debate between Dr. Ron Rosedale and Dr. Paul Jaminet over safe starches. Jaminet argues that adding white rice and potato back to a low-carb diet improves insulin sensitivity; Rosedale counters that any starch raises blood sugar and does damage in proportion.
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Coffee may protect against endometrial cancer (updated)
Among 67,470 Nurses' Health Study participants followed 26 years, drinking four or more cups of coffee a day was tied to 25% lower endometrial cancer risk. Decaffeinated coffee showed a similar link. The study is observational and cannot prove cause.
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Fructose raises risk for kidney disease, hypertension
Reviewing 62 studies, Polish researchers conclude excess fructose may contribute to fatty liver, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, hypertension and kidney disease. They note fruit brings antioxidants, vitamin C, polyphenols, potassium and fiber that may counter the effect.
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Drinking coffee helps hepatitis C treatment
Among 885 hepatitis C patients treated with peginterferon and ribavirin, those drinking three or more cups of coffee a day had larger drops in viral load and were 80 percent more likely to sustain a virologic response than non-drinkers.
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Moderate intake of beer may cut cardiovascular risk
An Italian meta-analysis in the European Journal of Epidemiology, covering an estimated 200,000 people, found low to moderate beer or wine drinking tracked with up to 31 percent lower cardiovascular risk against non-drinkers, with the advantage vanishing and reversing as intake rises.
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Foods that fight cancer
An AICR guide describing how compounds in beans - saponins, protease inhibitors and phytic acid - slowed cancer cell growth and tumor progression in laboratory studies, and how berries supply vitamin C, fiber and ellagic acid, which prevented several cancers in lab work.
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High fiber diet may help prevent colorectal cancer
Pooling 25 prospective studies of nearly two million people, researchers linked each extra 10 grams of total or cereal fiber a day to 10 percent lower colorectal cancer risk, and three daily servings of whole grains to about 20 percent. Fruit and vegetable fiber showed no link.
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Reduction in risk of coronary heart disease from alcohol consumption (PR)
Among roughly 150,000 Norwegians, people reporting more than one drink a week had a lower risk of coronary death than never or rare drinkers, with a hazard ratio of 0.52 in men. Adding HDL-cholesterol to the model changed little, suggesting HDL explained little of the difference.
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