Feeding 29 adult male rhesus monkeys a diet with 30% of energy from fructose for a year left all of them with metabolic syndrome features including insulin resistance, and four, or 15%, developed type 2 diabetes. The researchers note most Americans get under 25% of energy from fructose.
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Eating walnuts fights breast cancer
Mice fed walnuts for life were 50% less likely to develop breast cancer than mice on a typical diet, and had fewer and smaller tumors when cancer did appear, Elaine Hardman's team found. The dose matched 2 ounces a day for a person; the protective ingredient is unknown.
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Product reviews: Chocolate Chunk Cookies by Back to Nature
A review of Back to Nature chocolate chunk cookies: 9.5 ounces for $2.80, 130 calories per two-cookie serving with 38% of energy from fat, no trans fats, little sodium, and no artificial preservatives, flavors, colors or high fructose corn syrup.
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Chocolate consumption linked to lower heart risk
Pooling seven studies of more than 100,000 people, Oscar Franco's team found the highest chocolate consumers had 37% less cardiovascular disease and 29% less stroke, but no less heart failure. The authors stress no study shows chocolate causes the reduction.
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Foods that lower cholesterol, risk of heart disease
A study found that a diet built around cholesterol-lowering foods such as nuts, plant sterols and soy beat a low-saturated-fat diet at lowering bad cholesterol. Harvard Medical School lists other options: oats, barley, beans, eggplant, pectin-rich fruits, and two ounces of nuts a day.
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Fish and shellfish lower risk of type 2 diabetes in women
Among 51,963 men and 64,193 women in Shanghai, eating fish, shellfish and long-chain omega-3 fats went with up to 20 percent lower type 2 diabetes risk in women. In men, only shellfish showed a significant link, at up to 34 percent lower risk.
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Soy lowers cholesterol
A JAMA study led by David Jenkins found six months on a diet of soy, nuts and plant sterols lowered LDL cholesterol about 14 percent against controls, beating a low-saturated-fat diet. A separate analysis of 43 studies put soy's LDL reduction at roughly 4 to 6 percent.
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Cholesterol lowering foods prevent heart disease
A JAMA study found six months on a diet built around soy foods, plant sterols and nuts cut LDL cholesterol by as much as 14 percent from baseline, against 3 percent for a low-saturated-fat, high-fibre diet. Two levels of clinic support produced similar results.
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No bones about it: Eating dried plums helps prevent fractures and osteoporosis
Florida State and Oklahoma State researchers gave 55 postmenopausal women 100 grams of dried plums a day and 45 women dried apples for 12 months, both with calcium and vitamin D. The prune group ended with significantly higher bone mineral density in the forearm and spine.
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Can Drinking Darker Coffee Improve Your Health?
Scientists comparing coffee roasts found dark roast had the stronger antioxidant effect and reported significant weight reduction in pre-obese subjects who drank it. Mercola says any benefit belongs to organic whole-bean black coffee, not drinks loaded with creamer, sugar and flavorings.
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Some Foods that are Friendly to Teeth
Foods that work in the mouth's favor: raw celery and carrots draw saliva and scrub between teeth, green tea kills bacteria before they turn sugar to acid, dairy is low in sugar and high in calcium, cheese balances pH, sesame seeds dissolve plaque, and raw onions are antibacterial.
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Moderate drinking protects against Alzheimer's and cognitive impairment (PR)
Loyola researchers reviewed 143 studies covering more than 365,000 people and found moderate drinkers were 23% less likely to develop dementia or cognitive impairment. Wine looked better than beer or spirits, on few studies. The authors say non-drinkers should not start.
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Does moderate alcohol consumption increase body weight? (PR)
A Spanish review of studies spanning ages, cultures and drinking patterns found the results often contradictory. The authors conclude it is unclear whether alcohol causes weight gain, that any effect may show up mainly in heavy drinkers, and that wine may be more protective.
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FINALLY People Starting to Consume Less Sugar!
Added sugar in the US diet fell from about 100 grams a day in 1999-2000 to 77 grams in 2007-2008, mostly from drinking less soda, an analysis of more than 42,000 people found. Mercola adds rat work suggesting free fructose does more metabolic harm than sucrose.
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More evidence that caffeine lowers risk of skin cancer
Rutgers researchers genetically reduced the ATR enzyme in mice and found those animals developed UV-induced tumors more slowly, with 69 percent fewer tumors and four times fewer invasive ones. Caffeine inhibits ATR, which researchers say may explain its protective effect.
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Alcohol consumption in relation to acute pancreatitis
Following 84,601 Swedes for a median of ten years, researchers recorded 513 cases of acute pancreatitis and found risk rose 52% for every extra five standard drinks of spirits taken on one occasion. Wine, beer, drinking frequency and total monthly intake showed no association.
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Garlic may help fight colon cancer
In cell culture, three odorous garlic compounds - diallyl sulfide, diallyl disulfide and diallyl trisulfide - blocked the migration and invasion of colon cancer cells at 10 and 25 micromoles per liter, and down-regulated genes tied to cell proliferation.
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Red meat, processed meat linked to higher risk of bladder cancer
A meta-analysis of 21 studies found people eating the most red meat and processed meat were 17 and 10 percent more likely to be diagnosed with bladder cancer. Overall meat consumption showed no association; the link appeared in US and Canadian studies.
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