Brown University's Stella Aslibekyan compared dairy fat biomarkers and heart attacks among 3,630 middle-aged Costa Ricans and found no statistically significant effect, with components such as vitamin D, calcium, potassium and CLA possibly protective.
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Coffee may reduce the risk of deadly prostate cancer
Harvard's Kathryn Wilson and colleagues followed 47,911 men for 22 years and found those drinking six or more cups of coffee a day had a 20 percent lower risk of prostate cancer overall and a 60 percent lower risk of advanced disease. Regular and decaffeinated coffee both counted.
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Ready Pac® Delivers Deli Solutions at IDDBA 2011 (PR)
A press release announcing Ready Pac's Salad Singles deli bowl salads at the IDDBA exhibition in Anaheim, June 5-7, 2011 — four varieties, each under 200 calories, at a suggested retail price of $2.99.
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A new papaya variety with a competitive edge (PR)
A news release from Tex Starr Distributing LLC of Alamo, Texas announcing Royal Star Papaya, a proprietary hybrid the company says is sweeter and juicier than most papayas and will be widely available year-round from July, backed by a summer marketing push.
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How This Normal Body Process Can Contribute to More Than 60 Diseases
Dr. Mercola explains what free radicals and antioxidants do in the body, argues antioxidants help govern how fast you age, and makes the case for eating a wide variety of them rather than mega doses of one or two.
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Can coffee fight breast cancer ?
Swedish researchers compared nearly 6,000 postmenopausal women and found those drinking five or more cups of coffee a day had a 57 percent lower risk of estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer than women who drank less than a cup daily.
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The Most Important Food for Healthy Eyes (No, it's Not Carrots)
Mercola makes the case for astaxanthin, the carotenoid produced by the microalga Haematococcus pluvialis that colours wild salmon and flamingos. He calls it a far more powerful cousin of beta-carotene, available mainly from the algae and the sea creatures that eat them.
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Want to grow taller? Eat lots of dairy products
Oxford's T.J. Key reports that men and women with high dairy protein intake carry higher circulating IGF-1, which plays a role in cancer and diabetes. An earlier Greek study of 795 children aged 10 to 11 tied four extra dairy servings a week to 0.4 cm more height in carriers of one IGF variant.
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Dietary fiber cuts breast cancer risk
Comparing 438 Chinese women with breast cancer to 438 without, researchers tied the highest total fibre intake to 69% lower risk. Vegetable fibre corresponded to a 52% reduction, fruit fibre 46% and soy fibre 27%, while cereal fibre showed no association.
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Drinking this beverage may reduce cancer risk
A meta-analysis of 59 studies found regular coffee drinkers were 13 percent less likely to develop cancer, with heavy drinkers at 18 percent lower risk and each additional daily cup tied to a 3 percent reduction.
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Eight Foods You Should Almost Never, Ever Eat
Companies such as Monsanto and Syngenta restrict independent research on their patented genetically engineered seed, the piece reports, leaving the safety picture incomplete even as more than 90% of U.S. corn and soy now comes from GM seed.
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Eliminate This ONE Ingredient and Watch Your Health Soar
Dr. Mercola highlights Robert Lustig's 90-minute lecture on the biochemistry of fructose, viewed more than 800,000 times at a rate of 50,000 a month. Lustig calls sugar a poison, says sucrose and high fructose corn syrup are equally harmful, and sets calories aside.
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Child malnutrition caused by more than lack of food (PR)
Researchers compared child malnutrition across five Guatemalan coffee-growing villages, four of which received non-agricultural land, brick houses and improved sanitation, and weighed 242 children before and after. The findings were presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies meeting in Denver.
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Frontera Produce Delivers Melon Mania to Consumers (PR)
Frontera Produce launched a consumer website for its honeydew, watermelon and cantaloupe lines, covering peak growing seasons, how to pick a melon and recipes from its executive chef. The company said it will exhibit at the United Fresh 2011 convention in New Orleans.
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Healthy foods hard to find for kids nationwide
The CDC's 2011 Children's Food Environment State Indicator Report scored states on access to retailers that sell healthy food. The national average was 10, with Montana highest at 16 and Rhode Island and the District of Columbia at 4. Thirty-two states scored at or below average.
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One of the BEST Breakfasts to Eat for Proper Elimination and a Toned, Muscular Body
Ori Hofmekler tells Mercola that meal timing matters as much as food choice. He says the body is in elimination mode in the morning, so he recommends only detoxifying foods until noon: vegetables, low-glycemic fruit and light protein such as whey.
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Is Sugar Toxic?
Robert Lustig's 90-minute lecture calling sugar a poison has passed 800,000 YouTube views. He argues sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup are equally harmful whatever the calorie count, and the New York Times says a mass of evidence stands behind his claims.
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New Research Shows Honey Fights Drug-Resistant Germs
Isaac Eliaz describes lab work by microbiologist Rose Cooper at the University of Wales Institute, in which Manuka honey fought off drug-resistant germs including MRSA. He notes raw honey's antioxidants, enzymes and an antiseptic called inhibine, long used on skin before antibiotics took over.
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