Tracking 1,030,467 adults from 1982 to 2006, American Cancer Society researchers found drinkers up to 25 percent more likely than non-drinkers to die of pancreatic cancer. Among never-smokers, three or more drinks a day carried 36 percent higher risk. Liquor drove the link; beer and wine did not.
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Drinking coffee tied to pancreatic cancer
Pooling two Italian case-control studies with 688 pancreatic cancer cases and 2,004 controls, researchers found coffee drinkers 34 percent more likely to have the disease. They doubt a causal link, since risk did not track with dose or duration. Decaf and tea showed no link.
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Whole grain cuts all-cause mortality in women with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Harvard researchers followed 7,822 women with type 2 diabetes in the Nurses' Health Study for up to 26 years. Once other risk factors were counted, only bran intake stayed significantly tied to lower all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, by up to 28 percent.
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Researchers study vegetable rich diet for prostate cancer treatment
UC San Diego's Men's Eating and Living study is enrolling men up to 80 with non-aggressive early stage prostate cancer to test whether diet, exercise and counseling slow progression. Participants eat at least seven daily servings of produce, emphasizing crucifers and tomato products.
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Processed meat boosts, but coffee cuts stroke risk in Swedish women
Following 34,670 Swedish women for 10.4 years, researchers tied the highest red meat and processed meat intakes to 22% and 24% higher risk of cerebral infarction, but not of total stroke or haemorrhagic types. Fresh, unprocessed meat showed no link to any stroke type.
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Drinking coffee may cut stroke risk in women?
Among 34,670 Swedish women followed 10.4 years, drinking more than one cup of coffee a day tracked with 22 to 25 percent fewer strokes, with no extra benefit at higher intakes. The link held after adjusting for smoking, BMI, diabetes, blood pressure and alcohol.
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Experts review and weigh in on cardiovascular benefits of alcohol
A BMJ systematic review found one drink a day associated with lower cardiovascular death, coronary heart disease and stroke risk, plus higher HDL and adiponectin and lower fibrinogen. The review's panelists still declined to recommend drinking as heart disease prevention.
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Sugar-sweetened drinks may boost blood pressure
Among 2,696 adults across eight U.S. and two U.K. areas, each daily serving of a sugar-sweetened drink was associated with systolic pressure 1.6 mm Hg higher and diastolic 0.8 mm Hg higher, with a stronger link at high sodium intake. Diet sodas showed no association.
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Red meat also linked to higher risk of lung cancer
A study in the Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention comparing 876 men with lung cancer to 766 controls found fried, barbecued and salted red meat linked to higher risk, salted most of all, while broiled meat looked protective. Britain separately capped advice at 500 g a week.
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Red meat pigments may boost colorectal cancer risk
New British guidance caps red meat at about 500 grams a week, though Cancer Research UK's Ed Yong says no level is known to be safe. A meta-analysis covering 566,607 people found an 18 percent higher colon cancer risk among those eating the most heme iron.
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Red meat promotes bowel cancer, antioxidants cut the risk
Britain's new guidelines cap red meat at 500 grams a week, the first such advice since 1998, though Cancer Research UK's Ed Yong says no level is known to be safe. Rat studies point to the meat pigments haemoglobin and haemin as possible drivers of bowel tumours.
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Eating too much fat boosts stroke risk
Following 7,579 women and 6,372 men in Copenhagen for 33 years, Marianne Benn tied rising non-fasting triglycerides to ischemic stroke in both sexes; women in the highest band were nearly four times as likely to have one. Cholesterol tracked with risk only in men.
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6% U.S. teens ages 12 to 14 drink alcohol
A SAMHSA survey of more than 44,000 respondents found 5.9 percent of 12- to 14-year-olds, about 710,000 teens, drank alcohol in a given month. Most got it free, and 44.8 percent got it from family or at home; only 6.6 percent bought it themselves.
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Energy drinks: Teens face health troubles
Writing in Pediatrics, researchers report that 30 to 50 percent of adolescents and young adults drink energy drinks carrying high, unregulated caffeine, and that 46 percent of the 5,448 US caffeine overdoses in 2007 were in under-19s. They conclude the drinks have no therapeutic benefit.
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Fast food breakfast linked to inflammation
UC Davis researchers fed 61 people a typical fast food breakfast and found those with waists over 32 inches and high triglycerides produced larger triglyceride-rich lipoproteins that bound more readily to blood vessel lining cells, a step toward inflammation.
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Foods that fight cancer
Dr. William Li of the Angiogenesis Foundation lists foods that contain antiangiogenic substances — green tea, berries, citrus, bok choy, soy, turmeric, garlic, tomato, olive oil, dark chocolate and more — citing lab and epidemiological evidence that certain foods may help fight cancer.
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Diet soda and stroke link controversy
A study following more than 2,500 New Yorkers for nine or more years found daily diet soda drinkers had a 61 percent higher risk of vascular events, including stroke and heart attack, than non-drinkers, after adjusting for cardiovascular risk factors. It does not prove cause and effect.
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Diet soda could cause a stroke
Among 3,298 adults aged 40 and over followed 9.3 years, daily diet soda drinkers had 61 percent higher risk of vascular events and 48 percent higher stroke risk after adjustment, researchers reported at a 2011 stroke conference. They caution that the study has limitations.
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