Food Technology magazine's roundup of foods worth adding: barley for cholesterol, brown rice against type 2 diabetes, almonds and walnuts for the heart, pecans' vitamin E for the nervous system, blueberries for insulin sensitivity, and broccoli against aggressive prostate cancer.
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Eating This “Healthy” Food While Pregnant Can Lead to Infant Deafness, Blindness or Mental Retardation…
Mercola reports that mercury in fish can offset the benefit fish oil gives a developing baby's brain. Babies exposed to higher methyl mercury in the womb scored lower on skills tests, and of five nutrients tested only DHA's benefit was affected.
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Omega rich organic milk better for mom and baby
Newcastle University researchers sampling supermarket milk in North East England over two years found organic milk carried more nutritionally beneficial fatty acids than conventional milk whatever the season, and that conventional milk from a poor summer was higher in saturated fat.
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Organic milk's heart healthy advantage
Newcastle University researchers report in the Journal of Dairy Science that milk produced after poor British summers and harsh winters carried more saturated fat and fewer beneficial fatty acids. Gillian Butler recommends organic milk, which she says cuts saturated fat by 30 to 50 percent.
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More evidence shows drinking coffee cut type 2 diabetes mellitus risk
Among 69,532 French women, drinking more than one cup of coffee a day was tied to 27% lower diabetes risk, an association found only in lunchtime drinkers. A separate UCLA study reported women drinking four cups daily had higher SHBG and were 56% less likely to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
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4 Season Wine Club - featured wine store
A description of the WSJwine 4 Season Wine Club, run by Tony Laithwaite and colleagues, which ships red, white, rose and sparkling wines sourced from wineries in Argentina, Australia, Chile, Italy, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, the UK and the United States.
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Here is why drinking coffee cuts type 2 diabetes risk
UCLA researchers report in Diabetes that coffee raises blood levels of sex hormone-binding globulin, a protein long thought to play a role in type 2 diabetes. In their data, women drinking more than four cups a day were over 50% less likely to develop the disease than non-drinkers.
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Blueberries, leafy veggies, olive oil lower heart risk
The highest intakes of anthocyanins, found mainly in blueberries and strawberries, tracked with an 8 percent lower risk of hypertension, and weekly blueberry eaters were 10 percent less likely to develop it. A separate Italian study tied leafy vegetables and olive oil to less heart disease.
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Eating blueberries may cut high blood pressure risk - study
Tracking 134,000 women and 47,000 men for 14 years, researchers found people eating at least one serving of blueberries a week were 10% less likely to develop high blood pressure, an effect they attribute to anthocyanins.
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Mediterranean diet and physical exercise cut risk of Alzheimer's disease
Following 1,880 dementia-free elderly New Yorkers, researchers recorded 282 Alzheimer's cases over 5.4 years. Those adhering most closely to a Mediterranean diet were 40 percent less likely to be diagnosed, and the most physically active up to 33 percent less likely.
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Digested green tea prevents dementia like Alzheimer's
Newcastle University researchers found that gut enzymes break green tea into compounds that guard brain cells more effectively than the undigested ones, by interacting with hydrogen peroxide and beta-amyloid. Digested green tea also slowed tumour cell growth in their lab tests.
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Fish oil may reduce sudden cardiac death risk
Among 12 patients at high risk of sudden cardiac death, six weeks of 3 grams of fish oil a day left 42 percent with no inducible ventricular tachycardia, against 7 percent of 15 controls - a result the researchers read as an anti-arrhythmic effect.
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Hangover: What you need to know
A question-and-answer piece explains that alcohol and metabolites such as acetaldehyde drive hangover symptoms, notes an estimated 25 to 30 percent of people seem resistant, and says controlling intake remains the most effective remedy.
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Stay Healthy during the Holidays: Avoid Binge Drinking
The CDC counts five or more drinks on one occasion for men, or four for women, as binge drinking, and attributes more than 79,000 U.S. deaths a year to drinking too much. More than 15 percent of adults report it, most often men, people aged 18 to 34 and households earning $75,000 or more.
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Infants fed cow's milk-based infant formula gain more weight
Julie Mennella's team fed infants either a cow's milk-based or a protein hydrolysate formula from two weeks of age for seven months. Those on the hydrolysate ate less per feed and gained weight more slowly, though the researchers could not explain why.
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Eating fried fish may boost stroke risk
A Neurology study of 21,675 adults found African-Americans and residents of the Southern stroke belt ate more fried fish than others, adding to evidence that fried fish may raise stroke risk. Frying can turn fish fatty acids into artificial trans fat.
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Does ginseng make your mind sharper?
A review of five randomized, placebo-controlled trials in 289 healthy adults found individual studies reporting better working memory, calmness and learning with ginseng. Lead author JinSong Geng says the evidence is not convincing enough to recommend the herb, and dementia effects went untested.
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Four Tablespoons of This "Brain Food" May Prevent Alzheimer's
Mercola relays Dr. Mary Newport's videos on ketone bodies, an alternative brain fuel the body makes from coconut oil, which she credits with her husband's recovery from Alzheimer's. He calls it a promising natural strategy while rejecting her use of drugs and a vaccine study.
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