Harvard researchers pooled 11 studies covering 310,819 people and found that those drinking one to two servings of sugar-sweetened beverages a day had a 26% higher risk of type 2 diabetes and a 20% higher risk of metabolic syndrome than those drinking almost none.
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Eating vegetables cuts heart disease risk
Following 20,069 Dutch adults for 10 years, Griep's team found those eating more than 475 grams of fruit and vegetables a day were 36% less likely to develop coronary heart disease than those eating under 241 grams. Raw intake above 262 grams tracked with 30% less.
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Soy foods help fight breast cancer - studies
Xiao Ou Shu's Shanghai study of 5,042 Chinese breast cancer patients found those eating the most soy protein or isoflavones were 29% less likely to die over an average 3.9 years, despite concern that soy's estrogenic compounds might interfere with tamoxifen.
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List of Anti-Cancer Foods
Drawing on the Angiogenesis Foundation's argument that blocking blood vessel growth starves tumors, the piece reprints the group's list of anti-angiogenic foods — fish, fruits, herbs and spices, legumes, mushrooms, nuts, seaweed, shellfish and vegetables, with no meat except fish.
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Don't use alcohol with energy drink
Regulators weighed action against caffeinated alcoholic drinks such as Four Loko after reports of illness and deaths. A study in Alcoholism found that adding an energy drink to alcohol dulled drinkers' sense of impairment without improving motor coordination or visual concentration.
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Fish oil omega-3 fatty acids DHA and EPA may not be indispensable
A survey of 14,422 British adults, with plasma fatty acids measured in 4,902, found fish eaters took in 57 to 80 percent more omega-3 polyunsaturated fat than non-fish eaters, though the difference was small. The authors suggest enough plant-derived ALA may let the body make what it needs.
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Eating fish may not help Alzheimer's disease or dementia - study
Following 5,395 older adults in Rotterdam for 10 years, with 465 dementia cases, researchers found no association between eating fish or fatty fish, or omega-3 intake, and the risk of dementia or Alzheimer's disease.
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Fructose-rich sodas, orange juice boost gout risk in women too
Among 78,906 women followed 22 years, those drinking one serving a day of a fructose-rich beverage were 41% more likely to develop gout, and those having two or more servings 2.4 times more likely. Orange juice showed the same pattern; diet soft drinks showed no link.
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Eating soybean may reduce risk of breast cancer
Women with the highest soy isoflavone intake were 30% less likely to have an invasive breast cancer, in a comparison of 683 breast cancer patients with 611 healthy women. The associations showed up only among premenopausal women, and the design cannot establish cause.
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Eating red meat may boost risk of esophageal cancer, stomach cancer
People in the highest fifth of red meat intake were 79 percent more likely to develop esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, a National Cancer Institute analysis found, and the highest DiMeIQx intake carried 44 percent higher gastric cardia cancer risk. The study is observational.
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Drinking beet juice daily could prevent dementia?
In 14 adults aged 70 and over, MRI scans taken an hour after a high-nitrate breakfast that included 16 ounces of beet juice showed increased blood flow to the white matter of the frontal lobes, an area linked to the degeneration that leads to dementia.
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Green tea helps prevent breast cancer or not?
A Japanese study of 53,793 women found no overall link between green tea and breast cancer over about 14 years. Those drinking 5 or more cups a day were 12 percent more likely to be diagnosed than those drinking under one a week, but the difference was not statistically significant.
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Update: Drinking green tea helps prevent breast cancer
An added warning says bottled green tea often contains little EGCG, so readers who want the effect must brew their own leaves. The underlying Harvard review of nine studies found more than three cups a day correlated with 27 percent lower breast cancer recurrence risk.
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Wheat Bran Helps Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients
A small Indian trial gave 15 of 30 type 2 diabetes patients aged 45 to 50 twenty grams of wheat bran daily for six months, measuring fasting and postprandial glucose and HbA1c against 15 who received none. It also cites a CDC projection that a third of Americans could have diabetes by 2050.
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Tea, coffee don't cut breast cancer risk in black women - study
Boston University researchers tracking 52,062 women in the Black Women's Health Study recorded 1,268 breast cancers over 12 years and found no significant link to tea, coffee or caffeine. Four or more cups of tea a day tracked with 13 percent lower risk, but not significantly.
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This Cooking Oil is a Powerful Virus-Destroyer and Antibiotic…
Mercola argues that not all saturated fats are alike, citing Pacific Island populations who get 30 to 60 percent of their calories from coconut oil and show nearly no cardiovascular disease, and contrasting naturally saturated fats with hydrogenated oils, or trans fats.
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Soy Foods help Prevent Breast Cancer Recurrence - Studies
Among 524 patients followed 5.1 years after breast cancer surgery, postmenopausal women with the highest soy isoflavone intake were 33 percent less likely to have a recurrence than those with the lowest. Death rates did not differ significantly between the groups.
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Vegetables help cut risk of breast cancer - study
Following 52,000 women in the Black Women's Health Study for 12 years, researchers found no overall link between fruit and vegetable intake and breast cancer, but women eating two or more vegetable servings a day had 43 percent lower risk of ER-negative, PR-negative tumors.
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