Pictsweet recalled certain lots of store-brand frozen green peas sold to Kroger stores in the Southeast and Wal-Mart nationwide over possible glass fragments. The piece then runs through the nutrients green peas supply, led by vitamin K, manganese, vitamin C and fiber.
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If You Eat These Eggs, You are Being Ripped Off
The Cornucopia Institute visited over 15% of US certified egg farms and reports that most large 'organic' operations give hens no real outdoor access, counting small roofed porches as the outdoors, sometimes 3 to 5 percent of the henhouse floor area.
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Salmonella from Dry Pet Food and Treats
Dry pet food and treats can carry salmonella. The CDC advises washing hands for 20 seconds afterward, feeding pets away from the kitchen, washing bowls outside the kitchen sink, using a dedicated scoop, and storing food in a clean lidded container.
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Half a Teaspoon of This Each Day Can Optimize Cholesterol Levels...
In a 12-week London study of 58 poorly controlled type 2 diabetics, 2 grams of cinnamon a day significantly lowered HbA1c and both blood pressure readings. Separately, people with the highest magnesium intake were almost 50 percent less likely to develop diabetes over 20 years.
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Weight loss pill Meridia is gone; now's the time to drink green tea
The FDA asked Abbott to withdraw the weight loss drug Meridia after the SCOUT trial found users lost 1.7 kg over 3.4 years while heart attack, stroke and cardiovascular death risk rose 14%. The piece offers green tea as one alternative, noting the trials are not all consistent.
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Drinking Green Tea Good for Breast Cancer Survivors
In a six-month trial, 54 overweight breast cancer survivors who drank decaffeinated green tea cut their energy intake, lost a little weight and raised HDL cholesterol, but saw no significant change in the HDL/LDL ratio or insulin resistance.
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Pink News: Pomegranate juice may help prevent breast cancer metastasis
A laboratory study in Integrative Cancer Therapies found pomegranate fruit extract inhibited NF-kB-dependent gene expression linked to proliferation, invasion and motility in aggressive breast cancer cell lines, while lowering RhoC and RhoA protein levels.
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Light drinking is Okay for pregnant women or not?
A study of 11,513 children found those born to light drinkers were no more likely to have behavioral or intellectual problems at age 5, and scored somewhat better, while children of heavy drinkers fared worse. The authors stress observational work cannot prove drinking is harmless.
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Pink News: Fish oil prevents breast cancer
Following 35,000 women aged 50 to 76, Fred Hutchinson researchers found current fish oil use accompanying 32 percent lower breast cancer risk. The drop showed only for ductal tumours; black cohosh, dong quai, soy and St. John's wort showed no link.
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Low dietary fat more effective in fighting breast cancer than wearing pink?
Comparing 1,703 breast cancer patients with 2,045 controls, Tufts researchers tied high total fat intake to 35 percent higher risk. Women who cooked with hydrogenated fats had 58 percent higher risk and those using vegetable or corn oil 30 percent higher, against olive or canola oil.
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Noni juice
Noni juice, pressed from the fruit of a tree in the coffee family, supplies vitamin C, niacin, iron and potassium plus phytochemicals such as lignans, flavonoids and iridoids, though the article says studies have not found much effect on human health.
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Fruits, vegetables prevent invasive cervical cancer
In a nine-year study of 299,649 European women, each additional 100 grams of fruit a day was linked to 17 percent lower risk of invasive cervical cancer and each 100 grams of vegetables to 15 percent lower risk. No comparable benefit appeared for in-situ carcinoma.
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Watercress may fight breast cancer
Breast cancer survivors who ate 80 grams of watercress after fasting showed measurable changes in Hypoxia Inducible Factor in their blood cells, Southampton researchers found. The plant compound may starve tumours of blood and oxygen, but more work is needed to confirm it.
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Corn sugar new name proposed for high fructose corn syrup
The Corn Refiners Association has asked the FDA to let manufacturers call high fructose corn syrup “corn sugar.” The article cites Princeton research reporting HFCS caused more weight gain in lab animals than table sugar at equal quantities, along with added abdominal fat and higher triglycerides.
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Why Do Researchers Recommend this Common Drink that Can Poison Your Brain?
Mercola examines a paper finding that abstainers' mortality over 20 years exceeded that of heavy drinkers even after adjusting for status, activity and friendships. He offers blood ethanol blocking formaldehyde from dietary methanol as one explanation, but calls ethanol neurotoxic.
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U.S. adults don't eat enough fruits and vegetables - CDC report
CDC's analysis of Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data found 32.5 percent of adults ate fruit twice or more a day in 2009 and 26.3 percent ate vegetables three or more times, far below the Healthy People 2010 targets. No state met either target.
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Magic mushroom ingredient eases anxiety in cancer patients
Twelve adults with advanced-stage cancer took psilocybin at 0.2 mg per kg and a placebo in two sessions weeks apart. No severe anxiety or unsafe physiological response appeared, and anxiety scores improved at one and three months, a small Archives of General Psychiatry study reports.
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How Was Your Veal "Prepared"? Like This Video?
Mercy For Animals released undercover video, narrated by Bob Barker, of newborn calves chained by the neck in two-foot stalls at Buckeye Veal Farm in Ohio. Costco condemned the conditions and now requires untethered calves; Buckeye and buyer Atlantic Veal dispute any mistreatment.
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