Businessweek said two or three drinks a day helped adults outlive teetotalers, but the study behind it found only an association: non-drinkers were 49% more likely to die over 20 years, heavy drinkers 42% more likely than moderate ones. It was observational, so it cannot establish cause.
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Don't Avoid This Daily, Healthful Food Because it's Been Mislabeled as 'DIRTY'
Mercola retells the history of the chicken and the egg, arguing that Americans have been wrongly taught that chickens are dirty, stupid carriers of disease, and noting the British scientists who concluded the chicken came first.
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Eight Foods that Could be Disastrous for Your Health
Researchers told the Ecological Society of America that transgenic canola is growing freely in parts of North Dakota, the first US finding of a GM crop on uncultivated land. Cynthia Sagers said plants resistant to two herbicides show the feral populations have persisted for generations.
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Salmonella with Your Omelet? Don't forget Stroke and Ovarian Cancer
An opinion piece urging readers to stop buying eggs, citing salmonella, cholesterol, claimed links to diabetes and ovarian cancer, antibiotic residues, and undercover video of bloody, insect-covered eggs at a California farm.
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Eating eggs, breastfeeding affect risk of diabetes mellitus (type 2)
Women who never breastfed were nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes as those who did, in a study of 2,233 women aged 40 to 78. A separate Harvard analysis of two large trials found diabetes risk rose with the number of eggs eaten.
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The Foods You Shouldn't Touch With a Ten Foot Pole
Mercola discusses a study comparing children in a rural African village with children in Italy: the African children carried less obesity-linked bacteria and more anti-inflammatory fatty acids. The researchers suggest Western diets may reduce microbial richness.
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Bottled tea may contain no antioxidants
Wellgen chemist Shiming Li told an American Chemical Society meeting that six brands of bottled tea held 81, 43, 40, 13, 4 and 3 milligrams of polyphenols per 16-ounce bottle, against 50 to 150 milligrams in a cup of home-brewed tea. He says many also carry high amounts of sugar.
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What causes psoriasis? Beer or vitamin D deficiency?
Women in the Nurses' Health Study II who drank five or more non-light beers a week were 2.3 times as likely to have confirmed psoriasis as non-drinkers, a survey of 82,860 women found. Light beer, wine and liqueurs showed no such link.
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If You Want to Age Gracefully - Don't Eat This
Mercola relays U.S. News tips for slowing aging: limit free radical sources such as cigarettes, trans fats and charred meat; fight inflammation with a Mediterranean-style diet, turmeric and exercise; cook at lower heat to limit glycation end products; and manage stress and sleep.
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Studies explain why girls enter puberty as young as age 7
Analyzing 1,238 girls aged 6 to 8 in three US cities, researchers found 15% of Latina, 10% of white and 25% of black girls entering puberty at age 7, with higher shares by age 8. Diet and environmental pollutants, including phthalates, are among the suspected causes.
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Honey Works Better than Drugs for Herpes!
Sixteen adults with recurrent oral and genital herpes treated one outbreak with honey and another with acyclovir cream. Healing ran 43 percent faster on the lips and 59 percent faster for genital sores with honey, and nobody reported side effects from it. Neither treatment cures herpes.
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Ancient Food Ingredients: What's Old is New
Mercola welcomes growing consumer interest in traditional ingredients such as Russian kefir, Japanese adzuki beans and European black currant, and argues that returning to whole foods can start reversing the damage done by years of processed eating.
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Fructose promotes growth of pancreatic cancer
UCLA researchers compared how pancreatic cancer cells in Petri dishes use glucose and fructose, and found the cells route fructose through the non-oxidative pentose phosphate pathway to build nucleic acids for division. Lead author Anthony Heaney calls refined sugar a hidden danger.
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Black tea helps fight diabetes mellitus
Iranian researchers gave 23 people with type 2 diabetes rising daily doses of black tea extract over four weeks. Antioxidant capacity rose in both the study and control groups, and those taking four cups' worth a day saw C-reactive protein fall and glutathione rise.
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Researchers Study Benefits of White Button Mushrooms
USDA-funded scientists at Tufts ran animal and cell-culture tests showing white button mushrooms boosted the maturity of dendritic cells from bone marrow and raised production of antiviral and other tissue-protecting proteins.
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Drinking Pu-erh Tea helps fight obesity
Chinese researchers fed rats a high-fat diet with pu-erh tea extract at 0.5 to 4 grams per kg and found lower body and fat-pad weight plus reduced cholesterol, triglycerides and LDL. They attribute it to raised activity of lipoprotein, hepatic and hormone-sensitive lipases.
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The Hidden and Pervasive Cause of High Blood Pressure
A study of 4,528 US adults with no prior history of hypertension linked diets high in fructose to increased risk of high blood pressure. The results suggest that cutting back on fructose-sweetened foods and drinks might lower that risk.
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What is mutton?
Mutton, the meat of adult sheep, tastes richer than lamb but takes longer to cook. Chinese tradition holds that it boosts energy and circulation; the piece says people with fever, tooth pain, throat inflammation, liver disorders, high blood pressure or acute enteritis should avoid it.
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