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Cutting Fat—and Calories—from Cakes and Frostings
ARS chemist Mukti Singh is formulating cake mixes and frostings with Fantesk, trans-fat-free oil microdroplets encapsulated in cornstarch or wheat flour. Cakes made with it need no added oil and rise higher, and the frostings carry up to 50% less fat.
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Popular Brew May Lower Cholesterol, Blood Pressure, and Triglycerides
Research cited here finds tea rehydrates as well as water rather than dehydrating, and links one to eight cups a day to lower chronic disease risk, credited to flavonoids. Mercola still wants most daily fluid to be pure water, with no added sugar or pasteurized milk.
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High intake of fructose may raise blood pressure
Analysing sugar intake among more than 4,500 adults, Colorado researchers found people eating 74 grams or more of fructose a day had 26% to 77% higher odds of elevated blood pressure, depending on the cutoff. The study could not separate the effects of fructose and glucose.
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This Fat Can Actually Protect Against Hearing Loss
A new study links high omega-3 intake to a lower risk of age-related hearing loss after 50, with people eating at least two servings of fish a week showing 42 percent lower risk than those eating less than one. Mercola calls the results preliminary.
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Can This Popular Alternative Sweetener Spike Uric Acid into the Danger Zone?
Dr. Mercola argues that most agave is worse than high-fructose corn syrup and defends his earlier report against industry criticism, saying he sells no competing sweetener. He suggests stevia, small amounts of xylitol, or dextrose, and had three agave products independently tested.
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Study explains why beetroot juice lowers blood pressure
Queen Mary researchers gave healthy volunteers 250 ml of beetroot juice or nitrate capsules and found both lowered blood pressure within 24 hours, with larger drops in those starting higher. Whether people with hypertension would see the same effect is still unknown.
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Fructose sugar makes maturing human fat cells fatter, less insulin-sensitive (PR)
In fat biopsies from 32 healthy-weight prepubertal children, fructose present while precursor cells matured pushed more of them into fat cells in belly fat and left cells in both belly and under-skin fat less responsive to insulin, a University of Bristol researcher told The Endocrine Society.
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Polyphenols Halt Prostate Cancer Growth
In vitro work found that green tea and wine polyphenols had to block the SphK1/S1P signaling pathway to kill prostate cancer cells, and mice given EGCG or polyphenon E showed a sharp drop in implanted tumor size.
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Ginger Reduces Pain After Exercise
In a double-blind trial, participants took two grams of raw or heat-treated ginger or a placebo for 11 days, then did heavy arm exercise to induce muscle injury. Raw ginger cut exercise-induced pain by 25 percent within 24 hours and the heat-treated form by 23 percent.
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Good News for Starbucks?
Pooling nine studies that compared 5,139 people with head and neck cancer to 9,028 without, University of Milan researchers found drinking four or more cups of caffeinated coffee a day was linked to 39 percent lower risk. No protection appeared for laryngeal cancer, and none for tea drinkers.
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Salted fish ups intra-cerebral hemorrhage risk
In a Finnish survey of 3,958 adults, people whose salted fish intake fell in the highest third were 98% more likely to suffer intracerebral haemorrhage than those in the lowest. Total fish intake showed no link to cerebrovascular disease.
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This Popular Drink May Be Almost as Hazardous to Your Health as Soda
Mercola names fruit juice as the drink in question and talks with Dr. Richard Johnson of the University of Colorado, who researches how the fructose flooding the American diet contributes to obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes.
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Eating eggs not linked to diabetes
Over 11 years, 313 of 3,898 older adults in the Cardiovascular Health Study developed type 2 diabetes, and researchers found no link to egg consumption. The article notes earlier studies, including ones by the same authors, pointed the other way.
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Spices Play Role in Reduced Cancer Risk
Adding fingerroot, rosemary or turmeric to meat before grilling appeared to cut production of heterocyclic amines, the cancer-causing compounds formed when meat is grilled, broiled or fried, by upwards of 40 percent. The blackened parts of the meat are the worst offenders.
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Ginger may reduce exercise induced pain
In a randomized, double-blind trial in the Journal of Pain, athletes taking two grams of raw or heat-treated ginger daily for 11 days reported muscle pain 24 hours after exercise 25 and 23 percent lower than placebo. Researchers credit antioxidants such as gingerols and shogaols.
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Can't make your spouse happy? Eat mutton regularly!
The piece relays Chinese beliefs that mutton is a “hot” food that boosts energy and sexual desire, suggests 50 grams a meal for women with menstrual pain, warns off those with fever, sore throat, liver disorders or high blood pressure, and offers ways to mask its smell.
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Flavanol-rich cocoa help prevent heart attacks
Harvard researchers note that Panama's Kuna Indians have low blood pressure and less heart attack, stroke, diabetes and cancer, and eat large amounts of flavanol-rich cocoa. They speculate that cocoa flavonoids trigger nitric oxide synthesis.
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