Truco Enterprises is launching On The Border Creamy Monterey Jack Queso in jars, blending Monterey Jack, Asadero and Smooth Blanco cheeses with tomatoes, spices and mild peppers. The company reports its queso ranked fifth in the category, with dollar sales up over 17% in 2010.
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What is mutton?
Mutton comes from adult sheep, while lamb is meat from an animal in its first year. Chinese tradition holds that it boosts energy and improves circulation, but warns off those with fever, liver disorders or high blood pressure. Hawthorn, radish or ginger can mask its smell.
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Fruit and vegetables boost ovarian cancer survival
Among 341 women with epithelial ovarian cancer, those eating the most fruit and vegetables before diagnosis were 39 percent less likely to die by 2005. The heaviest meat eaters were 128 percent more likely to die and the heaviest milk-product users 115 percent. The study was observational.
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Are You Getting Cheated When Buying ‘Organic’ Produce?
Mercola says misleading organic labeling persists even at trusted stores such as Whole Foods, and urges shoppers to verify claims themselves. He notes the chain now stocks imported produce as readily as local crops, and warns imported items may not meet USDA organic standards.
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High Fructose Corn Syrup - It’s Just Sugar (PR)
A Corn Refiners Association release praises a CBS Evening News report concluding high fructose corn syrup is nutritionally no different from sugar. It quotes CSPI's Michael Jacobson calling the sweetener's “evilness” an urban myth and association president Audrae Erickson.
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Processed meats linked to heart disease
A Harvard meta-analysis of 20 studies covering more than 1.2 million people tied each 50-gram serving of processed meat to 42 percent higher heart disease risk and 19 percent higher diabetes risk. Unprocessed red meat showed no significant link, and neither raised stroke risk.
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Drinking alcohol raises prostate cancer risk
Duke researchers told the Genitourinary Cancers Symposium that among 334 men undergoing prostate biopsy, those regularly having three alcoholic drinks a week were 2.46 times as likely as non-drinkers to develop prostate cancer. They point to acetaldehyde, a known carcinogen.
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Soft drinks blamed for diabetes and heart disease
A study presented to the American Heart Association attributes more than 100,000 diabetes cases and 14,000 new coronary heart disease cases over the past decade to sugar-sweetened sodas, sports drinks and fruit drinks. The AHA urges daily caps on added sugar and weekly limits on soft drinks.
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This Berry Can Help Counteract Intestinal Diseases
Blueberry fiber, not just antioxidants, may ease and protect against intestinal inflammation such as ulcerative colitis. Blueberry husks outperformed rye and oat bran in tests, and pairing blueberries with probiotics cut inflammation-inducing gut bacteria while health-promoting lactobacilli rose.
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Garlic may help fight cancer (Press release)
Ohio State researchers built a urine test that measures both garlic consumption and a marker of the nitrosation process that turns dietary compounds into carcinogens. In a small pilot study, the more garlic people ate, the lower that cancer-risk marker ran.
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Top 7 Foods That Slow Your Aging
Mercola argues there are no shortcuts to good health: whole foods chosen for your own nutritional type beat fast and processed convenience foods, and the diet pills and fake foods sold as quick fixes can worsen health in the long run.
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Some basics about milk
Milk supplies calcium, some vitamin D and protein but may not be the best source of any of them: a Harvard study of more than 77,000 nurses found women drinking two or more glasses a day had more hip and arm fractures, and fortified milk falls far short of daily vitamin D needs.
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Total fat, trans fat raise risk of ischemic stroke
In the Women's Health Initiative study of 87,230 postmenopausal women, those eating the most total fat had a 40 percent higher rate of ischemic stroke than those eating the least, and the highest trans fat intake carried a 30 percent higher risk, researchers told a stroke conference.
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9 Food Label Lies
Drawing on the Center for Science in the Public Interest report Food Labeling Chaos, Mercola lists ways labels mislead: whole-grain claims on mostly refined flour, sugars split across several names, serving sizes that understate a bottle's calories, and omega-3 badges on unhealthy foods.
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Can Foods Contribute to Infertility?
Untreated celiac disease appears more common in women with infertility and is linked to miscarriage and preterm birth, while men may have lower sperm counts, altered sperm shape and lower testosterone. A gluten-free diet and corrected nutrient deficiencies improve the pregnancy outlook.
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What men may eat to boost their pleasure
A republished list of foods said to boost libido and sperm production, built around zinc-rich seafood such as oysters, shrimp and crab, oily fish like salmon twice a week for omega-3s, and supplements of vitamin C and arginine.
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Men don't like wearing condoms
A survey of 436 men aged 18 to 67 found 45 percent had used a badly fitting condom in the previous three months. Those men more often reported the condom broke or slipped, and said the poor fit reduced sexual pleasure for them and their partners.
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Cooling Inflammation for Healthier Arteries
Mohsen Meydani's team at Tufts reports in Free Radical Biology & Medicine that avenanthramides, phenolic compounds in oats, lower the expression of inflammatory molecules by inhibiting factors that activate proinflammatory cytokines — inflammation that drives atherosclerosis.
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