A meta-analysis of about three dozen studies covering 457,000 people found an inverse association between coffee drinking and type 2 diabetes, with risk falling for each additional daily cup. The article cautions these are associations and coffee drinkers may differ in other ways.
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Restaurant meals may raise diabetes risk - study
Following 44,000 women in the Black Women's Health Study for 10 years, Boston University researchers tied restaurant hamburgers, fried chicken, fried fish and Chinese food to higher type 2 diabetes risk. Adjusting for body mass index weakened the estimates.
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Coupons: Helping or Hurting Healthy Eating Goals?
Coupons only save money if you would have bought the item anyway, the piece argues: buy-two offers make sense for staples, but studies show stocking up on snack foods means eating more of them, and generic versions are often identical for less.
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Dark Chocolate: The New Antianxiety Drug
A clinical trial found that eating about an ounce and a half of dark chocolate daily for two weeks lowered stress hormones in volunteers who rated themselves highly stressed. A separate product analysis ranked cocoa powder highest in flavanol antioxidants and chocolate syrup lowest.
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Soy Boosts Survival in Breast Cancer Patients
Among 5,042 women in the Shanghai Breast Cancer Survival Study followed four years, those eating soy foods had a 32 percent lower risk of recurrence and a 29 percent lower risk of death than women eating little or no soy, JAMA reports.
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Color a cookie
A company profile of Color A Cookie of Plainview, New York, which sells licensed, hand-decorated cookie trays, kits and gift packs in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
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Get your late night cookies from Insomnia Cookies
Undergraduates at the University of Pennsylvania started the late-night cookie delivery business in 2003 to replace heavy meals and greasy pizza. It now franchises at 18 campuses, selling cookies, brownies, drinks and frozen desserts, with the selection varying by university.
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Cranberry juice prevents urinary tract infections
In a randomized trial of 84 Italian girls aged 3 to 14, those drinking 50 ml of cranberry juice daily had an 18.5 percent rate of urinary tract infections over six months, against 42.3 percent for a Lactobacillus drink and 48.1 percent for controls.
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Top 12 Foods for Healthy Immune Response
Mercola lists the foods he rates highest for immune support ahead of the 2009 flu season, opening with raw grass-fed organic milk and whey protein from grass-fed cows. He urges cutting processed food, grains and sugar rather than relying on supplements or vaccines.
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Could drinking alcohol reduce heart risk?
A Spanish study of about 41,000 adults followed 10 years found men who drank alcohol were 30 percent less likely to develop coronary heart disease, with risk falling as intake rose; no link appeared in women. Critics note it was not a trial and relied on self-reported drinking.
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Moldova Army enlists garlic, onions to fight swine flu
Moldova's army told each soldier to add one small onion and two garlic cloves to his diet as an immunity booster against swine flu, a use officials rarely endorse. Romania was reported to be sending Moldova 400,000 vaccine doses.
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This Bee Product Has Enormous Benefits for Your Health
Mercola describes propolis, the resin bees gather from leaf buds and use to disinfect the hive and seal cracks. Its alcoholic tincture is used mainly to stimulate the body's defenses, and it has been studied for antioxidant, antimicrobial, healing and anti-inflammatory activity.
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Drinking coffee cuts Alzheimer's disease risk
In a Finnish study of 1,409 people followed about 21 years, those drinking 3 to 5 cups of coffee a day at midlife had a 65% lower risk of Alzheimer's than those who drank little. Researchers saw no comparable association for tea, which also contains caffeine.
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Milk in iron-fortified fruit juices boost absorption of the mineral
In vitro tests at the University of Valencia found that adding skimmed milk to iron-fortified grape, orange and apricot beverages raised iron retention, transport and uptake by up to four times, outperforming caseinophosphopeptides. Human studies are still needed, the researchers said.
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Ten Worst Breakfast Cereals
New research finds cereals marketed to children carry 85 percent more sugar, 65 percent less fiber and 60 percent more sodium than adult cereals, with the least nutritious most heavily advertised. San Francisco's city attorney challenged Kellogg's immunity claim for Cocoa Krispies.
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Is Drinking Tea or Coffee the Smarter Choice?
Mercola asks why coffee, which he says supplies no vitamins, minerals or enzymes, became the world's most popular drink, crediting taste and the caffeine boost, and notes that decades of research still conflict over what it does to health.
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Choosing Between Raw Milk and a Dead, White Liquid
Mercola presents a video interview with journalist David E. Gumpert, who argues Louis Pasteur developed his heat treatment for wine rather than milk, and that pasteurization's credit for cutting childhood illness is exaggerated because sewers and cleaner water arrived at the same time.
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Drinking Milk Leads to Lower BMI in Children
In a doctoral thesis covering 120 healthy eight-year-olds, children who drank whole milk daily weighed about 4 kilograms less than their peers, with no similar result for medium- or low-fat milk. Author Susanne Eriksson says she does not know why.
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