Following 174,343 US men for nine years, National Cancer Institute researchers recorded 10,313 prostate cancers and found the highest red meat intake carried 12 percent more total risk and 31 percent more advanced disease. Nitrite and nitrate tracked with 24 and 31 percent higher risk.
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When Hamburgers Cause Sickness, Paralysis, and Death
Dr. Mercola summarizes a New York Times investigation into Stephanie Smith, a dance instructor left paralyzed after eating a Cargill hamburger contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, and notes no federal rule requires grinders to test their ingredients for the pathogen.
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Simple Way to Lower Your Blood Pressure -- Just Avoid THIS…
Two studies offered the first evidence that a diet high in fructose raises blood pressure in men, and one suggested eating junk food and sweetened drinks at night speeds weight gain. Dr. Mercola argues fructose is not a benign sugar and faults Corn Refiners Association advertising.
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Flavorful Fruit and Veggie Wraps Inspire Tasty Creations
ARS researchers and Origami Foods developed edible sheets made from fruit and vegetable purees, in flavors like mango, strawberry, tomato-basil and carrot-ginger, plus meltable glaze sheets. The wraps run 75 to 90 percent produce with no additives or preservatives.
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Water Hardness Plays a Role in Removing Bacteria from Chicken Skin
ARS researchers in Athens, Georgia rinsed broiler chicken carcasses five times in very hard, moderately hard and soft water, and found soft water removed up to 37 percent more bacteria, including Campylobacter, Staphylococcus and Pseudomonas, from the skin.
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Mushroom, green tea cut breast cancer risk by 89 percent
In a southern Chinese case-control study of 1,009 breast cancer patients and a similar number of healthy women, those eating 10 or more grams of fresh mushrooms, or 4 grams dried, each day were 64 percent less likely to have breast cancer. The paper also weighed mushrooms and green tea together.
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More green tea benefits discovered
Two findings: elderly Japanese drinking seven or more cups of green tea a day were less likely to die prematurely over six years in a cohort of 14,001, though cancer deaths showed no link; and in lab tests the green tea compound EGC raised a bone-building enzyme's activity by up to 79 percent.
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Which Organic Label Should You Trust?
Mercola points to the EU-funded Quality Low Input Food project, which grew produce and raised cattle on adjacent organic and non-organic sites and reported up to 40% more antioxidants in organic fruit and vegetables, higher iron and zinc, and up to 90% more antioxidants in organic milk.
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Nutrition Notes: Seafood Choices for Your Health and a Healthy World
Karen Collins names fish that are both low in contaminants and sustainably caught: wild salmon, Atlantic mackerel, sablefish, Arctic char, sardines and farmed rainbow trout, plus U.S. farmed catfish, tilapia and shrimp. Americans ate six times more red meat than seafood in 2007.
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Nutrition notes:Trans Fat Traps
Karen Collins maps where trans fat hides: about 40% of U.S. intake comes from cookies, crackers, cakes and pies, and almost a quarter from margarine and shortening. She cites studies linking a 2% rise in trans fat calories to at least 23% more heart disease.
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Foods high in fiber
Adults should get 30 to 40 grams of fiber a day, but most Americans get about 10. The piece separates insoluble fiber, which bulks stool and speeds waste through the colon, from soluble fiber, which softens stool and carries cholesterol out, and lists foods high in each.
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Fruit, vegetables better cognitive performance
A German study of 193 people aged 45 to 102 found those eating more fruit and vegetables each day scored higher on cognitive tests and carried more antioxidants in their blood.
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Keeping Kids Flu Free: The Importance of Healthy Foods
Veteran parents offer tactics for feeding children well through flu season: plan menus ahead, aim for a balanced week rather than a balanced day, treat the effort as a marathon, and hide shredded zucchini or carrots in sauces if you must.
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The Best Foods to Improve Your Immunity
Dr. Mercola lists foods he credits with supporting immunity and the compound behind each: live-culture yogurt, L-theanine in green tea, vitamin C in oranges and bell peppers, sulfur compounds in garlic and broccoli, beta carotene in carrots, beta glucans in mushrooms and barley.
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Eating garlic may help prevent Alzheimer's
A study by 80 scientists in Nature Genetics identified two more genes tied to Alzheimer's, clusterin on chromosome 8 and PICALM on chromosome 11. The piece pairs it with a 2009 in-vitro study in which garlic extract inhibited beta-amyloid fibril formation and broke up preformed fibrils.
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Natural foods "cocktails" may treat cancer
Linus Pauling Institute researchers found chlorophyllin, a chlorophyll derivative, was 10 times more potent than the chemotherapy drug hydroxyurea at killing colon cancer cells, stalling them in the DNA synthesis phase until they died. They hope to pair it with conventional drugs.
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Your heart is sweet enough
Nancy Appleton's newsletter welcomes the American Heart Association's call to cut added sugar from an American average of 22 teaspoons a day to 9 for men and 6 for women. The authors still consider that threshold too high, but say it threatens soda makers.
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141 reasons sugar ruins your health
An excerpt from Nancy Appleton's book Suicide by Sugar lists claimed harms of sugar, among them suppressed immunity, disturbed mineral balance, lower HDL, chromium and copper deficiency, hyperactivity in children, hypoglycemia and premature aging.
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