Among 112 women with breast cancer, postmenopausal patients in the highest quartile of dietary lignan intake were 71% less likely to die of breast cancer and 51% less likely to die of any cause than those in the lowest quartile. High dried bean intake tracked with 39% lower breast cancer death risk.
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Nutrition
Vitamins, minerals, supplements, herbs and diet: the research on how what we eat shapes our health.
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Supplements
Omega-3 fatty acids help prevent breast cancer - study
Among 72,571 cancer-free women in the Shanghai Women's Health Study followed about eight years, those eating little marine omega-3 fat alongside a lot of omega-6 fat were twice as likely to develop breast cancer as women with high marine omega-3 intake.
Food
Weight loss pill Meridia is gone; now's the time to drink green tea
The FDA asked Abbott to withdraw the weight loss drug Meridia after the SCOUT trial found users lost 1.7 kg over 3.4 years while heart attack, stroke and cardiovascular death risk rose 14%. The piece offers green tea as one alternative, noting the trials are not all consistent.
Vitamins
Pink new: Vitamin D prevents breast cancer (a link only)
A one-line redirect notice pointing readers to the new address of an article on vitamin D and breast cancer prevention.
Vitamins
Vitamin D helps prevent breast cancer
A German Cancer Research Center meta-analysis of ten studies found each 20 ng/mL rise in serum vitamin D accompanying 41 percent lower breast cancer risk in case-control studies and 8 percent in nested case-control studies. A Shanghai team's meta-analysis reached a similar conclusion.
Food
Drinking Green Tea Good for Breast Cancer Survivors
In a six-month trial, 54 overweight breast cancer survivors who drank decaffeinated green tea cut their energy intake, lost a little weight and raised HDL cholesterol, but saw no significant change in the HDL/LDL ratio or insulin resistance.
Supplements
Are you ready to live 10 years longer?
Mice given a supplement of valine, leucine and isoleucine lived 774 days, 95 days longer than unsupplemented mice, in a study from Pavia University. The amino acids also improved the elderly mice’s stamina and coordination and increased their mitochondria.
Food
Pink News: Pomegranate juice may help prevent breast cancer metastasis
A laboratory study in Integrative Cancer Therapies found pomegranate fruit extract inhibited NF-kB-dependent gene expression linked to proliferation, invasion and motility in aggressive breast cancer cell lines, while lowering RhoC and RhoA protein levels.
Food
Light drinking is Okay for pregnant women or not?
A study of 11,513 children found those born to light drinkers were no more likely to have behavioral or intellectual problems at age 5, and scored somewhat better, while children of heavy drinkers fared worse. The authors stress observational work cannot prove drinking is harmless.
Food
Pink News: Fish oil prevents breast cancer
Following 35,000 women aged 50 to 76, Fred Hutchinson researchers found current fish oil use accompanying 32 percent lower breast cancer risk. The drop showed only for ductal tumours; black cohosh, dong quai, soy and St. John's wort showed no link.
Nutrition
Depression Breakthrough: A Proven "Better Than Drugs" Solution with Positive Side Effects
Dr. Mercola presents medical journalist Robert Whitaker's argument that widespread psychiatric drug use has driven the rise in mental illness. Whitaker's books trace a 600 percent increase in disability among people taking the drugs and follow the money behind psychopharmacology.
Phytochemicals
Pink news: Soy protein cuts risk of breast cancer death
Among 5,042 Chinese breast cancer survivors followed about four years, women with the highest soy protein intake were 29 percent less likely to die and 32 percent less likely to suffer a recurrence than those eating the least, a JAMA study reports.
Vitamins
The Vitamin D Newsletter: Yet another autism case report
A Vitamin D Newsletter exchange in which a mother of a three-year-old with autism spectrum disorder, verbal apraxia and hypotonia asks Dr. John Cannell to recommend a New York doctor who treats children with vitamin D, and he replies with a journal citation and follow-up questions.
Supplements
Garlic oil protects against heart disease in diabetes patients
Hsiu-Chung Ou's team fed diabetic rats garlic oil or corn oil and saw changes in the garlic group that protected against heart damage. The researchers credit garlic oil's antioxidant properties and note it holds as many as 20 potentially beneficial substances.
Vitamins
Pink News: Aggressive Breast Cancer Linked To Vitamin D Deficiency
Researchers led by Susan Steck followed 107 women diagnosed with breast cancer in the previous five years, 60 of them black, and found African-American women had lower vitamin D levels than white women. The study links deficiency to a higher risk of aggressive breast cancer.
Vitamins
Vitamin D: More Effective in Fighting Breast Cancer than Wearing Pink?
Engel and colleagues compared serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D in 636 women with breast cancer and 1,272 without, matched on age, menopausal status and collection details. The piece stresses the work does not prove vitamin D deficiency causes the disease.
Food
Low dietary fat more effective in fighting breast cancer than wearing pink?
Comparing 1,703 breast cancer patients with 2,045 controls, Tufts researchers tied high total fat intake to 35 percent higher risk. Women who cooked with hydrogenated fats had 58 percent higher risk and those using vegetable or corn oil 30 percent higher, against olive or canola oil.
Supplements
The cure for lung cancer may be in fish oil
A University of Nevada case report describes a 78-year-old man with terminal lung cancer who refused radiotherapy and chemotherapy, took 15 grams of DHA and EPA a day and avoided linoleic acid. His tumours shrank and disappeared, and he was alive five years later.
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