In a two-year trial of 168 volunteers with mild cognitive impairment, the brains of those taking high-dose folic acid, B6 and B12 shrank 0.76 percent a year against 1.08 percent on placebo, which researchers say may slow progression toward dementia.
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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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Food
Noni juice
Noni juice, pressed from the fruit of a tree in the coffee family, supplies vitamin C, niacin, iron and potassium plus phytochemicals such as lignans, flavonoids and iridoids, though the article says studies have not found much effect on human health.
Vitamins
The Vitamin D Newsletter: Another Tragedy
A Vitamin D Council newsletter prints a mother's letter: her five-and-a-half-week-old daughter's unexplained arm fracture, and later micro-fractures, led two hospitals to suspect child abuse. The baby's vitamin D was low-normal, the mother's was never tested, and neither took a full history.
Vitamins
Could This be the Key Factor Spiking the Rise in Dementia and Alzheimer's?
In a two-year trial of 168 volunteers with mild cognitive impairment, brains of those taking high-dose folic acid, B6 and B12 shrank 0.76 percent a year against 1.08 percent on placebo. Mercola notes about half of people diagnosed with MCI go on to develop Alzheimer's within five years.
Nutrition
CDC: We're not Eating our Veggies
A CDC report finds only 26% of Americans eat vegetables three or more times a day and just 23% of home-prepared meals come with a salad, while lunchtime salad orders have halved since 1989. The writer offers meatless Lasagna Florentine as one fix.
Food
Fruits, vegetables prevent invasive cervical cancer
In a nine-year study of 299,649 European women, each additional 100 grams of fruit a day was linked to 17 percent lower risk of invasive cervical cancer and each 100 grams of vegetables to 15 percent lower risk. No comparable benefit appeared for in-situ carcinoma.
Nutrition
Infant formula recall - update
The FDA says Abbott's recall now covers about 5 million containers of Similac powdered formula, including Isomil and Go & Grow, over possible beetle and larvae contamination. The agency sees no immediate risk but tells parents to seek care if babies get an upset stomach or refuse food.
Nutrition
New Cases of Prostate Cancer by Race and Ethnicity
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in US men but is more common in African-American men and less common in Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islander and Native American men. In 2006, 203,415 men were diagnosed and 28,372 died; new cases fell 2.4% a year from 2000.
Food
Watercress may fight breast cancer
Breast cancer survivors who ate 80 grams of watercress after fasting showed measurable changes in Hypoxia Inducible Factor in their blood cells, Southampton researchers found. The plant compound may starve tumours of blood and oxygen, but more work is needed to confirm it.
Supplements
Soy supplements as effective as hormone therapy in easing menopausal symptoms
In a double-blind trial, 60 postmenopausal women took a 90 mg soy isoflavone supplement or hormone therapy for 16 weeks. Both eased hot flashes and muscle pain, by 49.8 and 45.6 percent, and vaginal dryness. Placebo matched them except on urogenital symptoms.
Vitamins
Pregnant? Why You Need to DEMAND This Test ...
Mercola cites research finding generally low vitamin D among 50 women with early-onset severe preeclampsia, averaging 18 nanograms per milliliter. An editor's note urges pregnant women to have their levels checked and to get safe sun exposure.
Food
Corn sugar new name proposed for high fructose corn syrup
The Corn Refiners Association has asked the FDA to let manufacturers call high fructose corn syrup “corn sugar.” The article cites Princeton research reporting HFCS caused more weight gain in lab animals than table sugar at equal quantities, along with added abdominal fat and higher triglycerides.
Nutrition
Women: How to Slash Your Diabetes Risk in Half - Just Do This
Mercola relays research finding that women who breastfeed are half as likely to develop type 2 diabetes, possibly because lactation sheds abdominal fat and improves insulin response. U.S. News also lists lower risks of reproductive cancers, heart disease and rheumatoid arthritis.
Food
Why Do Researchers Recommend this Common Drink that Can Poison Your Brain?
Mercola examines a paper finding that abstainers' mortality over 20 years exceeded that of heavy drinkers even after adjusting for status, activity and friendships. He offers blood ethanol blocking formaldehyde from dietary methanol as one explanation, but calls ethanol neurotoxic.
Nutrition
75% New Moms Try Breastfeeding
The CDC's 2010 Breastfeeding Report Card shows 75% of babies, more than 3 million, started out breastfed, but only 43% of those born in 2007 were still breastfed at six months. Oregon led with 62% at six months; Louisiana trailed at 20%.
Nutrition
Try a Family Style Approach to Meet Veggie Goals
The CDC reports that only 32.5% of adults eat two or more servings of fruit a day and 26.3% eat three or more vegetable servings, short of the Healthy 2010 targets. Food Consumer collected reader tips for eating better as a family, starting with planning meals.
Food
U.S. adults don't eat enough fruits and vegetables - CDC report
CDC's analysis of Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data found 32.5 percent of adults ate fruit twice or more a day in 2009 and 26.3 percent ate vegetables three or more times, far below the Healthy People 2010 targets. No state met either target.
Vitamins
B vitamins may help prevent cancer
In Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, the highest serum vitamin B2 and B6 levels were tied to 29 and 32 percent lower colorectal cancer risk, with no effect from B12. A separate EPIC analysis linked B6, methionine and folate to lower lung cancer risk.
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