Among 38,000 adults followed a decade, those eating the most vitamin K were about 20 percent less likely to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, with a stronger link for K2 from meat, cheese and eggs. Mercola suggests the vitamin lowers inflammation and improves insulin use.
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Vitamins, minerals, supplements, herbs and diet: the research on how what we eat shapes our health.
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High-Dose Vitamin C Therapy Proven Effective (PR)
The Orthomolecular Medicine News Service argues that 75 years of physician reports and studies on high-dose vitamin C have been ignored, and that unsuccessful research used doses far too low to show results. It traces the approach to Jungeblut, McCormick, Klenner, Riordan and Cathcart.
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Vitamin C fights prostate cancer - study
Rats implanted with hormone-refractory prostate cancer cells and given pharmacological doses of vitamin C by injection for 30 days had significantly smaller primary tumours and far fewer lung and lymph node metastases, researchers report in In Vivo.
Nutrition
Smoking Ban and Public Housing: Mutually Exclusive?
More than 7 million people live in US public housing, many of them elderly, disabled or children, and tobacco smoke travels between units through air ducts, wall cracks and elevator shafts. The Surgeon General has concluded there is no safe level of secondhand smoke exposure.
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Pro-Eating Disorder Sites Disturbing
Johns Hopkins and Stanford researchers found pro-anorexia and pro-bulimia websites carrying inaccurate information, 'thinspiration' writing and images of extremely thin models. One expert told ABC News that 1 to 3 percent of women become anorexic and 2 to 8 percent bulimic in their lifetimes.
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Prostate Cancer: New Chemo Drug Approved
The FDA approved Jevtana (cabazitaxel), given with prednisone, for advanced hormone-refractory prostate cancer that worsened during or after docetaxel, clearing it in 11 weeks under priority review. Side effects include diarrhea, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, constipation, weakness and renal failure.
Supplements
FDA may Okay female-Viagra: What else can you use?
FDA advisers meet Friday on flibanserin, a Boehringer Ingelheim drug first developed as an antidepressant and now proposed for hypoactive sexual desire disorder in premenopausal women. Critics cite nausea and dizziness and modest benefit over placebo.
Food
Eating eggs not linked to diabetes
Over 11 years, 313 of 3,898 older adults in the Cardiovascular Health Study developed type 2 diabetes, and researchers found no link to egg consumption. The article notes earlier studies, including ones by the same authors, pointed the other way.
Nutrition
New Guidelines Tackle Obesity Epidemic
The 2010 Dietary Guidelines cut the adult sodium recommendation from 2,300 to 1,500 milligrams and urge less sugar and less meat in favor of plants. The panel also advises 2.5 hours of moderate activity a week for adults and an hour a day for children.
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Breastfeeding and Vitamin D Overdose
The FDA warns that infants should not exceed the recommended 400 IU of vitamin D a day and tells caregivers to use only the dropper packaged with the product. Overdose can cause nausea, vomiting, appetite loss, excessive thirst, constipation and muscle weakness.
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Study Shows Increase in Addicts Over 50
SAMHSA found the number of Americans aged 50 and older admitted to drug treatment nearly doubled between 1992 and 2008, with heroin admissions more than doubling and cocaine nearly quadrupling; 75 percent had started before age 25. A Duke study found 23 percent of men aged 50-64 binge drank.
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Vitamin B6 May Lower Cancer Risk
Comparing 899 lung cancer patients with 1,770 controls in the EPIC study, researchers found people with higher blood vitamin B6 had 56 percent lower risk and those with higher methionine 48 percent lower, across smokers, former smokers and non-smokers. Causality is unproven.
Food
Spices Play Role in Reduced Cancer Risk
Adding fingerroot, rosemary or turmeric to meat before grilling appeared to cut production of heterocyclic amines, the cancer-causing compounds formed when meat is grilled, broiled or fried, by upwards of 40 percent. The blackened parts of the meat are the worst offenders.
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Vitamins may help prevent pancreatic cancer
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Big Pharma's Bald-Faced Lies that can Destroy Your Health and Wealth in 2010
Dr. Beatrice Golomb of UC San Diego tells Dr. Mercola how drug industry money distorts medical science. She says she first noticed gaps between published trial evidence and the review papers, guidelines and follow-up articles built on it while researching statins.
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Research Sheds Light on Early Alzheimer's
Ralph Nixon's team found that the gene mutated in early-onset Alzheimer's normally clears excess protein from brain cells, acting as a house-cleaning agent. Because the same damage shows up in every case, he says the finding could eventually help all Alzheimer's patients.
Vitamins
B-vitamins linked to lower risk of depression
Following 3,503 adults aged 65 or older for 12 years, researchers tied each extra 10 mg of vitamin B-6 and 10 micrograms of B-12 in total intake to 2% lower annual risk of depressive symptoms. Dietary intake alone showed no such association.
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Report: FDA Needs More Power
An Institute of Medicine report says the FDA needs more power over the US food supply, where CDC counts 76 million illnesses a year. Recommendations include delegating food inspections to the states, and the report warns that more money without a prevention-focused vision would be futile.
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