Mercola summarizes William Li's TED talk on anti-angiogenesis, cutting off the blood vessels that feed a tumor, and on eating foods that do it. Too few vessels can leave wounds unhealed and contribute to heart disease and stroke; too many drive other diseases.
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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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Phytochemicals
Green tea compound slows progression of leukemia
A Mayo Clinic phase II trial in 42 patients found EGCG, a green tea compound, showed moderate clinical activity in stabilising chronic lymphocytic leukemia. An earlier phase I trial cut blood leukemia cells by about 20% in 30% of patients and halved swollen nodes in about 70%.
Food
Ginger may reduce exercise induced pain
In a randomized, double-blind trial in the Journal of Pain, athletes taking two grams of raw or heat-treated ginger daily for 11 days reported muscle pain 24 hours after exercise 25 and 23 percent lower than placebo. Researchers credit antioxidants such as gingerols and shogaols.
Nutrition
FTC Investigates Kellogg Claim
The FTC, not the FDA, is pressing Kellogg over claims that Frosted Mini-Wheats improve kids' attentiveness by nearly 20 percent and that Rice Krispies “boost your child's immunity.” Its earlier order now bars any health claim the company cannot back with scientific evidence.
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Mediterranean Diet Reduces Wheezing
Ulm University researchers studying 50,000 children in 20 countries found those eating hamburgers three or more times a week were more likely to have asthma and wheeze. Cooked greens helped in poorer countries and fish in wealthier ones, while fruit protected children everywhere.
Nutrition
Can You Become Immune to Caffeine?
In a study of 379 volunteers given 100 mg of espresso or a placebo, heavy coffee drinkers on placebo reported headaches and lower alertness. Caffeinated heavy drinkers were no more alert than low consumers on placebo, suggesting the morning cup mainly offsets withdrawal.
Food
Can't make your spouse happy? Eat mutton regularly!
The piece relays Chinese beliefs that mutton is a “hot” food that boosts energy and sexual desire, suggests 50 grams a meal for women with menstrual pain, warns off those with fever, sore throat, liver disorders or high blood pressure, and offers ways to mask its smell.
Diet
Mediterranean diet linked to low cancer risk
A Greek case-control study of 239 patients and 194 controls found that rising two units on a 9-point Mediterranean diet score was associated with a 30 percent lower risk of upper aerodigestive tract cancers. No single dietary component explained the link.
Supplements
Omega-3's Linked to Healthier, Stronger Bones
A rat study in the British Journal of Nutrition found the omega-3 fat DHA raised bone mineral content, while EPA did not. Mercola notes NASA researchers separately reported that EPA may protect against bone loss during spaceflight, a result that challenges the rat data.
Nutrition
Adjuvanted Shots FareWell
A British study found children given adjuvanted H1N1 vaccine mounted stronger immune responses than those given unadjuvanted shots, with 98.2% responding to Pandemrix versus 80.1% to Celvapan among children under 3. Reactions to Pandemrix were more common but minor.
Phytochemicals
Resveratrol Boosts Brain Blood Flow
In a Northumbria University study reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, participants who took 250 or 500 milligrams of resveratrol showed a dose-dependent increase in blood flow to the brain. Mercola notes resveratrol can cross the blood-brain barrier.
Phytochemicals
Broccoli Component Limits Breast Cancer Stem Cells
Sulforaphane, a compound in broccoli, targeted and killed breast cancer stem cells and prevented new tumors in mice and cell cultures. Current chemotherapies do not work on these cells. Science Daily notes the concentrations used exceeded what eating broccoli provides.
Nutrition
50 cent's weight loss shocks fans
Rapper Curtis James dropped 54 pounds in nine weeks on a liquid diet and three hours a day on the treadmill to play a dying football player. Food Consumer urges a more balanced approach, noting rapid loss strains the body and often comes back as fast as it went.
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Diet Drug Linked to Liver Damage
The FDA reported 13 cases of liver damage it could tie to orlistat, sold as prescription Xenical and over-the-counter Alli, down from 32 cases first flagged in August 2009. Only two were in the US, against 40 million users worldwide.
Supplements
Omega-3 fatty acids help prevent all-cause mortality and cardovascular events
In 563 Norwegian men aged 64 to 76 followed three years, 2.4 g a day of EPA and DHA was associated with 43 percent lower all-cause mortality and 16 percent fewer cardiovascular events against corn oil. Adjusted for age, smoking, blood pressure, BMI and glucose, the figures were 47 and 11 percent.
Food
Flavanol-rich cocoa help prevent heart attacks
Harvard researchers note that Panama's Kuna Indians have low blood pressure and less heart attack, stroke, diabetes and cancer, and eat large amounts of flavanol-rich cocoa. They speculate that cocoa flavonoids trigger nitric oxide synthesis.
Food
Dark Chocolate Guards Against Brain Injury
Mice given a single dose of epicatechin, a compound in dark chocolate, suffered significantly less brain damage after an induced stroke. The protection held when the compound came 3.5 hours afterward but disappeared at six hours.
Food
Cholesterol, eggs raises heart risk in older people
Among 1,941 older adults followed nine years, dietary fat was not linked to cardiovascular events, but those in the top third for cholesterol intake had 47 percent higher risk, and people eating more than three eggs a week were 68 percent more likely to have a heart attack, coronary death or stroke.
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