The CDC reports 22 people in 10 states sickened by salmonella from raw alfalfa sprouts traced to Caldwell Fresh Foods of Maywood, California, prompting a nationwide recall. An infant died. The sprouts reached delis and grocers under several different brand names.
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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
Drinking alcohol boosts risk of death from cancer
Following 6,291 Korean residents aged 55 and older for two decades, researchers found heavy drinkers were 5.62 times more likely to die of esophageal cancer and 4.59 times more likely to die of colon cancer than abstainers. Among women the difference was not statistically significant.
Food
Fruit and vegetables prevent benign breast tumor
Comparing 327 Shanghai women with fibroadenomas to 1,070 controls, researchers linked higher fruit and vegetable intake to lower risk of these benign breast tumors. Live births, natural menopause, oral contraceptive use and moderate exercise also tracked with reduced risk.
Diet
Southern European Atlantic Diet helps prevent heart attack
Comparing 820 heart attack patients with 2,196 others, University of Porto researchers found those adhering most closely to the Southern European Atlantic Diet, rich in fish, vegetable soup, potatoes and wine, were 33 percent less likely to have had a heart attack.
Food
No reason to avoid having sex after a heart attack
In a survey presented to an American Heart Association meeting, only half of men and a third of women said doctors raised sexual activity before discharge after a heart attack, and many then avoided it. Harvard's Murray Mittleman says the risk is negligible and regular exercise nearly erases it.
Diet
Can Autism Diet Help Autistic Children?
A two-stage trial in Nutritional Neuroscience put Danish children aged 4 to 12 on a strict gluten- and casein-free diet and recorded significant gains on autism, attention and hyperactivity scales over 8 to 12 months. The authors call the improvement sustainable but say more work is needed.
Food
Green Tea Could Reduce Glaucoma Risk
Rats given green tea absorbed its catechins into eye tissues including the lens and retina, from 30 minutes to 12 hours after drinking. The retina took up the most gallocatechin. Mercola reads the finding as a possible route to protecting eyes against glaucoma.
Food
Processed meat linked to elevated risk of heart disease, diabetes
A Harvard meta-analysis in Circulation linked each 50 grams of processed meat eaten daily, about one hot dog, with 42 percent higher heart disease risk and 19 percent higher diabetes risk. Unprocessed meats showed no such link, and researchers suspect the salt and nitrate preservatives.
Supplements
L-Carnitine helps type 2 diabetes
In a small Italian study, 16 patients with newly diagnosed impaired fasting glucose or type 2 diabetes followed a low-calorie diet for 10 days. Both groups improved glucose tolerance, but only those also taking 2 grams of L-carnitine twice daily saw plasma insulin fall significantly.
Vitamins
Vitamin C cuts smoking-induced atherosclerosis risk
Guinea pigs exposed to cigarette smoke developed atherosclerosis, but those fed a vitamin C-supplemented diet rarely did, a Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis study found. The authors credit vitamin C with blocking smoke-induced apoptosis and platelet activation.
Biotics
Probiotics Benefit Metabolic Syndrome Patients
A study gave the probiotic strain B420 to diabetic mice on a high-fat diet and found improved fasting glycemia and glucose turnover restored to control levels, which researchers attribute to less tissue inflammation and metabolic endotoxemia. Mercola adds his own case for probiotics.
Food
Diet linked to Alzheimer's disease risk
People aged 65 and over who ate more nuts, fish, tomatoes, poultry, cruciferous vegetables, fruit and leafy greens were up to 38 percent less likely to develop Alzheimer's over 3.9 years, in a study of 2,148 people. Those with the disease ate more high-fat dairy, red meat, organ meat and butter.
Vitamins
Folic acid helps vascular function in female amenorrheic runners
Twenty female runners aged 18 to 25 took 10 mg of folic acid daily for four weeks; vascular function returned to normal in the amenorrheic group while controls stayed normal. Runners who under-eat can stop menstruating and see estrogen fall to postmenopausal levels.
Vitamins
Vitamin D newsletter: Vitamin D questions and answers
A Q&A from Dr. Cannell's vitamin D newsletter, covering how a reader in Germany can get adequate doses given customs limits on importing higher-dose supplements, and how to convert 25(OH)D results reported in nmol/L to ng/mL.
Food
Forget about statins! Eat lots of nuts instead
Joan Sabate and colleagues pooled 25 studies from seven countries covering 583 people and found that eating about 67 grams of nuts a day cut total cholesterol roughly 5% and LDL 7%. Benefits looked larger in thinner people and those with high LDL.
Vitamins
The Hidden Link to Black-White Disparities in Bad Birth Outcomes
A review weighed evidence tying maternal vitamin D to preeclampsia, preterm birth, gestational diabetes and fetal growth restriction, and its authors called for research testing vitamin D as a causal factor in black-white disparities in birth outcomes.
Food
Coffee, soft drinks not linked to colon cancer risk
A meta-analysis of 13 studies covering 731,441 people found no higher colon cancer risk among those drinking more than six cups of coffee or more than 18 oz of sugar-sweetened soda daily. Heavy non-herbal tea drinking showed a moderate link, but few participants drank that much.
Food
Demonized Since the 1950s – Yet Still One of Healthiest Foods Available
Mark McAfee, founder of raw milk producer Organic Pastures, distinguishes milk produced to be drunk raw from raw milk headed for pasteurization, and argues the two are not the same. Six states permitted retail raw milk sales at the time, each setting its own standards.
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