Duke researchers told the Genitourinary Cancers Symposium that among 334 men undergoing prostate biopsy, those regularly having three alcoholic drinks a week were 2.46 times as likely as non-drinkers to develop prostate cancer. They point to acetaldehyde, a known carcinogen.
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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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Diet
Not all types of fat have the same effect on prostate cancer risk
Feeding 80 xenografted mice either a 40-percent-fat western diet or a low-fat diet, Lloyd and colleagues found no difference in weight, survival, PSA or IGF measures. They argue in the Journal of Urology that the type of fat matters more than the amount.
Nutrition
The Vitamin D Newsletter: Shattered Family
A Vitamin D Council newsletter reprints a mother's letter to Dr. Cannell describing how her newborn son was found to have a fractured femur and further fractures, how the parents were accused of Shaken Baby Syndrome, and asking whether her own vitamin D deficiency could explain it.
Food
Soft drinks blamed for diabetes and heart disease
A study presented to the American Heart Association attributes more than 100,000 diabetes cases and 14,000 new coronary heart disease cases over the past decade to sugar-sweetened sodas, sports drinks and fruit drinks. The AHA urges daily caps on added sugar and weekly limits on soft drinks.
Vitamins
Low vitamin D linked to muscle fat (PR)
A Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism study found 59 percent of subjects carried too little vitamin D and nearly a quarter were seriously deficient, below 20 ng/ml. Investigators say it is the first work to link vitamin D levels to fat accumulating in muscle tissue.
Nutrition
Banned in 160 Nations… Yet U.S. FDA Regards it as Safe?
Dr. Mercola reports that ractopamine, a livestock drug banned in 160 countries, is used in 45 percent of U.S. pigs and 30 percent of ration-fed cattle. Its label reads “Not for use in humans,” and more than 1,700 people have reportedly been poisoned from eating pigs fed the drug since 1998.
Nutrition
Eating veggies, fruit, soy cuts breast cancer risk
Among 34,000 Singapore Chinese women followed 10 years, those eating the most vegetables, fruit and soy were 30 percent less likely to develop breast cancer than those eating the least. At five years the reduction among postmenopausal women reached about 50 percent.
Food
This Berry Can Help Counteract Intestinal Diseases
Blueberry fiber, not just antioxidants, may ease and protect against intestinal inflammation such as ulcerative colitis. Blueberry husks outperformed rye and oat bran in tests, and pairing blueberries with probiotics cut inflammation-inducing gut bacteria while health-promoting lactobacilli rose.
Nutrition
Vitamin A suppresses vitamin D's effect
A British Medical Journal paper found that low past vitamin D levels predict later colon cancer, but a table on page eight shows the benefit almost entirely negated in people with the highest retinol intake, about 3,000 IU a day. Mercola says this may explain conflicting results across studies.
Nutrition
Genetically Engineered Soybeans May Cause Allergies
Allergist John Boyles and others suspect genetically modified soy is contributing to the rise in US food allergies. A York Laboratory survey found soy reactions jumped 50 percent the year GM soy reached the UK, and a soybean given a Brazil nut gene triggered reactions in nut-allergic people.
Nutrition
Genetically Engineered Corn May Cause Food Allergies
Jeffrey Smith argues that pest-resistant GM crops make their own pesticide, Bt-toxin. He cites mice fed natural Bt-toxin mounting immune responses and becoming sensitive to other compounds, and about 500 people reporting allergy or flu-like symptoms after Bt spraying near Vancouver.
Nutrition
Too much meat not good for bone health in pre-pubertal girls
Following 757 pre-pubertal Beijing girls for five years, researchers found calcium intake tracked with higher bone mineral content while protein intake tracked with lower, and animal protein, particularly meat protein, showed significant negative effects at the forearms.
Nutrition
Drinking coffee okay for heart patients? Get second opinions!
Drinking four or more cups of coffee a day was associated with an 18 percent lower risk of hospitalization for heart rhythm problems, and one to three cups with a 7 percent lower risk. Co-author Arthur Klatsky stresses the association does not prove cause and effect.
Nutrition
Gestational diabetes: What you need to know
A question-and-answer primer on gestational diabetes: it affects three to eight of every 100 pregnant women, often causes no noticeable symptoms, and can raise the odds of high blood pressure, a large baby and cesarean delivery, plus later type 2 diabetes for mother and child.
Food
Garlic may help fight cancer (Press release)
Ohio State researchers built a urine test that measures both garlic consumption and a marker of the nitrosation process that turns dietary compounds into carcinogens. In a small pilot study, the more garlic people ate, the lower that cancer-risk marker ran.
Nutrition
Krill oil: What you need to know
A primer on krill oil: it supplies omega-3s and antioxidants, one study reportedly cut LDL by 34 percent against fish oil, and 300 mg a day eased arthritis symptoms in another. People with seafood allergies, bleeding disorders or on blood thinners are told to avoid it.
Nutrition
Move your money now
American University students are campaigning to move 5 percent of the school's $312 million endowment into community development financial institutions such as City First Bank. New York City and Los Angeles are weighing similar shifts of public money out of big banks.
Vitamins
Vitamin D helps Gaucher disease patients
The FDA approved velaglucerase alfa (VPRIV) for Gaucher disease, and a separate study of 60 patients aged 17 to 85 found vitamin D insufficiency common among them, leading researchers to recommend supplementation to protect bone health in type 1 Gaucher disease.
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