Little Brownie Bakers asked Girl Scout councils to return lots of Lemon Chalet Creme cookies after complaints of off taste and smell, without calling it a recall. The company blames a breakdown of oils, says the cookies pose no health risk, and no illnesses were linked to them.
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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
Top 7 Foods That Slow Your Aging
Mercola argues there are no shortcuts to good health: whole foods chosen for your own nutritional type beat fast and processed convenience foods, and the diet pills and fake foods sold as quick fixes can worsen health in the long run.
Diet
F Factor Diet
Tanya Zuckerbrot's F-Factor diet puts fiber in every meal, on the theory that it fills you up so you eat less through the day. The book sets out a three-stage program and more than 75 recipes. The writer is sceptical that it amounts to more than the advice to eat more fiber.
Food
Some basics about milk
Milk supplies calcium, some vitamin D and protein but may not be the best source of any of them: a Harvard study of more than 77,000 nurses found women drinking two or more glasses a day had more hip and arm fractures, and fortified milk falls far short of daily vitamin D needs.
Food
Total fat, trans fat raise risk of ischemic stroke
In the Women's Health Initiative study of 87,230 postmenopausal women, those eating the most total fat had a 40 percent higher rate of ischemic stroke than those eating the least, and the highest trans fat intake carried a 30 percent higher risk, researchers told a stroke conference.
Nutrition
Dick Cheney suffers his fifth heart attack: What you need to know
Dick Cheney, 69, left a Washington hospital after a mild heart attack, his fifth since 1978. The piece recaps his bypass surgery and heart-rhythm device, and cites CDC figures on the 1.2 million heart attacks Americans suffer each year and the warning signs to watch for.
Nutrition
ihop free pancake day 2010
IHOP will give each customer a free short stack of buttermilk pancakes from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. on National Pancake Day, moved to February 23 to extend fundraising for Children's Miracle Network. The chain says the campaign has raised more than $3.25 million since 2006.
Phytochemicals
Green tea may be good for your eye
Rats given green tea absorbed catechins into the lens, retina and other eye tissue, where the compounds reduced oxidative stress for up to 20 hours, a Chinese University of Hong Kong study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry found.
Vitamins
Poligrip denture cream linked to zinc poisoning
GlaxoSmithKline will stop using zinc in Poligrip denture cream after hundreds of users sued, saying the product damaged their nervous systems, causing loss of balance, numbness and in some cases paralysis. An attorney says heavy users ingested about 45 times the recommended zinc.
Vitamins
Vitamin D Fights Crohn's Disease
A new study found vitamin D acts on the beta defensin 2 and NOD2 genes, both linked to Crohn's disease. Mercola urges patients to have their blood levels measured rather than guess, calls 55 to 65 ng/ml therapeutic, and warns that taking too much vitamin D can do harm.
Food
Can Foods Contribute to Infertility?
Untreated celiac disease appears more common in women with infertility and is linked to miscarriage and preterm birth, while men may have lower sperm counts, altered sperm shape and lower testosterone. A gluten-free diet and corrected nutrient deficiencies improve the pregnancy outlook.
Vitamins
High levels of vitamin D in older people can reduce heart disease and diabetes (PR)
A Warwick Medical School review of 28 studies covering 99,745 people found high vitamin D levels in middle-aged and elderly people associated with a 33 percent lower risk of cardiovascular disease, a 55 percent reduction for type 2 diabetes and 51 percent for metabolic syndrome.
Food
What men may eat to boost their pleasure
A republished list of foods said to boost libido and sperm production, built around zinc-rich seafood such as oysters, shrimp and crab, oily fish like salmon twice a week for omega-3s, and supplements of vitamin C and arginine.
Food
Men don't like wearing condoms
A survey of 436 men aged 18 to 67 found 45 percent had used a badly fitting condom in the previous three months. Those men more often reported the condom broke or slipped, and said the poor fit reduced sexual pleasure for them and their partners.
Food
Cooling Inflammation for Healthier Arteries
Mohsen Meydani's team at Tufts reports in Free Radical Biology & Medicine that avenanthramides, phenolic compounds in oats, lower the expression of inflammatory molecules by inhibiting factors that activate proinflammatory cytokines — inflammation that drives atherosclerosis.
Food
Soy foods help prevent lung cancer in non-smokers
Among 76,661 Japanese adults followed 11 years, never-smoking men in the top quarter for isoflavone intake were 57 percent less likely to be diagnosed with lung cancer, with a similar pattern in never-smoking women. Current and former smokers showed no such link.
Vitamins
Vitamin D may help pre-diabetes
A review of studies published between 1969 and 2009 in Endocrine Practice found most cross-sectional and prospective work showed an inverse link between 25-hydroxyvitamin D and glucose, impaired glucose tolerance, HbA1c and pre-diabetes, and a few trials found supplements improved insulin measures.
Food
Could drinking beer help cut osteoporosis risk?
Testing 100 commercial beers, University of California researchers found silicon contents of 6.4 to 56.5 mg/L, with light malts richer than dark. The study measured content, not bone outcomes, though a separate Spanish study of 1,697 women found beer drinkers had greater bone density.
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