A clinical trial found that eating about an ounce and a half of dark chocolate daily for two weeks lowered stress hormones in volunteers who rated themselves highly stressed. A separate product analysis ranked cocoa powder highest in flavanol antioxidants and chocolate syrup lowest.
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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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Vitamins
The Single Most Crucial Nutrient to Energize Every Cell in Your Body
In mice fed a high fat and fructose diet, CoQ10 supplements lowered inflammatory and metabolic stress markers in the liver, findings in Biochemical Pharmacology that suggest the compound may protect against or slow obesity-related fatty liver.
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Soy Boosts Survival in Breast Cancer Patients
Among 5,042 women in the Shanghai Breast Cancer Survival Study followed four years, those eating soy foods had a 32 percent lower risk of recurrence and a 29 percent lower risk of death than women eating little or no soy, JAMA reports.
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Vitamin D may have an effect on prostate cancer
Researchers compared 122 prostate cancer patients with 130 matched controls in southern China and found one vitamin D receptor variant, BsmI, tracked with prostate cancer risk. They conclude such polymorphisms may be potential risk factors.
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Soy cuts risk of breast cancer death, recurrence
Vanderbilt researchers followed 5,042 Chinese breast cancer survivors and found women with the highest soy protein intake were 29% less likely to die and 32% less likely to relapse than those with the lowest intake over an average 3.9 years.
Phytochemicals
Green Tea Holds Promise for Treatment of Brain Disorders
Scientists found that pairing green tea's EGCG with a chemical called DAPH-12 can prevent and destroy amyloids, the tightly packed protein sheets implicated in Alzheimer's, Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases. Amyloids are highly stable and have resisted earlier attempts to break them down.
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Tiger woods women
A gossip item reporting that a seventh woman had been named in Tiger Woods' affairs and that, per RadarOnline, his wife Elin Nordegren had moved out of their Windermere mansion.
Phytochemicals
Green pigments may help prevent liver cancer
Linus Pauling Institute researchers found that chlorophyll and chlorophyllin each cut absorption of aflatoxin B, a potent liver carcinogen found in corn and peanuts, in a small group of Chinese volunteers, and helped clear the toxin faster in one or more subjects.
Vitamins
More Vitamin D Studies of Interest
The Vitamin D Council newsletter covers Bruce Hollis and Carol Wagner's trial of about 500 pregnant women at 400, 2,000 or 4,000 IU a day. The highest dose caused no adverse events but left newborns averaging 27 ng/ml, and mothers needed 40 ng/ml to maximize activated vitamin D.
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Are CoQ10 supplements recommended for cancer patients?
Karen Collins answers that evidence on CoQ10 in cancer care is thin: studies on preventing chemotherapy heart damage are inconsistent, some animal work suggests boosting it could work against chemotherapy and radiation, and it may interact with warfarin. Ask your doctor first.
Supplements
Soy protein helps fight cancer and inflammation
University of Illinois researchers report that lunasin, a soy peptide recovered from soy-processing waste, triggered leukemia cell death through caspase-3 and reduced inflammation markers NF-kappa-B, interleukin-1 and interleukin-6. Eating 50 grams of soy protein for five days raised blood levels.
Phytochemicals
Pine bark improves circulation, swelling and visual acuity in early diabetic retinopathy (PR)
An Italian randomised trial of 46 diabetic patients, published in the Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, reports that Pycnogenol, a French maritime pine bark extract, improved microcirculation, retinal swelling and visual acuity in early diabetic retinopathy.
Phytochemicals
Dietary polypenols may delay onset of Alzheimer’s disease
Mice fed a diet rich in polyphenols and polyunsaturated fatty acids grew more new cells in the olfactory bulb and hippocampus, both damaged in Alzheimer's, Spanish researchers report. They point to grapes, olive oil, cocoa, nuts, oily fish and soy beans as sources that may delay onset.
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Important New Vitamin D Research Papers
Mercola points readers to papers and presentations from a Canadian vitamin D conference, including work on vitamin D and cancer prevention, UVB and cancer, and vitamin D and breast cancer, and repeats his advice to optimize vitamin D levels.
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Too much sugar-laced cola raises diabetes risk in pregnant women
Among 13,475 women in the Nurses' Health Study II, those drinking more than five servings of sugar-sweetened cola a week before pregnancy had a 22 percent higher risk of gestational diabetes than women drinking less than one a month. Other sugary and diet drinks showed no link.
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Grandma's leftover turkey soup recipe
Leftover turkey, bones and drippings simmer with giblets, onion, carrots, parsley, thyme, bay leaf, celery tops and peppercorns for about four hours at 180 to 200 degrees, finished with poultry seasoning, a bouillon cube and cooked noodles.
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Tiger Woods allegedly injured in an argument
TMZ reports that Woods's facial cuts may have come from a fight with his wife over an alleged affair rather than from his Black Friday crash into a fire hydrant. Authorities said alcohol was not involved. The account rests on rumor and the affair is unconfirmed.
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Can Your Pet Get Swine Flu, and Do They Really Need a Flu Shot?
Iowa health officials confirmed H1N1 in a 13-year-old cat, the first reported case in a house pet, which likely caught it from owners who had recently been ill. Vets say seasonal flu has never been reported in cats or dogs; the cat recovered and the virus spreads poorly among animals.
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