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Nutrition

Vitamins, minerals, supplements, herbs and diet: the research on how what we eat shapes our health.

Diet

High Fat Diet raises Type 2 Diabetes Risk

Brazilian researchers fed rats a high-fat or heat-treated high-fat diet for 12 months and report in Experimental Biology and Medicine that both raised body weight and impaired insulin sensitivity. The high-fat diet also damaged DNA in blood and hippocampus, and the heated version damaged more.

Phytochemicals

Curry Compound Kills Esophageal Cancer Cells

Curcumin, the yellow pigment in turmeric, began destroying cultured esophageal cancer cells within 24 hours in Cork Cancer Research Centre work published in the British Journal of Cancer. The cells died by a route different from the apoptosis other phytochemicals trigger.

Oct 29, 2009

Vitamins

How Much Sunshine Does it Take to Make Enough Vitamin D?

Scientists at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research built a calculator estimating how many minutes of sun your skin needs to make 25 mcg (1,000 IU) of vitamin D, since the answer shifts with latitude, skin type, season, time of day and atmosphere. Mercola walks through entering the inputs.

Oct 29, 2009

Vitamins

Plagued with H1N1? Forget the Flu Vaccine, Try Vitamin C*

With the Obama daughters vaccinated against H1N1, the editor argues the vaccine is safe for healthy people but untested in pregnant women and those with medical conditions, and points to a 1999 study in which 1,000 mg doses of vitamin C helped prevent and treat cold and flu.

Oct 27, 2009

Vitamins

Vitamin D supplements taken in early life prevent type 1 diabetes*

In Lancet data on children of 12,055 Finnish women due to give birth in 1966, those who regularly took vitamin D supplements were 88 percent less likely to have type 1 diabetes than those who took none, and children suspected of rickets were three times as likely to develop it.

Oct 26, 2009

Vitamins

Suboptimal vitamin D found in millions of US children*

Analyzing NHANES data on about 5,000 children aged 1 to 11, researchers reported in Pediatrics that roughly 20% fell below the 50 nmol/L vitamin D level the AAP recommends, and more than two-thirds — including 92% of Black children — were under 75 nmol/L.

Oct 26, 2009

Vitamins

The Elderly with Vitamin D Deficiency Die Earlier*

In an Austrian study of 614 people followed 6.2 years, those in the lowest quartile of 25(OH)D were 97 percent more likely to die of any cause and 378 percent more likely to die of cardiovascular disease. The authors say it is unclear whether low vitamin D is cause or consequence.

Oct 24, 2009

Diet

Daily Candy in Childhood Linked to Violence in Adulthood

A British study of 17,500 people found those eating sweets and chocolate daily at age 10 were significantly likelier to hold a violent-crime conviction by 34: 69 percent of the violent group had eaten sweets nearly every day as children, against 42 percent of the non-violent. Why is unknown.

Oct 24, 2009

Food

When Hamburgers Cause Sickness, Paralysis, and Death

Dr. Mercola summarizes a New York Times investigation into Stephanie Smith, a dance instructor left paralyzed after eating a Cargill hamburger contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, and notes no federal rule requires grinders to test their ingredients for the pathogen.

Oct 22, 2009

Vitamins

Higher folates, not antioxidants, can reduce hearing loss risk in men*

Men over 60 who ate and supplemented the most folate were 20 percent less likely to develop hearing loss, according to research presented at the 2009 AAO-HNSF meeting. Intake of antioxidant vitamins C and E and beta carotene showed no such link.

Oct 18, 2009

Diet

Well-done meat linked to high risk of pancreatic cancer*

In a prospective analysis of 62,581 people, those who preferred very well done steak were about 60 percent more likely to develop pancreatic cancer than people eating less well done steak or none. High-temperature frying, grilling and barbecuing carried the risk; baking and stewing did not.

Oct 18, 2009

Food

Simple Way to Lower Your Blood Pressure -- Just Avoid THIS…

Two studies offered the first evidence that a diet high in fructose raises blood pressure in men, and one suggested eating junk food and sweetened drinks at night speeds weight gain. Dr. Mercola argues fructose is not a benign sugar and faults Corn Refiners Association advertising.

Oct 17, 2009

Vitamins

Vitamin D can save half million babies each year: study*

In a trial presented in Bruges, pregnant women given 4,000 IU of vitamin D a day halved their premature birth risk compared with those on 400 IU, and had fewer small babies, 25 percent fewer infections, and less diabetes, hypertension and preeclampsia. No side effects appeared.

Oct 16, 2009

Diet

Nutrition Notes: A Healthy Deskfast

Karen Collins suggests building a desk breakfast from protein, a whole grain and a fruit or vegetable, and choosing your options ahead of time. She warns that sausage-and-cheese biscuits and jumbo muffins can run 350 to over 500 calories with much of a day’s saturated fat.

Oct 14, 2009

Diet

Nutrition-wise: Celery, pizza, and crab cakes

An American Institute for Cancer Research question-and-answer column: two celery stalks carry about 64 mg of sodium, a small fraction of the daily limit, against about 570 mg in a similar portion of pickles, and vegetable pizza rarely supplies a full vegetable serving.

Oct 14, 2009

Nutrition

Healthy Recipes:Fresh Blueberry and Cranberry Relish

Simmer fresh blueberries and cranberries with orange juice, zest, sugar and vanilla for about 15 minutes, then chill; it is better made ahead. Twelve quarter-cup servings at 76 calories each, suggested alongside holiday dinners, in leftover sandwiches or over ice cream.

Oct 14, 2009

Vitamins

Vitamin D Doubles Colon Cancer Survival Rates

A study in the British Journal of Cancer found colorectal cancer patients with the highest average 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels had half the cancer-specific mortality, and 40 percent lower overall mortality, of those with the lowest levels.

Oct 13, 2009

Vitamins

Vegan moms need to take Vitamin B12 supplements, study suggests

A case report in Archives of Pediatrics describes a 10-month-old breastfed baby of a vegan mother with vitamin B12, K and D deficiencies, developmental disorders and a low red blood cell count. Supplements corrected the deficiencies and the infant gained weight and improved.

Oct 11, 2009

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