A critique of dairy marketing: the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board and the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board told Congress they assure lactose-intolerant ethnic groups the condition need not keep milk out of the diet, and have partnered with the USDA and fast food chains.
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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
Fruits and Vegetables May Prevent Early Death
Researchers followed 65,226 Health Surveys for England participants aged 35 and older for seven years. Those eating seven or more servings of fruits and vegetables a day had a 42 percent lower risk of death from any cause, plus lower cancer and heart disease death risks.
Food
Study Finds Secret to Cutting Sugary Drink Use by Teens (PR)
Ohio State researchers piloted a 30-day Sodabriety challenge at two rural Appalachian high schools, run by student advisory councils. The share of teens avoiding sugary drinks rose from 7.2% to 11.8% and held for 30 days, and water intake climbed by 60 days.
Phytochemicals
Fiber Can Reduce Colorectal Cancer Risk
A Gastroenterology meta-analysis of 20 studies found people eating the most fiber from vegetables, fruits and grains were 28 percent less likely to develop colorectal polyps, precursors to colorectal cancer, with each extra 10 grams a day cutting the likelihood by 9 percent.
Food
Are Soft Drinks Making You Fat? It's Not Just The Calories, Research Shows
High fructose corn syrup consumption has grown 1,000% since it entered soft drinks in 1984, favored because it pumps like a liquid, escapes sugar's price swings, and keeps baked goods moist. The piece says HFCS metabolises differently from sugar.
Food
Animal Protein Linked to Early Death
Among 6,381 US adults aged 50 and older followed 18 years, those eating the most animal protein had a 5-fold higher risk of diabetes-related death. Under-65s in that group had a 74% higher all-cause death risk and 4-fold cancer death risk. Plant protein showed diminished or absent risks.
Diet
High protein diet linked to high risk of cancer
A Cell Metabolism study found middle-aged adults eating a high-protein diet were about four times more likely to die of cancer and 74 percent more likely to die of any cause during the study. People over 65 appeared to benefit from moderate protein intake.
Food
Meat-Eating is a Risk Factor for Developing Diabetes
Physicians Committee researchers writing in Nutrients reviewed studies of meat consumption and found meat-eaters at significantly higher risk of type 2 diabetes than people who avoided meat, an effect they attribute partly to saturated fat and heme iron. They urge doctors to count it in screening.
Vitamins
Vitamin C sufficiency lowers risk of hemorrhagic stroke
French researchers compared blood vitamin C in 65 people who had suffered an intracerebral hemorrhagic stroke and 65 who had not, and found those without strokes had higher levels. Presented at the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting.
Diet
Cholesterol Levels Lower in Vegans
Among 1,694 people in the EPIC-Oxford study, vegans ate the most fiber and the least total and saturated fat, and had the healthiest weight of any diet group. An earlier EPIC analysis found vegans and vegetarians had 32 percent lower heart disease risk.
Food
Yoghurt lowers type 2 diabetes mellitus risk
Among more than 25,000 adults in EPIC-Norfolk followed over 11 years, the highest yoghurt consumption tracked with up to 28 percent lower type 2 diabetes risk, and low-fat fermented dairy with 24 percent lower. Total dairy, milk and cheese showed no link.
Diet
Omega-3 rich diet boosts brain development
An Oregon Health & Science University study found monkeys fed a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids developed neural networks resembling those of healthy humans, while monkeys on a deficient diet had far more limited networking. DHA comes from fatty fish such as salmon, mackerel and tuna.
Diet
Study suggests whole diet approach to lower CV risk has more evidence than low-fat diets (PR)
Analysing decades of diet and heart disease trials for The American Journal of Medicine, investigators found people told to adopt a whole diet rich in fruit, vegetables, nuts and fish had greater reductions in cardiovascular death and non-fatal heart attack than those told to cut fat.
Diet
Ingredients in chocolate, tea and berries could guard against diabetes (PR)
Research from the University of East Anglia and King's College London, published in the Journal of Nutrition, links high intakes of flavones and anthocyanins - found in herbs, vegetables, berries, tea and chocolate - to lower insulin resistance and less inflammation in almost 2,000 people.
Food
PCRM Breaking Medical News: Red and Processed Meat Endangers Health
Harvard researchers analysing diets and blood from 3,690 Nurses' Health Study participants found C-reactive protein, hemoglobin A1c and stored iron all rose as red meat intake rose, along with weight and calorie intake. Published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Diet
Western diet linked to Alzheimer's disease
William Grant reports that in Japan, consumption of alcohol, animal-based foods, meat and rice supply tracked Alzheimer's incidence with a 15 to 25 year lag, while in eight developing countries total energy and animal fat intake tracked it with a 15 to 20 year lag.
Diet
Diet Linked to Bacteria that Causes Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Eleven volunteers ate either an animal-based or a plant-based diet for five days in a Harvard study in Nature. The animal-based group showed an eight-fold rise in Bilophila wadsworthia, a bacterium that may cause inflammatory bowel disease; it fell three-fold on plants.
Vitamins
Synthetic folate/folic acid may boost risk of breast cancer
A study in the International Journal of Cancer found European American women with the highest synthetic folic acid intake were 58 percent more likely to develop breast cancer than those with the lowest. Among premenopausal African American women, high natural folate intake tracked with lower risk.
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