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Balanced diet important in cancer prevention

Researchers say that diet is second only to tobacco in causing cancer. Dieta...e your risk - but if you don't smoke, attention to diet and exercise will help keep you free of cancer....

Vitamin E rich diet guards from Parkinson's

...rd School of Public Health researchers,// looks at diet and Parkinson's disease. The participants have been followed up for several years and asked about their dietary intakes of many foods. Those with a high intake of vitamin E appeared to be less likely to develop Parkinson's disease. It makes sense -...

Decrease in calories slows aging of the heart

...udy on middle-aged mice which shows that a low-cal diet keeps the heart young. Calorie restriction is the ...piders and other animals. They show that a low-cal diet prevents the genetic changes that signal the aging of the heart. Working with middle-aged mice, th...

New device aids esophagal cancer

...f this involves inserting a tube to allow a normal diet to be taken. When the tumour lies at the junction between the esophagus and the stomach, food and drink can pass in the wrong direction, from the stomach to the esophagus - a process known as reflux. This is not just unpleasant, but could be fatal du...

Vegetable and fruit intake depends on shopping

...permarkets has a bigger impact on black Americans' diet than on whites. It is not clear why this is - maybe there is a lack of private transport in black neighborhoods, making people more dependent on locals shops. Clearly, the type and location of shopping facilities needs to be taken into account when t...

Mediterranean diet aids Asian masses

A diet rich in alpha-linoleic acid reduced cardiac events...erimenting with the effect of a Mediterranean type diet on cardiac risk in a population of 1,500 patients. All had a history of CAD. Half were given an 'Ind...

Pregnancy shouldn't be dissuaded in older age

...percent of patients. Gestational diabetes required diet modification in 17.5 percent of patients. Researchers also observed an increase in the incidence of complications among those older than age 55 compared with those between ages 50 and 54....

Healthy ways to eat nourishing food

...troversy.// We've been discussing and arguing over diet - the latest fashion being the 'low carb' approach...hat your body wants to eat, rather than trying one diet after another. And the key is to get in touch with your body, first, by more physical activity - w...

Discovering cholesterol-absorbing genes

...ol is linked to heart disease, and that a high fat diet is bad for you. But little has been discovered abo...ople absorb a lot more of the cholesterol in their diet than others. Researchers at Rockefeller University have been working with genetically modified mic...

Stroke Risk and Fish :A factual interconnection

... than once per month. Researches have proved that diet rich in fish may even be better than a diet rich in vegetables reducing a substance in the body, called leptin, known to increase the risk of s...

Imitating celebrity mums may prove unsafe for mom and child

...d. In some cases, it has even prompted women to to diet while pregnant, putting their own and the baby's health at risk. A marketing company, which has started a campaign to help reduce the pressure that ordinary moms are feeling, reveals that it has been receiving hundreds of mails from women who are wo...

Research on Celiac Disease in children

...erate amount of commercially-available oats to the diet of celiac children. Quaker Oats provided their standard product for the study as there were no GF oats available in the market. 14 children, aged 8 to 16, with normal growth and no abnormalities, consumed oats 25 days per month. They were given 1 gr...

Do you love nuts? Then here's some good news for you!

...eight and keep it off as they help people stick to diet better because of their fibre content that gives a...s likely to keep the weight off as those who ate a diet with just 20 per cent of the calories from fat. Research over the last 15 years strongly suggests ...

Drinking milk: Good or bad?

... quit smoking and cut down saturated fats in their diet than give up milk!...

Safety of soy under suspicion

...ucted by the researchers, pregnant rats were fed a diet laced with genistein - a chemical found in soya. The scientists found that male rats exposed to high levels of genistein in the womb grew up to have larger prostate glands and smaller testes. The rats had normal sperm counts and would behave as if th...

Cardiac events better treated with intense cholesterol-lowering regime

...nt group was put on the American Heart Association diet with lipid lowering drugs or a strict diet with less than 10% of calories from fat. And, the "maximal" treatment group consisted of patients wh...

Cosmetic plastic surgery for a youthful healthy look

...is made. He also emphasized that eating a balanced diet and regular exercise are essential to looking and feeling young before and after plastic surgery....

Can one get addicted to fast food?

...e in its January issue has reported that a regular diet of fast foods like hamburgers, fries and foods hig...esearchers has shown that rats fed with a high-fat diet early in life grew up to be obese adults. Studies are also on to find out if bingeing on foods high ...

Leptin is "new breast cancer indicator"

...etween those who switched to a high-fibre, low-fat diet and those who changed to high-fibre diets without reducing their fat intake. The researchers discovered that if body weight and body fat together were taken out of the equation, a correlation remained between leptin and diet. As women ate less fat th...

Smoking habit affects your baby's health

...er needs to be done. Whether it be vitamins, right diet or plenty of rest. But are those moms who smoke, ready to set aside their habit or smokers who live or work with expectant moms willing to put their habit on hold for the sake of the child? A statistics that came out of a recent meeting of the Baxte...

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