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Diet irregularities lead to stomach cancer

...rsity of Newcastle believe that changes to the way food is grown and produced// have robbed it off its ant...at plants with "infections" do not get through the food chain and, as a result, human levels of salicylates can be quite low....

Tomato Sauce reduces Cancer Risk- Study

...risk of prostate cancer. Researchers analyzed the food choices and prostate cancer histories of more than... Dietary questionnaires in the study included such food items as tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato juice, pizza, watermelon and pink grapefruit, along with sal...

Hyperactivity Drug Can Be Added to Food

...at can be administered once daily and sprinkled on food could help improve compliance in those children wh...lowing the capsule or sprinkling the contents over food was found to be equally safe and well tolerated. Side effects, such as headaches, were mild, the rep...

Women need to exercise more to prevent obesity

...ccounted for 60 per cent of the weight gain - with food intake becoming a minor factor. But the researchers think that the current guidelines need to be increased. They suggest that 80 minutes a day might be needed, rather than 35, to make a real impact on obesity problems. Certainly the sedentary lifes...

Vegetables decrease Tobacco Toxins

...e asked to fill out a detailed smoking history and food frequency questionnaire. Stephenson and her colleagues measured urine concentrations of three byproducts of tobacco: two called NNAL and NNAL-Gluc, and a third called cotinine. People who ate fewer than two servings of cruciferous vegetables a week ...

Rumbling stomach

...nal bacteria. When the stomach is normally full of food and liquid, the noises tend to be muted, but when the contractions are strong, especially when a bubble of gas is moving through the digestive tract or when the stomach is empty of solids, the noise can seem deafening. The contractions are also exagg...

Liver key to extending life

...aid.His team is exploring avenues such as reducing food intake, using antioxidants designed to work specifically in the liver at time of digestion, improving blood flow to the liver, and using substances that return the healthy holes in liver blood vessels. Interestingly, alcohol is one such substance th...

New operation for swallowing problems

...mouth. When this nerve is paralysed, aspiration of food down to the lungs, and swallowing difficulties may occur. Surgeons at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York have tried out a new surgical procedure called 'hypopharyngeal pharyngoplasty' which remodels the affected part of the pharynx (the tub...

Healthy snacks improve nutrition of kids

...t takes up such as large proportion of their daily food intake. However, that it is up to parents and schools to provide healthy snack options for children, such as fruit, vegetables and low-fat dairy products. Young people may be afraid to try new foods, she said, but if adults can introduce children to ...

Grapes, Melons Implicated in Outbreaks

...enter for Infectious Diseases. She concurred basic food safety steps -- such as washing food -- could reduce the risk of infections. Other researchers looked at the process of heating lettuce ...

Decrease of 'Hunger Hormone' after Obesity Surgery

...ke people so ravenous they eat nearly a third more food than usual. But it was not clear what happened to ... hungry between meals, even though their intake of food has dropped dramatically. After surgery, the patients had lower levels of the hormone compared with...

Ulcer causing bug found in stored food

...a local grocery store. According to them, uncooked food leads to many stomach problems// due to contaminat... is believed to be transmitted orally by ingesting food or water infected with fecal matter. Christie Jack, a research assistant at the Evanston Northwester...

Celiac Disease in Type 1 Diabetes

... disease is a condition in which the absorption of food nutrients through the small intestine is impaired because of an allergic reaction to gluten. Both CD and diabetes are common chronic conditions in children. Previous studies have shown a connection between the two. Researchers examined 200 patients ...

Boys reduced mother's life expectancy

... that girls are more likely to help with gathering food and caring for children....

Ginseng aids Diabetes

...ant amount of weight, mainly due to a reduction in food intake and increase in energy expenditure and body temperature. The extract also significantly lowered cholesterol levels. Investigators believe the anti-diabetic activity of the ginseng extract used in this study may one day have clinical implicatio...

Role of Diet in Oral Cancer

... each of the study participants using an extensive food frequency questionnaire. Participants indicated the frequency of consumption of approximately 100 foods over a one-year period. Results point to several foods that appear to be inversely associated with mouth cancer. Cereals and starchy foods, added...

Vitamin C maintains healthy lungs

...r levels of intake. She added that a diet rich in food supplying these nutrients appears to be beneficial to lung health. She recommended getting enough vitamin C and other potentially lung-boosting nutrients by eating a healthy diet containing the recommended servings of fruit and vegetables. US guideli...

Fish rich diet lowers leptin

... by sending a message to the brain when sufficient food is consumed. This "satiety" aspect of leptin also works in normal weight humans, but as people gain weight the leptin message is muted, Somers felt that in obese people there are higher leptin levels because more leptin is needed to send the message ...

Watch what you eat during summer

...y the warm weather without the bother of a bout of food poisoning.That's why they've just issued a few tim...ifferent foods. Temperature is important too - hot food needs to be kept really hot (take care to barbecue meats and fish thoroughly) and cold food must not...

Functional foods reduce cholesterol

...terol and LDL levels in men. Researchers feel this food has the potential to become a functional food to help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. Researchers conclude phytosterol-supplemented gr...

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