Archive for the ‘Nutrition / Diet’ Category
Saturday, April 12th, 2008
More good news for pistachio fans! According to new data unveiled this week at the Experimental Biology Conference in San Diego, snacking on pistachios has proved once again to have a positive impact on improving cardiovascular health by significantly reducing inflammation in the body, a prominent cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Monell Center scientist Mark I. Friedman, PhD has been selected to receive a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship to pursue his work on diet and obesity.The prestigious fellowships are awarded to established scholars in the fields of science, humanities, and creative arts "on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
"Going to work on an egg a day?" asks the headline in the Daily Mail. The article concludes that this "increases the risk of premature death for middle aged men". The newspaper adds "consumption of seven or more eggs a week pushed up the chances of dying from any ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Nutritionist Judy Stone says most chronic conditions can be prevented, improved, or even reversed through the proper diet, without taking medication. Stone is author of Take Two Apples and Call Me in the Morning: Using the Power of Food to Change Your Life (http://www.taketwoapples.com). Stone is president of Nutrition Magician. ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Sixty-year-old Darlene Yates has had two hip replacements, a knee replacement and this past year shattered her left femur while she was walking in her neighborhood. Her diagnosis seemed obvious -- osteoporosis. But it turns out she had bone weakness caused by a vitamin D deficiency."I thought with my age ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
The UK's food watchdog, the Food Standards Agency (FSA), is to advise government Ministers to ask manufacturers to bring in a voluntary ban of six artificial food colours from food and drink by 2009. They will also advise Ministers to push for them to be phased out in the ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Consumers who purchased raw milk from Piney Ridge dairy farm in New Bethlehem, Clarion County, and Clark and Elaine Duncan's farm in Meadville, Crawford County, anytime after March 10 should discard it immediately due to the risk of Listeria Monocytogenes contamination, Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff said today.Raw milk is milk ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the federal government will boost protection for Canadian consumers with a tough and comprehensive overhaul of food and product safety laws. Earlier in the day, the government tabled legislation in the House of Commons designed to improve the safety of food, consumer, and health products ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Evidence is growing from animal and human studies that genistein, a potent chemical found in soy, protects against development of breast cancer - but only if consumed during puberty, says a Georgetown University Medical Center researcher in the British Journal of Cancer published online. The challenge now, she says, is ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it has found hazardous levels of selenium in samples of certain flavors of the dietary supplement products "Total Body Formula" and "Total Body Mega Formula." The FDA has received 43 reports of persons from nine states who experienced serious adverse reactions using ...
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