Environmental Nutrition back issues from May 2006:
B vitamins a bust for heart in two trials.(Brief article)
May 01, 2006 ... Despite the fact that getting more of the B vitamins folic acid, B6 and B12 significantly lowers blood levels of homocysteine, B supplements do not seem to reduce cardiovascular risk as researchers had hoped. That's what Canadian and Norwegian researchers found in two large clinical trials ...
Keeping an eye on your diet may help save your sight in the long run.
May 01, 2006; ... Keeping your eyes healthy means more than eating your carrots, though Mom's advice still holds. That's because carrots are high in beta-carotene, the precursor of vitamin A, which is essential to prevent night blindness and protect the retina (the part of the eye that converts light and ...
Some salty wisdom: EN helps you slash sodium by shopping smart.(Environmental Nutrition)
May 01, 2006; ... Perhaps your doctor has told you to cut back on sodium, so you've shunned the salt shaker and avoided notoriously salty foods like pickles, chips and canned soups. You might think you're in the clear, then, when it comes to getting too much sodium. Think again. Sodium is a ...
A weekly to-do list to help delay or prevent dementia.(Diet Therapy)(Disease/Disorder overview)
May 01, 2006; ... The prospect of losing the ability to think, reason and remember people, places and events strikes fear into the hearts of everyone as they age, and rightly so. Dementia is on the rise; every seven seconds a person's future is forever altered by the diagnosis. In the U.S., an estimated 4.5 ...
Yogurt that claims to conquer constipation.(Brief article)
May 01, 2006 ... The Buzz. Activia is a new functional food that claims it "helps naturally regulate the digestive tract." Translation? It helps relieve constipation. The Basics. Activia is a probiotic product that looks like a run-of-themill yogurt with nutrition numbers similar to a low-fat ...
Teflon, popcorn concern.(Perfluorooctanoic Acid Risk Factors)(Brief article)
May 01, 2006 ... A chemical used to manufacture numerous consumer products, including nonstick cookware, microwave popcorn bags and fast-food French fry containers, is a likely carcinogen. That's what an independent scientific advisory panel to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently reported ...
EN tackles new questions about calcium's role in bone health.(Environmental Nutrition)
May 01, 2006 ... Yet another round of findings from the large-scale Women's Health Initiative study has touched off headlines and confusion, just as low-fat findings did earlier this year (see EN, April 2006). The results of the study of bone health appeared in the February 16 issue of The New England ...
TV dinners to organic entrees.... We've come a long way.
May 01, 2006; ... Remember frozen dinners from times past? Salisbury steak with a side of mashed potatoes accompanied by shriveled peas and corn niblets. A lot has changed since that first TV dinner some 50 years ago. You can now purchase virtually any type of ethnic cuisine in a frozen dinner, ...
Soy still healthful, despite news it doesn't help heart.... or much else.
May 01, 2006 ... Q. I heard that the American Heart Association no longer recommends soy. Should I stop eating soy foods? A. No, because they're still healthful, if not the potent panaceas once envisioned. The American Heart Association recently reviewed the plethora of research on the health ...
The Sonoma Diet: weight-loss tips from wine country.
May 01, 2006 ... Q. I keep hearing about The Sonoma Diet. Is it healthful? Will it help me lose weight? A. Yes on both counts. This weightloss bestseller, titled The Sonoma Diet: Trimmer Waist, Better Health in Just 10 Days!, by Connie Guttersen, R.D., Ph.D. (Meredith Books, 2005), is not only ...
Fruit that's plum good for health and taste.
May 01, 2006; ... The Folklore. One of China's oldest medicines is called ubai, made from smoked plums and used to quell nausea, reduce fevers and quiet coughs. Plums were also used therapeutically against tumors as early as 25 B.C. The Facts. The plum is a member of the drupe family, defined as ...
Eating red grapefruit as part of a heart-healthy diet can significantly improve lipid levels.(Brief article)
May 01, 2006 ... * Eating red grapefruit as part of a heart-healthy diet can significantly improve lipid levels suggests research from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Researchers studied 57 patients who had undergone coronary bypass surgery one year earlier and who had not responded to the statin drug ...
A high intake of calcium-rich dairy foods, especially milk, was linked to a reduced risk of colon cancer.(Brief article)
May 01, 2006 ... * A high intake of calcium-rich dairy foods, especially milk, was linked to a reduced risk of colon cancer in a group of more than 45,000 Swedish men tracked for almost seven years. Men who drank at least one and a half glasses of milk a day had a 33% lower risk than ...
Low-carb diets can help you lose weight, lower triglycerides and raise "good" high-density lipoproteins (HDLs), but also cause an unhealthy rise in "bad" LDLs.(Brief article)
May 01, 2006 ... * Low-carb diets can help you lose weight, lower triglycerides and raise "good" high-density lipoproteins (HDLs), but also cause an unhealthy rise in "bad" LDLs. Those are the findings of an analysis of five studies of low-carbohydrate diets that lasted as least six months. In contrast, ...