Environmental Nutrition back issues from March 2007:
Getting physically active may increase your chances of surviving cancer.
Mar 01, 2007; ... More than 10 million Americans are cancer survivors. Most are anxious to do anything they can to reduce the risk of a recurrence. But what can be done? While research abounds on how diet and lifestyle habits affect the initial appearance of cancer, far fewer studies have looked ...
Folic acid may slow hearing loss.(Just In)(Drug overview)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Taking a daily supplement of 800 micrograms of folic acid may help slow the hearing loss that typically accompanies aging. Those were the findings of Dutch researchers who studied 728 men and women in their 50s and 60s with elevated blood levels of homocysteine, an amino acid. ...
Antioxidant mineral selenium protects joints, prostate; could it do more?(Clinical report)
Mar 01, 2007; ... Compared to most nutrients, selenium slips by almost unnoticed. But selenium's relatively low public profile belies this mineral's important role in optimizing your personal health. Selenium is a part of 25 different compounds known as selenoproteins that are produced by the body; they are ...
Red-flagging food labels: 8 tips to sift fact from fiction.
Mar 01, 2007; ... Surveys say most of us take advantage of the information on food labels. That's the good news. The bad news is that making sense of it all is more complicated than you might think. It requires mental math skills, the ability to translate scientific jargon and the willingness to cut through ...
Does new Enviga tea drink really deliver "negative calories in a can"?(Product Watch)
Mar 01, 2007 ... The Buzz. "Be positive. Drink negative." "The calorie burner." "Invigorate your metabolism." These eyebrow-raising slogans are for the new drink, Enviga, which promises to burn more calories than it provides. The Basics. Enviga, a carbonated green tea drink available in three ...
4 diet pills cited for deceptive marketing.(Weight Manager)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Each new year legions of dieters make weight-loss resolutions. But as 2007 rang in, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced settlements with marketers of four diet pills it alleged made unsubstantiated weight-loss and disease prevention claims. The companies agreed to pay fines and to ...
Trans fats get the boot thanks to you; how to spur more change.(EN Comments)
Mar 01, 2007 ... New York City made a bold statement this past December, when it became the first municipality to pass a regulation requiring restaurants to stop cooking with foods containing artificial trans fats. (Small amounts of trans fats occur naturally in lard, meat and dairy products.) ...
Short-cut rice is convenient, but sodium a huge problem.(Nutrition Comparison)(Recipe)
Mar 01, 2007; ... There used to be only two choices when cooking rice--white rice in 20 minutes or brown rice in 40. However, today's climate of "get it on the table in a hurry" has led to an explosion in the number of quick-cooking rice options and flavors available. Quick and Quicker ... But ...
The lowdown on coffee as Rx for diabetes.(Ask EN)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Q. I saw a news story that drinking coffee might reduce my risk of developing diabetes. Is that true? A. Yes, according to some studies. Overall, however, results have been mixed. It's not clear why, but several large population studies in the U.S., Japan and Europe ...
High cholesterol cure?(Ask EN)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Q. Are supplements containing policosanol effective for lowering cholesterol? A. That's unclear. Policosanol is a substance extracted mostly from sugar cane, but also from wheat germ, rice bran or saw palmetto. It's found in cholesterol-lowering supplements like One-A-Day ...
FDA gives green light to cloned animal products; why EN is leery.(Ask EN)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Q. I read that cloned animals were approved to be used as food. Is that safe? A. That depends on who you ask. But regardless, it won't happen anytime soon. It's true the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released a report saying the meat and milk from ...
The perks of peanut butter: good-for-you fats.(EN on Foods)(Recipe)
Mar 01, 2007; ... The Folklore. The ancient Incas of Peru used peanuts as sacrificial offerings and left peanuts with the dead as food for the afterlife. But they didn't have to deal with such modern-day mental demons as arachibutyrophobia--the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth. ...
"Cloudy" apple juice may be better for you than clear, filtered apple juice, say researchers from Poland.(Research Roundup)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... "Cloudy" apple juice may be better for you than clear, filtered apple juice, say researchers from Poland. They found that cloudy juice--often called natural--contains about four times the disease-fighting antioxidant polyphenols as clear, filtered apple juice, the kind ...
Losing weight may reduce your risk of chronic diseases by reducing inflammation.(Research Roundup)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Losing weight may reduce your risk of chronic diseases by reducing inflammation. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Texas reviewed 28 studies in which people lost weight through lifestyle changes and five studies in which they lost weight through gastric ...
The lower your blood level of vitamin D, the greater your risk of multiple sclerosis (MS).(Research Roundup)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... The lower your blood level of vitamin D, the greater your risk of multiple sclerosis (MS). That's what researchers found when they examined blood samples from more than seven million U.S. military personnel. People with MS were ...