Nutrition Action Healthletter articles

Recent articles from Nutrition Action Healthletter

The real cost of red meat: does it boost your risk of cancer, heart disease, & diabetes?
June 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Eating Meat May Increase Risk of Early Death, Study Finds," ran the headline in The New York Times in March. "Dying for some red meat? You may be," quipped the Los Angeles Times. The big news came from a study that tracked more than half a million Americans...

Livestock's long shadow.(MEMO FROM MFJ)
June 1, 2009... The largest study ever on meat consumption and health--recently released by the National Cancer Institute--should convince even enthusiastic meat eaters to cut back (see cover story). The more red and processed meats one consumes, the greater the risk of dying, mostly of heart disease and...

Rooting for fruit: researchers hunt for a medicine chest in the fruit bowl.(SPECIAL FEATURE)
June 1, 2009... Want to improve your memory? Try a bowl of berries. Troubled by urinary tract infections? Pour yourself a cranberry drink. Prostate problems? Open a bottle of pomegranate juice. In some cases, there's decent, or at least promising, evidence that you can use your fruit bowl as a medicine...

Vitamin D & bones.(QUICK STUDIES)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Vitamin D can lower your odds of breaking a hip or other bone. Researchers pooled the results of 12 trials that tested vitamin D on bones other than the spine in more than 42,000 people and 8 trials that tested vitamin D on hip fractures in more than 40,000...

Calcium & colorectal cancer.(QUICK STUDIES)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... People who consume more calcium and dairy foods have a lower risk of colon cancer, according to a study by the National Institutes of Health and AARP (formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons). Investigators collected diet and other information on more than 500,000...