| More support for lycopene's prostate benefits
Forty people took part in the new pilot study, which adds clinical data to an area previously lacking, according to the researchers in this month's Journal of Nutrition.Epidemiological evidence has suggested that tomato-based foods can protect men from prostate cancer. One study found that men eating four to five tomato based-dishes per week were 25 per cent less likely to develop prostate cancer compared to men eating tomatoes only rarely. Such findings are boosting the lycopene market, with growth rates forecast at over 100 per cent by Frost and Sullivan, albeit from a low base of around €27m ($34m) in 2003.Researchers, led by Silke Schwarz from the University of Hohenheim, recruited the men with BPH but no signs of prostate cancer, and randomly assigned them to receive either daily lycopene supplements (15 mg, LycoVit, BASF) or placebo for six months.Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a non-cancerous swelling in the prostate gland of older men.
Rethinking breakfast to feed your brain and body
Gail Frank's voice, soft and southern, made its way through a sea of scientific data. I met her for breakfast at a cozy coffee shop in Seal Beach and while we consumed our eggs (hers an egg-white spinach omelet, mine two eggs over medium) we discussed what Frank considers a crisis of utmost importance. Breakfast. Frank, a professor of nutrition at California State University Long Beach and a registered dietitian, says that breakfast is an issue for adults and children alike. "Breakfast fuels us for the day. It is energy for the brain and gets you started," she said using her fork to cut her huge omelet in half before she'd taken one bite, scooping it into a take-out container to eat later in the day. "We need 130 grams of carbohydrates a day for normal function.
American Meat Institute Calls WCRF Panel Recommendations on Meat ...
Institute Says Alarmist Messages Reflect Group's Anti-Meat Bias, Stand in Sharp Contrast to U.S. Dietary Guidelines and Plain Common Sense WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Meat Institute (AMI) today said that World Cancer Research Fund's (WCRF) recommendations to limit red and processed meat intake to extremely low levels reflect WCRF's well-known anti-meat bias and should be met with skepticism because they oversimplify the complex issue of cancer, are not supported by the data and defy common sense. "WCRF's conclusions are extreme, unfounded and out of step with dietary guidelines," said AMI Foundation Vice President of Scientific Affairs Randy Huffman, Ph.D. "Headlines associated with this report may give consumers another case of nutrition whiplash.
Older Smokers More Likely to Deny Habit
THURSDAY, Feb. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Older smokers are more likely than younger ones to deny they smoke when asked about it by doctors and others. That's the conclusion of a study that analyzed data on 15,182 self-reported "nonsmokers" in the United States who took part in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The researchers found that 8 percent of those self-reported nonsmokers actually were smokers and that smoking denial increased with age. .
Stroke Increase And Obesity Linked Among Middle-Aged Women
Middle-aged women's waists aren't the only thing that increased in the last decade. So did their chance of stroke. In a new study reported at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2008, rising obesity rates have been linked to more strokes among women aged 35 to 54.
A previous analysis of stroke prevalence rates in the United States from 1999 to 2004 revealed that women in their midlife years were more than twice as likely as men of similar age to report having had a stroke, said Amytis Towfighi, M.D., an assistant professor in the Neurology Department at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, Ca.
To determine if this was a new phenomenon and to explore the potential contributions of vascular risk factors to stroke prevalence rates, researchers analyzed data from the National Health and Nutrition Surveys 1988 - 1994 (NHANES III) and 1999 - 2004.
Deadly storms reported
Mace reported that no patients or employees were injured during the storms or evacuation. “The surgery department at the hospital does have all the utilities working and we are using that area as an emergency assessment, treatment and transfer center," Mace said. Several people from the Mountain View area were also treated in the emergency room at Batesville Tuesday night. “We had one fatality from Izard County who died from injuries sustained during the storms," Mace added. “And a triage center was set up at the Boeing plant at Izard County where Dr. Adam Gray treated 12 patients." According to Myra Wood, chief executive officer at Vital Link Emergency Medical Services in Batesville, the agency's base in Mountain View was “completely destroyed." Temporary crew quarters will be established today.
OK, enough is enough
Blah blah blah ROGER CLEMENS blah blah STEROIDS ... Dial turning. ... yada yada yada ANDY PETTITTE yada yada HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE ... Dial turning. ... harrumph harrumph BARRY BONDS harrumph PERJURY ... Dial turning. ... bluster bluster CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS bluster WASTING TAXPAYERS' MONEY ... .
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