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Avoiding Potatoes Can Prevent Gestational Diabetes

Avoiding Potatoes Can Prevent Gestational Diabetes

Introduction Gestational diabetes is a form of diabetes that occurs in pregnant women and avoiding potatoes appears to prevent it. It is important to diagnose gestational diabetes, as uncontrolled diabetes would lead to fetal abnormalities, high blood pressure in the pregnant woman, p
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Stroke Risk Lowered By Mineral Supplements

Stroke Risk Lowered By Mineral Supplements

86,149 women enrolled in the Nurses Health Study I (NHS I) and 94,715 women in the NHS II had been assessed on an ongoing basis with intermittent dietary questionnaires. This database was used for this study to see whether supplements would have made any difference in terms of stroke
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Western Diet Bad For Prostate Cancer

Western Diet Bad For Prostate Cancer

Introduction 1. A study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health followed 926 men aged 40 to 84 who were diagnosed with prostate cancer, but whose cancer had not yet spread. The researchers monitored the patients for approximately 10 years. They also analyzed the diets of th
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Low Selenium And Heart Attacks Associated

Low Selenium And Heart Attacks Associated

1. A Swedish study published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition in June 2015 showed that a decreased selenium level when observed over a timespan of 6.8 years was associated with a greater risk of mortality. 449 men and women were enrolled in the study, and selenium levels
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Vitamin E Necessary For Anti-Aging

Vitamin E Necessary For Anti-Aging

Vitamin E has been known to help prevent heart attacks in the past. But now a new publication has shown that in two human cell lines vitamin E prevented senescence to occur. This was proven by the fact that the human cell lines that included vitamin E continued to divide versus contro
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SAMe, A Supplement For Depression

SAMe, A Supplement For Depression

A simple nutritional supplement, available in health food stores has been found to be effective in treating patients whose depression was resistant to a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). The full name of the supplement SAMe is S-adenosylmethionine. Dr. Mathew Bambling fro
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Colon Cancer Risk Reduced In Two Weeks

Colon Cancer Risk Reduced In Two Weeks

Gastroenterologist Dr. Stephen O’Keefe of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine recruited 20 black men in the US and 20 men in rural South Africa. He did an experiment of only two weeks where he exchanged their diets. The African men in South Africa were fed American fast fo
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Top Nutrients Keep Your Brain Young

Top Nutrients Keep Your Brain Young

Introduction In a publication in the Science Daily mid April 2015 eight top nutrients were reviewed that keep your brain young. This report was based on a review by The Institute of Food Technology by Linda Milo Ohr. Notably, in order to prevent the metabolic changes in brain cells th
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Lycopene Lowers Kidney Cancer Risk

Lycopene Lowers Kidney Cancer Risk

Lycopene is found in watermelon or tomatoes and has been associated with prevention of colon cancer. Now a study in Cancer showed that lycopene also helps to suppress the development of kidney cancer (renal cell carcinoma). Cathryn Bock, PhD. MPM and associates took the data from the
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Colorectal Cancer Low In Fish-Eating Vegetarians

Colorectal Cancer Low In Fish-Eating Vegetarians

Researchers from Loma Linda University followed 77,659 men and women who were from the Seventh-Day Adventist Churches for 7 years. This church group has been researched in the past as it is a cohesive cohort of non-smokers and non-drinkers. Many are also vegetarians, but not all. Food
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