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Nutrition Action Healthletter
April 2001
Michael F. Jacobson |
News From CSPI While premium ice creams like Haagen-Dazs are "85% fat-free," in the 1990s the FDA banned "fat-free" claims on foods that aren't low in fat. But under pressure from the meat industry, the USDA now wants to allow similar claims like "85% lean" on labels for fatty ground beef...   |
Science News
March 24, 2001
Janet Raloff |
Soy slashes cancer-fostering hormones (with recipe) Asian women tend to have much lower breast-cancer rates than their Western counterparts--unless they move to Europe or North America. Then the cancer's incidence in these women begins to match local norms. This observation has suggested that the Eastern diet may have protective effects... |
Science News
March 17, 2001
Janet Raloff |
Berry promising anticancer prospects It now appears that the medicinal powers of cranberries might extend to breast cancer as well. |
Salon.com
March 12, 2001
Peter Brandt |
Dr. Neal Barnard His ideas on diet and ethical medicine could prolong Dick Cheney's life (and yours), stop animal torture and improve Ted Nugent's attitude. Why isn't this man surgeon general? |
Science News
March 10, 2001
Janet Raloff |
Stress-prone? Altering the diet may help Some people undertake seemingly impossible tasks without frustration, while others become anxious or depressed. A Dutch study now finds that the latter individuals might cope with pressure better if they tailored their diet to fuel the brain with more tryptophan... |
American Family Physician
March 1, 2001
Dale M. Ahrendt |
Ergogenic Aids: Counseling the Athlete Numerous ergogenic aids that claim to enhance sports performance are used by amateur and professional athletes. If physicians can guide athletes away from disproven and dangerous supplements, while maintaining honest lines of communication, then serious health risks may be prevented... |
Science News
March 3, 2001
Janet Raloff |
Fighting cancer from the cabbage patch Sauerkraut a health food? Not yet. But midwestern scientists have found evidence that something in this pickled cabbage and related foods blocks the action of estrogen, a hormone that can fuel the growth of breast cancer and other reproductive-tract malignancies... |
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Rate Your Restaurant Diet A quiz to help you size up what you eat away from home... |
Science News
February 24, 2001
Janet Raloff |
Path to heart health is one with a peel Citrus fruits may deserve a more prominent role in the diet. A research team in Canada has just shown that drinking several glasses of orange juice daily can pump up blood concentrations of the so-called good cholesterol... |
Nutrition Action Healthletter
March 2001 |
Right Stuff vs. Food Porn From Kashi To Good Friends Seven Whole Grains & Sesame cold cereal is a happy antidote to the fiber deficit... Mrs. Fields Premium Cookies are doing their part to bolster the American obesity epidemic... |
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