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Maternal diet during pregnancy and unilateral retinoblastoma.
The offspring of women who regularly consumed sweets, fried foods, and cured meat during pregnancy may have a high propensity to develop unilateral retinoblastoma. Retinoblastoma is a rare childhood cancer of the eye that can rob children of their...
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Red meat consumption, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Followers of diets that promote the consumption of processed and unprocessed red meat may have a high tendency to suffer from stroke, heart failure, coronary heart disease, gestational diabetes, and type 2 diabetes mellitus. This study explored whether...
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RE: Starches converting to sugar--good/bad for cancer diet?
White table sugar (sucrose) is not the most health-promoting food, but it does not create cancer. Neither does the glucose, (which comes from the breakdown of starchy whole-food plants like yams,) promote the initiation, growth, or spread of cancer,...
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Can Diet Influence the Onset of Early Puberty?
An alarming trend is taking place in the United States today that's affecting the health and wellbeing of our children. The rate at which our children are going through puberty has increased significantly between 1997 and 2010. Before the 20th century,...
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Summer Cookout? Where's the Beef?
Summer is a great time of year for family and friends to gather for fun outdoor activities including back yard cook outs. But before you light up the grill, you may want to read about the dangers associated with barbecued meat. The 2009 Meeting of the...
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Should a Vegan Diet be Considered Child Neglect?
Occasionally, it happens. Loving parents who've read the research on the advantages of a plant-based diet are accused of neglecting their children by refusing to give them animal products. Currently in Italy, there is proposed legislation that would...
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What Percentage of Americans Eat Healthy?
Life expectancy in the U.S. is listed as number 27 or 28 of the 34 OECD free-market democracies. In the video below, Dr. Michael Greger explains how the overall patterns of healthy lifestyles have declined in the last 18 years. When U.S. health trends...
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What are the Consequences of Consuming Iron from Meat?
When asked which foods contain iron, most people will respond by listing several types of meat -- beef, shellfish, liver, etc. Few are aware that iron is prevalent in a wide variety of whole plant foods. For example, dark green leafy vegetables, whole...
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Sugared Beverages Increase Metabolic Syndrome Risk
More than 75 billion dollars worth of soda is purchased yearly. Sugar-sweetened drinks not only drain the pockets of millions of Americans, but these beverages are a drain on the health of the nation as well. Heavy consumption of sugary beverages, such...
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Alcohol Significantly Increases Cancer Risk
Cancer is the second leading cause of deaths worldwide. Each year, over 12 million people are diagnosed with cancer and more than 7 million persons die from cancer annually. Cancer accounts for nearly 1 in every 6 deaths recorded worldwide. These...
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Can Lifestyle Choices Help Prevent Cancer?
According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) , an estimated 14.1 million new cases of cancer were diagnosed, and 8.2 million cancer deaths were recorded in 2012. And these numbers are expected to keep rising in the coming years....
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Salty Foods Boost Kidney Stone Risk
Think again if you think dehydration, bad genes, overweight , gout, hyperthyroidism, urinary tract infection, Crohn's disease, and cystinuria are the only things that can give you kidney stones . In 2014, researchers at the University of Parma, Italy,...
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Red Meat Increases Mortality Risk
Probably you already know that dietary habits, such as habitual intake of red meat, can increase your risk of dying prematurely from cancer and cardiovascular disease. This is the finding of a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine . This...
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Dietary Flavonoids Diminish Lung Cancer Risk
Eating fish can increase your risk of getting lung cancer. About 1 in 15 men and 1 in 17 women may get lung cancer at some point in their lives. These numbers include both smokers and non-smokers, though smokers have a higher risk of developing lung...
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Can Plant Foods Protect Against Prostate Cancer?
Going vegan could protect men against prostate cancer. This is the findings of a study published in the Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention . A total of 60 prostate cancer patients and 60 healthy subjects were assessed by their dietary patterns...
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Protein foods from animal sources and risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in representative cohorts from North and South China
ultrasound. Researchers noted that higher intake of proteins from animal foods, such as eggs, fish, poultry, red, and unprocessed meats, correlated with greater risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. On the other hand, swapping eggs, poultry, fish,...
https://www.drcarney.com/science/lifestyle-choices/animal-products/eggs/protein-foods-from-animal-sources-and-risk-of-nonalcoholic-fatty-liver-disease-in-representative-cohorts-from-north-and-south-china -
Are You Suffering From "Food Poisoning?"
Food Poisoning? When we hear the scary words "food poisoning," we usually think of a sudden illness caused by eating a "bad" microorganism in a single contaminated food. Dr. John McDougall shows that common chronic illnesses are also caused by eating...
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Is Weight Watchers Good for Your Health?
"This is the joy for me. I love bread," declares Oprah, her arms open wide to the possibilities of her Weight Watcher's Plan. "I have lost 26 pounds, and I have eaten bread every single day." The commercial's emphasis on bread is a visceral call to a...
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Forks Over Knives Presents The Engine 2 Kitchen Rescue with Rip Esselstyn
Join Rip Esselstyn, former firefighter and author of the national best-selling The Engine 2 Diet, as he guides the White and Wally families through an Engine 2 Kitchen Rescue. Watch Rip teach these families how to take control of their health. Join Rip...
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Red Meat Increases Stomach Cancer Risk
Numerous studies have examined the impact of diets on incidence of stomach (gastric) cancer, including whether certain foods increase or decrease the risk of this cancer. One food that has been highlighted in these studies is red meat. So the question...
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