Glass of red wine or one drink may help heart health, more may do harm: study

TORONTO – Red wine has been touted as beneficial for cardiovascular health, but new research suggests that while one glass of that favourite Merlot or Shiraz may indeed be heart healthy, two or more could actually do more harm than good over time.
Furthermore, those good and bad effects on the heart and blood vessels aren’t [...]

Hazardous Levels of Mercury in Sushi

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Recent laboratory tests in New York found so much mercury in tuna sushi that two or three pieces a week at some restaurants could be a health hazard.
Eight out of the 44 pieces of sushi purchased by the New York Times for testing had mercury levels so high that the FDA could take legal action [...]

With Saccharin’s Weight-Control Benefits in Question, What Steps Can You Take?

Is too much saccharin — like the sweeteners used in diet soda — a bad thing for weight loss? A study released over the weekend links consumption of artificial sweeteners to weight gain. Read more about it and what you can do to limit your intake.
Click here for a press release from the American Psychological [...]

Prostate cancer deaths tied to obesity

Obese men diagnosed with prostate cancer are twice as likely as healthy weight men to die from the disease, new research shows.
The heavier a man is at time of diagnosis the greater his risk of death, according to a study published in Monday’s issue of the journal, Cancer.
After five years, the death rate for normal [...]

Black Tea, Green Tea Good for Diabetes

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Both black tea and green tea are good for diabetes, a rat study shows. They also prevent diabetic animals from developing cataracts.
The findings appear in the May 4 issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
“Black and green tea represent a potentially inexpensive, nontoxic, and, in fact, pleasurable [blood-sugar-lowering] agent,” the researchers [...]

Diet, Lifestyle Changes Cut Some Infertility Risk

FRIDAY, Nov. 2 (HealthDay News) — Women who followed at least five certain lifestyle and diet behaviors were about 80 percent less likely to have infertility from ovulatory disorders than women who followed none of the behaviors, a Harvard study concludes.
The analysis of 17,544 married women participating in the ongoing Nurses’ Health Study II found [...]

Consumers ignore cancer risks of eating red meat

By Emily Dugan and Charlotte Browne
Published: 02 November 2007

 
“There’s nothing like a bacon sarnie with brown sauce,” says 36-year-old Nicola Doran as she waits in the queue at JBS butchers in east London.
Ms Doran’s sentiments have been echoed across the country by meat enthusiasts who are turning a blind eye to the latest announcement from the [...]

Researchers have cracked the mystery of why eating garlic can help keep the heart healthy. The key is allicin, which is broken down into the foul-smelling sulphur compounds which taint breath. These compounds react with red blood cells and produce hydrogen sulphide which relaxes the blood vessels, and keeps blood flowing easily. The University of [...]

Breast milk boosts brain development in preemies

Even extremely low birth weight premature babies should be given breast milk while they are in a hospital’s intensive care unit because it appears to boost their mental development, concludes a study in the journal Pediatrics.
The study found that preemies fed breast milk had greater mental development scores at 30 months of age than infants [...]

Exercise is Good for Good Cholesterol

Forty minutes of aerobic exercise done three times a week produces a small but real increase in high density lipoprotein (HDL), otherwise known as “good cholesterol,” according to a study published in the May 28 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. Increased HDL is good, since it aids in the removal of an artery-clogging [...]