Seaweed Extract May Hold Promise For Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Treatment
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Seaweed extract may eventually emerge as a lymphoma treatment, according to laboratory research presented at the second AACR Dead Sea International Conference on Advances in Cancer Research: From the Laboratory to the Clinic, held here March 7-10, 2010...
National Jewish Health Receives Grant To Learn How Families Cope With Food Allergy
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Families with food-allergic children face a life of constant vigilance and the looming fear of life-threatening allergic reactions. This fear can have a huge impact on an entire family's life, from heightened anxiety to severe limits on their daily activities. Some families cope well with this situation, while others find it extremely stressful and difficult to manage...
Morinaga Receives No Objection Letter From FDA Regarding GRAS Status Of Proprietary Probiotic Strain, Bifidobacterium Longum BB536
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:2264), the second-largest dairy company in Japan, today announced it has received a no objection letter from FDA in response to its GRAS notification for the proprietary probiotic strain Bifidobacterium longum BB536. The official FDA affirmation that the ingredient is GRAS paves the way for the highly researched probiotic to be included in functional foods...
Meat And Colorectal Cancer Risk: Scientists Suggest Potential Mechanisms
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Scientists in the US who undertook a large study to investigate what biological mechanisms might be behind the already established link between colorectal cancer and consumption of red and processed meat, confirmed that such a link exists and suggested the main players are three compounds: heme iron, nitrate/nitrite, and heterocyclic amines...
Low-Income Women Living In Small Cities Have Higher Chance Of Obesity
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
A recent Kansas State University study found that the availability of supermarkets -- rather than the lack of them -- increased the risk of obesity for low-income women living in small cities. This suggests that policies to increase healthful eating behaviors might need to be tailored based on geographic location...
University Of Florida Researchers Find Cancer-fighting Properties In Papaya Tea
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
The humble papaya is gaining credibility in Western medicine for anticancer powers that folk cultures have recognized for generations. University of Florida researcher Nam Dang, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues in Japan have documented papaya's dramatic anticancer effect against a broad range of lab-grown tumors, including cancers of the cervix, breast, liver, lung and pancreas...
First Time Research On Long-term Consequences Of Intravenous Nutrition On Children's Health
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
No work is known in the literature to date which provides a long-term and generalised evaluation of the health of children fed intravenously in their own home...
New Survey Finds Out What Americans Are Really Paying Attention To When Choosing Foods
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Americans recognize things need to change in the grocery aisle, and they support Uncle Sam's efforts to overhaul what is included in their food and on the packages. The majority also believe they are individually responsible for making the right food choices to avoid obesity, but will readily accept the government's help to be successful, according to a new survey by FoodMinds...
Nutrition Services For Older Adults At Home And In Communities
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
The Society for Nutrition Education (SNE) has partnered with the American Dietetic Association (ADA) and American Society for Nutrition (ASN) to publish a position paper, "Position of the American Dietetic Association, American Society for Nutrition, and Society for Nutrition Education: Food and Nutrition Programs for Community-Residing Older Adults," focusing on access to safe...
Dietary Supplements Discouraged For Prostate Cancer Patients
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Prostate-specific dietary supplements should not be taken during radiation therapy treatments because they have been shown to increase the radiosensitivity of normal prostate cell lines, leading to normal tissue complications, according to a study in the March issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of the American Society ...