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9 Keys to Living to a Healthy 85+

FEBRUARY 2007

ONE OF THE BIGGEST, longest studies of aging and health has identified nine risk factors that are strongly linked with a person’s odds of living to at least a healthy age 85.The good news is that most of these keys to living a longer,healthier life are things you can control. …

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Fruits and Vegetables Help Build Healthy Hearts

FEBRUARY 2005

But evidence proves elusive for cancer-preventing effects of YOUR HEART LOVES fruits and vegetables, according to a multiyear study of more than 100,000 participants conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health. Researchers found that the more total fruits and vegetables participants ate, the less their cardiovascular risk.…

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FDA Allows Watered-Down Tomato Claims vs. Cancer, Nixes Lycopene Claim

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TOMATOES HAVE PLENTY of nutritional benefits, but can eating tomatoes also fight cancer? Sort of. Maybe. It depends. That’s how you might interpret the recent ruling by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), after two years of investigation, granting a “qualified health claim” for fresh, dried and canned tomatoes regarding four types of cancers.…


Cherries Masquerading as Medicine JANUARY 2006 The song got it wrong—life is not just a bowl of cherries. Although cherries have many nutritional benefits, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants cherry marketers to stop claiming that the little red fruits are a cure-all, … Read>>
Skip Smoking and Salt to Reduce Reflux Risk FEBRUARY 2005 Here’s another reason to stop smoking and limit your salt intake: You can reduce your risk of stomach reflux. The uncomfortable condition in which stomach juices flow back into the esophagus, technically known as gastroesophageal reflux, causes heartburn; if severe and untreated, reflux can increase the risk of esophageal cancer.… Read>>
Minnesota Ranks Healthiest,Dontcha Know MARCH 2006 MAYBE there’s an upside to the cold weather: Minnesota, according to the 16th annual “America’s Health Rankings” report, is the healthiest state in the US, followed by Vermont, New Hampshire, Utah and Hawaii. Minnesota has ranked number-one for 10 of the 16 years of the rankings. The least healthy state is Mississippi, with Louisiana and Tennessee near the bottom.… Read>>
Cancer Deaths Show Small But Historic Drop APRIL 2006 FINALLY, SOME GOOD NEWS on cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, the US recorded its first annual drop in cancer deaths in 70 years.… Read>>
10 Tips to Reduce Cancer Risk FEBRUARY 2008 A LANDMARK REPORT by a 21- member expert panel points to ways you can reduce your risk of cancer through diet and lifestyle.… Read>>
Is a Daily Drink a Toast APRIL 2006 MODERATE ALCOHOL consumption seems to reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke—but could the same cardiovascular benefits also help keep blood vessels in the brain healthier? That’s what researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and the Harvard Medical School decided to test. Between 1995 and 2001, they evaluated cognitive function in 12,480 participants, ages 70 to 81, in the Nurses’ Health Study, a long-running study of women’s health and lifestyle. They did a follow-up assessment two years later.… Read>>
Another “F” Grade for Vitamin E MAY 2005 AN EXTENSIVE NEW STUDY seeking to test whether vitamin E protects against heart disease and cancer has instead poked another hole in the rapidly deflating promise of vitamin E as an elixir of youth. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that—at best—vitamin E supplements do no good in preventing heart attacks and cancer.… Read>>
Calcium Keeps on Working Against Polyps JULY 2005 CALCIUM SUPPLEMENTS, which many people take to help ward off osteoporosis, may have a beneficial side effect: A new study reports that calcium supplements protect against the development of colon polyps, which can turn cancerous. Perhaps most surprisingly, this protective effect seems to persist for as long as five years after people discontinue taking the calcium supplements.… Read>>
Exercise May Reduce Prostate Cancer Risk in Older AUGUST 2005 THREE NEW STUDIES have shed a bit more light on prostate cancer, which will affect one in six men during their lifetime, and suggest ways men might reduce their risk as well as better evaluate their treatment options. The most extensive of the studies, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, looked for links between exercise and reduced risk of prostate cancer among 48,000 men working in health professions. The researchers studied data spanning 14 years, during which time 2,892 of the subjects developed prostate cancer, including 482 advanced cases. Participants were quizzed about how much time they spent doing a variety of physical activities: walking, running, hiking, bicycling, swimming laps, rowing, playing racket sports, doing calisthenics.… Read>>
No Aspartame-Cancer Link Found JUNE 2006 CONSUMERS worried about possible cancer risks of the popular sweetener aspartame can breathe a little easier. A huge federal study, conducted independently of any industry ties, has given the controversial sweetener a clean bill of health.… Read>>
Early Weight Gain Tied to Prostate- Cancer Return DECEMBER 2005 WATCHING your weight, even before the age at which prostate cancer becomes a key concern, may help reduce your risk later in life of prostate-cancer recurrence.… Read>>
FDA Nixes Green Tea Heart Claim JULY 2006 DESPITE THE BOOMING popularity of green tea, driven by the belief that its abundant antioxidants called catechins protect against a variety of ailments, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has rejected a petition to allow green tea makers to tout cardiovascular benefits on their labels. … Read>>
Antioxidants and Cancer Treatment Don’t Mix NOVEMBER 2005 IF YOU’RE TAKING antioxidant vitamins in hopes of helping your body fight cancer while undergoing radiation or chemotherapy treatment, tell your doctor.… Read>>
New Painkiller Worries on Celebrex and Aleve FEBRUARY 2005 MORE QUESTIONS have been raised about heart risks from popular painkillers. Celebrex—already under a shadow after the recall of another drug from the COX-2 inhibitor group, Vioxx—was found to increase the risk of heart attack in subjects in a trial of its possible anti-cancer properties. The National Cancer Institute-sponsored study was halted after patients taking the arthritis medication suffered heart attacks at more than twice the rate of those taking a placebo. A similar study, designed to see if Celebrex prevented colon polyps, found no increased heart risk.… Read>>
Making Progress Against Cancer NOVEMBER 2006 THANKS LARGELY TO kicking tobacco, earlier detection and improved treatments, US deaths from cancer keep edging downward.… Read>>
Diet and Lifestyle Changes May Affect Prostate Can OCTOBER 2005 ASMALL STUDY of prostate-cancer patients is the first randomized, controlled trial to suggest that diet and lifestyle changes might only help prevent cancer, but could affect cancer’s progression.… Read>>
Clickable Research OCTOBER 2005 THREE OF the nation’s most important health groups are teaming up on a new Web site designed to keep patients up to date about medical studies that may affect their health.… Read>>
A Few More Ounces of Prevention Needed AUGUST 2006 MOST AMERICANS could be getting more out of preventive medical care. That’s the conclusion of an analysis of more than 8,000 previously published studies by the nonprofit Partnership for Prevention and HealthPartners Research Foundation.… Read>>
Wrong Ideas About Cancer OCTOBER 2007 WHAT WE DON’T KNOW about cancer can hurt us. A new American Cancer Society survey finds surprising number of Americans believe scientifically unsubstantiated claims concerning cancer. The telephone survey asked people to label 12 cancer myths as true or false; all 12 were actually false. While more than two-thirds of those surveyed could identify seven myths as false, five were endorsed as true by at least a quarter of respondents. Among the results: • 67.7% mistakenly believed the risk of dying of cancer in the US is increasing. • 38.7% thought that living in a polluted city is a greater risk for lung cancer than smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. • 29.7% said electronic devices, like cell phones, can cause cancer. • 14.7% thought personal-hygiene products, like shampoo, deodorant and antiperspirants, can cause cancer. • 6.2% believed underwire bras can cause breast cancer.… Read>>
Green Tea and the “Asian Paradox” SEPTEMBER 2006 WHY DON’T PEOPLE in Asian countries, where smoking is often even more common than in the US, suffer heart disease and lung cancer at the same high rates as Americans? One possible puzzle-piece to help explain this “Asian paradox,” researchers at Yale University suggest, may be green tea. The antioxidants called catechins that are plentiful in Asian-preferred green tea, which is less processed than the black tea popular in… Read>>
When “Watchful Waiting” Is OK for Prostate Cancer MARCH 2005 MONITORING CHANGES in a prostate cancer patient’s PSA (prostate specific antigen) level over time may enable physicians to identify good candidates for a “watchful waiting” approach to treatment. A study by the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, published in the Journal of Urology, found that for men whose PSA levels remain stable or decline, “it appears safe to delay cancer treatment or even refrain from treatment.” While acknowledging that “watchful waiting remains a controversial prostate cancer treatment strategy,” the researchers say such patients can be monitored and treated only if the cancer progresses.… Read>>
Taking It Easy with Watermelon JANUARY 2007 HERE’S A SUMMERY thought to keep you going through the winter: Watermelon may be good for more than just slurping at picnics—USDA… Read>>
Reduction in HRT May Have Led to Breast - Cancer Drop FEBRUARY 2007 ANEW ANALYSIS finds that US breast cancer incidence dropped sharply in 2003—a decline that may largely be due to the fact that millions of older women stopped using hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in 2002.… Read>>
Personality Doesn’t Make You More Cancer-Prone APRIL 2005 Is there such a thing as a “cancer personality”? An extensive study of twins recently published in Cancer, a journal of the American Cancer Society, found no evidence that two personality traits popularly linked to the likelihood of cancer— low neuroticism and high extroversion— are actually risk factors. Researchers followed 29,595 Swedish twins for an average of 25 years. In the group’s 1,898 cases of cancer, they found no association with a low degree of neuroticism or a high degree of extroversion in the subjects’ personalities. Nor did they see evidence that personality traits indirectly led to cancer through behavioral factors, such as smoking.… Read>>
Kick the Soda to Reduce Night Heartburn JULY 2005 WANT TO AVOID heartburn at night? Maybe you need to cut back on the soda pop during the day. That’s one of the findings from a study of nocturnal gastroesophageal reflux—nighttime heartburn—recently published in the journal Chest. Researchers from four universities surveyed more than 15,000 patients enrolled in the Sleep Heart Health Study, of whom 3,806 reported suffering heartburn at night. It’s estimated that 44 percent of all Americans experience nighttime heartburn at least once a month. Potentially more serious than daytime heartburn, nocturnal reflux not only interferes with sleep, but also causes more damage to the esophagus and is more likely to lead to esophageal cancer.… Read>>
Calcium, Vitamin D Linked to Reduced PMS Risk AUGUST 2005 BESIDES THE many other benefits of getting plenty of calcium and vitamin D, researchers now suggest that combination may reduce women’s likelihood of premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Although previous studies had found calcium might reduce the severity of PMS, this is the first evidence that calcium plus vitamin D—which helps the body absorb calcium—could actually help ward off the syndrome.… Read>>
Hold the Cream and Sugar OCTOBER 2007 Green tea, which has been touted as a possible weapon against everything from cancer to Alzheimer’s disease, may have yet another application: treating dandruff. Researchers at the Medical College of Georgia found that the topical application of green-tea polyphenols on mice significantly reduced flaky skin such as that seen with dandruff or psoriasis. Writing in Experimental Dermatology, Stephen Hsu, PhD, and colleagues reported that the green-tea compounds appeared to retard the overproduction of skin cells by acting on an enzyme that’s known to be defective in human psoriasis sufferers. It’s too soon to start rubbing green-tea leaves on your itchy scalp or flaky skin, however. In addition to the need for human testing, Hsu cautioned that researchers need to find a more stable formula that can permeate human skin.… Read>>
Diet Guidelines in Sync MAY 2008 DON’T BLAME mixed messages if you can’t stick to a healthy diet. A review of three prominent sets of dietary guidelines finds that, despite being derived from different nutrition research, all three are mostly singing from the same hymnal. Their essential message is consistent: Eat more vegetables, fruits, legumes and whole grains, switch to monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats from plants, and cut back on saturated fat and sugar.… Read>>
Health Claim Extended to Brown Rice JULY 2008 BROWN RICE has won new bragging rights from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Previously excluded from a whole-grain health claim because of its lower dietary-fiber content, brown rice can now sport a whole-grain logo and boast of hearthealth benefits. The FDA relaxed its fiber requirement in a new ruling.… Read>>
Do You Know Stroke Warning Signs? JULY 2008 ONLY 44% of Americans in a new CDC survey could identify all five warning signs of stroke, and only 38% knew all five plus the need to call 9-1-1 immediately if someone appears to be suffering a stroke. Early recognition and intervention are especially important for stroke victims; as the American Stroke Association puts it, “Time lost is brain lost!” The sooner tPA (tissue plasminogen activator, a “clot-busting” drug) or other appropriate treatment is begun, the better the chances for recovery. The five warning signs of stroke are:… Read>>
FTC Cracks Down on Cancer-Cure Claims NOVEMBER 2008 THE Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is launching a consumereducation campaign to warn the public about bogus cancer “cures”—even as the agency cracks down on companies making false and misleading claims. … Read>>
Many Women Unaware of Obesity-Cancer Link JANUARY 2009 Can obesity increase your risk of cancer? If you’re not sure about the answer—a definite “yes”—you’re not alone. A new survey of 1,545 US women finds that only about half were aware that obesity raises their risk for endometrial, colon and breast cancer. Although 45% of the women were obese themselves, there was no relationship between body weight and knowledge of the obesity-cancer connection. Only 42% were aware that obesity puts them at greater risk of endometrial cancer, which affects the uterine lining, while 53% knew that obesity is associated with colon cancer and 54% knew that obesity boosts breast-cancer risk.… Read>>
Scant Evidence, Some Risk for Herbal Menopause Treatments MARCH 2009 Herbal remedies for menopause symptoms not only lack clear evidence that they actually work, but may hold health risks, according to a new scientific review. The reviewers found mixed results in seven trials of black cohosh, a root used to treat hot flashes and other symptoms, but warned that women using it should be aware of the potential risk of liver toxicity. Five randomized controlled trials of red clover, another popular herbal treatment, all failed to find greater benefits than a placebo. Moreover, the reviewers cautioned, red clover’s isoflavones may be of concern to women with a history of hormone-sensitive cancers. No other herbal treatment had more than two trials; results were either mixed or negative. … Read>>
“Drunken” Beef Cuts Carcinogens MARCH 2009 Worried about carcinogenic compounds forming when you grill or pan-fry steaks? Marinating beef in beer or red wine before cooking can significantly reduce the levels of potentially cancer-causing compounds, according to Portuguese scientists. Chemicals called heterocyclic amines (HAs), thought to increase cancer risk, are created when meats are grilled, broiled or pan-fried at high temperature or to “well done.” Researchers marinated beef samples in beer or red wine for up to six hours before pan-frying, then compared HA levels to un-marinated control samples. Levels of potential carcinogens were reduced 88% in the beer-marinated beef and 40% in the wine batch. A tasting panel found the beer-marinated steaks as good as regular beef, while the winesoaked steaks scored lower; marinating for longer than two hours had negative effects on odor, color and overall quality. … Read>>
Nutrition Benefits Boost Whole-Grain Sales JUNE 2009 CONSUMERS are going for whole grains in a big way, with sales rising 17% last year and expected to reach $6 billion by 2013. That’s the word from the trend-watchers at the Packaged Facts market-research firm, in a new report that calls the growing popularity of whole grains “a major trend rooted in sound nutritional science.” … Read>>
NY Nutritionists Pick 5 Favorite Foods JULY 2009 Rich in heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids, salmon swam into first place in a new survey of New York nutritionists asked to name foods they’d recommend as not only nutritious but offering distinct health benefits and good value. The poll of members in the New York State Dietetic Association ranked oats number-two because of high fiber, “a powerhouse nutrient, known for aiding with digestion [and which] also helps fight disease,… Read>>
Carrots Cooked Whole Retain More Nutrients AUGUST 2009 Chef, spare that carrot! British scientists have found that carrots cooked whole contain 25% more of a possible anti-cancer compound, falcarinol, than those cooked after being chopped. At a conference, Newcastle Uni versity researchers reported, “Chop - ping up your carrots increases the surface area so more of the nutrients leach out into the water while they are cooked.… Read>>
Putting Vitamin D and Omega-3s to the Test SEPTEMBER 2009 Researchers launching the largest clinical trial of its kind hope to find definitive evidence whether vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids really do help prevent cancer, heart disease and stroke. The five-year study, dubbed VITAL (for VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL), will enroll 20,000 men over 60 and women over 65 nationwide. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial—considered the “gold standard” of medical research—will compare the effects of moderate to high doses of each supplement, both supplements and a placebo.… Read>>
Calorie-Cutting Linked to Longevity SEPTEMBER 2009 Scientists have known for 70 years that lifelong calorie reduction slows aging in rodents. Now, for the first time, they’ve demonstrated a similar benefit in primates, suggesting that the principle could also apply to humans. In a study reported in Science, researchers divided 76 rhesus macaques into a control group and a group fed 30% fewer calories from birth. To date, 37% of the control macaques have died from age-related causes,… Read>>
Claims Selenium Fights Cancers “Highly Uncertain” SEPTEMBER 2009 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has signaled its willingness to allow certain highly qualified health claims that selenium might reduce the risk of prostate, bladder and thyroid cancer. But don’t expect supplement makers to rush to splash the FDA-approved language on their labels—the claims aren’t exactly a marketer’s dream.… Read>>


From the Lab to Your Lifestyle: 8 Ways to Be Healthier in 2006 $ 1.95 \| JANUARY 2006 SOMETIMES IT SEEMS science moves in zigzags, taking a step backwards for every two steps forward. What once appeared a promising breakthrough turns out to be a disappointment—or worse. This past year, for instance, was filled with news dashing scientists’ once-high hopes for vitamin E as a weapon against an array of ailments.… Buy>>
New Food for Thought Against Alzheimer’s $ 1.95 \| JANUARY 2007 WHILE A CURE for Alzheimer’s disease remains frustratingly elusive, a flurry of recent research suggests ways you may be able to improve your odds of preventing Alzheimer’s and other age-related cognitive decline through diet and lifestyle. Though these hopeful findings are preliminary, there’s little downside to following their leads in your own life: Increasingly, scientists are discovering the same healthy habits that benefit your heart and waistline—eating fish, consuming more vegetables, hewing to the so-called “Mediterranean diet”— also keep your brain sharp as you age.… Buy>>
Winning the Claim Game Confused by label claims for health benefits for everything from walnuts to corn oil? Here’s how to read the fine print.… Read>>
Vitamin A: “Magic Bullet” That Can Backfire $ 1.95 \| FEBRUARY 2005 Centuries before scientists even coined the word “vitamin,” the ancient Egyptians knew that liver—the body’s repository for vitamin A—could cure night blindness, the inability to see in low light. Hippocrates (460-377 BC) prescribed liver soaked in honey for blindness in malnourished children.… Buy>>
One Year Later: Lessons from New Guidelines and Pyramid FEBRUARY 2006 SO HOW ARE WE DOING? Last month marked the oneyear anniversary of the release of the new federal dietary guidelines, and April will see the first birthday of the revised “food pyramid,” dubbed MyPyr

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