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MARCH 2008
IF YOU’RE AGE 70 or older, your
nutritional needs—and the best ways
to meet them—aren’t the same as
somebody who’s 25, or even 50. So
Tufts experts have developed a food
pyramid especially for you.
The Modified Food Guide Pyramid
for Older Adults, an update to a
resource originally introduced in 1999,
reflects changes to correspond with the
new USDA food pyramid, MyPyramid.
That Internet-based program, debuted
in 2005, customizes dietary guidance
based on sex, age, height, weight and
exercise habits.…
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FEBRUARY 2008
Weekly fish consumption linked to 40% reduced dementia risk
FISH—especially those rich in
omega-3 (n-3) fatty acids such as
salmon, mackerel, herring, sardines
and bluefish—may be the latest
“brain food.” A trio of new
international studies suggest that
omega-3s and fish consumption
protect against cognitive decline,
dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
Because all three studies
focused on healthy adults, they hold out hope for lifestyle measures that might slow a looming global crisis as aging populations develop Alzheimer’s and dementia.…
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JANUARY 2008
EATING A HEALTHY DIET—with ample vitamin C
and omega-6 linoleic acid—may make it easier to like
what you see in the mirror as you get older. In a new
study, UK researchers found those two nutrients stood
out in helping prevent the wrinkles, dryness and skin
thinning that come with age.…
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JANUARY 2006
ANY DAY NOW, after investing
30,000 hours in research and
testing, Kraft Foods will introduce
an Oreo cookie that contains
no trans fat.
The company, like other
food manufacturers, has
been scrambling to
meet a Jan. 1…
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JANUARY 2007
TWO NEW SCIENTIFIC reports,
issued simultaneously, conclude
that for most adults the benefits
of eating seafood outweigh the
risks of possible contaminants
such as mercury and PCBs. Although
differing on how strongly they weight
the evidence for seafood’s positive
effects, both studies generally back the
federal dietary guidelines’ and
American Heart Association’s recommendations
to eat fish twice a week.…
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JANUARY 2007
THAT BOTTLE OF COLA may be bad
news for your bones. New research at
Tufts’ Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition
Research Center on Aging links cola consumption
to lower bone mineral density
in older women, which increases risk
osteoporosis.…
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JANUARY 2006
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.…
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FEBRUARY 2006
THE SHIFTING scientific story
on “carbs” in your diet took
another twist at the American
Heart Association’s recent
Scientific Sessions: Results from
the OmniHeart study presented at the
conference showed that substituting
protein or monounsaturated fats for
10% of carbohydrates in an already
healthy diet can reduce heart-disease
risk.…
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FEBRUARY 2005
COULD THE CANDY in that
heart-shaped box of Valentine’s
chocolates actually be good for
your heart?
Certainly, the nation’s candy makers
would love for you to think so.
Mars Inc., the global food conglomerate
that makes M&Ms, Snickers and
Dove bars, among other products, has
spent 15 years researching the purported
health benefits of chocolate, according
to The New York Times. In 2003,
the company introduced the CocoaVia
snack bar, which is packed with the
flavanols that are credited with chocolate’s
heart-healthy qualities while
being mostly free of cocoa butter; to
date, Mars has sold CocoaVia only on
the Internet. An American Heart
Association meeting in November
heard evidence that eating two
CocoaVia snack bars daily could
reduce cholesterol levels. In December,
a “CBS Sunday Morning” segment
touted Mars’ patented Cocoapro
process that, according to a company
news release, “retains much of the naturally
occurring cocoa flavanols that
provide potential health benefits.”…
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FEBRUARY 2005
AWOMAN’S RISK from taking menopause hormones
may depend on the age she starts taking them, according
to an ongoing review of the two largest hormone studies.
Data from one of the studies, the Women’s Health
Initiative (WHI), linked estrogen-progestin pills such as
Prempro to increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and breast
cancer. So high were the risks, in fact, that the government
study was halted two years ago, and many women were
scared off hormone therapy altogether. (Subsequent analysis
also found risk from estrogen-only pills such as Premarin.)
But an earlier, 2000 analysis of data from the Nurses
Health Study (NHS), another hormone test, had found seemingly
contradictory results: Subjects who took hormones
were 40 percent less likely to suffer heart attacks.…
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JANUARY 2007
COULD A GLASS OF ORANGE JUICE twice a day
help improve your cholesterol levels? Researchers
the University of California-Davis think so—provided
that the juice is supplemented with plant sterols.
In a new study, researchers found that reduced-calorie
orange juice with added plant sterols reduced levels of Creactive
protein, a marker for inflammation that may predict
the risk of atherosclerosis. The juice mixture also decreased
total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol while increasing hearthealthy
HDL cholesterol.…
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MARCH 2005
WE DON’T KNOW ABOUT POPEYE’S MUSCLES, but a new study suggests
that he and other spinach eaters do have healthier eyes. Researchers at Ohio
State University have demonstrated in the laboratory that certain antioxidants
found in our diets in dark leafy green vegetables—not only spinach but also
kale and collard greens—can help prevent cataracts, at least in the test tube.…
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MARCH 2008
THOUGH NOT AS WELL-KNOWN as
other members of the vitamin alphabet,
vitamin K could prove to be a weapon
against the inflammation associated with
chronic diseases such as osteoporosis
and cardiovascular disease.…
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MARCH 2005
FOOD THE WAY Grandma
used to make it seems to be
staging a culinary comeback.
Unfortunately, unless you’re
burning off calories like the
farmers and lumberjacks Grandma
used to cook for, this “home cooking”
revival can pack on the pounds. Even if
your daily routine does involve more
heavy lifting than clicking a computer
mouse, eating Grandma-style still
invites trouble with overdoses of fat
and sodium…
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MARCH 2007
AMERICANS DRINK ALMOST a quarter
of our daily calories, according to a new
analysis of government dietary data.…
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MARCH 2006
FREQUENT EXERCISE seems
to delay the onset of Alzheimer’s
disease and other forms of
dementia, according to a new
study published in the Annals of
Internal Medicine. The findings add to
the mounting evidence that keeping
active can help keep your mind sharp
as you age.…
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MARCH 2006
IF YOU NEEDED ONE MORE REASON to begin a habit of drinking
tea, the results of a new Swedish study might just push you over
the edge and into the tea aisle of your grocery or health food
store. Susanna C. Larsson, MSc, and colleagues reported in the
Archives of Internal Medicine that middle-aged women who drink two
or more cups of green or black tea every day may reduce their risk
for invasive epithelial ovarian cancer by almost half.…
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MARCH 2008
IN STUDY AFTER STUDY, whole grains have been credited
with helping to lower your risk for a host of ailments,
including stroke, type-2 diabetes and heart disease,
as well as enhancing weight maintenance.…
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APRIL 2006
DESPITE THE HEADLINES,
the latest findings on dietary
fat don’t mean you should
give up on watching the fat in
your food. True, the widelyreported $415 million governmentstudy, the Women’s Health Initiative(WHI) Dietary Modification Trial,generally failed to find benefits from alow-fat diet against breast and coloncancer or cardiovascular disease. …
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MARCH 2008
A NEW STUDY FINDS that fish-oil capsules are as effective as eating
fish for enriching the blood and other body tissues with health promoting
omega-3 fatty acids.…
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MARCH 2008
Tomato, tom-AH-to… no matter how
you say it, the tomato and its byproducts
are packed with healthful nutrients.
Now a new study from Finland says
tomatoes may even help improve your cholesterol.…
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APRIL 2005
IF YOU’VE BEEN dragging your feet
about boosting your whole grain intake
to the new federal dietary guidelines’
recommendation of at least three ounces
daily, here’s a new incentive to get with
the program: A diet rich in whole grains
appears to lower many people’s risk of
developing heart disease.…
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APRIL 2006
AMAJOR NEW American
Cancer Society study serves up
another reason to watch your
consumption of red meat: Too
much red meat significantly
raises your risk of colorectal cancer.
The study of nearly 150,000
Americans, the largest and most comprehensive
to date, was published in
the Journal of the American Medical
Association. The findings also linked
colorectal cancer risk and prolonged
high consumption of processed meat.…
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FEBRUARY 2008
Making sense of seemingly contrary findings on the risks from being overweight.…
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FEBRUARY 2008
THAT LEMON JUICE squeezed into your
tea may be doing more than merely kicking
the flavor up a notch.…
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APRIL 2007
FORTIFICATION OF FOODS with folic
acid, credited with reducing one type of
birth defect by more than 25% since
1998, may be a two-edged sword for
older people.…
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APRIL 2005
Wouldn’t it be great if eating chips and
other fried snacks lowered your cholesterol
instead of raising it? Brandeis
University researchers say that may not
be an impossible dream. They’ve found
that natural sterols in plants called phytosterols
help block the absorption of
cholesterol. When they added soybeanderived
phytosterols to the cooking oil
used to fry chips, subjects who ate the
snacks had lower levels of LDL, the socalled
“bad” cholesterol.…
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MAY 2005
YOU’VE HEARD MOST of
Mireille Guiliano’s diet and
exercise advice before from others,
some of it even in the pages
of this newsletter: Eat more
slowly and eat smaller portions. Start
every day with a real breakfast. Favor
nuts, fruit, vegetables and fish, especially
salmon. Drink more water. Wine
and dark chocolate in moderation can’t
hurt and might help. Walk more, take
the stairs, and start resistance training.
Get a good night’s sleep.…
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APRIL 2007
When Beverly J. Tepper lectures,
she often leaves her
audience with their tongues
hanging out. Literally. As
part of a talk on taste sensitivity,
she passes out little circles of filter
paper embedded with what is, to
some people, a bitter-tasting compound
with the unappetizing name of 6-npropylthiouracil.…
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JULY 2005
THANKS TO THE ARSENAL
of powerful medical weapons
doctors now have at their disposal
to fight high cholesterol,
it’s easy to overlook the importance
of diet in that battle. Even if you
know to cut back on dietary fats, the
other side of the coin—what foods to
eat more of to combat high blood cholesterol—
often gets short shrift.…
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APRIL 2006
IN A TURNAROUND that shouldn’t come as a big surprise
to readers of the Healthletter, the American Heart
Association (AHA) has concluded that soy protein has little
or no effect on risk factors for heart disease—though it can
still be a healthful replacement for animal protein high in
saturated fat. Our December 2005 Special Report spotlighted
growing doubts about soy protein, once touted as a “magic
bullet” against a variety of health problems. Now the AHA
has officially joined those backing off from the soy bandwagon,
updating a 2000 scientific statement that endorsed soy
protein’s potential for reducing cardiovascular risk.…
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JULY 2005
The debate over the wildly popular sugar
substitute Splenda has turned not-so-sweet.
The maker of Equal, its closest competitor,
has sued over Splenda’s claim, “Made from
sugar so it tastes like sugar,” saying it fools
consumers into thinking the product is allnatural.
The Sugar Association has launched
a Web site, truthaboutsplenda.com, that
snipes, “Splenda is an artificial sweetener
made from a chemical compound that
includes chlorine. Splenda is not natural.”
Now McNeil Nutritionals, which makes
Splenda, is suing the sugar organization for
making “false and misleading claims.”…
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AUGUST 2005
IF YOU’RE TRYING to eat more fish for
your heart’s sake, forget the fish sticks
and Filet-O-Fish sandwiches and skip
Long John Silver’s. A new study suggests
that fried fish and the like not only
don’t help protect your heart, but may
actually increase your risk of cardiac
woes. Only fish that’s been broiled,
baked or prepared in a similar way
seems linked to reduced risk of heart
disease, according to research recently
presented at a meeting of the American
Heart Association.…
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AUGUST 2005
SCIENTISTS ARE DEBATING
the significance of a headlinegrabbing
study that seems to
show a link between a low-fat
diet and reduced recurrence of
breast cancer. Researchers said this represented
the first large, randomized
clinical trial to show diet could have
any impact on cancer outcomes. But
experts cautioned that the findings, presented
at the world’s largest cancer
meeting, the American Society of
Clinical Oncology, were only marginally
statistically significant.…
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MAY 2007
A NEW DUTCH STUDY suggests that
menaquinone-4, a form of vitamin K, may
be another tool to help maintain bone
strength in postmenopausal women,…
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MAY 2006
THE INK WAS HARDLY DRY
on the controversial news about
low-fat diets from the Women’s
Health Initiative (see last
month’s Healthletter) when a
second arm of the study reported more
results that seemed to contradict conventional
medical wisdom: In a sevenyear
trial of 36,282 postmenopausal
women, researchers found no significant
benefit from calcium and vitamin
D supplementation in preventing hip
fractures.…
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AUGUST 2005
EVERYTHING YOU READ
about health and nutrition—
including this newsletter—
seems to say you should eat
more fruits and vegetables. But
unless you grow your own produce,
finding fresh, affordable fruits and vegetables
can be a challenge, or at least a
chore. Fortunately, late summer and
early fall are a perfect time to connect
with folks who do grow their own produce—
at your local farmers’ market.…
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DECEMBER 2005
VITAMIN D HAS BEEN shown
to reduce the risk of bone fractures
in the elderly—but is the
Recommend Dietary Allowance
(RDA) of vitamin D enough to
do the job?…
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DECEMBER 2006
LESS THAN a year after the Food
and Drug Administration (FDA)
began requiring labeling of trans
fat in supermarket foods, consumer
advocates have declared
war on trans fat in restaurants.…
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MAY 2006
CAN A CANDY BAR BE GOOD FOR YOU?
Mars Inc., the maker of M&Ms and
Snickers, certainly thinks so. In 2003, the
company created the CocoaVia snack bar,
which it promotes as packed with cocoa
flavanols—antioxidants that may have hearthealthy
qualities (see the February 2005
Healthletter). Now it’s also introduced a variety
of new CocoaVia chocolate bars and
rolled out retail sales nationwide; originally,
the bars—priced at about $1 each—were
available only online.…
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DECEMBER 2006
NUTRITION EXPERTS HAVE BEEN urging
us to eat more leafy green vegetables
for our health, but recent outbreaks of
contaminated spinach and lettuce suddenly
make that salad bowl seem scary instead of healthy.…
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JANUARY 2008
Though peeling an onion may make you cry, consuming supplemental
quercetin—an antioxidant compound found in abundance
in onions as well as in some other fruits and vegetables—
may give folks with high blood pressure something to smile
about.…
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JANUARY 2008
WE ALL KNOW the childhood rhyme, “Beans,
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time to stop snickering.…
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DECEMBER 2006
HAVE YOU HAD your green tea today? A large Japanese study of
the effects of green-tea consumption on mortality suggests that
several cups a day may help you have more tomorrows.…
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JANUARY 2008
Zinc’s power to strengthen the immune
system may help older people stave
off pneumonia,…
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DECEMBER 2005
FOLATE, A B VITAMIN found
in foods such as leafy green vegetables
and citrus fruit, may help
keep your brain sharp as you age.…
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DECEMBER 2005
NEW TUFTS RESEARCH SUGGESTS that vitamin
supplements, particularly long-term use of vitamin E,may slow the development of cataracts.…
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JUNE 2007
DESPITE HEADLINES about the Atkins diet “winning”
an extensive study comparing four popular
diets, the real take-away message from the findings is
a bit more complex.…
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DECEMBER 2005
YOUR MOTHER ALWAYS TOLD YOU breakfast
was the most important meal of the
day, and a new Michigan State University
study finds mom was right—at least if you’re
a woman watching her weight.…
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JUNE 2007
THE POPULAR HERBAL SUPPLEMENT ginkgo biloba
did not improve the mental performance of older
adults without dementia or cognitive impairment in a
recent study, leaving researchers to wonder if the subjects
themselves were simply too sharp to benefit.…
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SEPTEMBER 2005
THE YOGURT ADS promise
that three servings a day will
help you squeeze into an “itsy
bitsy, teeny weeny, yellow polkadot
bikini.” A prominent
researcher has patented the idea that
dairy products promote weight loss.
The dairy industry touts the claim in a
$200 million ad campaign. But the
Physicians Committee for Responsible
Medicine, a pro-vegetarian group that
believes milk isn’t healthy, is petitioning
the federal government, saying claims
that dairy consumption promotes
weight loss are false and misleading.…
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JUNE 2007
A NEW STUDY adds to the evidence that
zinc can boost the body’s fight against infection.…
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APRIL 2008
Next winter, even if you live someplace
sunny, you may want to
consider a vitamin D supplement
to make up for the seasonal drop in
your body’s natural levels of the “sunshine
vitamin.”…
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JULY 2007
THE GLYCEMIC INDEX, des -
pite its role in several popular
diet plans, may not really be
crucial to losing weight.
Findings from the first phase of
a new Tufts study suggest that, regardless
of a diet’s glycemic load, ultimately
it’s calories that count.…
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JUNE 2006
JUST BECAUSE that “sports drink” features athletes
in its ads doesn’t mean it’s your healthiest choice to
quench your thirst. In fact, a new proposed guidance
system for beverage consumption ranks sports drinks
near the bottom.…
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NOVEMBER 2005
Tufts researchers conclude that eating right is still smarter
than relying on supplements.…
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JUNE 2006
ARE THERE REALLY “good carbs” and “bad
carbs”? A new study suggests that relying on the
glycemic index to choose your carbohydrates is not
effective for controlling blood sugar levels or losing
weight.…
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NOVEMBER 2005
YOUR MORNING GLASS of orange juice
may be doing more than just helping you
wake up—it might reduce your risk of arthritis.…
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JULY 2007
LOOKING TO LESSEN your breast cancer risk? Hold
off on the bacon and burgers. That’s the word from two
recent studies linking heavy consumption of processed
and grilled red meats with increased risk for breast cancer,
particularly among postmenopausal women.…
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NOVEMBER 2005
NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS that a diet high in cereal fiber and
whole grains may help slow the progression of plaque buildup in the arteries of heart-disease patients.…
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APRIL 2008
COULD LEGUMES, such as peanuts and soybeans,
help combat the world’s growing diabetes epidemic?…
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JULY 2006
SCIENTISTS ARE taking a closer
look at the connections
between what you eat and your
risk of Alzheimer’s disease and
cognitive decline.…
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APRIL 2008
TO HELP PROTECT YOURSELF against stroke, eat plenty of fruits
and vegetables—perhaps especially, a new study suggests, those rich
in vitamin C.…
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NOVEMBER 2005
Study says it’s how much we
drink, not coffee’s healthy
properties, that make it #1.…
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JULY 2007
PEOPLE WHO EXERCISE regularly and vigorously—
more than just an occasional stroll around the
block—may see their efforts rewarded with a lowered
risk of Parkinson’s disease. That’s the promising news
from researchers at the Harvard School of Public
Health who found that subjects who were the most active,
performing 30 minutes of moderate to intense physical exercise
a day, had a 40% lower chance of developing the disease.…
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APRIL 2008
EVERYBODY KNOWS that carrots are supposed to
be good for your eyes, but now a new study suggests
Bugs Bunny’s favorite food may also reduce your risk
of dying from heart disease.…
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APRIL 2008
YOUR BODY’S LEVEL of vitamin E may
offer a peek into your future. A new study
published in the Journal of the American
Medical Association (JAMA) reports that low
vitamin E levels are associated with subsequent
decline in physical function.…
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NOVEMBER 2006
EVEN AS RESEARCHERS seem to be confirming
the link between abnormal weight
and risk of death (see above), two other
new studies cast doubt on the most common
measure of overweight, obesity and
underweight: Body Mass Index (BMI).…
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APRIL 2005
AMAJOR NEW American
Cancer Society study serves up
another reason to watch your
consumption of red meat: Too
much red meat significantly
raises your risk of colorectal cancer.
The study of nearly 150,000
Americans, the largest and most comprehensive
to date, was published in
the Journal of the American Medical
Association. The findings also linked
colorectal cancer risk and prolonged
high consumption of processed meat.…
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NOVEMBER 2006
HIS HOLIDAY gift-giving season,
think beyond the
snowflake sweater and cheesesthrough-
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your loved ones’ health…
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AUGUST 2007
AMERICANS average less than
one serving a day of whole
grains, and few of us get the
recommended three servings or
more per day. In fact, more than
40% of US adults typically eat no
whole grains at all.…
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OCTOBER 2005
Study suggests secret of low-carb,
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OCTOBER 2005
But chocolate’s still no “health
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JULY 2006
GETTING TOO LITTLE SLEEP can lead to
worse woes than bags under your eyes. A
new study published in the American
Heart Association journal Hypertension identifies
sleeplessness as a significant risk
factor for high blood pressure.…
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OCTOBER 2006
FORGET “5-A-Day.” Nutrition
science “has just rocketed past”
that familiar program designed
to push produce consumption,…
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OCTOBER 2006
RESEARCHERS ARE TAKING a novel
approach to understanding some of the
possible heart-health benefits of eating
fish: Maybe fish oils help regulate the
heart’s electrical activity.…
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AUGUST 2007
Can you get too much of a good
thing—such as extra vitamin D and
calcium? Researchers at Duke
University and the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill report that older
adults taking high doses of the two nutrients
were much more likely to have significant
brain lesions—areas of damaged tissue
associated with cognitive impairment.…
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AUGUST 2007
While “three square meals a day”
may be conventional wisdom, it’s
not the whole story for folks in
their 60s and beyond. A new study published
in the Journal of the American Dietetic
Association reports that regular snacking
may actually help seniors fill the nutritional
gap that often comes with aging.…
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AUGUST 2006
THE PATH TO heart health
starts on your plate—but doesn’t
stop there. That’s the message of
new American Heart
Association (AHA) guidelines,
the first update to its official recommendations
in six years.…
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SEPTEMBER 2007
New research from Creighton
University School of Medicine adds
to the growing body of evidence
that vitamin D may play an important
role in cancer prevention. In a randomized,
placebo-controlled study of 1,179
healthy, postmenopausal women, those
taking nearly three times the recommended
daily amount of vitamin D, plus
calcium, reduced their relative risk of
cancer by 60%. When just the later
three years of the four-year trial were
analyzed—to weed out subjects with
undiagnosed cancers at the start—those
taking vitamin D supplements saw a
77% reduced risk of cancers.…
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SEPTEMBER 2007
RESEARCHERS at Tufts’ Jean
Mayer USDA Human
Nutrition Research Center on
Aging (HNRCA) are turning
that old adage, “You are what
you eat,” on its head. They’re finding
that, at least in part, you eat what you
are—genetically speaking, that is.…
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JANUARY 2005
How to make the switch to healthier fats—without getting fat.…
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JANUARY 2005
SHOULD YOU THROW those bottles of
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JANUARY 2005
Researchers add fighting Alzheimer’s to list of tea’s health benefits.…
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OCTOBER 2006
YOU CAN’T POUR a glass of
orange juice without being
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JANUARY 2005
THE NEXT DRUG IN YOUR MEDICINE CABINET
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SEPTEMBER 2007
STILL TRYING TO DECIDE when you should shell
out the extra bucks for organic foods? Though the
debate continues—with scientific studies and anecdotal
evidence on both sides of the fence—a new paper
by the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) has just
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OCTOBER 2006
NEED ANOTHER REASON to lose that
“spare tire”? A large European study suggests
that adults who carry much of their
fat around the middle may be at increased
risk for colon cancer.…
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OCTOBER 2007
The quality of the carbohydrates you
eat may affect your risk for agerelated
macular degeneration
AMD) and its associated vision loss.
New Tufts research has confirmed a link
between dietary glycemic index and the
risk of AMD, the leading cause of blindness
for those ages 50-plus.…
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AUGUST 2006
YOUR RISK FOR AGE-RELATED macular degeneration
(AMD)—one of the leading causes of vision loss
in older adults—may depend in part upon your diet.
Researchers at Tufts’ Jean Mayer USDA Human
Nutrition Research Center on Aging and their colleagues
have recently focused on the role dietary carbohydrates
may play in AMD risk. …
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DECEMBER 2007
Extra vitamin D linked to lower death risk.EVIDENCE KEEPS adding up
that vitamin D, the “sunshine
vitamin,” is good for more than
just strong bones.…
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OCTOBER 2007
Since the US and Canada mandated
folic-acid fortification of cereals
and other enriched grain products
in the 1990s, the number of infants
born with neural tube defects (spina
bifida) has dropped by 20%-50%.
Over the same time, however, the rate
of new cases of colorectal cancer
increased. Could there be a hidden
downside to folic-acid fortification?…
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AUGUST 2006
JUST IN CASE YOU NEEDED one more
good reason to shed those extra pounds, a
new study links obesity and breast cancer
risk. Unlike genetics or family history,
researchers point out, weight is at least a
risk factor women can do something about.…
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NOVEMBER 2007
Score one for fruits and vegetables,
and another disappointment for
nutrition in pill form. Eating lots of
fruits and vegetables has been linked to
improved heart health.…
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NOVEMBER 2007
New Menu Planner will help you meet healthy-eating goals.…
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DECEMBER 2007
RESEARCHERS in the Netherlands have found
another possible benefit of eating more whole
grains—a trimmer waistline.…
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DECEMBER 2007
Forget the old adage about an apple a
day. If you’re looking to lower your risk
of pancreatic cancer, you’d be wiser to
eat a healthy dose of onions, spinach and
certain cabbages.…
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OCTOBER 2007
Accepting food cravings and keeping
them in check may be an important
component of weight management,
according to new Tufts research.…
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SEPTEMBER 2006
THERE MAY BE GOOD NEWS coming from an unexpected source—
your salt shaker. A new report published in the American Journal of
Clinical Nutrition suggests that replacing regular salt with a potassium-
fortified alternative may help lower adults’ risk of death from
cardiovascular disease.…
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JANUARY 2006
IF YOU’RE A TYPICAL AMERICAN EATER, you’re
probably getting plenty of carbohydrates, but not enough
vitamin A, C and E and magnesium. And you’re still getting
too much salt. (The report did not measure vitamin D
intake, …
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