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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
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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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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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APRIL 2007
IN A FINDING THAT challenges
many of the promises of the multibillion-
dollar diet and fitness industry,
a new study suggests that cutting
calories and exercising more
are both equally effective for losing
weight.…
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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
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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
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JANUARY 2007
ARE THE APPARENT hearthealthy
benefits of moderate
alcohol consumption actually
due to drinking? Or have previous
studies, which have
found that adults who drink moderate
amounts of alcohol have a lower risk
of heart attack than non-drinkers, been
confused by other lifestyle factors? For
example, moderate drinkers might also
be more likely to eat a healthy diet or
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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
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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
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FEBRUARY 2005
Another source of health-promoting
flavonoids (see opposite page), as well as
antioxidant chemicals called phenolics, is the
humble onion. But new research at Cornell
University finds that you need to eat more
pungent onions to get the most benefit.…
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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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FEBRUARY 2007
LOW-CARBOHYDRATE eating plans, such
as those popularized by the South Beach
and Zone diets, don’t appear to raise the
dieter’s risk of heart disease—despite
higher intake of fat and protein.…
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MARCH 2005
Cholesterol may not beCholesterol may not be the only culprit
that physicians need to watch in
patients with heart disease. Two new
studies, both published in the New England
Journal of Medicine, spotlight the role of
C-reactive protein (CRP), a protein
secreted by the body during inflammation.
The researchers make the case that
controlling levels of CRP may be as
important as lowering cholesterol in
fighting heart disease.…
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FEBRUARY 2006
IF HEALTH CONCERNS have
caused you to switch to decaf coffee,
new research may make you
rethink your choices—especially if
you’re also swigging colas instead
of regular java. One new study found
that drinking decaffeinated coffee—but
not caffeinated coffee—may be linked
to higher levels of LDL, the “bad cholesterol.”…
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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 2006
WHILE DIETARY FIBER has
plenty of other benefits, it
may not prevent colorectal
cancer. On the other hand,
eating a lot of processed
meats—such as hot dogs, ham, bacon,
sausage and lunch meats—probably
does increase your risk of this cancer,
which is second only to lung cancer as
a cause of cancer deaths. But the good
news is that—for reasons scientists
can’t yet explain—eating chicken seems
to be associated with a reduced risk of
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MARCH 2006
IF YOU’RE CONFUSED about the health
claims made by various grain products,
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from the US Food and Drug Administration
(FDA)—one of them aimed at preventing
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MARCH 2005
BEFORE YOU RAISE TOO MANY TOASTS on this
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heavy alcohol consumption and metabolic syndrome.
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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,
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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
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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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FEBRUARY 2008
Something so simple as clipping on
an inexpensive pedometer could
motivate you to walk up to a mile
more per day.…
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FEBRUARY 2008
Making sense of seemingly contrary findings on the risks from being overweight.…
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JANUARY 2007
Canola-oil makers have joined producers of olive oil in being
able to add a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-
approved “qualified health claim” to their labels. The FDA
recently okayed a petition filed by the US Canola Oil Association
(USCA) back in January 2006 for a claim that substituting canola
for products high in saturated fat, such as butter, can promote
heart health. A similar claim for olive oil was granted in 2004.…
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MARCH 2007
Women looking for an alternative treatment for hot flashes
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MARCH 2007
IF YOUR BELLY enters the room before the rest of you, a
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MAY 2005
Diets that promise weight loss by substituting
steak for pasta and bacon for
bread may be a recipe for increased
heart-disease risk. A new report on a
15-year study of women’s health and
eating habits by the Mayo Clinic College
of Medicine suggests that if you’re
replacing carbohydrates with protein,
the type of protein you pick can make a
difference to your long-term health. The
researchers found an association
between eating more vegetable protein
and a reduced risk of heart disease. But
eating more red meat and dairy products
in place of carbohydrates was
linked to greater coronary heart disease
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MAY 2005
YOUR MOM’S SUGGESTION to “go outside and
play” may still be good advice—especially for men
worried about prostate cancer. Research recently presented
at the 2005 Multidisciplinary Prostate Cancer
Symposium connects high blood levels of vitamin
D—“the sunshine vitamin”—with reduced risk of developing
the most aggressive forms of prostate cancer.…
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JULY 2005
ARECENT HEADLINE in Time
magazine asked the question
many Americans are wondering
in the wake of a controversial
study by the National Cancer
Institute and the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC): “Is it
OK to be pudgy?” The study, published
in the Journal of the American Medical
Association (JAMA), is among the most
rigorous yet to look at the relationship
between weight and mortality. To the
bafflement of many scientists and the
consternation of America’s $46 billiona-
year diet industry, it found that people
who are overweight but not obese have
a lower risk of death than those of
“normal” weight, as defined by the government
using Body Mass Index (BMI).…
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APRIL 2007
EAT YOUR GREENS—and your purples and yellows,
too. Brightly colored fruits and vegetables are already
known to contain a wide range of healthful nutrients.
Now a new Italian study says that increased intake of
flavonoids—antioxidant components found in abundance
in such foods—could lower your risk of kidney cancer
by nearly a third.…
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MAY 2007
IF YOU’RE A WOMAN age 65 or
older, new American Heart Association
prevention guidelines suggest
talking with your doctor about
the potential benefits and risks of
daily low-dose aspirin therapy to protect
your heart—even if you’re healthy
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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
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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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MAY 2006
HEART-HEALTHY HABITS
such as staying physically active
and controlling your blood
pressure may also protect your
brain. A blue-ribbon panel of
the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Cognitive and Emotional Health
Project, which reviewed 96 studies on
factors affecting the brain, found significant
parallels between cardiovascular
health and both cognitive and emotional
health in people over 65.…
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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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JANUARY 2008
THE MASSIVE Women’s Health
Initiative (WHI) may finally
have produced encouraging
news: A low-fat diet seems to
reduce postmenopausal women’s
risk of ovarian cancer—and women
with the unhealthiest diets benefit the
most from cutting down on fat.…
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JANUARY 2008
If you’ve been diligent with your workout
regimen but frustrated because
you can’t see the results on the bathroom
scale, take heart—literally. In fact,
your heart may be benefiting more than
you realize.…
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MAY 2007
HERE’S ANOTHER REASON for women to watch
their cholesterol levels: A new analysis of data from
the Women’s Health Study has found that women
with elevated cholesterol levels had twice the risk for
ischemic stroke compared to women with the lowest
cholesterol levels,…
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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
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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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JUNE 2007
STARTING YOUR DAY with a
bowl of cereal is not just kids’
stuff. Findings presented at a
recent American Heart
Association conference suggest
that eating whole-grain breakfast cereal
can help protect against heart failure.…
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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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JUNE 2006
SOME 35% OF AMERICANS take B vitamins—
folic acid, B12 and B6—many in
doses higher than those in multivitamin
supplements. Until now, scientists had
high hopes that those vitamins could help
prevent heart attacks and strokes by lowering
blood levels of homocysteine.
Previous studies had linked high levels of
this amino acid to heart disease, and
some researchers even likened homocysteine
to cholesterol as a key risk factor.
By lowering homocysteine levels, they
reasoned, you could lower a patient’s cardiovascular
risk—much as statin drugs
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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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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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DECEMBER 2005
FOLATE, A B VITAMIN found
in foods such as leafy green vegetables
and citrus fruit, may help
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DECEMBER 2005
ODDS ARE, EVEN IF YOU’RE IN SHAPE NOW, eventually you’ll become overweight.…
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DECEMBER 2006
Besides the well-known heart-health
benefits of eating fatty fish, regular
consumption of fish such as salmon,
mackerel, sardines and herring may also
help prevent kidney cancer.…
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JULY 2007
PUT DOWN THAT SALT SHAKER and
step away from the processed foods!
Long suspected as an accomplice in heart
disease—indirectly, by boosting blood
pressure—salt has finally been implicated
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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
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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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JUNE 2006
HITTING THE WEIGHT ROOM twice a
week for an hour can help women prevent
or at least slow “middle-aged spread,” the
onerous buildup of tummy fat that often
takes hold with aging, a new study suggests.
And that’s good news since belly
fat—the deep fat that wraps itself around
organs—is linked with heart disease and
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SEPTEMBER 2005
WOMEN, DON’T DEPEND
on low-dose aspirin or vitamin
E to cut your risk of
cancer. That’s the conclusion
of one of the largest
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NOVEMBER 2005
NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS that a diet high in cereal fiber and
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APRIL 2008
COULD LEGUMES, such as peanuts and soybeans,
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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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SEPTEMBER 2005
IT WAS DISNEY’S LITTLE MERMAID, Ariel,
who sang, “I’ve got gadgets and gizmos
aplenty, whozits and whatzits galore,” but
even she might draw the line at the wave of
new whozits and whatzits promising to help
count calories that you burn. These pricey
gizmos, from Timex as well as fitness companies
such as Polar and Nike, go beyond
the familiar pedometer to monitor heart
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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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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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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
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NOVEMBER 2006
HIS HOLIDAY gift-giving season,
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AUGUST 2007
AMERICANS average less than
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grains, and few of us get the
recommended three servings or
more per day. In fact, more than
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whole grains at all.…
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NOVEMBER 2006
IF YOU’RE ALREADY CHANGING your
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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
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OCTOBER 2006
FORGET “5-A-Day.” Nutrition
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OCTOBER 2005
NEED ANOTHER REASON to eat your leafy greens? Two new
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JULY 2006
ADIET RICH IN MAGNESIUM may help reduce the
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research funded by the National Heart, Lung and
Blood Institute, and published in the American Heart
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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
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JULY 2006
GO AHEAD, HAVE ANOTHER cup of coffee.
A newly published study that followed some
120,000 men and women for up to 20
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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
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the first update to its official recommendations
in six years.…
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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
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JANUARY 2005
How to make the switch to healthier fats—without getting fat.…
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JANUARY 2005
This is only the third such qualified
health claim the FDA has granted for a
conventional food. In March 2004, it
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JANUARY 2005
SHOULD YOU THROW those bottles of
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JANUARY 2005
All common vegetable oils c o n tain a
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JANUARY 2005
Lower blood sugar, avoiding traffic jams, finishing high school all linked to reduced risk.…
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OCTOBER 2006
YOU CAN’T POUR a glass of
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SEPTEMBER 2007
As if green tea didn’t have enough
cheerleaders among the scientific
community, a new study based in
China has linked the traditional Asian quaff
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AUGUST 2006
KEEPING trans fatty acids out
of your diet got easier in
January when the US Food and
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AUGUST 2006
DOES POLICOSANOL, a mixture
of plant alcohols most
often derived from sugar cane,
really fight unhealthy cholesterol?
More than 80 studies
appear to prove policosanol’s power to
reduce levels of LDL, the “bad” cholesterol.
Policosanol is sold as a dietary
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names, at about $10-$15 for a 60-pill
bottle, and is included in Bayer’s One-
A-Day Cholesterol Plus vitamins.…
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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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NOVEMBER 2007
Experts from the American Heart
Asso ciation and the American
College of sports Medicine(ACSM)recently
issued new recommendations
for exercising—spelling
out minimum levels…
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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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SEPTEMBER 2006
BOTHERED BY persistent
heartburn or acid reflux—the
painful symptoms of gastroesophageal
reflux disease
(GERD), which is caused by
stomach acids backing up into your
esophagus? Relief may be as close as
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SEPTEMBER 2006
RESEARCHERS FUNDED BY the National
Heart, Lung and Blood Institute may have
found another way in which “milk does a
body good.” Their new study, published in
Hypertension, suggests that milk and other
dairy products can help combat high
blood pressure—as long as the dairy is
low in saturated fat.…
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NOVEMBER 2007
Worried about your risk of heart disease?
Get out the tape measure.
A new study indicates that your
waist-to-hip ratio is a better predictor of
atherosclerosis risk than waist circumference
alone or even the highly touted Body
Mass Index (BMI).…
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DECEMBER 2007
REGULAR EXERCISE that keeps the heart strong
may also strengthen cartilage in the knees and protect
older patients from osteoarthritis, according to a
new Australian study.…
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DECEMBER 2007
A new study in the UK has shown that a diet rich in
fish, fruit and vegetables and low in saturated fats—
the main components of what is sometimes called the
“Mediterranean diet”…
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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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OCTOBER 2007
DO RECENT FINDINGS linking even diet soft-drink
consumption to metabolic syndrome mean, what the
heck, you might as well have that sugary cola? Not
so fast. It’s true that researchers found that people
who consumed one or more soft drink daily were
48% more likely to develop metabolic syndrome—a precursor
to heart disease and type-2 diabetes—than those averaging
less than one soda daily. Soda drinkers were also at
greater risk for components of the syndrome, such as obesity,
hypertension and unhealthy cholesterol levels.…
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SEPTEMBER 2006
NOT SO FAST! That’s the word from two researchers
with the VA Outcomes research group in White River
Junction, Vermont, when it comes to media reports
out of major medical meetings. Their study concluded
that such newspaper and broadcast stories are so
often overstated or lacking in basic information and context
as to be worthless—or even worse, dangerously misleading.…
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OCTOBER 2007
For years, you’ve been meaning to
make healthy lifestyle changes—eating
more fruits and vegetables, exercising,
quitting smoking—but you just haven’t
followed through. If you’re thinking now
it’s too late, a new study says think again!…
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JANUARY 2006
WANT A QUICK ASSESSMENT of your
risk for heart disease? Get out the tape
measure.…
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FEBRUARY 2006
GETTING UP OFF YOUR DUFF can add almost four
years to your life, according to a new analysis of
data from the long-running Framingham Heart
Study. Although many previous studies have shown
a range of health benefits from physical activity—…
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