While cooking may dramatically reduce the amount of some nutrients, they will seldom be completely destroyed.
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September 2, 2010
ARE VITAMINS LIKE VITAMIN C COMPLETELY DESTROYED WHEN VEGETABLES ARE COOKED
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DANGEROUS COCKTAIL: ENERGY DRINKS and ALCOHOL
College-age drinkers who swill alcoholic energy-drink cocktails are three times more likely than alcohol-only drinkers to leave a bar drunk.
What’s more, those imbibing energy cocktails are four times more likely to attempt drunken driving, find University of Florida researchers Dennis Thombs, PhD, and colleagues.
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September 1, 2010
OBESITY, SMOKING LINKED to TEEN MIGRAINES
Teens are more likely to have chronic headaches or migraines when they are overweight, smoke cigarettes, or get little or no exercise, new research shows.
Teenagers in the study with all three negative lifestyle factors had a more than threefold greater likelihood of having frequent, severe headaches than normal-weight, active teens who did not smoke.
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GREEN LEAFY VEGGIES MAY CUT DIABETES RISK
People who add more green leafy vegetables to their diet may significantly reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a new study says.
Patrice Carter, a research nutritionist at the University of Leicester, and colleagues reviewed six studies involving more than 220,000 people that focused on the links between fruits and vegetables and type 2 diabetes.
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August 31, 2010
CRANBERRY JUICE FIGHTS URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS QUICKLY
Scientists report that within eight hours of drinking cranberry juice, the juice could help prevent bacteria from developing into an infection in the urinary tract.
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August 30, 2010
IS JUICING YOUR GREENS as HEALTHY as EATING THEM?
No, juicing your greens is not nearly as healthy as eating them, provided that you use healthy cooking methods when you prepare the greens. For example, if you overcook the greens, you will lose too many of the nutrients they contain; in that case, you might be worse off than if you used a juicer. But as long as you use the healthy steaming or other cooking methods I describe in The World’s Healthiest Foods book, you’ll get a far greater variety of nutrients in the whole greens than in the juice.
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ADEQUATE ZINC EASES PNEUMONIA in ELDERLY
A high proportion of nursing facility residents were found to have low serum (blood) zinc concentrations during an observational study funded by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the National Institute on Aging. The scientists found that those with normal blood zinc concentrations were about 50 percent less likely to develop pneumonia than those with low concentrations…
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August 29, 2010
TAI CHI: BEST FIBROMYALGIA TREATMENT
Just 12 weeks of tai chi — the slow-motion Chinese martial art — relieved longstanding fibromyalgia symptoms and improved quality of life in a clinical trial.
Compared with patients who received wellness education and stretching exercises, those who practiced tai chi saw their fibromyalgia become much less severe.
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August 28, 2010
EGG RECALL: TRAIL LEADS to IOWA FIRM
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August 27, 2010
CINNAMON EXTRACTS MAY REDUCE RISK of DIABETES and HEART DISEASE, STUDY SUGGESTS
A water soluble extract of cinnamon, which contains antioxidative compounds, could help reduce risk factors associated with diabetes and heart disease, a new study suggests.
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