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Prevent Your Own Cancer
Posted by Elvin Adams on
Nearly 50% of all cancer deaths can be prevented. It is reliably estimated that lifestyle and environmental factors are responsible for 42% of the cancers in the United Kingdom. What is true in the UK is likely to be true in much of the industrialized world.
The research looked at the contribution to cancer made by tobacco, unhealthful foods in the diet, obesity, alcohol, lack of exercise, industrial exposures, radiation and several other factors that make a small contribution to cancer.
Of the 314,000 cases of cancer in the UK in 2010, 134,000 were preventable. Tobacco caused 60,000 premature cancer deaths.There were 29,000 cancers caused by eating red meat or a lack of fruits and vegetables in the diet. Obesity was responsible for another 17,000 premature cancer deaths. Alcohol drinking caused 12,000 premature deaths.
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Good Health Habits Reduce Risk of Death By 47%
Posted by Galen Bosley on
Poor health habits can accelerate death by the equivalent of 12 years compared with good habits.
A study of 63,791 Chinese women in the Shanghai Women’s Health Study, age 40-70, who never smoked or used alcohol, reports the combined effects of 5 health habits reduce mortality from all causes by 47%. These health habits included normal weight, lower waist-hip ratio, daily exercise, never exposed to spouse's smoking, and higher daily fruit and vegetable intake. Women with 0-1 of these were found to have death rates equivalent to those 12 years older than their age.
PositiveTip: How are your health habits? Invest now in choosing a healthier lifestyle.
The Importance of Family Meals: Nutritional Quality
Posted by Gary Hopkins on
This is the third blog in a series exploring the benefits of eating meals together as a family.
A report from the University of Florida says that one of the real benefits of family meals is the opportunity for conversation that it brings (see the last post in this series). The report goes on to reveal that eating together as a family is also associated with better nutritional quality of food eaten. Here is what they say:
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Families Who Eat Together Get More of the Good Stuff!
Posted by Fred Hardinge on
Eating family meals together increases intakes of fruit and vegetables.
Eating the evening meal as a family has been shown to increase the intake of fruits and vegetables, which provide a variety of nutrients and dietary fiber. Families who eat dinner together tend to have a higher consumption of eating the recommended intake of fruit and vegetables. Studies have also shown that families who eat dinner together tend to eat fewer fried foods and drink less soda.
PositiveTip: Eat meals together as a family. It is healthier for everyone!
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Mediterranean-style Diet with Lots of Vegetables Helps Newly Diagnosed Diabetics
Posted by Fred Hardinge on
A pharmaceutical order need not be the first resort for newly diagnosed diabetics.
Investigators in Naples, Italy compared a Mediterranean-sytle diet with a low-fat American Heart Association (AHA) diet in a four year study of patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes. Participants were overweight (BMI=>25), had glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels above 11%, and were not on diabetic medications. Both diets contained the same number of calories and were rich in whole grains.
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Nutritional Quality of Organic Foods
Posted by Fred Hardinge on
Organically grown produce not found to be nutritionally superior to conventionally grown.
The perception among many consumers today is that organically grown produce is nutritionally superior, and more healthy for you, than conventionally grown products. A new study published late last month sheds some important light on this sometimes heated topic. Researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine reviewed the findings of 162 scientific papers published over the past 50 years on this topic and concluded "there is currently no evidence to support the selection of organically over conventionally produced foods on the basis of nutritional superority."