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Low GI Diet Produces Greater Weight Loss in Mice
Fiona Wilkinson
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Meat Link to Prostate Cancer
EATING large amounts of red and processed meats may be linked to an increased risk of prostate cancer, researchers report in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
The authors followed 175,343 men in the United States who were 50-71 years old from 1995 until 2003. They recorded the participants’ meat consumption, including the type of meat they ate and how they cooked it, and monitored their iron levels, nitrite/nitrate intake and the number of prostate cancer diagnoses.
By the end of the study, 10,313 developed prostate cancer, of which 419 died.
After adjusting for various factors known to increase the risk of prostate cancer, the authors found that men who ate the most red meat were 12 percent more likely to develop prostate cancer and 33 percent more likely to develop advanced prostate cancer than those who ate the least amount.
December 2009
AS a general rule, scientists, doctors and dieticians subscribe to the view that when it comes to weight management, ‘a calorie is a calorie’. Essentially, this means that if weight loss is the aim, we need to consume fewer calories than we burn, and as long as we do, then the form that these calories come in is irrelevant. However, new evidence is showing the type of calories (irrespective of the number of calories we consume) we ingest may influence weight control.
One recent mouse study found that a low-carb diet brought about a similar level of weight loss similar to that seen in mice eating a standard diet of significantly lower energy content. More recently, another mouse study suggests that not all types of calories are created equal when it comes to effects that relate to body weight.
BOOKS
The Top Ten Worst Foods you Can
The Top Ten Worst Foods you Can Consume and Why gives you the lowdown on what not to eat for optimum health. The list includes French fries, doughnuts, crisps and soft drinks among the worst offenders.
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