Most Recent Articles from Nutrition Action Healthletter

• Livestock's long shadow 

  The largest study ever on meat consumption and health--recently released by the National Cancer Institute--should convince even enthusiastic meat...

  06/01/09 by Michael F. Jacobson · More from publication

• Rooting for fruit: researchers hunt for a medicine chest in the fruit bowl 

  Want to improve your memory? Try a bowl of berries. Troubled by urinary tract infections? Pour yourself a cranberry drink. Prostate problems? Open...

  06/01/09 by David Schardt · More from publication

• The real cost of red meat: does it boost your risk of cancer, heart disease, & diabetes? 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Eating Meat May Increase Risk of Early Death, Study Finds," ran the headline in The New York Times in March. "Dying for...

  06/01/09 by Bonnie Liebman · More from publication

• Insulin & breast cancer 

  High levels of insulin in the blood may increase the risk of breast cancer in women who don't take estrogen replacement pills. Insulin's job is...

  06/01/09 · More from publication

• Waist & diverticular disease 

  A large waist may raise the risk of diverticulitis--an inflammation of outpouches in the large intestine--and the risk that the outpouches will...

  06/01/09 · More from publication

• Vitamin D & bones 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Vitamin D can lower your odds of breaking a hip or other bone. Researchers pooled the results of 12 trials that tested...

  06/01/09 · More from publication

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