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Vital Signs - Aging - Vitamin D Levels Tied to Dementia Risk - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Low blood levels of vitamin D may be associated with an increased risk for dementia, a British study has found.
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Study Finds No Benefit From Daily Multivitamin - Well Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    In a study of 161,808 women who were part of the government-funded Women's Health Initiative research effort, doctors from 40 centers around the country collected data on multivitamin use. While research shows that people who eat nutrient-rich diets filled with fruits and vegetables have lower rates of heart disease and cancer, it hasn't been clear whether taking a daily supplement results in a similar benefit.
Matti Narkia

Recipes for Health - Add Nuts to Your Diet With Sauces, Not Snacks - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    If you simply snack on nuts, it's easy to eat too many. A more sensible way to work them into your diet is to make some of the delicious Mediterranean and Mexican nut-based sauces and dips that I'll be offering here this week. They keep well in the refrigerator and can be used to accompany fish, vegetables or poultry. Many serve as a spread or dip with pita or bruschetta - or just eaten on their own.
Matti Narkia

Recipes for Health - Warm Chick Pea and Broccoli Salad - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Serve this comforting salad as a main dish or as a side. The chick peas contribute a considerable amount of protein, manganese and folate to the dish.
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Recipes for Health - Asian Pasta With Tofu, Shiitake Mushrooms and Broccoli - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    I like to use soba - buckwheat pasta - for this dish. Soba has a nutty flavor and contributes a measure of all-important whole grain to the dish.
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A New Sugar Substitute Joins a Street Fight - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    The Food and Drug Administration agreed in December that rebaudioside A, an extract from the leaves of the stevia plant, is safe to add to food and drinks. Stevia has one distinct advantage over all the rest. Because it comes from a plant, marketers can call it a natural sweetener. And that allows companies that have invested millions in new stevia products to tap into two powerful markets at once: natural ingredients and low-calorie products. Two of the biggest backers, Cargill and Whole Earth Sweetener Company, earlier this year began rolling out packets of stevia-based sweeteners, called Truvia and PureVia respectively. The extract is in the companies' drinks, too. Among the new stevia products marketed as naturally sweetened are Sprite Green from Coca-Cola and Trop50, from the PepsiCo subsidiary Tropicana. It's essentially half water and half orange juice doctored with stevia.
Matti Narkia

Recipes for Health - Royal Quinoa Salad With Tofu and Sesame Ginger Vinaigrette - NYTim... - 0 views

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    Royal quinoa is a reddish, high-protein variety of quinoa grown in parts of Bolivia. It's particularly nutty tasting, especially if you toast it in the pan before cooking. I serve this salad as a main dish.
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Recipes for Health - Barley and Mushroom Salad With English Peas - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    We all love barley and mushrooms in soup, so why not use this popular combination in a salad? Toasting the barley in a dry pan before adding water helps to deepen the flavor.
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The 11 Best Foods You Aren't Eating - Well Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Nutritionist and author Jonny Bowden has created several lists of healthful foods people should be eating but aren't. But some of his favorites, like purslane, guava and goji berries, aren't always available at regular grocery stores. I asked Dr. Bowden, author of "The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth," to update his list with some favorite foods that are easy to find but don't always find their way into our shopping carts. Here's his advice.
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Statins in the Water? Not So Fast - Well Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Last week, Harvard researchers reported how healthy 50-year-old men and 60-year-old women could benefit from taking a statin even if they didn't have high cholesterol. The people they studied had high levels of C-reactive protein, or CRP, which is a marker for inflammation. The study showed that risk for major heart problems was cut by about 50 percent among the statin users.\n\nBut like many industry-sponsored drug studies, the results focused on something called "relative risk," which compares differences between study groups. Relative risk has the effect of exaggerating a drug's benefits. What does a 50 percent reduction in heart risk mean? It means that just one out of 120 statin users was helped by the drug.
Matti Narkia

Well - A Call for Caution in the Rush to Statins - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Judging by recent headlines, you might think so. Last week heart researchers reported that millions of healthy people could benefit from taking statins even if they don't have high cholesterol.\n\nAlthough many doctors hailed the study as a major breakthrough, a closer look at the research suggests that statins (like Crestor, from AstraZeneca, and Lipitor, from Pfizer) are far from magic pills. While they clearly save lives in people with a previous heart attack or other serious heart problems, for an otherwise healthy person the potential benefit remains small.
Matti Narkia

Vitamin D Shows Heart Benefits in Study - Well Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "A new study suggests many Americans aren't getting anywhere nearly enough of the vitamin, and it may be affecting their heart health. In the study, researchers looked at tens of thousands of healthy adults 50 and older whose vitamin D levels had been measured during routine checkups. A majority, they found, were deficient in the vitamin. About two-thirds had less vitamin D in their bloodstreams than the authors considered healthy, and many were extremely deficient. Less than two years later, the researchers found, those who had extremely low levels of the vitamin were almost twice as likely to have died or suffered a stroke than those with adequate amounts. They also had more coronary artery disease and were twice as likely to have developed heart failure. The findings, which are being presented today at an American Heart Association conference in Orlando, don't prove that lack of vitamin D causes heart disease; they only suggest a link between the two. "
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Economic View - Can a Soda Tax Protect Us From Ourselves? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    AS governments large and small face sizable budget shortfalls, policy makers are looking for ways to raise tax revenue that will do the least harm and, perhaps, even a bit of good. One idea keeps popping up: a tax on soda and other sugary drinks.
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PERSONAL HEALTH; New Thinking on How to Protect the Heart - New York Times - 0 views

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    If last week's column convinced you that surgery may not be the best way to avoid a heart attack or sudden cardiac death, the next step is finding out what can work as well or better to protect your heart.\n\nMany measures are probably familiar: not smoking, controlling cholesterol and blood pressure, exercising regularly and staying at a healthy weight. But some newer suggestions may surprise you.
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To Stretch or Not to Stretch? The Answer Is Elastic - New York Times - 0 views

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    NEWS about stretching seems to come in waves. Stretch as part of your warm-up. No, stretch after your workout. No, don't even bother stretching. Or the doozy: Even if you think you like it, it's been oversold as a way to prevent injury or improve performance.
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Is Soda the New Tobacco? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • The model, clearly, is tobacco. Dr. Frieden, who promoted a soda tax when he was a health commissioner, sees further parallels between soda and tobacco: “There are aspects of the food industry that are reminiscent of tobacco
  • the sowing of doubt where there’s no reasonable doubt, funding of front groups, use of so-called experts, claims that new products which are safer for consumers are available, and the claim that they are not marketing to children.”
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Cholesterol-Fighting Drugs Show Wider Benefit - New York Times - 0 views

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    CHART: Statins Reduce Risks: A study of 18,000 people with high levels of C-reactive protein, or CRP, found that the risk of a heart attack or stroke was cut in half among those who took a statin. The study was stopped after two years, but some participants were tracked for up to five years. (Sources: Dr. Paul M. Ridker; New England Journal of Medicine) (pg.A21) A large new study suggests that millions more people could benefit from taking the cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins, even if they have low cholesterol, because the drugs can significantly lower their risk of heart attacks, strokes and death. The study, involving nearly 18,000 people worldwide, tested statin treatment in men 50 and older and in women 60 and older who did not have high cholesterol or histories of heart disease. What they did have was high levels of a protein called high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, or CRP, which indicates inflammation in the body.
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