Breast Cancer Prevention: Which Mushroom is Best?
Wood ear, crimini, oyster, Italian brown, enoki, button, stuffing, shiitake, chanterelle, and portobello mushrooms were compared to see which was best at inhibiting aromatase enzyme activity.
Wood ear, crimini, oyster, Italian brown, enoki, button, stuffing, shiitake, chanterelle, and portobello mushrooms were compared to see which was best at inhibiting aromatase enzyme activity.
Mushrooms may help prevent breast cancer by acting as an aromatase inhibitor to block breast tumor estrogen production.
Breast cancer can take decades to develop, so early detection via mammogram may be too late.
Disinfectants used to sanitize cow udders may provide a source of iodine for dairy consumers, but can also increase the concentration of pus in milk from cows with staph infection mastitis.
Meat, animal protein, and soy milk can affect premature breast development in girls.
Soy milk should be shaken before pouring to get at the calcium that settles to the bottom.
Vitamin B12 is an imperative for those eating vegetarian and vegan diets, especially during pregnancy and infancy.
Vitamin B12 deficiency can be life-threatening.
Profile of an editorial published by Dr. Dean Ornish in the American Journal of Cardiology describing the optimal diet, and how simple choices can be as powerful as drugs and surgery.
The hormones present in cow’s milk may help explain the association between certain diseases and dairy consumption.
An argument that non-anemic women should choose plant-based sources of iron, and not supplement during pregnancy.
How much is too much?
A neurological basis for humanity’s love affair with Camellia sinensis?
Fifty different brands of high-fructose corn syrup-containing foods were tested for mercury.
Is having a cat or dog associated with a higher or lower risk of developing non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma?
It all depends on how you define “very high” fruit and vegetable intake.
What percentage of a hot dog is actually muscle tissue?
The Harvard Physicians’ Health Study suggests that those eating an egg a day live shorter lives.
Researchers discovered a dietary intervention that may slow the progression of cancer.