Animal Protein, Pregnancy, & Childhood Obesity
What pregnant women eat may even affect the health of their grandchildren.
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What pregnant women eat may even affect the health of their grandchildren.
Single meals can affect testosterone and cortisol (stress hormone) levels. Some foods eaten regularly during pregnancy may even reprogram children’s responses to stress later in life.
Diet may explain the Nigerian Paradox, where they have among the highest rates of the Alzheimer’s susceptibility gene, ApoE4, but among the lowest rates of Alzheimer’s disease.
One reason why soy consumption is associated with improved survival and lower recurrence rates in breast cancer patients may be because soy phytonutrients appear to improve the expression of tumor-suppressing BRCA genes.
Black raspberries may cause complete clinical regression of precancerous oral lesions (oral intraepithelial neoplasia).
Apple peels appear to upregulate the tumor suppressor gene maspin, and have strong antiproliferative effects on breast and prostate cancer cell growth in vitro.
Measuring the effects of a plant-based diet on the expression of hundreds of different genes at a time, a research group found that an antioxidant-rich portfolio of plant foods such as berries, pomegranates, purple grapes, red cabbage, oregano, and walnuts was able to significantly modify the regulation of genes in the blood of volunteers.
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 role of the detoxifying enzyme superoxide dismutase in staving off aging, cancer, and dementia—and what we can do to boost its activity.
Dr. Dean Ornish turns from reversing heart disease to trying to reverse prostate cancer.