We recently reviewed evidence relating diet and prostate cancer, suggesting that a traditional Cretan Mediterranean style diet based on a variety of plant foods (fruits, vegetables, wholegrain cereals, nuts and legumes), olive oil as the main source of fat, low intake of red meat, moderate to low intake of dairy foods, moderate to high intake [...]

Weight loss and major lifestyle changes may be more effective than intensive insulin therapy for overweight patients with poorly controlled, insulin-resistant type 2 diabetes, according to a diabetes researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health recently halted part of an ongoing clinical trial [...]

Tulane.edu – Eating just one more serving of green leafy vegetables or three more servings of fruit a day reduces the risk of developing Type II diabetes, according to results of data analysis performed by researchers in the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and the Harvard School of Public Health. The research [...]

Adelaide.edu.au – Giving pregnant mothers magnesium sulfate when they are at risk of very preterm birth can help protect their babies from cerebral palsy, according to an international review of research involving the University of Adelaide, Australia. The findings of this review – published on the international research website The Cochrane Library – could help [...]

Haifa.ac.il – A new study at the University of Haifa discovered that, worldwide, countries with the highest levels of artificial light at night also have the highest rates of prostate cancer *This discovery joins the findings of a previous study by the same researchers that found a connection between exposure to artificial light at night [...]

UMontreal.ca – Zen meditation – a centuries-old practice that can provide mental, physical and emotional balance – may reduce pain according to Université de Montréal researchers. A new study in the January 2009 edition of Psychosomatic Medicine reports that Zen meditators have lower pain sensitivity both in and out of a meditative state compared to [...]