UT Southwestern Medical Center - New findings from studies in mice suggest that defects in the brain’s ability to respond to glucose play a role in the development of non-insulin dependent (type 2) diabetes, and that a high-fat diet may contribute to impairing brain cells’ ability to regulate glucose throughout the body.
The new NIH-funded study, […]

Newswise - A new Mayo Clinic study suggests that ground flaxseed in the diet can decrease hot flashes in post-menopausal women who do not take estrogen. The findings from the pilot study are published in the summer 2007 issue of the Journal of the Society for Integrative Oncology.
A hot flash is often described as a […]

Pine bark extract as an alternative to hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
A study to be published in the Scandinavian Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology reveals that the supplement Pycnogenol® (pic-noj-en-all), a pine bark extract from the French maritime pine tree, reduces peri-menopausal “climacteric symptoms” such as hot flashes, depression, panic attacks, cholesterol and other common symptoms […]

Newswise — The debate about whether or not lycopene or some other phytochemicals from tomatoes might reduce prostate cancer risk is apparently not over. Dr Edward Giovannucci from Harvard Medical School published an editorial in the July 2007 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute that responded to a report in the same […]

University of Adelaide - An Australian researcher has discovered scientific evidence that obesity associated with a high-fat diet is a key factor in infertility – because of how it affects the receptor PPARγ in women’s eggs. PPAR-gamma has an insulin-sensitizing effect in the body; it is one of the PPAR set of receptors associated with […]

But EGCG from green tea helps reduce levels of reactive carbonyls from HFCS in soft drinks.
ACS — Researchers have found new evidence that soft drinks sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) may contribute to the development of diabetes, particularly in children, because of high levels of reactive carbonyls. In a laboratory study of commonly consumed […]