I knew Dean Ornish when he was a medical student, doing studies on yoga and diet with heart disease patients. I suspected then he was destined for great things. This article he just wrote for Newsweek beautifully expresses what i like to call The Art of Growing Young.
What really works to make sustainable changes in [...]
A new study from the University of Kentucky (where I graduated from medical school in 1975!) was published Jan 1st 2009 in Clinical Cancer Research.
An extract from grape seeds forces laboratory leukemia cells to commit cell suicide, according to researchers from the University of Kentucky. They found that within 24 hours, 76 percent of leukemia [...]
A study of 36,000 women, half of whom took a gram of calcium and 400 IU of vitamin D for a period of 7 years was recently published in the Journal of the National Cancer Instutute
The main findings do not support a causal relationship between calcium and vitamin D supplement use and reduced breast cancer incidence, despite [...]
A recent study suggests that vitamin D may be one of our most crucial nutrients to health and long life continues to mount:
CHICAGO – New research linking low vitamin D levels with deaths from heart disease and other causes bolsters mounting evidence about the “sunshine” vitamin’s role in good health.
Patients with the lowest blood levels [...]
Broccoli nudges genes to fight cancer
Just a few more portions of broccoli each week may protect men from prostate cancer, according to British researchers who examined the biology of the cruciferous veggie.
Read Full Article at MSNBC.com: Men’s health
This is another report from the front, telling us that our genes may have less to do with [...]
Here an interesting study I’ve come across:
Researcher W. Elaine Hardman, Ph.D., of Marshall’s Joan C. Edwards
School of Medicine said the study was designed to determine whether mice
that got part of their calories by eating walnuts had slower breast cancer
growth than a group eating a diet more typical of the American diet.
“When we fed the mice [...]