A bit of research from last year that is worth repeating is research that suggested the potential compounds in curry to kill cancer cells. For those whole love curry (most of us I thinK) this is great news.
Scientists at the Cork Cancer Research Centre, University College Cork (UCC), treated oesophageal cancer cells with curcumin, [...]

As the US population becomes increasingly obese while smoking rates continue to decline, obesity has become an equal, if not greater, contributor to the burden of disease and shortening of healthy life in comparison to smoking.
In an article published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers from Columbia University and The City College [...]

Study finds caffeine in sources other than coffee does not have similar effect
Good news to start the new year for the leagions of coffee drinkers.  Another study that finds coffee may have positive health benefits.  Researchers from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) determined that patients with chronic hepatitis C [...]

Natalie counts down the 10 worst foods you could eat. Chances are if you eat an average American diet, you ate at least three of these today. In a fast food nation, eating healthy food becomes difficult to do. Yet a poor diet contributes to low energy, obesity, stress, health problems and high medical bills. [...]

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead [...]

The MSG-reaction is a reaction to free glutamic acid that occurs in food as a consequence of manufacture. MSG-sensitive people do not react to protein (which contains bound glutamic acid) or any of the minute amounts of free glutamic acid that might be found in unadulterated, unfermented, food.

These ALWAYS contain MSG

Glutamate
Glutamic acid
Gelatin

Monosodium glutamate
Calcium [...]

Eating salmon or other fatty fish just once a week helped reduce men’s risk of heart failure, adding to growing evidence that omega-3 fatty acids are of benefit to cardiac health.
Represent one of the largest studies to investigate the association, the study, led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) is reported [...]

Drinking up to half a glass of wine a day may boost life expectancy by five years—at least in men—suggests research published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
The Dutch authors base their findings on a total of 1,373 randomly selected men whose cardiovascular health and life expectancy at age 50 [...]

A new study adds more concern to the growing obesity among children and teens. Carrying extra weight earlier in life increases the risk of developing problems with mobility in old age, even if the weight is eventually lost, according to new research out of the Sticht Center on Aging at Wake Forest University School [...]

A small, pilot study in 50 people in Japan suggests that eating two and a half ounces of broccoli sprouts daily for two months may confer some protection against a rampant stomach bug that causes gastritis, ulcers and even stomach cancer.
Citing their new “demonstration of principle” study, a Johns Hopkins researcher and an international team [...]