Landmark report: many cancers could be prevented across the globe.
A new report issued by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) and the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), estimates that with healthy lifestyle choices about 30 percent of the 12 most common adult cancers may be preventable.
The preventable cancers are actually much higher because cancers [...]

Intake is Often “Inadequate” Even When it Exceeds the RDA
(Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 21, 2008) A study of almost 5,000 persons has shown that consuming more vitamin B6 means less colon cancer. (1) The researchers described the connection as “moderately strong.” Any nutrient that has a “moderately strong” influence on reducing colon cancer risk [...]

Many children without health insurance go without care all year.
Uninsured children in families earning between approximately $38,000 and $76,000 a year are about as likely to go without any health care as uninsured children in poorer families. The study, by Laura Shone, an assistant professor of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester Medical Center, dispels [...]

Scientists have found a new possible explanation for why people who eat more fruit and vegetables may gain protection against the spread of cancers.
They have shown that a fragment released from pectin, found in all fruits and vegetables, binds to and is believed to inhibit galectin 3 (Gal3), a protein that plays a role in [...]

Vitamin D is essential for in overall health of several body organs, says UC Riverside biochemist Anthony Norman, an international expert on vitamin D, who advocates increasing the adult daily intake of the vitamin to a minimum of 2000 iu for disease prevention.
In a paper published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Norman identifies [...]

Black raspberries slow cancer by altering hundreds of genes.
New research strongly suggests that a mix of preventative agents, such as those found in concentrated black raspberries, may more effectively inhibit cancer development than single agents aimed at shutting down a particular gene.
Researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center examined the effect of freeze-dried [...]