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Eat Less Sugar: The New National Dietary Guidelines
The 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans introduces a new recommendation that added sugar should be limited to no more than 10% of total calories.
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Antioxidant Therapies: A Contraindication for Melanoma?
A series of experiments utilizing human melanoma cells found that oxidative stress was higher in circulating melanoma cells and distant metastasis than the original subcutaneous tumors, suggesting a higher oxidative stress burden subsequent to leaving the original tumor environment. Treatment of animals or tumor cell lines with antioxidants led to increased metastasic burden.
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Exercise for Depression During Pregnancy
Exercise is associated with better mental outcomes during pregnancy.
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Non-seasonal Major Depressive Disorder: Bright Light Therapy and/or Fluoxetine
In this four-pronged study comparing the effect of bright light treatment, fluoxetine, a combination of these two interventions, and placebo in patients with major depressive disorder, the combination treatment appears the most consistently effective.
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Kirtan Kriya Meditation on Stress and Alzheimer’s Disease
This review article shows that meditation, particularly Kirtan Kriya, can mitigate the negative biochemical effects of stress.
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Emergency Department Visits Related to Dietary Supplements
A 10-year chart review of 63 nationally representative emergency departments reveals 3667 cases of adverse events related to dietary supplement use; these are estimated to represent 23,005 emergency department visits yearly. Characteristics of the visits are described and categorized.
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Echinacea-based Infusion Noninferior to Oseltamivir in Early Influenza Treatment
Echinacea Hotdrink was found to be as effective as oseltamivir as early treatment intervention of clinically diagnosed and lab-confirmed influenza virus infections and had fewer adverse effects.
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Imagery for Improving Quality of Life Among Breast Cancer Survivors
This randomized study demonstrated that an imagery program delivered either live or via telemedicine could improve quality of life in breast cancer survivors compared to a wait list group.
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No More Bacon? Carcinogenicity of Meat
A review of published research by the World Health Organization concludes that processed meats are probably carcinogenic.
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The Removal of Dietary Fructose Improves Pediatric Health
In 43 children with obesity and metabolic syndrome, 9 days of dietary sugar reduction (isocaloric with starch substitution) improved numerous metabolic parameters and led to more than 2 pounds of weight loss.