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“American Journal of clinical Nutrition”

Evidence mounts for protective effect of vitamin D and calcium in postmenopausal women

Postmenopausal women who take calcium and vitamin D supplements may reduce their risk of cancer, according to a report published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The study was a randomized controlled trial. This is in contrast to many earlier studies that show that vitamin D is protective against cancer, but were only observational trials. The researchers [...]

Organic ‘has no health benefits’

The BBC article reads: “Organic food is no healthier than ordinary food, a large independent review has concluded….” The BBC is well known for “tweaking” Titles to suggest something completely different than what the article really says, so the informed reader would immediately suspect this to be the case. However, the source article is published on [...]

Low-Fat Diet Does Little to Alter Cholesterol Levels

Such an eating regimen had almost no effect on cholesterol levels, according to a report in the April issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), a national trial that gave some women intensive training and education on eating a low-fat diet and compared their health with women who didn’t change their [...]