This is a comprehensive food database consisting of the total antioxidant content of typical foods as well as other dietary items such as traditional medicine plants, herbs and spices and dietary supplements.
A study shows that some organisms actually live longer when their
ability to clean themselves of free radicals (reactive oxygen species) buildup is partially
disabled.
A recent study published in Crop Science of the anti-cancer benefits of dry beans shows that different market classes of beans contain varying levels of antioxidants and other cancer reducing contents.
Contrary to popular assumptions about the health benefits of green
tea, researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have
found that the widely used supplement renders a cancer drug used to
treat multiple myeloma and mantle cell lymphoma completely ineffective
in treating cancer.
Researchers have for the first time
identified a relationship between Vitamin D, the "sunshine vitamin",
and cognitive impairment in a large-scale study of older people.
The persistence of an epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes suggests that new nutritional strategies are needed if the epidemic is to be overcome. A promising nutritional approach suggested by this thematic review is metabolic effect of low glycemic-index diet. Read more...
----------------------------------- Cancer and Nutrition: A review of the evidence for an anti-cancer diet
A low fat, high carbohydrate diet in combination with regular exercise is the traditional recommendation for treating diabetes. Compliance with these lifestyle modifications is less than satisfactory, however,... Read more...
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