As mentioned two days ago, studies into the association between diet and cancer show that food can have an impact in preventing cancer, or in reducing the aggressiveness of the disease. At the American Association for Cancer Research’s Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research meeting last moth, investigators reported some examples of these relationships.

Here is another reported finding. It involves the relationship between dietary antioxidants and oxidative damage in smokers: evidence of effect modification by lifestyle and genetic factors

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As mentioned yesterday, studies into the association between diet and cancer show that food can have an impact in preventing cancer, or in reducing the aggressiveness of the disease. At the American Association for Cancer Research’s Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research meeting last moth, investigators reported some examples of these relationships.

Here is another reported finding. It involves a prospective study of fish, n-3 fatty acid intake, and colorectal cancer risk in men.

Men who ate fish five times a week or more had a 40 percent lower risk of developing colorectal cancer compared to men who ate fish less than once a week, according to a new analysis of data from 22,071 participants in the Physicians’ Health Study (PHS).

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The concept and indeed the practice of criminalizing the use of vitamins and nutritional supplements are not merely artifacts of paranoia. Watch this video to learn more.

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A study has shown that the combination of a nutritious diet, daily fish oil supplements and/or three oily fish meals, like salmon, sardines or fresh tuna, a week can help alleviate depression symptoms.

Published in Nutrition & Dietetics – the official Journal of the Dietitians Association of Australia, including the Journal of the New Zealand Dietetic Association – researchers reviewed all existing literature related to dietary manipulation in a bid to uncover how such nutritional manoeuvring may assist in treating this illness.

Depression is a major risk factor for deliberate self-harm and suicide – affecting more than one million Australians each year, and is estimated by the World Health Organization to become the second leading cause of morbidity worldwide by 2020. The findings in this study contribute to rectifying the simplistic, traditional view of the illness as a personality weakness, and provide anecdotal evidence of depression as a mood disorder with underlying biological and psychosocial causes.

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Although soy infant formulas were created to reduce the chances of babies developing allergies or food intolerances, there is no clear proof that soy or other specialized formulas lower those risks, a new review has found.

“There is no evidence that using any type of formula is better than exclusive breastfeeding for prevention of allergy,” said authors David Osborn, M.D., of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and John Sinn, M.D., of Westmead Hospital, in Australia. “Specialized formulas should be restricted to situations where infants cannot exclusively breastfeed or when an infant develops a specific food allergy or hypersensitivity.”

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