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Scientists say a natural supplement made from tomatoes, taken daily, can stave off heart disease and strokes.
The tomato pill contains an active ingredient from the Mediterranean diet - lycopene - that blocks "bad" LDL cholesterol that can clog the arteries.

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2009 June BBC news health nutrition tomato pill supplement supplements lycopene heart disease heart_disease CVD CHD stroke LDL oxidation cholesterol

Savants - individuals with conditions that result in remarkable mathematical, artistic or musical talents - are extremely rare. But new findings about how their formidable brains work hint that we might all be able to develop similar abilities

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The oldest of the subatomic particles called neutrinos might each encompass a space larger than thousands of galaxies, new simulations suggest.

Neutrinos as we know them today are created by nuclear reactions or radioactive decay

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2009 June nationalgeographic news subatomic particles neutrinos neutrino huge size space tiny mass ten billion light-years

RedGage is a website that aggregates many of your social networking and blogging content in one feed, puts advertising on it, and then gives you a cut of the ad revenue, with a tracker on the page telling you and everyone else how much money that page has made.
RedGage is currently only open to a small community of users, but contingent on receiving the investment it needs it will open up to the public eventually. It resembles FriendFeed, bringing all your stuff into one convenient place, but with the added money-making aspect.
In addition to ad dollars, you'll also get bonuses, and they reflect your page's influence and level of activity in addition to page views. Right now, no one's making very much money from RedGage (only a few dollars per page at most) but that could change as the site gains prominence. Time will tell.

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Don't be the last to know about what's happening with your friends, family or co-workers just because you're away from your computer. You now can subscribe to receive text messages of your friends' status updates directly from their profiles.

Click on the "Subscribe via SMS" link below your friends' profile pictures to get their latest news while you are mobile. You can also comment on your friends' status updates directly from your phone by replying to the text messages you receive. You can even subscribe to mobile updates from the Facebook Pages of your favorite celebrities, public figures, businesses and organizations.

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2009 June Facebook blog blog_article news friend friends friends' Status Updates update Wherever You Are SMS subscribe receive text messages new feature twitter

ScienceDaily (June 11, 2009) — University of Florida researchers have come up with a new gene therapy method to disrupt cancer growth by using a synthetic protein to induce blood clotting that cuts off a tumor's blood and nutrient supply.

In mice implanted with human colorectal cancer cells, tumor volume decreased 53 percent and cancer cell growth slowed by 49 percent in those treated with a gene that encodes for the artificial protein, compared with those that were untreated.

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2009 June sciencedaily news gene therapy gene_therapy animal_study mice colorectal cancer colorectal_cancer antiangiogenic anti-angiogenic angiogenesis TEM8 growth-inibitory

If you missed our last review, here’s the short version of it: Hunch is a tool that utilizes decision trees to help make a decision on virtually any topic. It can help you figure out what to eat for the night, which online dating website to try, or if you should move to another country by asking a series questions that drill down to a final set of answers.

On top of this, Hunch utilizes information that it knows about you to improve the relevancy of results. This is primarily done by answering a series of (nearly) endless questions in its Teach Hunch About You section. Not only does it help the algorithm, but it’s actually quite enjoyable to use.

Once you get to an answer, you can view the top 5 results, read user reviews (pros and cons), and even edit the results or fix the hunch if you believe something’s amiss, much like a wiki. Essentially, these are the core attributes of the Hunch decision system.

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2009 June news mashabel Hunch decision-making tool decision making

Coffee intake, smoking, and pulmonary function in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.
Nettleton JA, Follis JL, Schabath MB.
Am J Epidemiol. 2009 Jun 15;169(12):1445-53. Epub 2009 Apr 16.
PMID: 19372215
doi:10.1093/aje/kwp068

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2009 June study research epidemiological cross-sectional humans coffee intake consumption nutrition medline pulmonary function lungs lung smoking respiratory vital capacity forced_vital_capacity disease diseases forced expiratory volume FEV1 FVC

A chemical found in green tea appears to slow the progression of prostate cancer, a study has suggested.
Green tea has been linked to a positive effect on a wide range of conditions, including heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer's disease.

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2009 June BBC news green tea green_tea prostate cancer prostate_cancer PCa Polyphenon_E Polyphenon E VEGF HGF PSA nutrition herbs herb polyphenols anticancer anti-cancer growth-inhibitory

This week sees the publication of yet another study showing the superiority of the low-carbohydrate diet as compared to the low-fat diet. This study, published in the prestigious American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, demonstrates that subjects following the low-carb diet experience a decrease in triglyceride levels and an increase in HDL-cholesterol (HDL) levels; and that these changes are accompanied by a minor increase in LDL-cholesterol (LDL), which prompts the authors to issue a caveat.

Yes, although just about all the parameters that lipophobes worry about improved with the low-carb diet, the small increase in LDL has caused great concern and has prompted the authors to gravely announce that this small increase is troublesome and should be monitored closely in anyone who may be at risk for heart disease. Since most people who go on low-carb diets do so to deal with obesity issues, and since obesity is a risk factor for heart disease, it would appear that this small increase in LDL often seen in those following a low-carb diet could put these dieters at risk. Does it? We’ll see.

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2009 June proteinpower Eades blog_article news very-low-carbohydrate diet very low-carbohydrate_diet low-carbohydrate low-fat lof-fat_diet LC LF weight loss isoenergetic nutrition triglycerides HDL LDL apolipoprotein_B apoB weight_loss trial isocaloric

Facebook today announces the relaunch of its Publisher tool; the photo, video and status updating field available to you above your news stream and profile pages.

Up until now, you have only been able to share content amongst your Facebook friends. Today, that changes with the release of an option called “who do you want to tell?”

The option makes it possible to share your posts with everyone – not just your friends – but even more interesting however is that you can share items or updates with a specific friend list too.

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MedWire News: Eating two eggs a day, as part of an energy-restricted weight-loss diet, does not increase levels of ‘bad’ or total cholesterol, results of a UK study show.

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The pathobiology of diabetic complications: a unifying mechanism.
Brownlee M.
Diabetes. 2005 Jun;54(6):1615-25.
PMID: 15919781

t's a great honor to join the exceptional club of Banting Award winners, many of whom were my role models and mentors. In addition, giving the Banting Lecture also has a very personal meaning to me, because without Frederick Banting, I would have died from type 1 diabetes when I was 8 years old. However, it was already apparent at the time I was diagnosed that for too many people like me, Banting's discovery of insulin only allowed them to live just long enough to develop blindness, renal failure, and coronary disease. For example, when I started college, the American Diabetes Association's Diabetes Textbook had this to say to my parents: "The person with type 1 diabetes can be reassured that it is highly likely that he will live at least into his 30s." Not surprisingly, my parents did not find this particularly reassuring.

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2005 June Medscape study review pathobiology Diabetic Complications Unifying Mechanism diabetes type_1 type_2

The pathobiology of diabetic complications: a unifying mechanism.
Brownlee M.
Diabetes. 2005 Jun;54(6):1615-25.
PMID: 15919781
doi: 10.2337/diabetes.54.6.1615

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2005 June study review pathobiology Diabetic Complications Unifying Mechanism diabetes type_1 type_2 AGE eNOS medline nutrition

A new US study suggests that flaxseed, which is rich in omega 3 fatty acids and lignans, can stop prostate cancer tumours from growing.\n\nThe study was presented at the 43rd annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago on

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Dietary supplementation with white button mushroom enhances natural killer cell activity in C57BL/6 mice.
Wu D, Pae M, Ren Z, Guo Z, Smith D, Meydani SN.
J Nutr. 2007 Jun;137(6):1472-7.
PMID: 17513409

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2007 June study in_vivo animal_study miice mushrooms white button mushroom white_button white_button_mushroom immune system immune_system immunityr nutrition medline natural_killer_cells NK_cells cancer anticancer antiviral innate innate_immunity

Dietary linolenic acid is inversely associated with calcified atherosclerotic plaque in the coronary arteries: the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Family Heart Study.
Djoussé L, Arnett DK, Carr JJ, Eckfeldt JH, Hopkins PN, Province MA, Ellison RC; Investigators of the NHLBI FHS.
Circulation. 2005 Jun 7;111(22):2921-6. Epub 2005 May 31.
PMID: 15927976
doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.104.489534

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2005 June Circulation study research epidemiological humans nutrition medline diet atherosclerosis calcium plaque CVD linolenic_acid alpha-linolenic_acid ALA omega-3 CHD calcification CAC health

The endocannabinoid system in cancer-potential therapeutic target?
Flygare J, Sander B.
Semin Cancer Biol. 2008 Jun;18(3):176-89. Epub 2007 Dec 14. Review.
PMID: 18249558

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2008 June study review Sweden endocannabinoids arachidonic_acid metabolites cannabinoids cannabis cancer anti-cancer anticancer medline angiogenesis metastasis

Anti-proliferative and antioxidant properties of rosemary Rosmarinus officinalis.
Cheung S, Tai J.
Oncol Rep. 2007 Jun;17(6):1525-31.
PMID: 17487414

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2007 June study research in_vitro rosemary Rosmarinus_officinalis herb herbs cancer anti-proliferative antiproliferative antioxidant anticancer anti-cancer medline nutrition

Role of dietary sphingolipids and inhibitors of sphingolipid metabolism in cancer and other diseases.
Merrill AH Jr, Schmelz EM, Wang E, Schroeder JJ, Dillehay DL, Riley RT.
J Nutr. 1995 Jun;125(6 Suppl):1677S-1682S. Review.
PMID: 7782925

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