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A randomised comparison of increase in serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration after 4 weeks of daily oral intake of 10 microg cholecalciferol from multivitamin tablets or fish oil capsules in healthy young adults.
Holvik K, Madar AA, Meyer HE, Lofthus CM, Stene LC.
Br J Nutr. 2007 Sep;98(3):620-5. Epub 2007 Apr 24.
PMID: 17456248

We conclude that fish oil capsules and multivitamin tablets containing 10 microg cholecalciferol administered over a 4-week period produced a similar mean increase in s-25(OH)D concentration.

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2007 September bjcn study research clinical_trial rct vitamin_D vitamin_D3 multivitamin tablets fish oil capsules oil-based absorption nutrition medline comparison 25ohd increase vs. versus

Effect of fish oil on heart rate in humans: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
Mozaffarian D, Geelen A, Brouwer IA, Geleijnse JM, Zock PL, Katan MB.
Circulation. 2005 Sep 27;112(13):1945-52. Epub 2005 Sep 19.
PMID: 16172267
doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.556886

Conclusions— In randomized controlled trials in humans, fish oil reduces HR, particularly in those with higher baseline HR or longer treatment duration. These findings provide firm evidence that fish oil consumption directly or indirectly affects cardiac electrophysiology in humans. Po

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2005 September Circulation study review humans meta-analysis clinical_trials rcts fish_oil omega-3 heart_rate HR heart rate pulse nutrition CVD medline fish oil Mozaffarian

Fish intake is associated with a reduced progression of coronary artery atherosclerosis in postmenopausal women with coronary artery disease.
Erkkilä AT, Lichtenstein AH, Mozaffarian D, Herrington DM.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2004 Sep;80(3):626-32.
PMID: 15321802

Conclusions: Consumption of fish is associated with a significantly reduced progression of coronary artery atherosclerosis in women with coronary artery disease.

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2004 September ajcn study research epidemiological humans postmenopausal women patients fish consumption reduced progression CVD CHD atherosclerosis omega-3 nutrition diabetes angiography Erkkilä Mozaffarian medline

Serum 25(OH)-vitamin D concentration and risk of esophageal squamous dysplasia.
Abnet CC, Chen W, Dawsey SM, Wei WQ, Roth MJ, Liu B, Lu N, Taylor PR, Qiao YL.
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2007 Sep;16(9):1889-93.
PMID: 17855710
doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-07-0461

Background: Squamous dysplasia is the precursor lesion for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, and nutritional factors play an important role in the etiology of this cancer. Previous studies using a variety of measures for vitamin D exposure have reached different conclusions about the association between vitamin D and the risk of developing esophageal cancer.

Conclusions: Higher serum 25(OH)D concentrations were associated with significantly increased risk of squamous dysplasia. No obvious source of measured or unmeasured confounding explains this finding.

In conclusion, we found that a higher serum 25(OH)D concentration was associated with an increased risk of esophageal squamous dysplasia, the precursor lesion for ESCC. This finding concurs with our previous prospective study which found that higher vitamin D status was associated with increased risk of incident ESCC in this same population. These unexpected findings suggest that further studies of the association of vitamin D and digestive tract cancers are needed before the effect of vitamin D in different populations can be elucidated.

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2007 September cebp study research epidemiological humans vitamin_D status 25ohd esophageal squamous dysplasia increased risk nutrition medline

Docosahexaenoic acid inhibits superoxide dismutase 1 gene transcription in human cancer cells: the involvement of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha and hypoxia-inducible factor-2alpha signaling.
Tuller ER, Beavers CT, Lou JR, Ihnat MA, Benbrook DM, Ding WQ.
Mol Pharmacol. 2009 Sep;76(3):588-95. Epub 2009 Jun 15.
PMID: 19528198

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2009 September molpharm study research in_vitro nomega-3 DHA cancer anticancer anti-cancer nutrition mechanisms mechanism SOD-1 gene transcription SOD PPAR PPAR-alpha PPAR-gamma medline

Beneficial effects of virgin coconut oil on lipid parameters and in vitro LDL oxidation.
Nevin KG, Rajamohan T.
Clin Biochem. 2004 Sep;37(9):830-5.
PMID: 15329324
doi:10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2004.04.010

Conclusion: The results demonstrated the potential beneficiary effect of virgin coconut oil in lowering lipid levels in serum and tissues and LDL oxidation by physiological oxidants. This property of VCO may be attributed to the biologically active polyphenol components present in the oil

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2004 September study researh in_vivo animal_study rats in_vitro virgin coconut oil coconut_oil cholesterol LDL oxidation LDL_oxidation HDL polyphenols nutrition medline triglycerides lipid_profile lipids

"ScienceDaily (Sep. 10, 2009) — Monolaurin, an extract from coconut oil could be used as a microbial agent in foods, according to a study in the Journal of Food Science, published by the Institute of Food Technologists."

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2009 September sciencedaily coconut oil coconut_oil extract monolaurin antimicrobial anti-microbial nutrition food preservative

A new study in animals demonstrates that a diet rich in coconut oil protects against 'insulin resistance' (an impaired ability of cells to respond to insulin) in muscle and fat. The diet also avoids the accumulation of body fat caused by other high fat diets of similar calorie content. Together these findings are important because obesity and insulin resistance are major factors leading to the development of Type 2 diabetes. "

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Blood pressure and atherogenic lipoprotein profiles of fish-diet and vegetarian villagers in Tanzania: the Lugalawa study.
Pauletto P, Puato M, Caroli MG, Casiglia E, Munhambo AE, Cazzolato G, Bittolo Bon G, Angeli MT, Galli C, Pessina AC.
Lancet. 1996 Sep 21;348(9030):784-8.
PMID: 8813985

Interpretation
In these villagers, consumption of freshwater fish (300-600 g daily) was associated with raised plasma concentrations of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, lower blood pressure, and lower plasma lipid concentrations.

In conclusion, our findings confirm that the favourable risk factor profile originally described for Eskimos living on a diet rich in n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids is real, and not overestimated.

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1996 September Lancet study research nutrition diet fish vegetarian fish-diet fish-eaters vegetarians comparison BP blood pressure lipids cholesterol ldl hdl medline lipid_profile CVD risk_factors Tanzania Lugalawa tribes villagers Africa Bantu

"This is a study to see whether radiotherapy plus chemotherapy (Temozolomide) plus Dichloracetate (DCA) improves overall survival and offers better control of the disease in patients with newly diagnosed Glioblastoma Multiforme Tumours"

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2008 September clinicaltrials.gov clinical_trial government Dichloracetate DCA radiotherapy radiation therapy chemotherapy Temozolomide combining combination glioblastoma multiforme brain cancer brain_cancer

Duration of vitamin D synthesis from weather model data for use in prospective epidemiological studies.
Edvardsen K, Engelsen O, Brustad M.
Int J Biometeorol. 2009 Sep;53(5):451-9. Epub 2009 May 15.
PMID: 19444487
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-009-0231-6

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2009 September research vitamin_D synthesis cutaneous skin duration UVB UV-radiation UV radiation irradiance VD-hours hours cancer weather model Engelsen Norway Norwegian calculator epidemiological epidemiology

Berberine lowers blood glucose in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients through increasing insulin receptor expression.
Zhang H, Wei J, Xue R, Wu JD, Zhao W, Wang ZZ, Wang SK, Zhou ZX, Song DQ, Wang YM, Pan HN, Kong WJ, Jiang JD.
Metabolism. 2009 Sep 3
doi:10.1016/j.metabol.2009.07.029

Liver function was improved greatly in these patients by showing reduction of liver enzymes. Our results confirmed the activity of BBR on InsR in humans and its relationship with the glucose-lowering effect. Together with our previous report, we strongly suggest BBR as an ideal medicine for T2DM with a mechanism different from metformin and rosiglitazone.

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2009 September study research clinical_trial in_vitro humans diabetic patients berberine type_2 diabetes insulin receptor expression mechanism nutrition herbs medline glucose-lowering hypoglycemic

Vitamin D effective ultraviolet wavelengths due to scattering in shade.
Turnbull DJ, Parisi AV, Kimlin MG.
J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 2005 Sep;96(5):431-6. Epub 2005 Jul 6.
PMID: 16005208

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2005 September study research shade tree umbrella car veranda scattered UV UVB scattering vitamin_D UVA nutrition vitamin_D3 production synthesis medline

Decreased bioavailability of vitamin D in obesity.
Wortsman J, Matsuoka LY, Chen TC, Lu Z, Holick MF.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2000 Sep;72(3):690-3. Erratum in: Am J Clin Nutr. 2003 May;77(5):1342.
PMID: 10966885

Conclusions: Obesity-associated vitamin D insufficiency is likely due to the decreased bioavailability of vitamin D3 from cutaneous and dietary sources because of its deposition in body fat compartments.

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2000 September ajcn study research clinical_trial humans vitamin_D obesity UV UVB radiation vitamin_D2 supplementation bioavailability nutrition medline 25ohd body_fat Holick

Obesity and Vitamin D
One third of Americans are obese. While much of that epidemic is surely due to playing Nintendo instead of baseball, or the consumption of soft drinks instead of water, does that explain
it all? Is it a coincidence that the twin epidemics of obesity and vitamin D deficiency are occurring together?

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"Meat eating made us human. The anthropological evidence strongly supports the idea that the addition of increasingly larger amounts of meat in the diet of our predecessors was essential in the evolution of the large human brain. Our large brains came at the metabolic expense of our guts, which shrank as our brains grew.

In April 1995 an article appeared in the journal Current Anthropology that was an intellectual tour de force and, in my view, an example of a perfect theoretical paper. “The Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis” (ETH) by Leslie Aiello and Peter Wheeler demonstrated by a brilliant thought experiment that our species didn’t evolve to eat meat but evolved because it ate meat.

It was our gradual drift toward the much higher quality diet provided by food from animal sources that allowed us to develop the large brains we have. It was hunting and meat eating that reduced our GI tracts and freed up our brains to grow. As I wrote at the start of this post, the evidence indicates that we didn’t evolve to eat meat – we evolved because we ate meat."

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2009 September proteinpower Eades blog_article humans meat eaters meat-eaters vegetarians vegetarian omnivores diet paleolithic paleolithic_diet evolution preagricultural human part_II nutrition brain

"One of the problems - if it could be called a problem - in writing this blog and moderating the comments is most readers are pretty intelligent. Occasionally I have the angry vegetarian wander in, take me to task for my errant ways, and, after a comeback or two on my part, drift away to never be heard from again. Thanks to the confirmation bias, this blog pretty much selects against the non-meat eater. So, I tend to forget how many people there are out there who are pretty much clueless about basic nutrition, and how many people there are who bobble through life spouting cliches they've heard along the way as great nutritional truths. Based on the comments I get on this blog, it seems to me that most people are pretty nutritionally sophisticated and reasonable."

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2009 September proteinpower Eades blog_article humans meat eaters meat-eaters vegetarians vegetarian omnivores diet paleolithic paleolithic_diet evolution preagricultural human part_I nutrition

How to optimize vitamin D supplementation to prevent cancer, based on cellular adaptation and hydroxylase enzymology.
Vieth R.
Anticancer Res. 2009 Sep;29(9):3675-84. Review.
PMID: 19667164

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Berberine inhibits human tongue squamous carcinoma cancer tumor growth in a murine xenograft model.
Ho YT, Yang JS, Lu CC, Chiang JH, Li TC, Lin JJ, Lai KC, Liao CL, Lin JG, Chung JG.
Phytomedicine. 2009 Sep;16(9):887-90. Epub 2009 Mar 20.
PMID: 19303753

Our primary studies showed that berberine induced apoptosis in human tongue cancer SCC-4 cells in vitro. But there is no report to show berberine inhibited SCC-4 cancer cells in vivo on a murine xenograft animal model. SCC-4 tumor cells were implanted into mice and groups of mice were treated with vehicle, berberine (10mg/kg of body weight) and doxorubicin (4mg/kg of body weight). The tested agents were injected once per four days intraperitoneally (i.p.), with treatment starting 4 weeks prior to cells inoculation. Treatment with 4mg/kg of doxorubicin or with 10mg/kg of berberine resulted in a reduction in tumor incidence. Tumor size in xenograft mice treated with 10mg/kg berberine was significantly smaller than that in the control group. Our findings indicated that berbeirne inhibits tumor growth in a xenograft animal model. Therefore, berberine may represent a tongue cancer preventive agent and can be used in clinic.

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2009 September Phytomedicine study research in_vivo animal_study berberine herbs tongue cancer tongue_cancer hnca scchn head_and_neck_cancer nutrition growth-inhibitory anti-cancer medline scc

Hypercalcemia in advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: prevalence and potential impact on palliative care.
Alsirafy SA, Sroor MY, Al-Shahri MZ.
J Support Oncol. 2009 Sep-Oct;7(5):154-7.
PMID: 19831158

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2009 September study research epidemiological humans patients advanced head_and_neck_cancer cancer hnca scchn scc hypercalcemia prevalence palliative care medline