Archive for February 28th, 2010
Giving Cake the Olive Oil Treatment
Taste Testers: Little Difference After Replacing Trans Fat in Cake with Olive Oil File this one under “What took them so long?” According to a recent study published in the journal Food Science and Technology, the artery-clogging trans fats that mire our food supply can be replaced with olive oil without affecting the food’s consistency, [...]
Posted: February 28th, 2010 under Trans Fats.
Tags: trans fat ban, trans fat foods, Trans Fats
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Cooking Up Some Cancer
Fumes from Gas Stoves Considered Cancerous by Researchers The next time you’re at a steakhouse, instead of telling your waiter how you’d like your steak done, you may want to ask how they cook their beef in the first place. Because if chefs are pan-frying steaks with a gas burner, they could be putting themselves—and [...]
Posted: February 28th, 2010 under Cancer.
Tags: cancer cause, cancer causes, cancer causing carcinogens, food causing cancer
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Smarts and Smoking
Researchers Measure the Intelligence Level of Smokers and Non-Smokers With all that we now know about the negative health effects of smoking (e.g., compared with non-smokers, smokers are four more times more likely to suffer a stroke, four times more likely to have heart disease, 23 times more likely to develop lung cancer, 13 times [...]
Posted: February 28th, 2010 under Smoking.
Tags: effect of smoking, effects of smoking cigarettes, harmful effects of smoking, mental effects of smoking
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For Predicting Alzheimer’s, the Eyes May Have It
Poor Eyesight in Later Years May Be Precursor to Alzheimer’s Development The problem with Alzheimer’s disease is that once it’s identified, the damage has already been done. Treatments exist that slow its debilitating effects, but precious little can be done to reverse them. As such, much of Alzheimer’s research is devoted to identifying Alzheimer’s disease [...]
Posted: February 28th, 2010 under Alzheimer's Disease, Eye Health.
Tags: Eye Health, signs of alzheimer's, signs of alzheimer's disease, symptoms of alzheimer's disease
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