Cancer Prevention

The FDA Is Revisiting Its Definition of ‘Healthy’ Food

It’s actually harder to define than most people think.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Wednesday that it is proposing changes to its definition of “healthy.” The FDA’s definition of healthy defines criteria for when foods can use the word on their packaging, and has been a hotly debated topic in the food world for years.

Cancer in people under 50 is rising around the world. Why?

We know what we need to do to reduce our risk of getting cancer, right? Wear SPF, stop smoking, avoid processed foods, keep fit, lose weight and get enough sleep. But what if much of what causes cancer has already happened in our early years, or worse still, before we were born. A recent study from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard University says that may be the case, especially in cancers that happen before the age of 50 (early-onset cancers).

Fatty Liver Disease: How to Avoid Possibly the Biggest Threat to Your Health

Hearing the words “fatty liver” may immediately conjure up thoughts of alcoholics, and the damage to your liver that occurs after years of excessive drinking.

Artificial Sweeteners Alter Gut Bacteria in Humans

When consumed for as little as two weeks, common alternatives to sugar affect intestinal bacterial communities, with some reducing the body’s ability to regulate blood glucose levels, a study finds.

Increased Alcohol Use Linked with Higher Risk of Cancer in New Study

People who increased the amount of alcohol they drank also had an increased risk of cancer, according to the results of a large study in Korea published on Wednesday in JAMA Network Open.

What Are the Ayurveda Doshas? Vata, Kapha, and Pitta Explained

Ayurveda is one of the world’s oldest forms of holistic medicine and still widely used today.

Combining physical, psychological, and spiritual health, Ayurveda focuses on whole-body healing and states that a person’s dosha, a type of bodily humor, determines their personality and health (1Trusted Source).

‘Magic mushroom’ Psychedelic May Help Heavy Drinkers Quit

The compound in psychedelic mushrooms helped heavy drinkers cut back or quit entirely in the most rigorous test of psilocybin for alcoholism.

More research is needed to see if the effect lasts and whether it works in a larger study. Many who took a dummy drug instead of psilocybin also succeeded in drinking less, likely because all study participants were highly motivated and received talk therapy.

‘Forever’ Chemicals in Cookware Linked to Liver Cancer in First Human Study

There’s growing evidence that regular exposure to man-made “forever” chemicals, which are used in a variety of household products, are linked to rising cancer rates.

A new study that examined the correlation between liver cancer and the presence of these chemicals in humans found that people with the highest levels of exposure have 350% greater odds of eventually developing the disease.

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Preventing Cancer: The Only Way Forward

The main risk factors contributing to global cancer burden in 2019 were behavioral, according to a study published online Aug. 18 in The Lancet.

Khanh Bao Tran, M.D., from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and colleagues used results from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2019 comparative risk assessment framework to estimate cancer burden attributable to behavioral, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risk factors. Eighty-two risk-outcome pairs were included.

This May Be the #1 Best Food to Prevent Breast Cancer, New Study Says

Breast cancer is the second most common diagnosis in America—learn how you can possibly prevent it.

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