A special welcome to my new readers from the Linus Pauling meetings May 15-18. Look for meeting notes in the next newsletter.
HEADLINES OF ARTICLES THIS MONTH – see summaries below
1.  High protein intake required for weight loss - Eating 1.2 g of protein per kg body weight per day is necessary to maintain metabolic rate to [...] Read more »

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Happiness is precious for health. Classes are over for me until August! Read the details of April’s AJCN articles after these headlines:
PREVENT CANCER: 1. Guidelines to prevent risk of death from cancer - 6 recommendations for men [regarding body fatness, physical activity, foods and drinks that promote weight gain, plant foods, animal foods, and alcoholic drinks and [...] Read more »

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DETAILS follow these one line summaries. Links are to abstracts in peer-reviewed journal.
IMMEDIATE ACTION – 10. Human skeletal muscle needs much more vitamin C than leukocytes. So getting 500 mg twice a day may be much better than just 200 mg daily. 6. Eating consciously reduces overeating. - Evidence indicates that attentive eating provides a novel approach to aid weight loss [...] Read more »

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May your holidays help the world to be free and safe  -See summaries and links to published articles after these one sentence summaries
3. Eat berries 4. Eat capsaicin and protein - Energy intake restriction causes a yo-yo effect by decreasing energy expenditure (EE) and decreasing fullness.During dieting, protein and capsaicin promoted a negative fat balance and protein treatments also [...] Read more »

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Zorba writes a medical column in my state newspaper. In this Sunday’s paper, his column was headlined “Vitamin C gets an F”, and he went on to condemn the use of vitamin C supplements, based on a JAMA report that people taking more than 1000 mg of vitamin C daily have an increased risk of [...] Read more »

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A bit late because of our house fire. Make your New Year even happier with good nutrition which includes exercise! And perhaps cheese and definitely breakfast. See details and active links after these headlines:
1. Animal models show benefit of supplemental vitamins C and E to reduce the risk of chronic disease and physiological aging 3. It remains unclear [...] Read more »

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Reading a great new book”The Emotional Life of Your Brain”, by Richie Davidson MD PhD, Director of the NIH Center for Meditation at UW Madison.
“Plasma fibrinogen is a molecule implicated in inflammation and coronary disease. Because its blood levels rise in stressful life circumstances, it is a general marker of inflammation and has been implicated [...] Read more »

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FEATURES: Article 14. Poor diet is a risk factor for depression - Poor diet increases the risk by 41% in women, and good diet reduces the risk of recurrence of depression by 65%. Article 13. High saturated fat intake reduces sperm count in young men. Our findings are of [...] Read more »

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DETAILS are after these summaries:
1. “Gluten free” still contains 20mg gluten/kg - 18 people per 10,000 are still sensitive at this level. 2. Does everything we eat cause cancer? No, but it seems that way. 3. Even research results in peer-reviewed journals of nutrition are often distorted - The fidelity of research findings between nutrients and cancer may have been compromised in [...] Read more »

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DETAILS and links are below the headlines:
Headlines: OBESITY 1. Why eating carbs is so dangerous – The search for lifestyle changes that will slow the obesity epidemic and its adverse sequelae has turned to dietary sugar. But apart from weight gain from excess sweet calories, what are the specific metabolic consequences that are harmful to [...] Read more »

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