Published December 15, 2010

Stop gum and heart disease with bacteria

Inflammation in your gums is a serious condition. It leads to tooth loss. And it can cause heart and vascular disease. Finding inexpensive ways to prevent tooth loss is imperative. Your dentist will tell you to brush and floss your teeth. But there’s even more you can do that’s both easy and tasty.

Researchers recently conducted a controlled but unblended study on 50 participants. They gave the group a probiotic milk and followed them for eight weeks, and compared them to a control group.

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Published December 10, 2010

Increase your risk of pancreatic cancer by 87% by drinking this...

Pancreatic cancer is still one of the hardest cancers to cure. Very few doctors know what it takes to battle this disease. So it’s very important to prevent it. And now it looks like there’s a very easy way to do just that.

A new study out of Singapore found that a common beverage increases your risk of pancreatic cancer by 87%. That’s an astounding increase in risk. It means avoiding this one beverage will go a long way toward avoiding this killer disease.

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Published December 9, 2010

Is the new “corn sugar” good for you?

I recently read an article in USA Today entitled “Corn syrup producers want sweeter name: Corn sugar.” After reading the article, I had to wonder if the corn syrup industry paid for the article. It’s definitely biased toward convincing the reader that corn syrup is identical to cane sugar. But is it?

According to the article, “whether it’s corn sugar or cane sugar, your body can’t tell the difference. Sugar is sugar.” The article even quotes Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, as saying, “Sugar and high fructose corn syrup are nutritionally the same and there’s no evidence that the sweetener is any worse for the body than sugar.” Both of these statements are false for two reasons.

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