Fifty-seven million Americans suffer from low bone density or osteoporosis, a disease which causes bones to become so weak and brittle that even a minor fall or other stresses may cause fractures. A study published in the British Journal of Nutrition in July examined the mechanism of the bone-protective properties of an unlikely source—California dried plums.
Strawberries are not only delicious and nutrient-rich, new research from Harvard Medical School found that they may offer cardiovascular disease protection. The new study found that those who reported eating the most strawberries experienced lower blood levels of C-reactive protein, a biomarker for inflammation in the blood vessels.
For the first time in more than 20 years, a new product is available to combat the deadliest form of skin cancer ñ metastatic melanoma. Proleukin (aldesleukin), a recombinant form of interleukin-2 approved this year by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma, is the only therapy proven to offer a reasonable chance of survival to those patients diagnosed with advanced-stage melanoma.
Today at the Experimental Biology 98 conference, Dr. David Heber, director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, presented the findings of the first U.S. clinical study on the cholesterol-lowering effects of Cholestin, a dietary supplement made of Chinese red yeast rice.
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