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Nutrition: tailored diet key to lifelong health
The key to eating healthily lies not in pursuing the latest dieting fad but simply eating according to our age and gender, experts say. They believe the key to good health and therefore a healthy weight in tailoring our food to our particular circumstances. Studies suggest simple changes to diet could have massive implications for health. "As we get older, our bodies are less effective at avoiding disease; our immune systems are less able to detect and mount a defence," food scientist Dr Sian Astley said.
"This results in increased risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cataract and arthritis. Poor diet can accelerate this process while 80 per cent of case-controlled studies support the hypothesis that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables can reduce risk of age-related illness."
Sunday Times (Perth), 10/9, p28
Nutrition: mandarins, vitamin A may cut liver cancer risk, reduce stress: studies
Eating mandarins or taking vitamin A compounds may cut the risk of developing liver cancer and other diseases, scientists said yesterday. Two Japanese studies found that eating mandarin oranges or drinking juice with added carotenoids - the vitamin A compound that gives mandarins their orange colour - cut the risk of several conditions.
West Australian, 11/9, p13
Exercise helps breast cancer patients avoid anemia
2006-10-09 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Moderate but regular exercise can help women avoid some of the side-effects of radiation treatment for breast cancer, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. Researchers studied 20 women with breast cancer, and found the women who walked briskly 20 to 45 minutes three to five times a week during radiotherapy treatment maintained their levels of healthy blood cells.Women who did not exercise lost significant oxygen capacity, Jacqueline Drouin of the University of Michigan-Flint and colleagues wrote in the report, published in the journal Cancer.
WHO says cancer killed 7.5 million people in 2005 Sep 1 RABAT (AFP) - Seven and a half million people worldwide died from cancer in 2005 and the number of cases in the Middle East is expected to soar over the next 15 years, Moroccan news agency MAP quoted the World Health Organization as saying.
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