Effects of fruit and vegetables on antioxidant concentrations, BP This is another of those “how much did we spend on this study???” study. Is there anyone out there that thinks that increased consumption of fruits and veggies won’t positively impact markers of health? Do we really need to spend money just to quantify what common […]
CRP, Homocysteine Related to Frequent Fruit and Vegetable Intake All this fuss trying to find a drug to lower CRP levels. It’s almost laughable. And you know when they find that some drug (most likely front runner is the statins) lowers CRP it’ll be all over the news with recommendations to have CRP levels checked […]
Intakes of Antioxidants in Coffee, Wine, and Vegetables Are Correlated with Plasma Carotenoids Coffee was found to have contribute the highest levels of dietary antioxidants in this study was coffee. Now, the author does not describe just how much coffee the study participants took in, but this still goes to show that some things just […]
Polyphenols inhibit pancreatic cancer growth I realize that, to some of you, this seems like old news (and it is…). For those of you new to Updates, fruits and veggies contain literally thousands of substances we have not even identified yet that protect us from just about every disease on the planet… Article Abstract – […]
Superoxide-mediated activation of uncoupling protein 2 causes pancreatic beta cell dysfunction In English, this article links the progression of Type 2 diabetes to oxidative stress (superoxide is a free radical that causes damage to cellular membranes as well as DNA). Increased intake of fruits and veggies and antioxidants should be part of every regimine to […]
