By Ian Mason Special to DG News FLORENCE, ITALY — June 10, 2002 — Gastric and bowel cancers are not being detected early because iron

06/10/2002By Elda Hauschildt More aggressive vitamin D supplementation has been recommended for people living in northern latitudes, especially in the fall and winter when sunshine

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Jun 04 –  Experiments in mice indicate that melanocortin agonist therapy holds potential for the treatment of obesity, associated insulin resistance

מקבץ שאלות ותשובות שהוכנו על ידי אנשי משרד הבריאות. לעיון במקבץ

Mothers of pre-term infants in the United Kingdom seem to be poor at complying with official guidelines on feeding their babies.  The introduction of complementary

LONDON (Reuters Health) Jun 06 –  Infants who are breastfed have a 30% reduction in risk of becoming obese in childhood compared with formula-fed infants,

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) May 30 –  Chronic leptin treatment leads to improved insulin sensitivity in the liver and in muscle and to  reversal of

A lipid-lowering diet which uses rapeseed oil for children and adolescents with familial hypercholesterolemia appears to have an effect on total serum cholesterol and low-density

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) May 30 – Women with preeclampsia who receive magnesium sulfate before giving birth or shortly after have a significantly reduced risk

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) May 29 –  In middle-aged men, abdominal obesity–more than overall obesity–is an independent risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD), Finnish

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) May 29 – The amount of weight gained over a lifetime and waist-hip ratio appear to be risk factors for postmenopausal

LONDON (Reuters Health) May 27 –  Results of a randomised trial show that encouraging individuals to increase their intake of fruit and vegetables increases plasma

05/28/2002 By David Loshak  Vitamin C may inhibit collagen-induced platelet aggregation. This may add to the protection that vitamin C is already known to give

05/27/2002 By Veronica Rose  Vegetarians have considerably higher levels of total plasma homocysteine, greater prevalence of hyperhomocysteinemia and lower levels of serum vitamin B12 than

05/27/2002 By Robert Short  Vitamin C treatment has a possible role in benefiting patients with coronary heart disease by  countering the adverse effects of the

05/27/2002 By Mark Moran  Four-week supplementation with soy isoflavone may have beneficial effects on bone metabolism and on serum lipids in perimenopausal women. These effects

לראשונה בישראל מתפרסם אינדקס לתזונה נבונה (אית”ן). בהודעת דובר משרד הבריאות המלצות ומימצאים מסקר שנערך בארץ. להודעת הדובר

05/13/2002 By Elda Hauschildt Drinking tea regularly, especially for longer than 10 years, improves bone mineral density (BMD) in adults. Benefits relate to total body

05/17/2002 By Mark Moran Patients with binge eating disorders tend to have expectations for personal weight loss that far exceed recommendations. These expectations may be

LOS ANGELES (Reuters Health) May 08 –  Obese women are more likely to have an unexplained stillbirth than their leaner counterparts, a new study presented