Do Processed and Red Meat Cause Cancer?

Today, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer published a statement in The Lancet detailing its pos...

Cancer documentary

An educational three-part documentary about the history of cancer, produced and directed by legendary filmmaker Ken Burns, will begin airing...

Is Meat Unhealthy? Part VI

In this post, I'll examine the possible relationship between meat consumption and cancer risk. Is cancer risk even modifiable? Cancer is...

Does "Metabolically Healthy Obesity" Exist?

Obesity is strongly associated with metabolic alterations and negative health outcomes including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and some ...

Does Calorie Restriction Extend Lifespan in Mammals?

Until about two years ago, the story went something like this: calorie restriction extends lifespan in yeast, worms, flies, and rodents.  Li...

Oltipraz

Oltipraz is a drug that was originally used to treat intestinal worms. It was later found to prevent a broad variety of cancers ( 1 ). Thi...

Polyphenols, Hormesis and Disease: Part II

In the last post, I explained that the body treats polyphenols as potentially harmful foreign chemicals, or "xenobiotics". How ca...

Tropical Plant Fats: Coconut Oil, Part II

Heart Disease: Animal Studies Although humans aren't rats, animal studies are useful because they can be tightly controlled and experime...

High Dose Vitamin C : SAFE

"Vitamin C: intravenous use by complementary and alternative medicine practitioners and adverse effects," Padayatty SJ, Sun AY, e...

Cancer Comment

One year ago today my mother died, but no one has taken the time to tell me what was the cause.  Last October my niece died, but in her case...

Asparagus, an olde cancer-fighting remedy

This morning a visitor to Natural Health News seemed to be trying to locate a 2009 report from CNN about asparagus and cancer. For many year...

More on Herbs for Health: cancer, malaria

UW scientists report success in herb enhanced to fight cancer   Drug now used against malaria Last updated October 13, 2008   By TOM PAULS...

New Cancer Blog, Get Hope

Alternative Medicine and Cancer: Why Don't Oncologists Get On Board? "Doctor, do you believe in alternative medicine to treat cance...

Tropical Plant Fats: Palm Oil

A Fatal Case of Nutritionism The concept of 'nutritionism' was developed by Dr. Gyorgy Scrinis and popularized by the food writer Mi...

B vitamins and Methionine Improve Health

High levels of Vitamin B6 and the amino acid methionine cut lung cancer risk by half - Methionine is a sulfur bearing amino acid that is nec...

National Men's Health Week

National Men’s Health Week is celebrated each year the week leading up to and including Father’s Day. During the week, individuals, families...

Road to Health ? High Blood Pressure Drug Risk

A new report is out now indicating that a specific class of pharmaceuticals have a high risk of users developing cancer Cancer link to commo...

Nitrate: a Protective Factor in Leafy Greens

Cancer Link and Food Sources Nitrate (NO3) and nitrite (NO2) are molecules that have received a lot of bad press over the years. They are t...

Metastatic Cancer Gets Short Sheet

Only 5 percent of cancer research funds are spent on metastases, yet it kills 90 percent of all cancer patients ScienceDaily (2010-06-01) --...

Dental X-rays could increase the risk of thyroid cancer

Any X-ray ( ionizing radiation) carries with it a risk of cancer. X-ray exposure is cumulative and over all carries with it a real increase...