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- Soy: Health Claims for Soy Protein,
Questions About Other Components
by John Henkel Vegetarians and health enthusiasts have known for years that foods rich in soy protein offer a good alternative to meat, poultry, and other animal-based products. As consumers have pursued healthier lifestyles in recent years, consumption of soy foods has risen steadily, bolstered by scientific studies showing health benefits from these products. Last October, the Food and Drug Administration gave food manufacturers permission to put labels on products high in soy protein...
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- New Research Suggests Link between Maternal Diet and Childhood Leukemia Risk
A new study suggests that eating more vegetables, fruit and protein before pregnancy may lower the risk of having a child who develops leukemia, the most common childhood cancer in the United States. "This is the first time researchers have conducted a systematic survey of a woman's diet and linked it to the risk of childhood leukemia," said Dr. Kenneth Olden, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the federal agency that funded the study. NIEHS is a component of...
National Institutes of Health
- PREGNANCY AND A HEALTHY DIET
When you become pregnant, what you eat isn't only important for your own health, but for the health of your baby. Healthy foods are the building blocks for your growing baby since pregnancy is a complex time of developing new tissues and organs. Throughout pregnancy, try to make most of your food choices healthy ones. Eating too many foods that are high in fat during pregnancy leads to too much weight gain for you without meeting your increased need for nutrients. If you are eating a...
National Women's Health Information Center
- Emotion-Regulating Protein Lacking in Panic Disorder
Three brain areas of panic disorder patients are lacking in a key component of a chemical messenger system that regulates emotion, researchers at the NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have discovered. Brain scans revealed that a type of serotonin receptor is reduced by nearly a third in three structures straddling the center of the brain. The finding is the first in living humans to show that the receptor, which is pivotal to the action of widely prescribed anti-anxiety...
National Institutes of Health
- Protein Loss Plays Role in Acute T-cell Leukemia
The loss of a key protein (Smad3) in a pathway that helps prevent tumors from forming is specific to one form of childhood leukemia, but not to other pediatric and adult forms of leukemia, according to a new study published in the August 5, 2004, New England Journal of Medicine*. The study was done by scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and gives researchers new insights into how leukemias vary on a molecular level. Smad3 is an...
National Institutes of Health
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- Clash of the Weight Loss Titans
WebMD - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:00 EST
- Best Diet? Atkins Diet Ahead in the Weight Loss Race
The Earth Times - Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:45 EST
- Slimming World Voted Best Diet Aid
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
- Study backs worth of Atkins diet
BBC - Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:04 EST
- Protein Key To Organ Growth
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:00 EST
Clinical Trials
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- Barley Protein and CVD
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00334308 - Active, not recruiting
Hypercholesterolemia; Cardiovascular Disease; Diet Therapy
- Effect of a High Protein Diet on the 24-hour Profile of Ghrelin, GH (Growth Hormone) and IGF-1 (Insulin-like Growth Factor-1)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00108225 - Recruiting
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
- Very Low Protein Diet and Renal Death in CKD - ERIKA Study
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00323713 - Recruiting
Chronic Renal Insufficiency
- Exploratory Feasibility Study: High Fat/Protein Diet in the Treatment of Obesity
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00503373 - Recruiting
Obesity; Overweight
- Diet and Genetic Damage
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00340743 - Active, not recruiting
Colon Cancer; Diet

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