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Overdoing The Sauce: The Detriments of Heavy Drinking

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Last week, we discussed how to incorporate a bit of the drink into your healthful diet. One of the key takeaways from that discussion was “moderation.” That is to say, a little bit of alcohol isn’t harmful and is possibly even beneficial, but once you cross a threshold of 1 [...]

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How Sugar Affects Your Sex Hormones

Here is yet another way that too much sugar in the diet causes disease: Too Much Sugar Turns Off Gene That Controls Effects Of Sex Steroids
Glucose and fructose are metabolized in the liver. When there’s too much sugar in the diet, the liver converts it to lipid. Using a mouse model and human liver cell [...]

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Ditch the Soy - It’s Really Not Good For You

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A few weekso ago, New Scientist reported that Eating soya could slash men’s sperm count. I posted a link to an article a long time ago that declared a Soy-cancer warning.
Men who eat just half a serving of soya a day have drastically fewer sperm than those who do not consume [...]

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Sugar Affects Sex Hormones

Here’s an article from Eurekalert titled Too much sugar turns off gene that controls the effects of sex steroids.
Glucose and fructose are metabolized in the liver. When there’s too much sugar in the diet, the liver converts it to lipid. Using a mouse model and human liver cell cultures, the scientists discovered that the increased [...]

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