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Digest: Omega-3s During Pregnancy, Raw Milk Cheese, Food Poisoning, Red Wine and Tea, Diabetes, and Alzheimer’s

Look at all those omega-3s. Photo courtesy of Hicker Photo
Let them eat fish! (Or at least take fish oil) Omega-3 Intake During Last Months Of Pregnancy Boosts An Infant’s Cognitive And Motor Development - “A study…reveals that omega-3 intake during the last months of pregnancy boosts an infant’s sensory, cognitive, and motor development. [...]

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What Happened to Just Drinking Water?

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Last night, I just had to finally catch an episode of The American Gladiators. While that was on, I caught a commercial for Propel fitness water. You can watch the video at that link.
The basic premise is that many vitamin-enhanced waters have 125 calories per bottle. [...]

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Fighting Back Against Cancer

Here is a trio of articles that show various lifestyle and dietary factors that are found to be protective against cancer.
Sunlight vs. Cancer
Some women who had higher sun exposure had their risk of advanced breast cancer reduced by almost half, according to the scientific study.
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The researchers said: “Vitamin D production in the skin seems to [...]

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Eat Onions, Save Your Pancreas

Here’s good news for onion lovers like myself: An Onion a Day May Repel Pancreatic Cancer
Onions and black tea appeared to show “modest inverse associations” with pancreatic cancer, although the trends were not significant (P=0.056 and P=0.07, respectively), the researchers said.
Apples and green, herbal, or other teas, on the other hand, showed no such associations.
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“The [...]

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This Week’s Links

Here are some more good reads that I came across this week. Enjoy!
Ross Enamait gave us a new article called The Endless Search imploring us to stick to the basics and never forget that it is the individual that determines the effectiveness of a training protocol (or by extension, nutrition plan), not the protocol [...]

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