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Diet and prostate cancer

... , custard, cake, marmalade and jam) were associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer. A high intake of vegetables, fruits, and vitamin C and vitamin-E was found to significantly decrease the risk. After adjusting for other risk factors the researchers conclude that men with a high intake of ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a91b.htm 03/02/04, 3905 bytes

Multivitamin use and colon cancer

... use, smoking, weight, degree of physical activity, and intake of red meat, alcohol, methionine and fiber. Adjustment for intake of vitamin-A, vitamin-C, vitamin-D, vitamin-E and calcium did not alter the folate/colon cancer correlation. However, it was clear that the benefits of folate became evident ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a84c.htm 11/21/05, 5151 bytes

Timing of antioxidant supplementation is important

... dinner. Period 4 was a control with no high-fat dinner and no vitamins. The researchers found that vitamin E levels rose substantially after taking vitamin-E at breakfast and stayed high during the day. Vitamin-C levels, on the other hand, increased after breakfast, but had decreased by supper time ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a141a.htm 03/02/04, 5694 bytes

Vitamins C and E prevent lipid peroxidation

... are formed in the body by free radical catalyzed peroxidation of arachidonic acid. A team of American and Australian researchers reports that both vitamin-C and vitamin-E markedly reduce the formation of isoprostanes. Their study involved 184 non-smoking men and women who were randomized to receive ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a130i.htm 03/02/04, 4116 bytes

Niacin and intermittent claudication

... with peripheral vascular disease. The patients were randomized to receive niacin (1.5 to 3.0 grams/day), warfarin (2 to 4 mg/day), antioxidants (vitamin-C - 1000 mg/day, vitamin-E - 800 IU/day, and beta-carotene - 24 mg/day) or a placebo for 48 weeks in a 2 X 2 X 2 factorial design experiment. The researchers ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a84k.htm 11/21/05, 3728 bytes

Menopause is not an illness

... grams daily), and red clover sprouts (10 grams daily) helped normalize hormone levels and reduced vaginal dryness and irritation. Supplementing with vitamin-C and vitamin-E helps to control hot flushes as do the herbs agnus castus (vitex) and black cohosh (cimicifuga racemosa). Bone loss often accompanies ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a84m.htm 11/21/05, 4562 bytes

Vitamin C helps prevent heart disease

... C helps prevent heart disease HELSINKI, FINLAND. A new international cohort study sheds further light on the long-standing debate about the role of vitamin-C in coronary heart disease (CHD). The study combined the results of nine prospective studies on intakes of vitamin C, carotenoids and vitamin E ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a154c.htm 10/10/05, 4731 bytes

International Health News Editorial – September 2002

... – in other words, a very sick group of people. The patients were randomized to receive either a placebo or antioxidant vitamins (600 mg of synthetic vitamin-E, 250 mg of vitamin-C, and 20 mg of beta-carotene) daily for a 5-year period. At the end of the trial the researchers concluded that antioxidants ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/e129.htm 03/02/04, 4262 bytes

Unconventional cancer therapies in Canada

... and safety of eight commonly used cancer remedies - Essiac, green tea, Iscador (an extract of European mistletoe), hydrazine sulfate, vitamin-A, vitamin-C, vitamin-E, and Gaston Naessens' remedy 714-X (a nitrated camphor compound). The preliminary surveys covering Essiac and green tea have now been ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a78e.htm 11/21/05, 5871 bytes

Prooxidant effects of vitamin C

Prooxidant effects of vitamin C LEICESTER, ENGLAND. Antioxidants such as vitamin-E and beta-carotene can under certain conditions behave as prooxidants, that is, they promote oxidative reactions rather than quench them. Fortunately, the conditions which encourage the prooxidant activities are rare ...
http://www.yourhealthbase.com/database/a78h.htm 11/21/05, 4635 bytes