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Recent Longevity News for the seven days ending 12/11/02:

Watermelon for Prostate Cancer? - Dr. Weil, 12/10/02 - "Lycopene is a powerful antioxidant that a number of large studies have shown is particularly good at protecting against prostate, colon and rectal cancer, as well as heart disease ... contains 40 percent more lycopene than an equivalent weight of tomatoes ... The body converts about 500 different carotenoids into vitamin A ... If you don’t get enough of these foods in your diet, you may want to use an antioxidant supplement. I recommend a mixed carotenoid supplement containing lycopene, lutein, alpha-carotene, and zeaxanthin, as well as beta-carotene"

Study Looks At Pollution, Gene Mutations - Intelihealth, 12/10/02 - "Exposure to air pollution from steel mills may cause genetic mutations that are passed by fathers to their offspring ... pairs of mice exposed for about 70 days to air pollution downwind from a steel mill produced young that carried up to twice the number of genetic mutation found in animals that lived in clean air"

Bone Loss Accelerated After Solo Estrogen Withdrawal For Some Postmenopausal Women - Doctor's Guide, 12/10/02 - "An acceleration of bone loss is seen after withdrawal of oestrogen therapy but not after withdrawal of alendronate alone or combination therapy with oestrogen"

Mechanisms Differ Between Depression and Either Vitamin B12 Or Folate - Doctor's Guide, 12/10/02 - "hyperhomocysteinemia, vitamin B12 deficiency and, to a lesser extent, folate deficiency all were related to depressive disorders"

Tag Teaming Depression - WebMD, 12/10/02 - "An estimated 10% of America's elderly have major clinical depression, yet very few older adults receive effective treatment"

Depression Could Cost You Your Job - WebMD, 12/9/02 - "researchers found that 42% of those who showed symptoms of depression in the study's first year eventually lost their jobs" - See my new Best of the Best page on omega-3.  Maybe it will save your job.

Periodontitis in Estrogen-Deficient Women - Archives of Internal Medicine, 12/9/02 - "The influence of estrogen deficiency directly on alveolar bone seems likely to only partially explain the association between the lack of estrogen and tooth loss. Many studies suggest a beneficial influence of estrogen directly on gingival and periodontal tissues even though this concept is not mentioned in recent reviews of risk factors for periodontal disease ... We continue to see nonsmoking women without diabetes mellitus in their 50s and 60s whose periodontal disease is strikingly improved within a few months following the onset of systemic estrogen therapy without other interventions"

Extra B vitamin [niacin] may keep mind sharp in old age - Reuters, 12/6/02 - "They discovered that people who ate the most niacin--of whom half consumed more than 22 mg each day--were 79% less likely to develop Alzheimer's than were those who ate the least"

Eating Yogurt Daily Increases “Good” Cholesterol in Women - New Hope Natural Media, 12/5/02 - "In this study, 29 women ate 300 grams (about 10.6 ounces) of a full-fat (3.5% fat by weight) yogurt product daily for 21 weeks ... A larger, and statistically significant, 38% increase was observed in HDL, or “good” cholesterol levels after eating the yogurt. No change was observed in LDL, or “bad,” cholesterol levels ... each woman also ate the probiotic- and prebiotic-containing product for a 7-week stretch during the 21-week trial. During the period when the women consumed the supplemented yogurt, there was a further increase in HDL cholesterol beyond that seen from simply eating plain yogurt" - See iHerb (5% discount code "qc") and Vitacost probiotics products.

Low-Carbohydrate, High-Protein Diets: Are They Safe? - New Hope Natural Media, 12/5/02 - "Low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets are known to suppress the appetite and to curb feelings of hunger, which is why many people lose weight on these types of diets. However, consuming these diets can result in the depletion of minerals such as potassium and magnesium, which are needed to maintain a normal heart rhythm. This mineral-losing effect may be compounded when the daily calorie intake is restricted"

Unraveling the Sun's Role in Depression - WebMD, 12/5/02 - "regardless of the season, the turnover of serotonin in the brain was affected by the amount of sunlight on any given day. And the levels of serotonin were higher on bright days than on overcast or cloudy ones. In fact, the rate of serotonin production in the brain was directly related to the duration of bright sunlight"

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