{"id":147244,"date":"2010-01-06T22:18:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T03:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/?p=138329"},"modified":"2010-01-06T22:18:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T03:18:25","slug":"health-bits-pomegranates-food-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/147244","title":{"rendered":"Health Bits: Pomegranates, Food Labels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pomegranates &amp; Breast Cancer <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One day, doctors could prescribe pomegranates to reduce the risk of hormone-dependent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/storing-breast-milk\/\">breast<\/a> cancer. Pomegranates, which contain anti-aromatase phytochemicals, were the subject of a recent study with results published in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aacr.org\/\">Cancer Prevention Research<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-138341\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.blisstree.com\/files\/2010\/01\/pomegranate-cancer.jpg\" alt=\"pomegranate-cancer\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Researchers say that certain properties of pomegranates can suppress estrogen production, preventing the proliferation of breast cancer cells and growth of estrogen-responsive tumors. However, more research is needed to see if the <em>in vitro<\/em> lab results on cultured breast cancer cells could translate to humans. Meanwhile, a pomegranate a day probably couldn&#8217;t hurt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accuracy in Food Labels <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Tufts University discovered that some commercially prepared foods contain more calories than revealed on nutritional labeling. The findings were published on the <em>Journal of the American Dietetic Association<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The guilty parties included quick-serve and sit-down restaurant foods, as well as frozen meals. Twenty-nine of the quick-serve and restaurant foods studied contained an average of 18% more calories than stated. Ten of the frozen meals measured contained an average of 8% more calories than shown on the label. Researchers say that some of the restaurants offered free side items which contained more calories than the main entrees. The foods studied were obtained in the Boston, MA area, but the restaurant chains have a wide distribution in the US.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quitting Smoking &amp; Diabetes Risk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new study has found that those who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/online-help-to-quit-smoking\/\">quit smoking<\/a> are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the years immediately after quitting. Researchers believe the risk is increased due to weight gain. However, the increase doesn&#8217;t appear to be long-term, and experts say that the benefits of stopping smoking greatly outweigh the diabetes risk.<\/p>\n<p>Those who quit smoking lower their risks of lung cancer and heart attack. The study, which followed almost 11,000 people for nine years, was published yesterday in <em>Annals of Internal Medicine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>(Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxc.hu\/photo\/1008358\">stock.xchng<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\">Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/health-bits-pomegranates-food-labels\/\">Health Bits: Pomegranates, Food Labels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pomegranates &amp; Breast Cancer One day, doctors could prescribe pomegranates to reduce the risk of hormone-dependent breast cancer. Pomegranates, which contain anti-aromatase phytochemicals, were the subject of a recent study with results published in Cancer Prevention Research. Researchers say that certain properties of pomegranates can suppress estrogen production, preventing the proliferation of breast cancer cells [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}