 Greetings!
Our "Good-Luck" bamboo plant finally reached the ceiling. I think I bought it at the Farmer's Market 5 or 6 years ago. It was 6" tall. No it's almost 6 feet tall. We put it on the floor so it can start reaching for the ceiling again.
This month I tell you about some research on supplements that you may not have heard about.
New products in the store this month are Peanut Butter Co.'s Seriously Strawberry Jam, and heat and serve Lundberg Rice packets. Quick and easy without heating up the whole kitchen in the summer heat.
Central Park had it's grand opening on May 30th. The park is a great improvement over the old park.
John & Ranae
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News & Review
I
receive several trade organization magazines and here are some random bits and
pieces involving the news articles in them.
Broccoli Extract and Prostate Cancer
Nutritional
Outlook magazine is a usually sent to manufacturers. I don't know how I got on their list, but it
is interesting to see what manufacturers are working on down the road. It's like seeing what's going to be in stores next Christmas. For example, they
report a company in the UK has joined with a noted Danish vegetable
researcher to bring to market broccoli extracts that have demonstrated
anticancer potential. The researcher
from the University of Copenhagen, Barbara Ann Halkier, is completing research
to demonstrate how these extracts may play a role in the prevention of diseases
such as prostate cancer. They estimate it may be three years before broccoli extract finds it way into products. In the meantime, if there is preliminary
evidence to suggest broccoli may have some anti-cancer potential, I'll have
another helping of fresh broccoli.
Vitamin C and Gout
In the same issue is a report of another study claiming men with higher vitamin C intake are less likely
to develop gout. Reported in the
Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers studied the relationship of vitamin
C and the risk of developing gout in almost 50,000 men between 1986 and
2006. The men were between the ages of
40 and 75 and the subjects with the highest daily vitamin C intake of 1500mg or
more reduced their risk of developing gout by 45% compared to men who took less
than 250mg.
This is an interesting study
because it follows the subjects over a 20 year span. Every four years the men were asked to fill
out a dietary questionnaire and every two years they were asked if they were
diagnosed with gout. Some 1300 men
developed gout and, after adjusting for other risk factors, such as obesity,
hypertension, the incidence of gout went down as vitamin C consumption went
up. This could be good news for the 5
million people who suffer gout in our country.
Vitamin E, Selenium, and Beta-Carotene
In
Nutraceuticals World there is a fascinating follow-up report on the General
Population Nutrition Intervention Trial which studied 29,584 adults in Linxian,
China between 1985 and 1991. The study
was primarily designed to study esophageal and gastric cancer prevention. The subjects were given a combination of 50
mcg of selenium, 30 mg of vitamin E, and 15 mg of beta-carotene. The researchers demonstrated at the end of
the study that mortality from all causes, cancer overall and gastric cancer,
were decreased.
The researchers followed
the subjects for 10 years after the active intervention and, through May, 2001
about one third of the participants had died. Those who took the nutritional combination
had lower overall mortality than the subjects who did not take the combo. Individuals 55 and younger derived the most
benefit from the supplements. These data
led researchers to conclude the beneficial effects of selenium, vitamin E,
and beta-carotene on mortality were still evident up to 10 years after the cessation
of supplementation and the earlier your start the more benefits you can expect.
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