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8 Steps to Naturally Reduce Your Risk of Colon Cancer

March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month. According to the Colon Cancer Alliance and the American Cancer Society, colon cancer, also known as colorectal cancer, is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in men and women combined in the U.S.

Colon cancer is considered a preventable cancer. Why? Primarily because by changing our diet we can reduce risk dramatically. And if we get regular screenings (colonoscopies), we may be diagnosed only with precancerous or early stage cancer cells that are easily removed and treated.

8 Proven Steps You Can Take to Naturally Reduce Your Risk of Colorectal Cancer

Colorectal cancer is a "food-related" cancer. (1) Everything you eat passes over the lining of your digestive tract. The lining of the large intestine and the rectum at the lower end of the digestive tube contains waste, digestive fluids, bile acids and fiber. That lining is bathed by chemicals in food, your own hormones and secretions, and healthy and unhealthy bacteria. The contents of your intestines have a direct impact on the health of the cells lining the bowel. Colorectal cancer is directly impacted by your diet.

1. Eat Less Red Meat

Studies show eating red meat "frequently" increases the incidence of colon cancer. Eating red meat daily and especially more than one serving per day increased risk. Plant-based diets showed lowest risk (1). Increased risk is associated with increased inflammation associated with chemicals released by digestion of red meat. These chemicals increase damage to and inhibit the repair of DNA (genetic material) in the cells lining your intestines (2). Damage to DNA is a primary cause of all cancers.

2. Eat More Garlic

According to the National Cancer Institute fact sheet on garlic and cancer prevention:

Protective effects from garlic may arise from its antibacterial properties or from its ability to block the formation of cancer-causing substances, halt the activation of cancer-causing substances, enhance DNA repair, reduce cell proliferation, or induce cell death ...

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Most of the time, nutritionists and dietitians are full of brilliant ideas that help you eat healthier, stay slimmer, and live longer. But every once in a while, food gurus forget that the rest of us have limited time, funds, and willpower. That's when they spit out wonky bits of wisdom like "Ask your waiter to wrap half your entre before you start eating." Yeah, he'd be happy to--right after he sticks his thumb in your salade Nioise. We collected seven of the hardest-to-swallow expert suggestions and replaced them with equally healthy tips that a normal person can actually use. Because unless your name is Jessica Seinfeld, you're not going to spend every second fretting about what goes on your plate.

Peeing every 20 minutes seriously interferes with life. Believe it or not, the eight-glass quota isn't etched in stone. Yes, we need to be well-hydrated, but if your urine is clear or close to it, you're probably getting enough fluids. If your No. 1 is neon yellow, lighten things up by adding one or two glasses a day. Once your body adjusts to getting more fluid (and you don't have to run to the can every 10 minutes), add another, says Karen Benzinger, R.D., a dietary consultant in Chicago who specializes in health care. And don't forget that all liquids--including tea, juice, even the tonic in your vodka drink--help keep your body sufficiently saturated.

There's a big difference between 100 percent juice and a bottle of sugar water with a few cranberries squeezed into it. Yes, juice has a lot of the sweet stuff, but a six-ounce glass of 100 percent juice also counts as a full serving of fruit and delivers many of the same vitamins and antioxidants, making it worth the occasional sugar rush, says Jessica Ganzer, R.D., owner of Ganzer Wellness Consulting in Arlington, Virginia. And it can be the easiest way to get a superfood: Drinking 100 percent pomegranate juice is easy; picking apart a real pomegranate, not so much. As long as you drink 100 percent juice (from concentrate is fine) and limit yourself to one six-to-eight ounce glass a day, you're not breaking any rules of good nutrition. If you're seriously cutting back on calories or carbs, try Tropicana's Light 'n Healthy line; a serving has about half the sugar (10 grams) and calories (50) of normal juice.

After a long day at the office and a trip to the gym, you either eat dinner at 9:30 or starve. The no-food-right-before-bed rule was meant for the nighttime nosher who mindlessly wolfs down a bag of Oreos while watching CSI: Miami. If you get home long after dark, a late dinner is perfectly fine. A calorie is a calorie, no matter what time you eat it, according to Katie Clark, R.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of family health care nursing at the University of California, San Francisco. But do keep your evening meal light--along the lines of a chicken breast, steamed broccoli, and brown rice. Too much chow will keep you up at night: To break down all that food, your gut has to churn like a cement truck.

The pros push this tip because people usually eat flavored instant oatmeal, which comes with up to a whopping 13 grams of sugar per 43-gram packet--compared with one gram or less of sweetness in the steel-cut stuff. And steel-cut oats are less processed than the rolled oats used in the just-add-water variety, so they take longer to digest (this keeps your blood sugar nice and steady, helping you avoid mood swings and hunger pangs). That said, instant oatmeal still uses whole grain oats (they're just mashed a bit more), so it comes with most of the same health benefits. One of these is the cholesterol-lowering, hunger-satisfying soluble fiber beta-glucan: It turns gummy when it hits your GI tract, binds with cholesterol, and drags it out. "I'd rather my clients eat one-minute oatmeal than no oatmeal at all," Ganzer says. If you find unsweetened oatmeal about as appetizing as paste, combine half a packet of the flavored kind with half a packet of plain. Or consider Quaker Oatmeal's Weight Control flavored instants, which pack even more fiber than steel-cut oats (six grams per packet) and keep sugar down to one gram.

Despite the dainty name, it tastes just like what it is: watered-down wine. There's no weight-loss magic in a spritzer, a cup of wine diluted with calorie-free carbonated water. It's just another portion-control trick that trims your total calorie intake, Clark says. If you balk at the idea of outdated cocktails or weak-tasting grape juice, slowly sipping a glass of water between rounds of pinot grigio accomplishes the same goal.

You know you have portion-control issues, but that doesn't mean you want everyone else at your table to know it too. A better way to cut back on restaurant binging is to pretend the breadbasket is sprinkled with cyanide and to double up on veggie sides instead of ordering fries. Also effective: putting your fork down between bites, which gives your stomach and brain time to register that you're full (which takes about 20 minutes). Once your gauge hits "F," ask the waiter to box up the rest of your food right away so you won't keep nibbling, Benzinger says.

That's like telling an addict to have just a little crack. Eating chocolate cake is like watching Keeping Up with the Kardashians: There's nothing right about it, so just revel in how deliciously wrong it is. A smarter strategy: Before you begin the debauchery, plan for the extra calories--skip the appetizer, the bread, or (ouch) the booze. "If the dessert is really that good, it's worth the sacrifice," Benzinger says.

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Tigri Scientifica: Step away from the Diet Coke

Diet sodas are worse for your health than you think.

Quick, name the worst soda for your health. What was your first guess? Mountain Dew? What about Coca-Cola? Surely one of the neon-colored Pepsis would be at the top of the list. If youre drinking a diet soda right now, youre going to want to put it down in favor of its full-sugared counterpart.

A newly published, 10-year study conducted by Dr. Hannah Gardener and her colleagues from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Columbia University Medical Center found that those who drink diet soda on a daily basis are at a higher risk of many vascular disorders, including stroke, heart attack and vascular death.

Full-calorie soda gets a bad rep because of the high fructose corn syrup that it contains and its high caloric content. These can help increase waistlines and can potentially be linked to vascular disorders.

Interestingly enough, this new study found no association between drinking regular soda and an increased risk of vascular disorders. The new study also came to the conclusion that those who drink diet soft drinks daily have a 43 percent increased risk of vascular events when compared to those who drink regular soda daily.

Why would diet sodas have such a different effect? Scientists have not been able to clearly define the exact processes by which the compounds in diet sodas cause harm to your body, but they have been able to pinpoint all of the negative effects that come along with frequent diet soft drink consumption.

In the study, 2,564 participants were observed in their soda intake. The study controlled for many factors, including dietary habits, age, sex and ethnicity.

Accounting for differences related to those factors, the participants who drank diet sodas regularly were most likely to sufferer hypertension, elevated blood sugar, lower HDL (the good cholesterol), larger BMIs, peripheral vascular disease and previous cardiac disease.

How does that compare to those in the study who chose regular soda as their daily poison? They generally had lower occurrences of diabetes and high blood cholesterol levels.

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Enjoying a sizzling sirloin or tasty T-bone could be the best prescription for your heart.

Reporter Sarah Gustin has more on a diet that says red meat does a body good.

When you think of dieting, fruits and vegetables probably come to mind, but results from one diet study prove you can have your steak and eat it too.

Nancy Jo Bateman / ND Beef Commission: "One of the most exciting studies that we have come out with this past year is called the BOLD study. Those are initials for Beef in an Optimal Lean Diet."

Recently the well known DASH diet was put to the test.

The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension diet limits red meat intake to one ounce per day.

While the new BOLD Diet --Beef in an Optimal Lean Diet--increases that serving to 5.4 ounces everyday.

Researchers found that those eating more beef still lowered their cholesterol by the same ten percentage points.

Joan Nagel / St. Alexius LRD: "They tested labs and they tested weights and overall they noticed a generalization, a 10% decrease in total cholesterol and also the LDL cholesterol, which we kinda label as the bad cholesterol. 10% is pretty significant in reducing that."

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Women's health and fitness magazine Self is upping its investment in Facebook. The publication is launching a social game and diet program on the social network next week.

The "Self Workout in the Park Social Game" is an extension of the exercise-themed events Self throws in major cities every year. The "Drop 10 Diet Together" is one of many diet programs the magazine has developed in conjunction with health and fitness experts over the years.

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Facebook is where Self readers are already connecting with each other, says editor-in-chief Lucy Danziger.

"We created an app for Facebook, so you can create a micro-community where you and, let's say, five best friends who are going to be bridesmaids can drop weight," Danziger told Mashable. "By supporting each other you will lose more weight."

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The Drop 10 program will live on Facebook as an application. Customizable settings including team names, member invites and page privacy.

Individuals are encouraged to try the diet and exercise plans designed to help users drop 10 pounds in ideally five weeks. Friends and family can send out invites to anyone on Facebook to share eating plans, card calendar, exercises and logs to track calories and daily meals. The full plan of eating plans and workouts will be available on the magazine's main page.

Danziger, who has been Self's editor-in-chief for more than a decade, spoke of the importance of the web to the brand's future.

"The old way of 'create a magazine once a month, put it out there and then you move on' is no longer valid," she said. "Now you have a 24/7 relationship with your readers who give you feedback on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest."

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Washington, Mar 8 (ANI): Researchers have shed light on the effects of catch up growth (CUG) with different diets on bone status and the role of resveratrol in CUG models.

Although many current studies focused on catch up growth (CUG) have described its high susceptibility to insulin resistance-related diseases very few have focused on the effect of CUG on bone metabolism, especially in adulthood.

As diet is a controllable factor, the influence of re-feeding with different dietary patterns on bone parameters is important to study.

Resveratrol has been attributed a number of beneficial effects in mammals including osteotrophic properties. Wang and colleagues have described the first study to describe the effects of CUG, with various diets and resveratrol intervention on bone status.

CUG can lead to insulin resistance and low-grade systemic inflammation occurs in insulin resistance syndrome.

Tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-a is an important inflammatory cytokine, and Lange and Seriolo et al. indicated that anti-TNF alpha therapy may exert beneficial effects on bone metabolism, prevent structural bone damage and increase bone mineral density.

"Our results showed that food restriction induced a significant decrease in bone parameters. Eight-week CUG by normal chow demonstrated a greater degree of improvement in mineral density than a high-fat diet, and even returned to normal level," Dr. Wang said.

"In contrast, Mika C found that re-feeding for two years normalized bone formation activity in adolescent anorexia nervosa patients, but bone mineral density was still significantly lower than that of controls."

"Compared with neural anorexia, we found in this study the degree of impairment by four-week diet restriction on bone metabolism was relatively weaker, so that bone mineral density returned to normal level after re-feeding."

To better distinguish the effects of CUG by high-fat diet on bone status, these investigators set up a high-fat diet group.

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While more accustomed to designing high-end collaborations like champagne packaging for Piper-Heidsieck, Jean Paul Gaultier is going for more mass market appeal by becoming the latest designer to collaborate with Diet Coke.

The French creator has been named the beverage's European creative director and is appearing in a series of short films for the brand.

As well as signing on to design bottles and cans, Gaultier will also have input on online content and retail concepts for 2012.

Plus, he's the star of three light-hearted short films for Diet Coke's YouTube channel, portraying a therapist, a journalist and a private detective solving a puppet's wardrobe dilemmas. See the first in the series at http://youtu.be/qoTR5bqsx-w.

His first limited-edition designs will be unveiled across Europe starting next month. Bottle designing isn't completely new to the creator though, as he has teamed up with Piper-Heidsieck in the past -- last year dressing a bottle of vintage champagne in black lurex, fishnet and Swarovski crystals. For the Diet Coke collab, Gaultier has hinted at a characterful creation.

"The brand asked me to explore its fun personality and to style the bottle. I want to show people the codes and signatures I love. The bottles have the shape of a woman's body, so it was great fun to 'dress' them," the French creator explained in a release.

"The Diet Coke motif is so beautiful I had to design around this. The finishing touch was to apply my logo to the bottle, like applying a fragile stamp -- making it something special you want to touch."

Gaultier follows in the footsteps of leading designers including Karl Lagerfeld, Roberto Cavalli and Nathalie Rykiel by teaming up with the soft drinks brand, while over in the US Diane von Furstenberg last month unveiled a limited-edition collection of bottles adorned with her signature prints in red and black.

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Tom Turnbull of Latrobe is thrilled to be a "big loser."

Turnbull, a sixth-grade teacher at Baggaley Elementary School in Unity, lost 53 pounds and 16.8 percent of his body weight in an eight-week weight loss challenge among 110 faculty and staff at the Greater Latrobe, Derry Area and Ligonier Valley school districts.

"This is so much fun. It is easier with the competition. It's been a battle for eight weeks," said Turnbull, who worked out twice a day for 10 days to drop pounds before the final weigh-in on Friday. He had been losing weight since the contest started in January -- timed perfectly for those who made New Year's resolutions to lose weight and eat healthier.

Although Turnbull's weight loss was impressive, he did not win the "Diet Between the Districts Weight Loss Competition." Those honors, based on the percentage of weight loss, went to Lou Keyser, a Greater Latrobe Junior High School teacher who dropped 25.1 percent of his body weight.

Celebrating at the Chick-Fil-A restaurant in Hempfield last week, the participants said the program motivated them to lose weight. Collectively, the 110 contestants lost more than 1,700 pounds, said Tim Evans, a Greater Latrobe School District health and physical education teacher who organized the competition.

"The main reason that we run the contest is due to the fact that as teachers, we need to be good role models. Our students look up to us," Evans said.

The competition provides an opportunity to open up a conversation between teachers and students about healthy eating and exercise, Evans said.

"If they see us eating healthy, exercising and maintaining a healthy body composition, then it will make them want to pick up these habits as well," said Evans, who came in second in the contest, dropping 24.9 percent of his weight. Evans, who shed 51 pounds during the challenge, said he would have won had he lost one more pound.

In order for the contestants to reach their goal, Evans, a personal fitness trainer for 11 years, promoted a dual approach of metabolic exercise and a diet that called for eating five small meals a day, no more than 300 calories a meal. Many of the contestants joined fitness clubs to get in shape.

One contestant, Kristine Lynch, a substitute personal assistant at Baggaley Elementary School, joined the competition because she wanted to loss weight "in a way to keep it off," she said.

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In a city where foie-gras burgers are de rigueur, cupcake shops are as ubiquitous as Starbucks and after-work drinks can easily turn into all-night, Champagne-swigging affairs how do Manhattan women manage to stay so damn skinny?

In her new book, The Manhattan Diet, out March 27, author Eileen Daspin sets out to uncover the tricks, rules and regimens behind some of the boroughs tiniest bodies.

Drawing on the secrets of her skinniest friends, Daspin reveals that Manhattan women dont starve themselves they eat good quality food and the occasional treat. Her 46-year-old friend Debi Wisch, who lives on Fifth Avenue and runs a jewelry business, is the perfect example. For breakfast, Wisch eats Fage yogurt with berries and fiber cereal. Lunch is a salad or a wrap. Dinner is fish and vegetables. She snacks a lot on cashews or blueberries, not junk food. If she wants something sweet, she grabs a piece of candy.

I try 90 percent of the time to be good and the other 10 percent just to enjoy, she says. (Wisch, for the record, is 5-foot-4, weighs about 110 pounds and has the arms of a 20-something.)

Manhattan women, Daspin states, are also crafty about keeping temptation out of reach. They dont keep trigger foods like peanut butter in their homes, she insists. And one of Daspins more extreme friends, who runs seven miles a day and has perfect posture and a killer bod, throws away any leftover food that entices her pouring water over it for good measure.

Sauces are kept to a minimum. When dining on Chinese, one of Daspins friends only orders string beans and rice. The oil on the string beans is enough to moisturize the rice, she tells the author. I eat with chopsticks, which helps [me] take smaller bites. Daspin, for her part, only indulges in tiny tastes of high-calorie food, even though shes married to an executive chef, Cesare Casella of Salumeria Rosi on the Upper West Side. I use a teaspoon to scoop up a few grains of risotto, Daspin writes. I taste everything but eat almost nothing.

Rather than staving off hunger with sugar-free snacks like Diet Coke and Tasti D-Lite, Manhattan dieters snack on a Tootsie Roll lollipop or 3 Twizzlers for a daily rationed cheat."

Really enjoy what you eat, but just eat less of it, says Daspin, who is a size 10.

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Posted: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 4:09 pm | Updated: 6:30 pm, Tue Mar 6, 2012.

MANSFIELD A high-fat diet that would make a fitness guru cringe is proving to be a lifesaver for a township boy who has epilepsy.

An average meal for Korey Walton is a dollop of scrambled eggs, a strip of bacon, and two nickel-size slivers of a banana. Another typical meal is pork roll and cheese with no bun and four tiny Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers. A snack is a slab of butter with some peanut butter on the side.

Each meal must be washed down with 60 grams of heavy 6 percent cream, specially ordered from Wawa.

Since Korey, 8, began a ketogenic diet in January, his seizures have stopped and he's slowly becoming more energetic and engaged, his caretakers say.

"You see his personality coming out. He's talking, he's laughing and he's able to focus," said Lynn Schaefer, the nurse at Mansfield Township Elementary School.

Korey's mother, Dawn, said her son had tried numerous medicines to control his seizures since being diagnosed at age 4. The problem is that they stop working after about three months, she said. Korey seized from five to 50 times a day, the episodes lasting anywhere from 15 seconds to two minutes.

The family hit another roadblock in September, when Korey went to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for an operation to remove a part of his brain that causes the seizures. Doctors discovered more trouble spots and ruled out the surgery, Walton said.

Finally, Korey went back to CHOP in January for a week to try out the ketogenic diet, a plan comprised of 90 percent fat, 7 percent protein and 3 percent carbohydrates. The diet forces the body to burn fat rather than glucose, a state known as ketosis, and mimics what the body does when deprived of food. The diet's use by epileptic patients is rooted in the 80-year-old discovery that seizures could be prevented by fasting, according to the Epilepsy Foundation of Landover, Md.

About 21 percent of patients remained seizure-free on a ketogenic diet, while about 62 percent of patients had the number of seizures reduced by half, according to CHOP studies. The hospital treats about 6,000 epilepsy patients each year, according to a CHOP representative.

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