Fatty Foods During Pregnancy Linked To Breast Cancer In Offspring
Mothers who eat fatty foods while pregnant may increase the risk of breast cancer among their daughters and granddaughters.
September 12, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: estrogen-may, family, georgetown, higher-risk, may-increase, risk, tests-on-mice, the-risk, through-tests
Could A Compound Found In Red Wine And Red Grapes Change The Course Of Alzheimer’s Disease?
A national, phase II clinical trial examining the effects of resveratrol on individuals with mild to moderate dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease has begun as more than two dozen academic institutions recruit volunteers in the coming months. R. Scott Turner, M.D., Ph.D., director of Georgetown University Medical Center’s Memory Disorders Program, is the lead investigator for the national study…
May 14, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: begun-as-more, clinical-trial, georgetown, medical, medical-center, national, oncalldietitian.com, program, the-coming, two-dozen
Vitamin D Can Decrease, Or Increase, Breast Cancer Development And Insulin Resistance
In mouse models of breast cancer, researchers at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, a part of Georgetown University Medical Center, found that vitamin D significantly reduced development of estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer both in lean and obese mice, but had no beneficial effect in estrogen receptor-negative (ER-) cancer…
April 5, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: beneficial-effect, comprehensive, georgetown, lombardi-comprehensive, medical, medical-center, nutrition, obese-mice, oncalldiets, reduced-development
