Lower weight babies and babies who aren’t breastfed for long are at greater risk of developing chronic inflammation and related health risks

“There were good reasons to hypothesize that breastfeeding was important to influencing levels of inflammation in adulthood,” says Thomas McDade (Northwestern University), a CIFAR (Canadian Institute…

Online Dietary Recommendations For Cancer Patients Inconsistent

Radiation oncologists at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital are stressing the need for evidence-based, standardized guidelines on dietary recommendations for cancer patients – and with good reason. A new analysis revealed that online dietary recommendations for cancer patients, if even present on an institution’s website, appear to be consistently inconsistent…

High Dietary Fat, Cholesterol Linked To Increase Risk Of Prostate Cancer

Elevated fat and cholesterol levels found in a typical American-style diet plays an important role in the growth and spread of prostate cancer, say researchers at Thomas Jefferson University’s Kimmel Cancer Center. Their study, the first to show such an association, is published in the December issue of The American Journal of Pathology…

High Dietary Fat, Cholesterol Linked To Increase Risk Of Prostate Cancer

Elevated fat and cholesterol levels found in a typical American-style diet plays an important role in the growth and spread of prostate cancer, say researchers at Thomas Jefferson University’s Kimmel Cancer Center. Their study, the first to show such an association, is published in the December issue of The American Journal of Pathology…