But before you jog off to the nearest coffee shop and back, let’s have a look at the science behind these claims.
Coffee, exercise and skin cancer
July 31, 2007
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Posted by Henry Scowcroft
Rapid weight changes linked to cancer
July 24, 2007
Crash diets may be doing us more harm than good. That’s what a new study on body weight and kidney cancer seems to suggest.
The problem with the vast majority of diets is that they just don’t work in the long term.
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Posted by Ed Yong
More fruit and veg confusion
July 18, 2007
But what about ‘five-a-day’? Confused? We don’t blame you.
Let’s have a quick summary of what the research found, and what it means for the individual.
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Grapefruit! What’s the score?
July 17, 2007
As ever, we were pressed into service to comment on this to the media. Here are some points of interest:
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Posted by Henry Scowcroft
Interleukin 6 – no innocent bystander
July 17, 2007
If someone was repeatedly found near the scene of a crime, you’d expect the police would, at some point, begin to suspect that they might be more than just an innocent bystander.
And so it turns out, clumsy crime analogy aside, that a molecule involved in promoting inflammation – the body’s natural defence against injury and infection – might actually be a key player in cancer development.
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Posted by Henry Scowcroft
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