Vitamin B6 appears to play a beneficial role in preventing colon cancer, concluded a study.
Researchers led by Susanna Larsson of Sweden's National Institute of Environmental medicine traced the beneficial effects to pyridoxal-phosphate (PLP), the main active coenzyme form of vitamin B6.

"Vitamin B6 intake and blood PLP levels were inversely related with the risk of colorectal cancer," the study said.
Vitamin B6 is found in cereals, vegetables, poultry and fish as well as in some fruits like bananas and avocados.Published in a special edition of the Journal of American Medical Association , the study analysed 13 other US, European and Asian studies conducted between 2002 and 2009.

Seaweed could hold the key to conquering obesity, scientists believe. Their research shows that it can reduce fat uptake by more than 75 per cent.

Now, scientists at Newcastle University are adding the seaweed fibre to bread and launching trials to see if foods can be developed which can even help people lose weight.
The research team, led by Dr Iain Brownlee and Prof Jeff Pearson, has found that dietary fibre in one of the world’s largest commercially used seaweed could reduce the amount of fat absorbed by the body by around 75 per cent.

The team found that Alginate – a natural fibre found in sea kelp – stops the body from absorbing fat better than most anti-obesity treatments currently available over the counter.

A technique for destroying breast tumours by freezing them with ice could offer hope of a safe non-surgical cure for the disease, a study suggests.

The technique called cryotherapy is already used to treat prostate cancer and involves inserting several needle-like 'cryoprobes' into the tumour and passing super-cold gas through them," reports dailymail.co.uk.
The ice ball rapidly created around each site kills off the cancerous cells. Freezing therapy has been tried before for breast cancer but this is the first time a minimally invasive version, which requires no surgery, has been developed.

Cancer experts, however, warned it may take many years for the technique to become common.

The research was based on the study of more than 17,000 couples aged between 20 and 70, reports The Telegraph.From analyses, it was found that married couples exercised less frequently, had less sex, had poor nutrition and were 'comfortable' in their lives.

Married couples spend more time eating together, sit in front of the TV more and often order takeaway ready meals while exercising less.

Scientists from Salonica and Ioannina Universities concluded that 'abdominal obesity, or belly fat' was the worst problem among married people.

Prof Dimitris Kiortsis, from Ioannina University for Obesity, said most married couples also have less sex, which is considered intense exercise that burns calories.

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The study showed that infertile men have an increased risk of developing high-grade prostate cancer, which is more likely to grow and spread quickly.The study's results suggest that because infertility may be an identifiable risk factor for prostate cancer, early screening may be warranted in infertile men.

Research focusing on the number of children a man has have pointed to male fertility's potential associated with risk for prostate cancer.

However, studies on the topic have generated conflicting results: some have found that men with children had a higher risk than childless men; some have found that men with fewer children had a higher risk than men with more children; still others failed to identify any association between the number of children fathered and a man's risk for prostate cancer.

However, men who were evaluated and found to be infertile were 2.6 times more likely to be diagnosed with high-grade prostate cancer than men who were evaluated but were found not to be infertile. The study has been published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.

A man diagnosed with a rare, incurable lymphoma claims that he has been able to cheat death for 13 years by eating apricot kernels.

Paul Reid insists that the 'cancer-killing' properties in the kernels, rich in vitamin B17, and a strict vegetarian diet have cured him, despite the doctors telling him he would live for just five more years.

"I don't think my journey has been unscientific, it's just that there's been no science in a big way applied to it,” the Age quoted him as saying.He added: "We're not immortal, but I believe I'll be healthy from taking this direction.”

However, health experts are worried that Reid is among the growing number of cancer patients who are putting their faith in 'anti-cancer' diets promoted by alternative health practitioners, which may not always work.

Diabetic retinopathy could be associated with poorer memory and diminished brain power in people with Type 2 diabetes, according to a new research.

For the study, researchers at Edinburgh University looked at 1,066 people with type 2 diabetes aged between 60 and 75.

Participants in the study completed seven tests focusing on memory, logic and concentration to establish their level of brain function.

The researchers found that those with retinopathy had worse scores on most of the individual tests, as well as on general cognitive ability, compared with those without the condition.

A new study has shown that major depression more than doubles the risk of dementia among adults with diabetes.

Dementia is the progressive decline of thinking and reasoning abilities. These can include memory loss, difficulty with basic math, wandering, living in the past, personality changes, and not recognizing familiar people.

"Diabetes alone has shown to be a risk factor for dementia, as has major depression by itself," said the lead author of the study, Dr Wayne Katon, University of Washington (UW) professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences.

The study team also included researchers from the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle and the Veterans Affairs (VA) Puget Sound Health Care System, as well as UW researchers in medicine and in epidemiology.

Henry Ford Hospital researchers have claimed that electromagnetic pulses significantly decrease pain and inflammation associated with osteoarthritis of the knee.

In the double-blind, randomized placebo-controlled study, 34 patients used a portable battery-operated device that emits a low-intensity pulsating electromagnetic frequency and experienced more than 40 per cent pain relief on their first day.

"Our results show pulsed electromagnetic fields caused a significant decrease in pain" says Fred Nelson, MD, associate program director for research and director of the Osteoarthritis Center, Department of Orthopaedics, Henry Ford Hospital.

Dr Nelson will present the results this week at the Orthopaedic Research Society's annual meeting in New Orleans.

The study, which included more than 19,000 women, also found that ladies who enjoy a glass of wine after work are likely to gain less weight than those who stick to mineral water, reports The Times.

To reach the conclusion, Lu Wang, a medical instructor at Brigham and Women's hospital, Boston, and colleagues asked 19,220 American women aged 39 or older with a healthy body weight to describe their drinking habits in a questionnaire. About 38 per cent drank no alcohol.

After following the participants for the next 13 years, the researchers found that all the women tended to gain weight but the non-drinkers gained the most. The women's overall weight gain decreased as alcohol intake increased.

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