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Researchers have designed a urine test that can simultaneously measure the extent of a potential carcinogenic process and a marker of garlic consumption in humans.
In a small pilot study, the test suggested that the more garlic people consumed, the lower the levels of the potential carcinogenic process were.
The research is all about body processes associated with nitrogen-containing compounds, scientists say.
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Comments OffA new meta-analysis concludes that a diet high in meat increases your risk of Type 2 diabetes by 17%. Eating a lot of so-called “red” meat was associated with a slightly higher increase (21%), and a high intake of processed meats increases your risk by a whopping 41%.
Media reports are quick to point out that this is just the latest in “an ever increasing list of bad news for red and processed meat.”
In all of these studies, the division of meat into “red” and “white” seems totally arbitrary, as I discussed at length in this post: Meat and mortality: What does color have to do with it?
In this particular case, the authors concede that the apparent association between meat consumption and diabetes risk could be explained by other factors.
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