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Glycemic Load and colorectal cancer 

Researchers from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital and UCLA recently published a study indicating that a diet with a high glycemic load may increase the risk of colorectal cancer. A group of nearly 40,000 women were followed for an average of 7.9 years to examine the association of dietary glycemic load, overall dietary glycemic index, carbohydrate, fiber, non-fiber carbohydrate, sucrose and fructose with subsequent development of colorectal cancer. Dietary glycemic load was significantly associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer. The researchers speculate that a diet prominent in foods with high glycemic indices, like white bread and white rice, affect insulin factors or exacerbate inflammatory responses and, thereby, increase the cancer risk. 

Higginbotham S, Zhang ZF et al. Dietary glycemic load and risk of colorectal cancer in the Women's Health Study. J Natl Cancer Inst 2004 Feb 4;96(3):229-33.

Antioxidants and Alzheimer's Disease

A new study in Archives of Neurology looked at Alzheimer's disease in 4,740 people age 65 or older in Utah. Those who took vitamins were compared to those who didn't. The study found a combination of vitamin E and C supplements reduced the incidence of Alzheimer's disease by about 64 percent. There was no benefit from the use of vitamin C alone, vitamin E alone, or multivitamins alone. 

In this study, vitamin E use was categorized as more than 400 international units of vitamin E. Vitamin C use was defined as at least 500 micrograms of ascorbic acid. These levels are higher than are commonly found in most multivitamins. Multivitamins typically contain the relatively small, recommended daily allowance of vitamin E, usually somewhere around 30 international units (IU). Vitamin C in a multivitamin is normally 60 to 90 milligrams. 

The findings suggest that vitamins E and C may offer protection against Alzheimer's when taken together in the higher doses available from individual supplements. Individual supplements of C and E contain much larger doses of up to 1,000 international units of vitamin E and up to 1,000 milligrams or more of vitamin C. 

The theory is that vitamins E and C may help protect against damage caused by free radicals, the by-products of metabolism that can damage cells. Some believe free radicals may contribute to the development of Alzheimer's, because cells in the brain are especially sensitive to their damaging effects. 

Further study is needed to confirm the benefits before any official recommendations can be made, but the researchers say the results are extremely exciting.

The threat from Alzheimer's disease is thought to be growing since the population is living longer in general. Since antioxidant vitamin supplements are relatively safe and are thought to have other wide-ranging health benefits, the hope is they could turn out to be an ideal Alzheimer's prevention strategy for the aging population.

Peter P. Zandi, PhD et al. Reduced Risk of Alzheimer Disease in Users of Antioxidant Vitamin Supplements. Arch Neurol. 2004;61:82-88.