URO TODAY: Vitamin B(12) and (in cohort studies) folate are associated with increased prostate cancer risk, according to a new study. READ MORE>
Posts Tagged ‘folic acid’
Folic acid – now in our bread – increases prostate cancer risk, new study finds
Posted in Folic acid, PROSTATE CANCER, PROSTATE RISKS, Vitamin B12, tagged bread, cancer research, catheter, folate, folic acid, increased prostate cancer risk, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, URO TODAY, Vitamin B(12) on June 20, 2010| 1 Comment »
High intakes of vitamin B-6 may help men survive localised prostate cancer
Posted in PROSTATE CANCER, PROSTATE RESEARCH, tagged cancer research, folate, folic acid, methionine, Natural remedies, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate cancer survival, riboflavin, Swedish study, URO TODAY, vitamin B-12, vitamin B-6, vitamin M on August 6, 2009| Leave a Comment »
AUGUST 6: URO TODAY: A high vitamin B-6 intake may improve prostate cancer survival among men with a diagnosis of localised-stage disease, according to a Swedish study. Folate, riboflavin, vitamin B-12, and methionine intakes were not associated with prostate cancer survival. READ MORE>
Prostate cancer suspect folic acid won’t be added to our bread after all
Posted in Folic acid, PROSTATE CANCER, PROSTATE RISKS, tagged bakers, bread, folate, folic acid, Key Government, NZ Cabinet, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate cancer risk, Sunday Star-Times on July 19, 2009| Leave a Comment »
JULY 19: SUNDAY STAR-TIMES: The NZ government’s plan to put folic acid – a suspected prostate cancer risk – in the country’s bread will be abandoned at tomorrow’s meeting of Cabinet, the paper predicts. READ MORE>
“The Key government will announce this week that it is throwing out the former government’s policy.
“Cabinet is expected to formalise the government’s position when it meets tomorrow, effectively putting the controversial issue on the back burner for three years and, crucially, beyond the next election.”
FOLIC ACID and PROSTATE CANCER: NZ government must tread carefully with mass medication, says newspaper
Posted in Folic acid, PROSTATE CANCER, PROSTATE RISKS, tagged bread, cancer research, Dominion Post editorial, excessive folate, folic acid, higher rates of prostate cancer, Kate Wilkinson, mass medication, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, Tom Scott cartoon on July 16, 2009| 1 Comment »
JULY 16: DOMINION POST: Any decision to mass-medicate a population cannot be taken lightly, says the paper in an editorial today. First, there are safety concerns: two peer-reviewed US studies have linked excessive folate to higher rates of prostate cancer in men and inflammatory bowel disease in children. There has also been concern that in elderly people, high levels of folic acid might mask low levels of B12, which can lead to neurological damage. READ MORE>
Australia lets NZ off the hook over joint rule to introduce folic acid to bread
Posted in Folic acid, PROSTATE CANCER, PROSTATE RISKS, tagged Australian parliamentary secretary for health Mark Butler, bakers, bread, Dominion Post, folic acid, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, trans-Tasman standard on July 15, 2009| Leave a Comment »
JULY 15: DOMINION POST: New Zealand has effectively been given the green light to axe rules forcing bakers to add folic acid to bread from September. The office of Australian parliamentary secretary for health Mark Butler told Wellington’s Dominion Post newspaper it was New Zealand’s call whether to proceed with the trans-Tasman standard, agreed in 2007. READ MORE>
NZ food minister will seek review of prostate cancer risk in adding folic acid to bread
Posted in Folic acid, PROSTATE CANCER, PROSTATE RISKS, tagged bakers, bread, folic acid, Foof Safety Minister, Kate Wilkinson, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, review on July 14, 2009| Leave a Comment »
JULY 14: NZ HERALD: Food Safety Minister Kate Wilkinson says she will seek a review of the use of folic acid in bread – but not until a month after bakers have started adding it. READ MORE>
Leading NZ scientist says big new European study shows no prostate cancer risk from folic acid
Posted in Folic acid, PROSTATE CANCER, PROSTATE RESEARCH, PROSTATE RISKS, tagged bakers, bread, cancer research, European study, folic acid, high-dose folic acid, Otago University, Professor Murray Skeaff, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, specialist in human nutrition on July 14, 2009| Leave a Comment »
JULY 14: OTAGO DAILY TIMES: There is no evidence of an increased cancer risk from plans for bakers in New Zealand and Australia bakers to fortify their bread with folic acid, a leading scientist says. A big “state of the art” scientific study which has not yet been published, “shows that there is no increase in cancer risk with high-dose folic acid,” said Professor Murray Skeaff, a specialist in human nutrition at Otago University. READ MORE>
Folic acid prostate cancer risk debate erupts as NZ MP highlights danger of new law
Posted in Folic acid, PROSTATE CANCER, tagged birth defects, folic acid, folic acid in bread, Kate Wilkinson, Paul Holmes, prostablog, prostate, prostate blog, PROSTATE CANCER, prostate cancer risk, Sue Kedgely, TVNZ on July 12, 2009| Leave a Comment »
JULY 12: TVNZ: Green Party MP Sue Kedgely has again raised the possible danger of folic acid causing prostate cancer, weeks before a new NZ law will force bakers to include folic acid in all bread as a “vaccine” against birth defects. TV presenter Paul Holmes – a prostate cancer survivor – today interviewed Kedgely and food safety Minister Kate Wilkinson, who says she can do nothing. SEE HERE>