A. Helps protect against breast and prostate cancer.
B. Reduces menopausal hot flashes.
C. Is a common, tasty substitute for those awful carbs.
D. Lowers cholesterol.
E. Sauce is a healthy addition to oriental stir frys.
F. Is cheap insurance against several health problems.

A. It is the healthiest commonly available oil.
B. But canola oil is a close second.
C. No, peanut is best for stir fry, because it remains stable at stir fry temps.
D. Just buy olive and canola oil and forget the rest.
E. Add walnut oil to your diet, mainly over bread, for its Omega 3 oils.
F. Any oil low in sat fats is heart-healthy. Use whichever you like best as long as you don’t get fat on them.

A. Don’t do squat unless you’re deficient in it.
B. Shortens colds by a few sneezes.
C. Cuts the number of colds by 20-40%.
D. Is pretty good, cheap insurance against colds at 1,000 mg daily, especially in the winter.
F. should come from food rather than supplements.

A. One in five U.S. adults has near-diabetic blood sugar levels, largely due to overeating.
B. 10% of us are on the verge of joining the 25% with high blood pressure, often reversible by losing weight.
C. The acceptable limits of triglycerides, LDL (bad) cholesterol, and HDL (good) cholesterol are being relaxed as we learn more about other, more important cardiovascular disease markers such as C-reactive protein.
D. A few doddering months added to the end of our lives is not worth a lifetime on tofu and celery.

A. Yes. Five pounds is significant.
B. No, because I’ll work it off.
C. No. I was a good girl and nibbled lightly, for my health. I lost three pounds.
D. A few doddering months added to the end of our lives is not worth a lifetime on tofu and celery.

A. Organic is generally the best source of most of our nutrition.
B. Synthetic is fine as long as the source is reliable.
C. Eat food, man . . . we need the whole package as Mother Nature designed it, so the lesser micronutrients complement the major ones.
D. Some antioxidants assimilate best from supplements, others from food, which lets us balance the oils, carbs, dairy, and meats our individual diets allow or forbid.
E. This whole antioxidant theory is a crock.
F. Wrong. Antioxidants do help prevent, maybe even reverse, cancers and heart disease, and any source is better than none.

A. It helps old people stay regular.
B. It helps prevent colon cancer by reducing the transit time of carcinogens.
C. It makes our daily lives simpler.
D. It’s a natural component of a healthy diet.
E. Does nothing for colon cancer, but helps prevent cardiovascular disease.
F. Discourages constipation, constipation and diverticulosis.
G. Plentiful in salads.
H. Great stuff, but tastes too healthy.

A. The extra mucus milk generates makes colds more bothersome,
B. And interferes with clear singing or speaking.
C. It’s a good source of calcium, which we all need more of.
D. The recommended levels are about right.

A. It won’t kill us, but it might make some people wish they were dead for a couple of days.
B. Cooking meat until the pink is gone and the juice is clear kills E. coli.
C. Pasteurization is a necessary precaution for milk, juice, and cider, but
D. Rinsing veggies is sufficient, but sprouts require thorough scrubbing for protection.

A. Is second only to smoking as our number one killer.
B. Has MANY causes, some purely medical and thus unmanageable by calorie control.
C. Is not a big health risk if we exercise enough to keep our cardiovascular system fit.
D. Just a 20% change in weight can significantly alter health risks.
E. Is so prevalent in the U.S. that cruise ship furniture is collapsing as ships leave U.S. ports.

All this and much more comes from the December issue of the Nutrition Action Healthletter, which you can contact at www.cspinet.org. This consumer-advocacy food safety research institute is such a threat to junk food purveyors that some of them hijacked the CSPI website a couple of years ago; clicking on cspinet sent us to a very extensive anti-CSPI web site called cspinut . . . a testimony to the threat the CSPI poses to them.