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1 Quick n easy quiz The Bottom Line By Bonnie Liebman Articles in Nutrition Action Healthletter take an 5. Which is most likely to lower breast in-depth look at the latest on diet and disease. cancer risk? But what if you just don't have time to read a. eat more fruits and vegetables what researchers are finding or thinking? b. eat more soy foods c. lose (or don't gain) excess weight This tough quiz helps you cut to the chase. d. take vitamin D. Some questions (those that begin with All e. eat less red meat but ) may sound confusing. But the choices tell you four ways (not just one) to, 6. Coffee drinkers have a lower risk of all but say, lower your risk of stroke. one of these conditions. Which one? a. Parkinson's disease 1. To burn off the 450 calories in a Panera b. arthritis muffin, a typical 150 lb. person would have c. kidney stones to walk briskly for roughly how long? d. type 2 diabetes a. 1/2 hour e.

2 Gout b. 1 hour c. 1 1/2 hours 7. Which of these desserts typically has the d. 2 hours fewest calories? a. brownie sundae 2. Which is least likely to protect your b. plain cheesecake memory? c. apple crisp a la mode a. take ginkgo biloba d. tiramisu b. lose excess weight e. chocolate lava cake c. exercise at least 30 minutes a day d. keep your blood pressure under control 8. Cutting back on salt may lower your risk e. stay mentally and socially engaged of all but one of these. Which one? a. kidney disease 3. Which of these Italian restaurant dishes b. stiff arteries typically has the fewest calories? c. colon cancer a. spaghetti & meatballs d. enlarged heart b. lasagna e. osteoporosis c. eggplant parmesan d. chicken parmesan 9. What's the best way to avoid catching e. cheese ravioli a cold? a. take vitamin C. 4. All but one of these may lower your risk of b. take Airborne stroke. Which one won't? c. take echinacea a.

3 Keep a lid on blood pressure d. don't share food b. eat 8 to 10 fruits and vegetables a day e. keep your hands clean c. cut back on salt d. take B vitamins 10. All but one of these can keep arteries from e. lose extra weight stiffening as you age. Which one doesn't? a. lose excess weight b. cut back on salt c. limit saturated fat d. take folic acid supplements e. eat potassium-rich foods QA-016 (12/11) 2011 by TOPS Club, Inc. 11. Which may lower your risk of 18. What's the best way to prevent wrinkles? osteoarthritis? a. avoid sugar a. lose (or don't gain) excess weight b. take high doses of vitamin E. b. limit strength training c. stay out of the sun c. eat less salt d. drink green tea d. limit alcohol e. take fish oil supplements 12. Which is least likely to have pesticide 19. Excess pounds raise the risk of all but one residues? of these cancers. Which one? a. strawberries a. colon b. bell peppers b.

4 Brain c. broccoli c. kidney d. spinach d. pancreatic e. apples e. esophageal 13. All but one of these may lower your risk of 20. Getting too little sleep can do all but one diabetes. Which one? of these. Which one? a. drink water instead of soda or juice a. lead to bone loss b. take vitamin E b. make dieters lose less fat and c. replace refined grains and sweets with more muscle whole grains c. make cells resistant to insulin d. watch your weight d. make you hungrier e. get at least 30 minutes of aerobic exercise a day 21. Soy foods can help prevent or treat which of these? 14. Since 1970, cheese consumption has: a. breast cancer a. dropped by 50 percent b. high cholesterol b. dropped by 25 percent c. memory loss c. stayed the same d. osteoporosis d. doubled e. hot flashes e. tripled 22. We're eating more now than in 1970 of all 15. Consuming all but one of these may help but one of these. Which one?

5 Keep you regular. Which one probably a. beef won't help? b. flour a. wheat bran c. cooking and salad oils b. prunes d. sugar and corn syrup d. psyllium d. salad 23. Which may lower your risk of kidney e. coffee stones? a. drink more grapefruit juice 16. Which of these Chinese restaurant dishes b. take vitamin C. typically has the most calories? c. cut back on calcium-rich foods a. beef & broccoli d. eat more fruits and vegetables b. eggplant in garlic sauce c. mu shu pork 24. Red meat may raise the risk of all but one d. General Tso's chicken of these. Which one? e. combination lo mein a. arthritis b. pancreatic cancer 17. Which may protect the prostate? c. heart disease a. take selenium d. colon cancer b. take vitamin D e. global warming c. take vitamin E. d. take zinc e. lose (or don't gain) excess weight Answers 1. c (1 1/2 hours). You could also jog for an 7. d (tiramisu). Tiramisu typically has about hour or swim laps, bicycle, or work on a 500 calories.

6 And that's low compared to stair machine for 45 minutes. So think most popular desserts served at chain twice before you bite. restaurants. Apple crisp a la mode and plain cheesecake hit 750 calories, while a 2. a (take ginkgo biloba). Ginkgo has failed chocolate lava cake or brownie sundae to boost memory in most studies. In the clocks in at 1,000 calories or more. latest, 1,500 people aged 72 to 96 who took 240 milligrams of ginkgo every day for six 8. c (colon cancer). Excess salt may harm the years had no better memory, attention, or kidney, increase calcium losses, and make any other measure of thinking ability than arteries less flexible. (Stiff arteries are often 1,500 similar people who took a placebo. an early sign of heart disease.) Too much sodium can also cause left ventricular On the other hand, people who exercise, hypertrophy a thickening of the walls of avoid weight gain in middle age, keep their the heart's main pump (the left ventricle).

7 Blood pressure under control, and stay that can result in an enlarged heart. But the mentally and socially engaged appear to strongest reason to eat less salt is to lower score better on memory tests as they age. your blood pressure. Although that's not proof, there are plenty of other reasons to take those steps. 9. e (keep your hands clean). Sharing food is unlikely to spread colds because the virus 3. e (cheese ravioli). Cheese ravioli has about needs to go from your hands to your eyes 650 calories if it's topped with marinara or nose. So wash your hands frequently. sauce. Meat or cream sauce ups the Taking high doses of vitamin C (1,000 mg a calories. Lasagna has roughly 850 calories, day) before and while you have a cold may while chicken or eggplant parmesan (with shorten the duration by half a day or so, a side of spaghetti) and spaghetti & meat- but there's no good evidence that vitamin balls climb to about 1,000 calories each.

8 C, products like Airborne, or echinacea can Pastas with cream-and-cheese sauces like prevent colds. Alfredo or carbonara typically reach 1,200. to 1,500 calories. 10. d (take folic acid supplements). Stiff arteries can raise your risk of high blood 4. d (take B vitamins). Lowering salt is pressure, heart attack, and cognitive critical. Trimming excess weight and boost- decline. There's no good evidence that ing fruits and vegetables also lower blood folic acid supplements keep arteries pressure. Exercise may also help, but high doses of B vitamins (like B-6, B-12, and supple. folic acid) don't. 11. a (lose or don't gain excess weight). 5. c (lose or don't gain excess weight). You Less weight takes a load off your joints. can also lower your risk by getting more Strength training may curb joint pain by exercise and limiting alcohol. strengthening the muscles around the joints. Walking, dancing, biking, or other 6.

9 B (arthritis). People who drink either aerobic exercise may also help because it regular or decaf coffee have a lower risk revitalizes the cartilage and synovial fluid of type 2 diabetes, gout, and kidney stones. in your joints. Lower Parkinson's risk is linked only to regular coffee. A small number of studies also find that people who consume more 12. c (broccoli). Other consistently clean . caffeine have a lower risk of Alzheimer's produce: onions, avocados, frozen corn, and other types of cognitive decline. frozen peas, pineapples, mangoes, asparagus, kiwi, bananas, cabbage and papayas. On the other hand, apples, bell peppers, spinach, and strawberries are were more likely to be hospitalized for members of the dirty dozen, along with genitourinary problems like benign peaches, celery, nectarines, cherries, enlarged prostate, urinary tract infections, pears, imported grapes, lettuce, and kidney stone, or kidney failure.

10 Potatoes. You can dodge the pesticides by buying organic. 18. c (stay out of the sun). The sun's ultraviolet rays are the chief cause of 13. b (take vitamin E). Losing (or not gaining) wrinkles. There's no clear evidence that excess weight is by far the most crucial green tea's polyphenols help or that step you can take to keep type 2 diabetes sugary foods hurt. High doses of vitamin E. at bay. Exercise should also help, even if it (1,000 to 2,000 IU a day) or fish oil (3,000. doesn't lead to weight loss. Regular soft to 4,000 mg a day) delay skin reddening drinks, refined grains, sweets, and even in the laboratory. Whether that translates fruit juice may raise your risk by boosting into fewer wrinkles isn't clear, and such blood sugar levels. high doses of vitamin E may not be safe. 14. e (tripled). The increase is mostly due to 19. b (brain). Excess weight also promotes the cheddar and mozzarella that show up cancers of the uterus and breast, as well on pizza, burgers, steaks, salads, chicken, as fatal prostate cancer.