There are a bunch of great articles in health around the blogosphere this week. Not that there is a lack of good health news content…ever, but here are some of the ones I found interesting around the web.

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  With the mass-marketing of antioxidant rich foods, there is also the fact that just like any other food, they lose their nutritional value over time. This Study focused on Green Teas and their shelf-life.

• Are men really the weaker sex? According to this study at Medical News Today, we are and it starts from birth.
• I’ve never been a fan of the Atkins Diet. I saw a study that showed that it raised heart risks. I chose to cover something else, but Disease Proof chose to reiterate that the diet is bad news.
• Chickenpox is something that both parents and kids fear for. Although they aren’t as big as they used to be with vaccines and less outbreak, Chickenpox are a huge pain in the…everywhere. Medicinenet.com has some tips for Calming Chickenpox.
• Ever wondered exactly how to can Tomatoes? Marks Daily Apple gives you the skinny on how to get it done.

Carbohydrates. Carbs. It’s like a word from hell for the uber weight-loss buff. Hello?! Atkins diet!

If you do not know a low-carb diet didn’t start as a fad that it turned out to be. It is a desperate diet method for the clinically obese. Especially the ones that need to lose weight in a short period, maybe because so that they will qualify for a lap-band surgery or something.

But lets us not forget that our body needs carbs. It is like an energy fuel. For the diabetic and the obese, too much carbs is bad, especially the refined carbs. But I do love carbs. Although these days, I choose the kinds of carbs I eat. Believe me, I have never done this before. It’s just that my metabolism is not the same today as when I was 15.

Not that my family has a history of obesity or diabetes, but we have a history of cardiovascular conditions and kidney disease. I just wanna live longer, that’s all.

I have always mentioned in my several health blogs that cardiovascular diseases is one endpoint of not eating healthily. However, the most dangerous path that concerns cabs is the high carbs-obesity/metabolic syndrome-cardiovascular event/diabetes event path.

Well as far as I know anyway. Now, a new study has a variation of such path. Yes, it involves cancer!

It has been found that increased carbohydrate intake and obesity is linked to of cases of esophageal cancer.

A new study illustrates what may be a public heath concern as the composition of U.S. diets changes and total carbohydrate and refined carbohydrate intakes increase.

Obesity is a risk factor for many types of cancer, and a diet that includes a high percentage of calories from refined carbohydrates is a common contributor to obesity. Carbohydrates were also unique in that no other studied nutrients were found to correlate with esophageal cancer rates.

The causes of esophageal cancer remain largely unknown. Despite recent advances in treatment, esophageal cancer has a poor prognosis. The five-year rate of survival for esophageal cancer remains below 20 percent and is the eighth-leading cause of cancer related death in American men.

You can read more about it from this report.