Now that the lineup of celebs for the fifth season of Dancing With the Stars has been announced, I’m sure everyone’s been racing to get into leotard shape. (Especially since the show broadcasts in HD!) That explains why Melanie Brown’s been looking so fab lately—shockingly, those tabloid reports that Posh had forced her fellow Spice Girls to get skinny were false. I’m rooting for Mel B this season, by the way; she’s got the dance background and DWS vet Maksim as her partner. But to get the edge, she might also want to steal these diet tips from two-time champ Cheryl Burke.

[Source: BMJ Specialty Journals ] Fat in the stomach may cause vitamin C to promote, rather than prevent, the formation of certain cancer causing chemicals, reveals research published ahead of print in the journal Gut. The researchers analysed the impact of both fat (lipid) and vitamin C (ascorbic acid) on nitrite chemistry in the upper (proximal) stomach, which is especially vulnerable to pre-cancerous changes and tumour growth.

Dr. Thomas Robinson says the cultural influence of McDonald's unmatched

If anyone ever doubted the enormous impact of the marketing blitz undertaken by the world's most famous fast food restaurant on the most vulnerable members of our society--CHILDREN--then I would simply refer you to this USA Today column about a brand new study that should scare the living daylights out of anyone who cares about the subject of health. This is just plain frightening if you ask me.

(Source: University of Alabama at Birmingham) Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have found that nutrients in red wine may help reduce the risk of developing prostate cancer. The study involved male mice that were fed a plant compound found in red wine called resveratrol, which has shown anti-oxidant and anti-cancer properties. Other sources of resveratrol in the diet include grapes, raspberries, peanuts and blueberries.

In the study resveratrol-fed mice showed an 87 percent reduction in their risk of developing prostate tumors that contained the worst kind of cancer-staging diagnosis. The mice that proved to have the highest cancer-protection effect earned it after seven months of consuming resveratrol in a powdered formula mixed with their food.