Apigenin, found in celery, parsley, red wine, tomato sauce, and other plant-based foods may be “particularly beneficial,” said Dr. Margaret A. Gates, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in Boston, Massachusetts.

“Analytic studies on aspirin or non-aspirin nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and the risk of diabetes” outside of clinical trials are limited, write Dr. Yasuaki Hayashino, of the University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, and colleagues.
To investigate, the researchers analyzed data from the Physician’s Health Study, which includes 22,071 apparently healthy male physicians, and has accumulated 22 years of follow-up data.

Both posts, as undersecretary at the Agriculture Department, require Senate confirmation. USDA is expected to spend more than -65 billion this fiscal year on nutrition programs such as school lunch and food stamps.
Concannon is director of the Iowa Department of Human Services, which is responsible for Medicaid, food assistance and low-income programs. He held similar positions in Maine and Oregon before appointment to the Iowa post in 2003.