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Dementia on the rise in China
Post Date: 2013-06-18 02:12:26 by Tatarewicz
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An ECU researcher is one of the lead authors of the first study analysing the increase in prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia in China. ECU’s School of Medical Sciences Research Fellow Professor Wei Wang is a co-lead and corresponding author on the study which was published in the prestigious medical journal, The Lancet. The study found more than 9 million Chinese people have dementia compared with just 3.68 million 20 years earlier, more than any other country on earth. The study raises important questions for China which Professor Wang believes will struggle to care for its millions of dementia sufferers in years to come. The study also found the ...
Dietary Supplement Linked to Increased Muscle Mass in the Elderly
Post Date: 2013-06-18 01:16:05 by Tatarewicz
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ScieceDaily June 17, 2013 — A supplemental beverage used to treat muscle-wasting may help boost muscle mass among the elderly, according to a new study. The results were presented today at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. The supplemental beverage, called Juven®, contains three amino acids, including arginine. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, and are required for cell growth and repair. The amino acid arginine is especially important because it increases growth-hormone production, which causes the body to produce a critical protein called insulin-like growth factor 1, or IGF-1. This protein promotes growth and development and, as ...
CDC Reports US Influenza Activity, New Vaccine Strains
Post Date: 2013-06-17 23:44:59 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape: Editors' Recommendations New Quadrivalent Influenza Vaccine Gets FDA Nod Synthetic Influenza Virus May Cut Vaccine Delivery Time WHO Says New Bird Strain Is 'One of Most Lethal' Flu Viruses Influenza A (H3N2), influenza A (H1N1)pdm09, and influenza B viruses cocirculated during the 2012 to 2013 US influenza season, according to surveillance data published online in the June 14 issue of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Two cases of variant influenza A infection, both H3N2v, were also reported. "During the 2012–13 influenza season in the United States, influenza activity increased ...
Blackboard chalk allergies
Post Date: 2013-06-15 23:56:52 by Tatarewicz
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By wisequack at June 8 Got Chalk? Although many classrooms across North America have switched to dustless chalk in an effort to keep the environment clean, it turns out this move might not be beneficial for every student. That’s because according to a recent study published in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (try that one 10 times fast), this choice in chalk might cause illness if a child has an underlying milk allergy. Researchers found that the use of dustless chalk still causes the release of small particles into the air and this fine mist actually contains a milk protein called casein. If this protein is inhaled into the lungs of a student with milk allergies, it ...
Obesity—One Third of All Cancers are Directly Related to It
Post Date: 2013-06-15 11:22:42 by christine
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Killer at Large1, a documentary film by Steven Greenstreet, tackles the topic of obesity, a problem of truly epic proportions where misinformation is a major driver. According to former Surgeon General, Richard Carmona, quoted in the film: “Obesity is a terror [threat] within; it's destroying our society from within and unless we do something about it, the magnitude of the dilemma will dwarf 9/11 or any other terrorist event that you can point out." Presently, a full two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. Childhood obesity has also skyrocketed, tripling over the past 30 years. One in three children between the ages of 10 and 17 is now overweight or obese, and 27 ...
C2C recap - Cancer
Post Date: 2013-06-15 07:01:50 by Tatarewicz
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June 6, 2013 Coast Insider Audio Alternative Treatments & Cancer: On Wednesday's show, health freedom advocate and author Ty Bollinger discussed alternative treatments and approaches against cancer. He believes that cancer rates have greatly increased in the last thirty years due to toxic factors and carcinogens in the environment. Among the factors, he pointed to such things as chemtrails, GMO foods, aspartame, fluoride, and EMF which weren't in our environment decades ago. Bollinger believes these factors have compromised many people's immune systems, making them less able to identify cancer cells and destroy them, as would be done by a normally healthy individual. He ...
Sugar Overload Can Damage Heart
Post Date: 2013-06-15 05:51:54 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: June 14, 2013 — Too much sugar can set people down a pathway to heart failure, according to a study led by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). A single small molecule, the glucose metabolite glucose 6-phosphate (G6P), causes stress to the heart that changes the muscle proteins and induces poor pump function leading to heart failure, according to the study, which was published in the May 21 issue of the Journal of the American Heart Association. G6P can accumulate from eating too much starch and/or sugar. Heart failure kills 5 million Americans a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The one-year survival ...
UN Treaty Calls for Dental Amalgam Reduction
Post Date: 2013-06-15 01:31:25 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape Editors' Recommendations BPA Leaching Into Urine, Saliva From Dental Composites? WHO Calls for 'Phase Down' of Dental Amalgam Repair Rather Than Replace Defective Amalgam Restoration An international treaty drafted earlier this month calls for phasing out dental amalgam to reduce mercury pollution. The Minamata Convention, negotiated under the auspices of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), sets a deadline for banning the manufacture, import, and export of several categories of products containing mercury, such as batteries, light bulbs, and cosmetics, by 2020. However, it excludes dental amalgam from this list, instead laying out measures that ...
Commonly Prescribed Drugs May Influence the Onset and Progression of Alzheimer's Disease
Post Date: 2013-06-14 03:27:11 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily June 12, 2013 — Multiple drug classes commonly prescribed for common medical conditions are capable of influencing the onset and progression of Alzheimer's disease, according to researchers at The Mount Sinai Medical Center. The findings are published online in the journal PLoS One. Led by Giulio Maria Pasinetti, MD, PhD, the Saunders Family Chair and Professor in Neurology at Mount Sinai, a research team used a computer algorithm to screen 1,600 commercially-available medications to assess their impact on the brain accumulation of beta-amyloid, a protein abnormally accumulated in the brain of Alzheimer's disease and implicated in neurodegeneration. They found ...
Healthy Lifestyle Habits Linked to Better Memory
Post Date: 2013-06-14 01:17:02 by Tatarewicz
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Editors' Recommendations Science-Based 'Cookbook for the Brain' Offers Food for Thought Omega-3 Improves Working Memory in Healthy Young Adults Healthy lifestyle habits in young adulthood are associated with better memory abilities in later life, new research suggests. Results from a new survey of more than 18,000 adults showed that self-reported memory problems were inversely related to healthy behaviors. In addition, specific reports of healthy eating, not smoking, and regular exercise were all linked with better memory. Interestingly, participants older than 60 years reported healthier behaviors than their younger peers. "As expected, we found that memory ...
U.S. researchers develop easy gene therapy to restore sight
Post Date: 2013-06-13 22:03:33 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, June 12 (Xinhua) -- U.S. researchers said Wednesday they had developed an easy and effective method for inserting genes into eye cells to help patients with blinding diseases restore sight. Unlike current treatments, the new procedure, which takes only 15-minutes, is surgically non-invasive, and it delivers normal genes to difficult-to-reach cells throughout the entire retina. "Building upon 14 years of research, we have now created a virus that you just inject into the liquid vitreous humor inside the eye and it delivers genes to a very difficult-to-reach population of delicate cells in a way that is surgically non- invasive and safe," David Schaffer, director ...
Low Diastolic Blood Pressure Linked to Brain Atrophy
Post Date: 2013-06-13 06:39:27 by Tatarewicz
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A new study suggests that low diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and mean arterial pressure (MAP) are associated with more progression of subcortical brain atrophy in patients with manifest arterial disease, irrespective of the course of blood pressure over time. The study also showed that higher baseline DBPs, MAPs, and, to a lesser extent, systolic blood pressures (SBPs) that decline over time are associated with less progression of brain atrophy in these patients. These results were independent of antihypertensive treatment, cardiovascular risk factors, severity of arterial disease, white matter lesions (WMLs), and brain infarcts. "This could imply that BP lowering is beneficial ...
Moderate-Intensity Walking Timed Just Right Might Help Protect Against Type 2 Diabetes
Post Date: 2013-06-13 00:42:38 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily: June 12, 2013 — A fifteen minute walk after each meal appears to help older people regulate blood sugar levels and could reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a new study by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS). The study, published today in Diabetes Care, found that three short post-meal walks were as effective at reducing blood sugar over 24 hours as a 45-minute walk of the same easy-to-moderate pace. Moreover, post-meal walking was significantly more effective than a sustained walk at lowering blood sugar for up to three hours following the evening meal. "These findings are ...
Raw Food Diet
Post Date: 2013-06-12 03:28:33 by Tatarewicz
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WebMD Depending on the source, a raw food diet is either a path to perfect health or to serious undernourishment. Probably, the truth is somewhere in the middle. Devotees insist that a diet consisting mainly of uncooked, unprocessed plant foods leads to a leaner body, clearer skin, and higher energy. They also believe it cuts the risk of disease. But what exactly is a raw food diet? Is following a raw food diet healthy? Can anyone become a raw foodist? Read on for some answers. What Is a Raw Food Diet? The fundamental principle behind raw foodism, also called rawism, is that plant foods in their most natural state – uncooked and unprocessed – are the most wholesome for the ...
Omega-3 Fatty Acids May Help Heal a Broken Heart
Post Date: 2013-06-12 02:19:06 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Procedures like angioplasty, stenting and bypass surgery may save lives, but they also cause excessive inflammation and scarring, which ultimately can lead to permanent disability and even death. A new research report appearing in The FASEB Journal, shows that naturally derived compounds from polyunsaturated fatty acids (omega-3s) may reduce the inflammation associated with these procedures to help arteries more fully and completely heal. "Our study suggests that biologically active, naturally occurring compounds derived from omega-3 PUFAs reduce inflammation and improve the healing of blood vessels after injury," said Michael S. Conte, M.D., a researcher involved ...
Surgeons Implant Bioengineered Blood Vein Shunt
Post Date: 2013-06-12 02:07:54 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN (FNA)- A team of doctors helped create a bioengineered blood vessel and implanted it into the arm of a patient with end-stage kidney disease. The procedure, the first-of-its-kind operation in the United States to test the safety and effectiveness of the bioengineered blood vessel, is a milestone in the field of tissue engineering. The new vein is an off-the-shelf, human cell-based product with no biological properties that would cause organ rejection. Using the technology developed at Duke University Hospital, the vein is engineered by cultivating donated human cells on a tubular scaffold to form a vessel. The vessel is then cleansed of the qualities that might trigger an ...
YouÂ’re doing it wrong: Only 5 percent wash hands the right way, study says
Post Date: 2013-06-11 21:46:01 by Tatarewicz
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YahooNews Here’s something to ponder the next time you head to the loo: Only five percent of people wash their hands long enough to kill disease-causing germs. Translation: Ick. That’s according to a study from Michigan State University, which based its results on observing 3,749 people in public restrooms. These intrepid researchers published the results in the Journal of Environmental Health. And the details just get more disgusting. From the story on the MSU.edu website, the dirty details: -Fifteen percent of men didn’t wash their hands at all, compared with 7 percent of women. -When they did wash their hands, only 50 percent of men used soap, compared with 78 ...
Research shows reducing unnecessary CT scans in kids could cut future cancer risk
Post Date: 2013-06-11 20:27:40 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Reducing the number of unnecessary and high-dose computed tomography in children could lower their overall lifetime risk of future imaging-related cancers by up to 62 percent, a U.S. study said Monday. Researchers reported in the journal JAMA Pediatrics that CT scans almost doubled among children under the age of 15 in the United States between 1996 and 2010 after an examination of CT utilization data from several U.S. health-care systems. They said CT use increased dramatically because it's effective and offers greater convenience than other imaging methods such as magnetic resonance imaging, which requires that a child remain still in a scanner for ...
Will Detection of Unapproved GMO Wheat Decimate US Economy? [Monsanto & Feds are BF'ing Pals (my title)]
Post Date: 2013-06-11 09:56:15 by Katniss
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By Dr. Mercola Monsanto has really done it this time. As recently reported by CNBC1 and other media outlets,2, 3 an unapproved strain of genetically engineered (GE) wheat has been found growing on a farm in Oregon. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the anomaly on May 29. As it turns out, the Roundup Ready (i.e. glyphosate-resistant) strain of wheat was developed by Monsanto and field tested in 16 different states between 1998 and 2005. Plans to bring it to market were abandoned King amendment is due to opposition against genetically engineered wheat. Many countries importing US wheat do not permit GE ingredients in their food, or require such foods to be labeled. About ...
Heart-Healthy Diet May Be Prostate Cancer Healthy Too
Post Date: 2013-06-11 06:48:24 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape: A diet that reduces carbohydrates and animal fat intake and boosts vegetable fat consumption could benefit men with prostate cancer, a new observational study concludes. This dietary-fat mix mirrors a heart-healthy diet and was associated with better overall and prostate-cancer-related mortality in a large cohort of men, report the authors, led by Erin Richman, ScD, from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. "Overall, our findings support counseling men with prostate cancer to follow a heart-healthy diet in which carbohydrate calories are replaced with unsaturated oils and nuts to reduce the risk of all-cause ...
The Most Effective "Diet" Book You've Ever Read
Post Date: 2013-06-10 03:10:34 by Tatarewicz
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Health Wire (hw-eletter@angelnexus.com) You and most other readers have probably figured this out already... Most diet books are full of crap. The reason there are so many out there is because they're all ineffective. They all proclaim to be the “magic bullet to weight loss”... they come with fancy names like the Ornish Diet, the Dash Diet, and the Omni Diet... and they'll all just set you up for failure. Because they're all based on pseudoscience and outdated medical studies. I've read my fair share of diet books (and tried many of their diets as well), and have only found a handful that I'd recommend to my readers... Escape the Diet Trap: Lose weight ...
Nuclear bomb tests reveal brain regeneration in humans
Post Date: 2013-06-10 00:29:22 by Tatarewicz
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New Scientist Nuclear bomb tests carried out during the cold war have had an unexpected benefit. A radioactive carbon isotope expelled by the blasts has been used to date the age of adult human brain cells, providing the first definitive evidence that we generate new brain cells throughout our lives. The study also provides the first model of the dynamics of the process, showing that the regeneration of neurons does not drop off with age as sharply as expected. In mammals, most types of brain cell are created at or soon after birth and are never renewed. But studies in rodents and monkeys have shown that in two regions new neurons continue to be created even in adulthood – the ...
25 Foods to keep you young - Chinese food wisdom
Post Date: 2013-06-09 21:59:42 by Tatarewicz
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Broccoli, white gourd,onion,, cabbage,carrot,tomato, mushroom, caraway, orange,strawberry, apple, mineral water, yoghourt, milk, crucian carp, egg, tuna, shellfish, malt,soybean,chocolate,potato?, walnut, tofu.
Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicide May Be Most Important Factor in Development of Autism and Other Chronic Disease
Post Date: 2013-06-09 11:57:11 by Southern Style
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Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicide May Be Most Important Factor in Development of Autism and Other Chronic Disease Visit the Mercola Video Library By Dr. Mercola In recent weeks, we’ve learned some very disturbing truths about glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s broad-spectrum herbicide Roundup, which is generously doused on genetically engineered (GE) Roundup Ready crops. GE crops are typically far more contaminated with glyphosate than conventional crops, courtesy of the fact that they’re engineered to withstand extremely high levels of Roundup without perishing along with the weed. A new peer-reviewed report authored by Anthony Samsel, a retired ...
A Pepper a Day Keeps Parkinson's Away
Post Date: 2013-06-09 05:34:17 by Tatarewicz
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Surprisingly, despite the dramatically increased risk of cancer and related adverse health effects associated with smoking cigarettes, smoking has actually been found to be associated with a reduced risk of Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder of the central nervous system. The most obvious symptoms of Parkinson’s are movement-related, e.g. shaking and rigidity. This apparently beneficial link with smoking is often attributed to the nicotine in cigarettes, which is thought to have a potentially neuroprotective effect. Certain foods contain natural amounts of nicotine, including peppers, which researchers recently found may also reduce the risk of ...
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