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Future hazards of soy
Post Date: 2012-07-30 05:14:06 by Tatarewicz
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Story at-a-glance Plant estrogens, such as that found in soy, can have profound detrimental effects on a developing fetus. Exposure to estrogenic chemicals in the womb or during childhood has the potential to negatively affect a woman’s fertility as an adult, and has previously been linked to an increased chance of breast cancer. Earlier research has found that the soy compound genistein impairs sperm motility. Even tiny doses of the compound in the female tract could destroy sperm and impair your ability to conceive Avoid feeding your baby soy infant formula as it can equate to giving her an estimated four to five birth control pills’ worth of estrogen every day Soy infant ...
Avoiding iron overload
Post Date: 2012-07-30 05:05:47 by Tatarewicz
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Iron is essential for virtually every life form, including humans, where it is a key part of various proteins and enzymes, involved in the transport of oxygen and the regulation of cell growth and differentiation, among other uses. One of the most important roles of iron is to provide hemoglobin (the protein in red blood cells) a mechanism through which it can bind to oxygen and carry it throughout your tissues, as without proper oxygenation your cells quickly start dying. If you have too little iron, you may experience fatigue, decreased immunity or iron-deficiency anemia, which can be serious if left untreated. However, if you have more iron than your body needs to satisfy your ...
GMOs and the right to know
Post Date: 2012-07-29 07:50:35 by Tatarewicz
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Seeds of Freedom1, a film produced by The Gaia Foundation and the African Biodiversity Network, in collaboration with MELCA Ethiopia, Navdanya International, and GRAIN, offers a thought-provoking glimpse into the state of the global food supply, as crop seeds are being increasingly monopolized by trans-national biotech corporations. "The story of seed has become one of loss, control, dependence and debt. It's been written by those who want to make vast profit from our food system, no matter what the true cost. It's time to change the story." ~ Seeds of Freedom Monoculture Can End Life as We Know it The monoculture rapidly overtaking the farmland across the globe is a ...
Dandelion Nutritional Value
Post Date: 2012-07-29 05:38:54 by Tatarewicz
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The nutritional content of the Dandelion plant is exceptional. The entire plant is usable from the root all the way up to the beautiful flower, including the stems and leaves. I especially like the tea produced by roasting the roots, but the leaves and flowers have that distinct pungent flavor as do the ilk of healthy vegetables like collards, spinach, chards, etc. If you think about calcium and phosphor when eating the Dandelion, you'll understand why it has the flavor it does. You are tasting health. The Dandelion has, in addition to fiber, the following particularly good concentration of: Vitamin A Vitamin C Phosphorous Calcium More specifically, look at this chart on percentages ...
Emotion words lost in dementia
Post Date: 2012-07-29 02:25:33 by Tatarewicz
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People suffering from semantic dementia – a type of frontotemporal dementia and the second most common dementia in people under 65 – experience a severe loss of word and conceptual knowledge. Dementia can affect a person’s ability to recognise the meaning of common emotional words such as ‘thrilled’ and ‘annoyed’, according to new research. Dr Sharpley Hsieh and colleagues from Neuroscience Research Australia explored how people with different types of dementia comprehend words describing feelings, such as ‘doubt’ and ‘hopeful’. “People use emotion words in everyday conversation and don’t realise it. How often do we use ...
The Longer You're Awake, the Slower You Get
Post Date: 2012-07-28 06:12:30 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (July 27, 2012) — Anyone that has ever had trouble sleeping can attest to the difficulties at work the following day. Experts recommend eight hours of sleep per night for ideal health and productivity, but what if five to six hours of sleep is your norm? Is your work still negatively affected? A team of researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have discovered that regardless of how tired you perceive yourself to be, that lack of sleep can influence the way you perform certain tasks. This finding is published in the July 26, 2012 online edition of The Journal of Vision. "Our team decided to look at how sleep might affect complex visual search tasks, ...
Scared of Alzheimer's? Run From It
Post Date: 2012-07-28 03:53:40 by Tatarewicz
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Hello. I'm Dr. Sandra Fryhofer. Welcome to Medicine Matters. The topic: exercise and Alzheimer disease. Here is why it matters. Every 68 seconds someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer disease. It's a devastating diagnosis for patients, their families, and their caregivers. Nearly 5.5 million Americans already have it. By 2050 expect that number to approach 16 million unless something can be done to stave off the disease. Results of several studies in the April 24 issue of Neurology shed light on how one might make lifestyle changes to help beat the odds.[1] One study showed why it's important to stay active and exercise. It included more than 700 dementia-free patients enrolled ...
Factory Fed Fish: Monsanto's and Cargill's Plans for the Ocean
Post Date: 2012-07-27 06:14:24 by Tatarewicz
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The mass cultivation of genetically modified (GM) soybeans has a hugely detrimental environmental and health impact worldwide. As it stands, soy is widely used in our diets, in processed foods and found in most meat, as soy is fed to animals on CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations). The next "natural" step, at least according to two of the largest stakeholders in the soy industry, Monsanto (creator of GM soy) and food giant Cargill, is to make soy the feed of choice for factory-farmed fish around the world – a move they are misleadingly labeling as "sustainable." Fortunately, Food & Water Watch has released a report that reveals the truth: ...
Increasing Dopamine in Brain's Frontal Cortex Decreases Impulsive Tendency
Post Date: 2012-07-27 02:42:54 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (July 25, 2012) — Raising levels of the neurotransmitter dopaminine the frontal cortex of the brain significantly decreased impulsivity in healthy adults, in a study conducted by researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco. See Also: "Impulsivity is a risk factor for addiction to many substances, and it has been suggested that people with lower dopamine levels in the frontal cortex tend to be more impulsive," said lead author Andrew Kayser, PhD, an investigator at Gallo and an assistant professor of neurology at UCSF. "We wanted to see if we could decrease impulsivity by raising dopamine, and it ...
Men With Prostate Cancer More Likely to Die from Other Causes
Post Date: 2012-07-27 02:27:32 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (July 26, 2012) — Men diagnosed with prostate cancer are less likely to die from the disease than from largely preventable conditions such as heart disease, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). It is the largest study to date that looks at causes of death among men with prostate cancer, and suggests that encouraging healthy lifestyle changes should play an important role in prostate cancer management. "Our results are relevant for several million men living with prostate cancer in the United States," said first author Mara Epstein, a postdoctoral researcher at HSPH. "We hope this study will encourage physicians to use a ...
Daily prayer might reduce risk of dementia: study
Post Date: 2012-07-27 00:57:09 by Tatarewicz
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JERUSALEM, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Praying regularly could reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's by up to 50 percent, according to a recent joint Israeli-American study. The U.S. National Institutes of Health Study showed that females who prayed regularly had 50 percent less chance of developing mild dementia or Alzheimer's. The study, presented at a Tel Aviv conference last month, aimed at mapping factors that increase the risk of Alzheimer's, according to the Ha'aretz daily. While the study did not detail the alleged connection between prayer and memory, researchers tried to explain their findings. "Prayer is a custom in which thought is invested, and the ...
Pharmaceutical Drugs are 62,000 Times More Likely to Kill You than Supplements
Post Date: 2012-07-26 06:02:08 by Tatarewicz
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Story at-a-glance Official UK and EU data reveals that you are 900 times more likely to die from food poisoning than nutritional supplements, and compared to supplements, you’re 300,000 times more likely to die from a preventable medical injury during a hospital stay in the UK Adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs are 62,000 times more likely to kill you than food supplements, and 7,750 times more likely to kill you than herbal remedies You’re also more likely to die from being struck by lightning or drowning in your bathtub than having a lethal reaction to herbs or supplements Based on the data showing supplements and herbal remedies are in the ‘super-safe’ ...
Vaccinated children have up to 500% more disease than unvaccinated children
Post Date: 2012-07-26 03:21:38 by farmfriend
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Vaccinated children have up to 500% more disease than unvaccinated children Tuesday, June 19, 2012 by: PF Louis (NaturalNews) Suspicions have been confirmed for those wary of vaccinating their children. A recent large study corroborates other independent study surveys comparing unvaccinated children to vaccinated children. They all show that vaccinated children have two to five times more childhood diseases, illnesses, and allergies than unvaccinated children. Originally, the recent still ongoing study compared unvaccinated children against a German national health survey conducted by KiGGS involving over 17,000 children up to age 19. This currently ongoing survey study was initiated by ...
Titanium medical implants may corrode, cause inflammation: study
Post Date: 2012-07-26 01:08:13 by Tatarewicz
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LONDON, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Titanium medical implants used in bone-anchored hearing aids and dental prostheses may not be as robust as commonly believed, according to a British study published on Wednesday. Writing in the journal Interface of Royal Society, researchers at the University of Birmingham reported that microscopic particles of Titanium (Ti) could be found in tissue surrounding the medical implants, which can potentially be pro-inflammatory and affect the performance of the device. Globally, more than 1,000 tonnes of Ti is implanted each year into patients in the form of biomedical devices such as metallic prostheses, fixation and anchoring devices for orthopaedic, craniofacial ...
Prostate cancer overkill
Post Date: 2012-07-25 07:52:48 by Tatarewicz
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I have been saying for the last ten years now that men with Prostate cancer get no benefit in the long term from invasive treatment, but do get a significant reduction in their quality of life. Now there is some new evidence about men men with early prostate cancer that supports my view. A new study shows that surgery to remove the prostate gland appears to offer no survival advantage over watching and waiting. The study, which is published in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggests that many men who undergo the surgery, which is called a radical prostatectomy, are being needlessly exposed to the risk of debilitating side effects, including erectile dysfunction and incontinence. ...
Treating Multiple Sclerosis with venom
Post Date: 2012-07-25 06:18:01 by Tatarewicz
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Sea anemones use venomous stinging tentacles to stun their prey, but one component of that venom is being used by researchers to treat the debilitating effects of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). A new class of drug treatment is about to commence clinical trials, as the result of a decade-long investigation by Professor Ray Norton, from the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and his collaborators, who in the mid 1990s found a component of venom called ShK in the Caribbean sea anemone. The researchers found ShK blocks the Kv1.3 potassium channel located in white blood cells, known as T-cells, which are known to produce nerve damage in MS, one of the most common and debilitating diseases ...
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Post Date: 2012-07-24 18:33:56 by Lod
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Mandi McKee, Formerly William McKee, Claims Generic Baldness Drug Turned Her Into A Woman
Post Date: 2012-07-24 12:46:40 by abraxas
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Mandi McKee, Formerly William McKee, Claims Generic Baldness Drug Turned Her Into A Woman The Huffington Post | By Hilary Hanson Posted: 07/23/2012 3:31 pm Updated: 07/23/2012 4:20 pm A 38-year old former software engineer says that taking medication for baldness transformed him from a man into a woman. Mandi McKee, formerly known as William McKee, began taking a generic version of Propecia (finesteride) in October 2008 to combat male-pattern baldness, the New York Post reports. At that time, McKee was a married man, and was "energetic, focused, sharp and athletic," according to her blog. McKee took the medication for nine months, during which time she says she developed an ...
Stem Cells Show Promise as Heart Failure Treatment
Post Date: 2012-07-24 07:10:46 by Tatarewicz
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MONDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists who used modified stem cells to rejuvenate damaged and aged heart cells from elderly heart failure patients say their research could one day lead to new treatments for the illness. "Since patients with heart failure are normally elderly, their cardiac stem cells aren't very healthy," Sadia Mohsin, one of the study authors and a postdoctoral research scholar at San Diego State University's Heart Institute, explained in a news release from the American Heart Association (AHA). "We modified these biopsied stem cells and made them healthier. It is like turning back the clock so these cells can thrive again." The ...
Vitamins C and E and Selenium May Cut Pancreatic Cancer Risk
Post Date: 2012-07-24 06:00:01 by Tatarewicz
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July 23, 2012 — Higher intakes of the antioxidants vitamin C, vitamin E, and selenium could possibly cut the risk of developing pancreatic cancer by up to 67%, according to a study published online today in Gut. Pancreatic cancer kills more than 250,000 people a year worldwide and has the worst survival rate of any tumor. Paul J.R. Banim, honorary researcher in the Department of Medicine, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, and colleagues analyzed the histories of 23,658 people aged 40 to 74 years who entered the Norfolk group of the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC) between 1993 and 1997 and compared them with the histories of 3970 control patients. ...
Shortened Telomeres Linked to Dementia, Mortality
Post Date: 2012-07-24 05:47:09 by Tatarewicz
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July 23, 2012 — Shortening of leukocyte telomeres, the extreme ends of chromosomal DNA, is associated with risks for dementia and mortality, and may be a marker of biological aging, according to a new study. The results suggest that if telomere length is a determinant of aging, it might be possible to develop agents that prevent telomere shortening, and this might decrease the incidence of age-related dementia, said lead author Lawrence S. Honig, MD, PhD, from the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, and professor of clinical neurology, at Columbia University, New York City. Lawrence S. Honig, MD, PhD "If telomere shortening is truly an ...
U.S. Pertussis Outbreak Could Be Worst in Half Century
Post Date: 2012-07-24 05:32:33 by Tatarewicz
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SEATTLE (Reuters) Jul 20 - The number of U.S. whooping cough cases has risen to around 18,000 in an outbreak that is on track to become the most severe in over a half century and could in part stem from possible waning vaccine protection, health officials said on Thursday. Washington state, which declared an epidemic in April, and Wisconsin were particularly hard hit, with each reporting more than 3,000 cases, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nine people have died overall and the number of cases was already more than double than at the same time last year. All adults, including pregnant women, should get a booster shot because the contagious illness is ...
What's Making Us Sick? - C2C recap
Post Date: 2012-07-23 04:28:37 by Tatarewicz
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On Tuesday's show, medical anthropologist Sydney Ross Singer discussed the many ways our culture and lifestyle are making us sick. People are raised to be ignorant about how the body works because our society wants us to seek out "experts" when we have a problem, and become consumers of their expertise, he declared. The "entire culture is here to make money from illness," and medical problems are perpetuated because they are connected to multi-billion dollar industries that thrive off them, he continued. He shared evidence that bras are a primary risk factor for developing breast cancer, but women are conditioned to wear the garments in order to fit into society. ...
Importance of omega-3
Post Date: 2012-07-22 06:01:40 by Tatarewicz
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Omega3 is absolutely essential for good health for many different reasons including protection against prostate cancer. It is estimated that 85% of Americans have inadequate levels of Omega3. I explain at Bensprostate.com/promo-krill-oil Many scientists believe that a major reason for the high incidence of heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, premature aging, and some forms of cancer including prostate cancer is the profound imbalance between our intake of omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids. Our ancestors evolved on a diet with a ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 of about 1:1. A massive change in dietary habits over the last few centuries has changed this ratio to something closer to 20 ...
Good Night's Sleep Could Keep You out of a Nursing Home
Post Date: 2012-07-22 01:36:24 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (July 19, 2012) — Tired? Scientists have discovered another possible benefit of a night of restful and uninterrupted sleep. According to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health fragmented or interrupted sleep could predict future placement in a nursing home or assisted living facility. The study is featured in the July 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and outlines the association between objectively measured sleep and subsequent institutionalization among older women. "Sleep disturbances are common in older people," said Adam Spira, PhD, lead author of the study and an assistant professor ...
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