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Moderate Alcohol Intake Could Help Prevent Bone Loss
Post Date: 2012-07-12 01:28:46 by Tatarewicz
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July 11, 2012 — Moderate consumption of alcohol as part of a regular healthy lifestyle may promote bone health in postmenopausal women and help them avoid developing osteoporosis, according an article published online July 9 in Menopause. Jill A. Marrone, MS, from the Nutrition Division, School of Biological and Population Health Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, and colleagues conducted a 15-day intervention trial that included postmenopausal women who were healthy, younger than 65 years, and not taking hormone therapy. During the week before intervention, 40 postmenopausal women drank their normal amounts (average, 1.4 drinks/day) of alcohol and kept a diary. For the ...
Drinking high-fructose corn syrup really does make you stupid
Post Date: 2012-07-11 18:55:40 by tom007
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Drinking high-fructose corn syrup really does make you stupid June 10, 2012 by POPEYE Filed under Health Leave a Comment (NaturalNews) If you think eating and drinking foods that contain high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) every now and again will not do you that much harm, think again. A new study out of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has found that consuming HFCS can actually destroy memory, slow mental function, and ultimately deteriorate brain performance. For their study, a team of researchers first trained a group of rats to navigate a complicated maze for five days, and then divided this group into two smaller groups. Both groups were then fed a solution containing ...
When sugar/fats consumed determines weight gain
Post Date: 2012-07-11 03:21:10 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (July 10, 2012) — New research presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB) suggests that, not only the amount and type of food eaten but the time of day it is eaten is important in contributing to obesity. Previous studies have shown that when mice consumed all of their calories during their inactive period they gained more weight than when they consumed the same amount of calories during their active period. A team led by Drs. Susanne la Fleur and Andries Kalsbeek at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam wished to investigate how certain components of the diet, such as sugar or fat, contributed to ...
Influenza virus hits Australia
Post Date: 2012-07-11 02:30:08 by Tatarewicz
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BRISBANE, Australia, July 11 (Xinhua) -- The influenza virus has hit Australia hard this winter, with Queensland recording the highest number of cases in the country, health experts warned on Wednesday. The Influenza Specialist Group (ISG), which consists of medical and scientific specialists on influenza from around Australia and New Zealand, said on Wednesday that more than 5,000 cases of the H3N2 and Type B strains have already been diagnosed across Australia. Experts are warning that there is worse to come and this is only the tip of the iceberg as thousands more cases go undiagnosed. ISG said Queensland was the worst affected state with 2,536 diagnosed cases, while New South Wales ...
Not Guilty on 83lbs of Marijuana and Still No Justice
Post Date: 2012-07-10 08:21:22 by Ada
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On July 2, 2012, the jury returned a verdict of NOT GUILTY in favor of my client who transported 83lbs of marijuana in her mini-van from Douglas, Arizona to the Phoenix area. She was relieved and overjoyed. I was overjoyed too, but left wondering how many like her are living in cages for unknowingly driving a relatively harmless plant destined for adults who want it. The outrageous aspects of this case are too numerous to describe in one article. However, one point is clear; so long as the Drug War persists, no person is safe. On July 19, 2010, fifty-three year old Maria Carillo-Tremillo was traveling with her autistic daughter from Douglas, Arizona to Phoenix. She was expecting to meet a ...
Will Mexico Declare Peace In The War On Drugs, And Will Obama Let Them?
Post Date: 2012-07-10 08:07:29 by Ada
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The Drug War is over. The U.S. government hasn’t stopped arresting people for using pot and other illicit substances. But no one seriously believes Washington is going to “win,” whatever that means. The Drug War is on autopilot, with American politicians afraid to admit the obvious. However, foreign leaders are beginning to break ranks with Washington, despite the combination of bribes and threats which it has used to keep other governments in line. For instance, last month Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who has vigorously prosecuted the violent drug war that is tearing his nation apart, asked Washington to consider “market solutions” to cut drug gang revenues. ...
Sitting Ourselves to Death? Study Says Cutting Couch and TV Time Could Bump Up Life Expectancy
Post Date: 2012-07-10 04:38:50 by Tatarewicz
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Getting regular exercise is obviously an important part of staying healthy. But what about what we do with the rest of our time? A new study suggests that the time we all spend sitting is taking years off life expectancy in the U.S. Scientists are just beginning to investigate how sitting affects health, and early evidence has linked an excess of sitting time to all kinds of chronic maladies, particularly heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Now, a new analysis published in the British Medical Journal suggests that the life expectancy of the entire U.S. population could increase if Americans simply reduce the time they reduce channel-surfing on the sofa. Researchers looked at the results ...
Cranberry products associated with preventing urinary tract infections: study
Post Date: 2012-07-10 03:32:38 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, July 9 (Xinhua) -- Use of cranberry-containing products appears to be associated with prevention of urinary tract infections in some individuals, according to a study published Monday in Archives of Internal Medicine. Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are common bacterial infections and adult women are particularly susceptible. Cranberry-containing products have long been used as a "folk remedy" to prevent the condition, according to the study background. Researchers from the National Taiwan University reviewed the available medical literature to re-evaluate cranberry-containing products for the prevention of UTI. The authors identified 13 trials, including 1,616 ...
What You Need to Know about GMOs
Post Date: 2012-07-09 08:21:11 by Tatarewicz
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GMOs are fruits, vegetables, grains, animals, and insects that are altered on a molecular level for a variety of reasons, including making them more resistant to extreme temperatures and diseases, and to manipulate their strengths, weaknesses, sizes, colors, tastes, smells, and even their lifespans. If you were using or consuming products made with or containing GMOs, would you want to know? Would you care? Please take a moment to examine some critical points concerning this issue. There are three major products being genetically modified and promoted on a large scale in the United States: corn, soy, and canola (rapeseed). Less common but still a concern are alfalfa, sweet potatoes, ...
Diet, Doctor- and Drug-Avoidance Can Help You Live Longer
Post Date: 2012-07-09 06:17:00 by Tatarewicz
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In an unusual story of Rosario Schielzeth, a woman who turned 104 in June, newspaper reporters wanted to know her secret for a long lifei. Her answer consisted of just two simple rules that she's always lived by: Watching what she eats, and Staying away from doctors Before you assume that this lady lives in some far-off country where her life principles can't be questioned or proven, know that she lives in Sarasota, Florida. She needs a walker as an aid in moving around, but other than that she has perfect vision since her cataract surgery, and doesn't need a hearing aid. And she still manages to go to the movies, the mall, and the beach for ice cream. Another amazing thing ...
Keeping the Flu Away: Synthetic Protein Activates Immune System Within Two Hours
Post Date: 2012-07-07 06:12:02 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (July 6, 2012) — San Diego State University researchers at the Donald P. Shiley BioScience Center may have found the secret to helping the immune system fight off the flu before it gets you sick. A new study published July 6 in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS ONE, finds that EP67, a powerful synthetic protein, is able to activate the innate immune system within just two hours of being administered. Prior to this study, EP67 had been primarily used as an adjuvant for vaccines, something added to the vaccine to help activate the immune response. But Joy Phillips, Ph.D. a lead author of the study with her colleague Sam Sanderson, Ph.D. at the University of ...
Iodine deficiency still a problem
Post Date: 2012-07-07 05:05:26 by Tatarewicz
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Iodine deficiency is still a problem in Australia today and about 30% of the world’s population remains at risk of the preventable condition that can cause everything from mild learning difficulties to sever retardation, cretinism and stillbirth. That is the message from Australian scientific statesman Dr Basil Hetzel more than 40 years after his seminal studies illuminated iodine’s essential role in brain development. In Papua New Guinea in the 1960s Dr Hetzel’s research team was the first to prove that brain damage could be prevented by correcting iodine deficiency before pregnancy; he went on to spearhead an international campaign working with the World Health ...
Spanking, Slapping Kids Linked to Subsequent Mental Illness
Post Date: 2012-07-07 04:40:43 by Tatarewicz
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July 6, 2012 — Using physical punishment, including spanking and smacking, to discipline children is linked to a significantly increased risk for mental illness in later life, new research shows. Results from a national United States epidemiologic survey reveal that harsh physical punishment, including pushing, grabbing, shoving, slapping, or hitting, is linked to mental health disorders even in the absence of more severe child maltreatment, such as physical, sexual, and emotional abuse as well as neglect or exposure to intimate partner violence. The current findings, the investigators write, "indicate that harsh physical punishment in the absence of child maltreatment is ...
UK Council: Genetically Modified Babies Are Ethical
Post Date: 2012-07-06 07:07:49 by Tatarewicz
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The inability to conceive can be a devastating experience for couples hoping to become parents. Less couples have experienced that as in-vitro fertilization (IVF) has allowed increased chances of pregnancy. But this technology is being studied through a new lens now, as scientists believe it could be used to eliminate mitochondrial diseases. A child inherits its mitochondrial DNA from its mother, and problems in the mother's DNA could lead to any number of complications with the child—heart, kidney, liver problems, and dementia are just some of these. But with a type of IVF involving three people instead of two, parents might have the option of ensuring their child will have ...
U.S. study shows antibodies reverse type I diabetes in mice
Post Date: 2012-07-06 05:16:08 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, July 5 (Xinhua) -- Scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine have used injections of antibodies to rapidly reverse the onset of Type I diabetes in mice genetically bred to develop the disease. Only two injections maintained disease remission indefinitely without harming the immune system. The findings, to be published in the journal Diabetes this month, suggest for the first time that using a short course of immunotherapy may someday be of value for reversing the onset of Type I diabetes in recently diagnosed people. Type I diabetes, formerly known as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, is an autoimmune disease in which the body's own immune T ...
Five or More Cups of Coffee a Day Reduce the Chance of IVF Success by Around 50 Percent
Post Date: 2012-07-06 04:23:01 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (July 3, 2012) — Women who drink five or more cups of coffee a day severely reduce their chance of success from IVF treatment. Indeed, Danish investigators who followed up almost 4000 IVF and ICSI patients described the adverse impact as "comparable to the detrimental effect of smoking." The study was presented July 3 at the annual meeting of ESHRE by Dr Ulrik Schiøler Kesmodel from the Fertility Clinic of Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark. Results showed that the consumption of five or more cups of coffee a day reduced the clinical pregnancy rate by 50% and the live birth rate by 40%. "Although we were not surprised that coffee consumption ...
How a Protein Meal Tells Your Brain You're Full
Post Date: 2012-07-06 04:12:20 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (July 5, 2012) — Feeling full involves more than just the uncomfortable sensation that your waistband is getting tight. Investigators reporting online on July 5th in the Cell Press journal Cell have now mapped out the signals that travel between your gut and your brain to generate the feeling of satiety after eating a protein-rich meal. Understanding this back and forth loop between the brain and gut may pave the way for future approaches in the treatment and/or prevention of obesity. Food intake can be modulated through mu-opioid receptors (MORs, which also bind morphine) on nerves found in the walls of the portal vein, the major blood vessel that drains blood from the ...
Diabetes Drug Makes Brain Cells Grow
Post Date: 2012-07-06 04:02:31 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (July 5, 2012) — The widely used diabetes drug metformin comes with a rather unexpected and alluring side effect: it encourages the growth of new neurons in the brain. The study reported in the July 6th issue of Cell Stem Cell, a Cell Press publication, also finds that those neural effects of the drug also make mice smarter. See Also: The discovery is an important step toward therapies that aim to repair the brain not by introducing new stem cells but rather by spurring those that are already present into action, says the study's lead author Freda Miller of the University of Toronto-affiliated Hospital for Sick Children. The fact that it's a drug that is so ...
Get Rid Of The Doctors!
Post Date: 2012-07-04 04:36:49 by Tatarewicz
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No, I do not think we should do that, but if we did, would we really miss them? You may not be aware that Doctors went on strike this week in the UK for the first time in 40 years. Apparently, it's just too hard for poor UK doctors to get by on a salary of about $185,000 and they're miffed that they'll have to work longer before they can draw their gold-plated pensions. I know US doctors earn a lot more still. It's estimated that up to 1.25 million prescriptions, tests and operations were not actioned. But, every cloud has a silver lining... When doctors in Israel took industrial action and went on strike back in 2000, it highlighted a strange phenomenon... The death ...
Prostatitis and Pandemic Scare?
Post Date: 2012-07-04 03:49:51 by Tatarewicz
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If you are wondering what Prostatitis has to do with a Pandemic the connection is that the solution to both is Beta Glucan. Let me explain. I am sure that you will remember the bird flu scare. The scare turned out to be premature, but the danger remains real. It has not gone away. Bird flu is certainly potentially lethal and did kill quite a few people. If you suffer from occasional infections, discomfort and pain from your prostate the best solution is Beta Glucan and it turns out that is also the best way to prevent you from getting caught by a possible Pandemic. Beta Glucan is absolutely safe according to the FDA and has been demonstrated to increase immune response by up to 400%. ...
Plants help treat diabetes
Post Date: 2012-07-04 02:18:19 by Tatarewicz
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With the growing worldwide incidence of diabetes, a new study reveals that traditional Aboriginal and Indian plant extracts show potential for managing the disease. Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology have investigated 12 medicinal plant extracts to determine their potential to slow down two key enzymes in carbohydrate metabolism which affect blood sugar and diabetes. "Diabetes represents a global public health burden, with the World Health Organisation estimating that more than 180 million people worldwide currently suffer from the disease," said researcher Associate Professor Enzo Palombo. "More than 800 plants are used as traditional remedies in one or ...
Dutifully Taking Your Calcium Pill? It May Be Too Much
Post Date: 2012-07-04 02:09:28 by Tatarewicz
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While many people aren't getting enough calcium, new research cautions that some people may have the opposite problem: They could be getting too much. Americans spend more than $1 billion a year on calcium supplements in hopes of staving off osteoporosis, the brittle bone disease that cripples many elderly women and some men. Yet recent studies link calcium supplements to a higher risk of heart attacks and kidney stones. Last month, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued a draft recommendation against taking calcium and vitamin D, saying there wasn't enough evidence of benefit to justify the risk. Americans have been exhorted to drink milk and take calcium supplements to ...
Naked Mole Rat May Hold the Secret to Long Life
Post Date: 2012-07-04 01:42:23 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (July 2, 2012) — Compared to the average three year life span of a common rat, the 10 to 30 year life of the naked mole rat, a subterranean rodent native to East Africa, is impressive. And compared to the human body, the body of this rodent shows little decline due to aging, maintaining high activity, bone health, reproductive capacity, and cognitive ability throughout its lifetime. Now a collaborative of researchers in Israel and the United States is working to uncover the secret to the small mammal's long -- and active -- lifespan. Dr. Dorothee Huchon of Tel Aviv University's Department of Zoology, Prof. Rochelle Buffenstein of the University of Texas Health ...
Got Kids? Then You're Less Likely to Catch a Cold
Post Date: 2012-07-04 01:29:13 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (July 2, 2012) — Being a parent reduces your risk of catching a cold -- possibly because of unknown "psychological or behavioral differences between parents and nonparents," according to a study in the July issue of Psychosomatic Medicine, the official journal of the American Psychosomatic Society. The risk of becoming ill after exposure to cold viruses is reduced by about half in parents compared to nonparents, regardless of pre-existing immunity, according to research led by Rodlescia S. Sneed, MPH, and Sheldon Cohen, PhD of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. The study suggests that other, yet unknown factors related to being a parent may affect ...
Overweight - survive heart attack better
Post Date: 2012-07-04 01:11:10 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (July 3, 2012) — A slim waist and normal weight are usually associated with better health outcomes, but that's not always the case with heart failure patients, according to a new UCLA study. Researchers found that in both men and women with advanced heart failure, obesity -- as indicated by a high body mass index (BMI) -- and a higher waist circumference were factors that put them at significantly less risk for adverse outcomes. The study findings are published in the July 1 online issue of the American Journal of Cardiology. Heart failure affects 5.8 million people, including 2.5 million women. Approximately one-half to two-thirds of heart failure patients are ...
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