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The Sweet Language of Glyconutrients - Helping the body to heal itself
Post Date: 2012-05-27 21:05:37 by Itistoolate
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"Possibly one of the most amazing Scientific discoveries over the last 100 years!"..Glyconutrients are considered as essential to the healthy functioning cell, enabling cell-to-cell communication, helping the body function as it should and assits it in healing itself. Contact me for more information on how to get your own Glyconutrients
What Are My Chances of Living To 100?
Post Date: 2012-05-27 05:25:30 by Tatarewicz
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A Montreal woman recently developed a somewhat rare and fascinating condition. She has been practicing Yoga for years and can now contort and fold her body into positions that would give my hernias hernias. Bending over she can slap her palms on the floor while touching her forehead to her knees. She also walks quicker than the average man and talks quicker than the average woman. She flits about as though she exists on a diet of lemon rinds and Jolt. Do not enter into a battle of wits with this woman – you will lose. If repartee was a sword fight you would be sliced, diced and iced, then the pieces tossed with relish upon the scrap heap of past victims. When her phone rings she ...
Sleep Apnea Linked to Cancer Mortality for the First Time
Post Date: 2012-05-27 04:45:10 by Tatarewicz
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May 25, 2012 (San Francisco, California) — In a study that followed more than 1500 state employees in Wisconsin for more than 20 years, sleep apnea — particularly if it was severe — was found to be associated with a greatly increased risk for death from cancer, researchers reported here at the American Thoracic Society 2012 International Conference. In the study, those with severe sleep apnea had a relative risk for cancer mortality of 4.8 (95% confidence interval, 1.7 to 13.2; P = .0052) when the researchers used the apnea-hypopnea index to classify sleep-disordered breathing. When the researchers calculated hypoxemia index (the percent of time below 90% oxyhemoglobin ...
Anti-psychotic drug kills cancer stem cells without side-effects: study
Post Date: 2012-05-27 04:33:49 by Tatarewicz
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VANCOUVER, May 26 (Xinhua) -- A team of Canadian scientists have discovered that thioridazine, a drug used to treat psychotic disorder, could successfully kill cancer stem cells in humans without the toxic side-effects on normal cells. The research, published Thursday in the science journal CELL, may pave the way for the development of anticancer drugs for treatment of various cancers. Conventional cancer treatments, like chemotherapy, work in a way that is toxic to cells, which may also lead to side-effects such as hair loss, nausea and anemia, according to the researchers from McMaster University. Stem cells have long been believed to be the source of many cancers. In 1997, Canadian ...
Lawmakers Propose Chickenshit Federal Regulations (Standards) Regarding Egg Laying Hens
Post Date: 2012-05-26 18:29:17 by noone222
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Feinstein, other senators propose federal standards for egg-laying hens By Pete Kasperowicz - 05/25/12 10:33 AM ET Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and a half dozen other senators have proposed legislation setting a uniform national standard for the treatment of egg-laying hens, which would ensure egg producers aren't blocked from selling across state lines due to differing state standards. Feinstein said on Thursday that six states already have their own standards, and 18 others could put their own rules in place soon, which could cause problems in the years ahead. She said beginning in 2015, for example, eggs produced in Iowa and Indiana will not be able to ship to California ...
Irritable Bowel Syndrome Clearly Linked to Gut Bacteria
Post Date: 2012-05-26 08:22:42 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (May 25, 2012) — An overgrowth of bacteria in the gut has been definitively linked to Irritable Bowel Syndrome in the results of a new Cedars-Sinai study which used cultures from the small intestine. This is the first study to use this "gold standard" method of connecting bacteria to the cause of the disease that affects an estimated 30 million people in the United States. Previous studies have indicated that bacteria play a role in the disease, including breath tests detecting methane -- a byproduct of bacterial fermentation in the gut. This study was the first to make the link using bacterial cultures. The study, in the current issue of Digestive Diseases ...
Gaslands
Post Date: 2012-05-24 18:32:46 by Itistoolate
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embedding not allowed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecybVQuT00o Poster Comment:Cheney gets a 'pass' for the energy companies concerning the "CLEAN WATER ACT and THE CLEAN AIR ACT"
Antibiotics Can Kill!
Post Date: 2012-05-24 06:05:41 by Tatarewicz
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I'm always pointing out to you in my e-mails that antibiotics depress your own immune system and should not be used indiscriminately. Antibiotics should only be used in extreme circumstances and for as short a period as absolutely necessary. Now there is further evidence that antibiotics can even cause your death. My general principle is that there is no free lunch and when you take any synthetic drug it is by definition toxic because it is not natural and not recognised by the body. It should not therefore come as a surprise when prescription drugs turn out to cause serious disease. It sometimes takes a while till the research has been done and is revealed. But sooner or later ...
Smoke effects permanent on kids
Post Date: 2012-05-24 03:36:48 by Tatarewicz
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"...people who had been exposed to parental smoking when they were children had less elastic arteries, an early indicator of poor cardiovascular health.” An international study, involving researchers at the Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, has found children who are exposed to their parents’ cigarette smoke may suffer an irreversible impact to their cardiovascular health later in life. It has been previously known that passive smoke was harmful to children, but this is the first worldwide study to examine the long-term effects on blood vessel health. Second-hand smoke kills more than 600,000 non-smokers worldwide every year, with 379,000 of these deaths related to ...
Chinese 8.2 yrs older than chronological age
Post Date: 2012-05-24 03:25:50 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, May 24 (Xinhuanet) -- A recent report on Chinese health revealed that the average Chinese person is 8.2 years older than his or her chronological age, a sign of poor health, Beijing Times reported Thursday. The survey of China's property and casualty insurance company Ping An sampled people aged 15 to 64 in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. The result showed that an overwhelming 83 percent are exposed to unbalanced nutrition, 66 percent have irregular blood pressure, and 34 percent suffer from overstress. The report also indicated that women outperformed men in their daily habits, psychological condition and social lives, thus making them ...
Bodybuilding & diet supplements may damage liver
Post Date: 2012-05-24 03:10:10 by Tatarewicz
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Popular supplements used for weight loss and bodybuilding may cause liver damage, in some cases, so severely that might lead to organ transplantation, warns a review of US national data. Researchers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) looked at data from the Drug Induced Liver Injury Network, which evaluated patient information from eight sites across the US from 2003 to 2011. Their findings disclosed that of 679 cases of liver injury, 93 (18 percent) were attributed to herbal or dietary supplements. According to the results presented at the Digestive Disease Week meeting in San Diego, among patients who used supplements, 33 percent consumed bodybuilding products, 26 percent ...
Soy Protein Diet and Dementia
Post Date: 2012-05-24 01:21:13 by Tatarewicz
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More than 5 million adults in the United States suffer from dementia, the Alzheimer's Association reports. Dementia is a serious public health problem that contributes to loss of work days, medication-related costs and stress on familial caregivers. Lifestyle factors can help reduce the risk of dementia in certain people. Additionally, soy protein may play a role in the development of dementia. Background Many cases of dementia are caused by the deposition of a certain type of plaque on the cells that make up your brain, MayoClinic.com reports. However, they report that poor blood flow to the brain -- often the result of a stroke -- causes dementia in certain people. Risk factors for ...
Plant Breeders Develop an Even Heart-Healthier Oat
Post Date: 2012-05-23 04:44:49 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (May 16, 2012) — University of Wisconsin-Madison plant breeders have developed a new oat variety that's significantly higher in the compound that makes this grain so cardio-friendly. "The biggest thing that stands out about this new variety, BetaGene, is that it's both a high yielding variety and high in beta glucan. Beta glucan is a heart-healthy chemical that is exclusive to oats," says John Mochon, program manager of the Small Grains Breeding Program in the UW-Madison agronomy department. BetaGene is 2 percent higher in beta glucan on average than other oat varieties on the market. That may not sound much, but it's huge from a nutrition ...
Growth Factor in Stem Cells May Spur Recovery from Multiple Sclerosis
Post Date: 2012-05-23 03:30:46 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (May 21, 2012) — A substance in human mesenchymal stem cells that promotes growth appears to spur restoration of nerves and their function in rodent models of multiple sclerosis (MS), researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have found. In animals injected with hepatocyte growth factor, inflammation declined and neural cells grew. Perhaps most important, the myelin sheath, which protects nerves and their ability to gather and send information, regrew, covering lesions caused by the disease. "The importance of this work is we think we've identified the driver of the recovery," said Robert H. Miller, professor of neurosciences at ...
Patients' Skin Cells Turned Into Heart Muscle Cells to Repair Their Damaged Hearts
Post Date: 2012-05-23 03:00:48 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (May 22, 2012) — For the first time scientists have succeeded in taking skin cells from heart failure patients and reprogramming them to transform into healthy, new heart muscle cells that are capable of integrating with existing heart tissue. The research, which is published online May 22 in the European Heart Journal, opens up the prospect of treating heart failure patients with their own, human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) to repair their damaged hearts. As the reprogrammed cells would be derived from the patients themselves, this could avoid the problem of the patients' immune systems rejecting the cells as "foreign." However, the ...
Brain Injury to Soldiers Can Arise from Exposure to a Single Explosion
Post Date: 2012-05-22 05:45:03 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (May 16, 2012) — Investigators from Boston University (BU) and the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System have shown evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in brain tissue from blast-exposed military service personnel. Laboratory experiments conducted by the investigators demonstrated that exposure to a single blast equivalent to a typical improvised explosive device (IED) results in CTE and long-term brain impairments that accompany the disease. They also found that the blast wind, not the shock wave, from the IED blast leads to traumatic brain injury (TBI) and long-term consequences, including CTE. This research, which represents the first case series ...
Today's Environment Influences Behavior Generations Later: Chemical Exposure Raises Descendants' Sensitivity to Stress
Post Date: 2012-05-22 05:22:09 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (May 21, 2012) — Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Washington State University have seen an increased reaction to stress in animals whose ancestors were exposed to an environmental compound generations earlier. The findings, published in the latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, put a new twist on the notions of nature and nurture, with broad implications for how certain behavioral tendencies might be inherited. The researchers -- David Crews at Texas , Michael Skinner at Washington State and colleagues -- exposed gestating female rats to vinclozolin, a popular fruit and vegetable fungicide known to disrupt hormones and have ...
Folic Acid Fortification Linked to Drop in Childhood Cancers
Post Date: 2012-05-22 03:41:18 by Tatarewicz
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May 21, 2012 — The US Food and Drug Administration has mandated folic acid supplementation of enriched grain products since 1996. Now, investigators find the rates of some childhood cancers have decreased significantly after that timepoint compared with earlier years. The effect is particularly strong among infants, according to an article published online May 21 in Pediatrics. Using 1986 to 2008 data from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program, Amy M. Linabery, MS, PhD, from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and colleagues examined incidence rates for various cancers in 8829 children diagnosed between birth and age 4. ...
Mozart good - Rock bad for high blood pressure
Post Date: 2012-05-22 03:31:34 by Tatarewicz
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Music Influences Blood-Pressure Values, But Relaxation Fails to Provide Benefit May 21, 2012 (New York, New York) — A couple of studies presented this week at the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) 2012 Scientific Sessions highlight the influence of music and relaxation therapy on blood-pressure levels. In one study, investigators observed that listening to Mozart in the doctor's office can lower blood-pressure levels, while a mindfulness-based stress-reduction program failed to lower blood-pressure levels in a group of healthy patients with stage 1 hypertension. In the first study, Dr Giuseppe Crippa (Ospedale Guglielmo de Saliceto, Piacenza, Italy) measured blood-pressure ...
Saturated fat tied to mental & cognitive decline
Post Date: 2012-05-22 03:17:08 by Tatarewicz
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High consumption of foods like red meat and butter raises the risk of mental decline. High consumption of foods like red meat and butter raises the risk of mental decline People who frequently eat foods high in saturated fat such as butter and red meat are more likely to develop mental and cognitive decline which are early signs of dementia and Alzheimer’s. In a 5 year study, published online in the Annals of Neurology, researchers analyzed dietary data from 6,000 women aged over 65 and tested their cognitive function to find any association. The results demonstrated that women who frequently consumed more saturated fat scored worse on cognitive function tests at the end of the ...
Common antibiotic boosts death risk: study
Post Date: 2012-05-21 07:00:58 by Tatarewicz
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A popular antibiotic used for treating bronchitis, pneumonia, ear infections and sexually transmitted diseases may boost the risk of death, a US study said Wednesday. Azithromycin has been on the worldwide market since the 1980s, but the study in the New England Journal of Medicine is the first to document serious heart risks -- up to a 2.5-fold higher chance of cardiovascular fatalities -- in the first five days of treatment compared to another or no antibiotic. The comparison was based on an examination of patient records in the southern US state of Tennessee from 1992 to 2006. Researchers at Vanderbilt University compared about 348,000 prescriptions of azithromycin to millions of ...
Omega 3: What Is Good for the Heart May Not Be Good for the Prostate, Study Suggests
Post Date: 2012-05-21 06:21:16 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Apr. 25, 2011) — The largest study ever to examine the association of dietary fats and prostate cancer risk has found what's good for the heart may not be good for the prostate. Analyzing data from a nationwide study involving more than 3,400 men, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center found that men with the highest blood percentages of docosahexaenoic acid, or DHA, an inflammation-lowering omega-3 fatty acid commonly found in fatty fish, have two-and-a-half-times the risk of developing aggressive, high-grade prostate cancer compared to men with the lowest DHA levels. Conversely, the study also found that men with the highest blood ratios of ...
Why Omega-3 Oils Help at the Cellular Level
Post Date: 2012-05-21 06:10:36 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (May 15, 2012) — For the first time, researchers at the University of California, San Diego have peered inside a living mouse cell and mapped the processes that power the celebrated health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids. More profoundly, they say their findings suggest it may be possible to manipulate these processes to short-circuit inflammation before it begins, or at least help to resolve inflammation before it becomes detrimental. The work is published in the May 14, 2012 online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The therapeutic benefits of omega-3 fatty acids, which are abundant in certain fish oils, have long been known, ...
High Doses of Certain Dietary Supplements Increase Cancer Risk
Post Date: 2012-05-21 05:33:59 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (May 15, 2012) — Beta-carotene, selenium and folic acid -- taken up to three times their recommended daily allowance, these supplements are probably harmless. But taken at much higher levels as some supplement manufacturers suggest, these three supplements have now been shown to increase the risk of developing a host of cancers. "It's not that these nutrients are toxic -- they're essential and we need them, but we need them in a certain balance," says Tim Byers, MD, MPH, professor of epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health and associate director for prevention and control at the University of Colorado Cancer Center. Byers is senior ...
Sleep apnea associated with higher cancer death
Post Date: 2012-05-21 02:11:31 by Tatarewicz
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People with untreated sleep disordered breathing (SDB) are at a greater risk of dying from cancer than those who are not suffering from the chronic shuteye problem. sleep-Disordered breathing includes a group of disorders characterized by abnormalities of respiratory pattern (pauses in breathing) or the quantity of ventilation during sleep. Obstructive sleep apnea, the most common such disorder, is the periodic pausing of breathing during sleep that results in drops in oxygen levels in blood and causes nighttime snoring and sleepiness during the day. sleep-Disordered breathing has already been tied to higher risk of health conditions such as lack of concentration, accidents, obesity, ...
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