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A test of strength
2007-11-22 00:00:00 Insight into the most popular workout exercise The bench press involves lying on a bench and pushing a barbell upwards with both arms from chest level until the arms are straight, then lowering it again. The main muscles worked are the pectoralis major, the fronts of the shoulders, and the triceps, or backs of the arms. ... More About: Test
Anemia drugs
2007-11-22 00:00:00 Anemia is a general term for a category of blood conditions that affect the red blood cells or the oxygen-carrying hemoglobin they contain.In anemia, there is either a reduction in the number of red blood cells in circulation or a decrease in the amount or quality of hemoglobin. There are many causes of anemia, including ... More About: Drugs
Energy drinks and blood pressure
2007-11-22 00:00:00 A small US study has found a link between consumption of “energy drinks” and high blood pressure or heart disease risk. The results suggest the drinks could be dangerous to patients with heart disease, or if drinking more than two cans a day led to even higher increases, to healthy people too. Energy drinks, unlike ... More About: Drinks , Blood , Blood pressure
Getting your vitamin D in winter
2007-11-09 00:00:00 A study released this week showed a connection between the sunshine vitamin, so-called because sunlight is our main source, and cancer prevention. It’s the latest indication that people deficient in the vitamin may be at higher risk for a variety of health problems, including cancer. Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that is found in ... More About: Winter , Vitamin D
Sleep tight
2007-11-08 00:00:00 Here’s another reason to get the kids to bed early: More sleep may lower their risk of becoming obese. Researchers have found that every additional hour per night a third-grader spends sleeping reduces the child’s chances of being obese in sixth grade by 40 percent. Of the children who slept 10 to 12 hours a ... More About: Sleep
Cardiovascular Disease Decreasing Among Adults With Diabetes
2007-11-06 00:00:00 Two studies report that adults with diabetes are doing better at the vital job of monitoring their blood sugar, and fewer are developing cardiovascular disease. This may be due in part to declining rates of cardiovascular disease risk factors such as smoking, high cholesterol and high blood pressure, and to increased use of preventive treatments ... More About: Diabetes , Disease , Cardiovascular
No smoking - even at home
2007-11-06 00:00:00 Should you be allowed to smoke in your own apartment, or should it be banned, like smoking in public places? About 60 public housing authorities across the country have smoke-free policies, compared with less than 10 three years ago. Health advocacy groups call housing one of the smoke-free movement’s final frontiers. Owners of apartment buildings ... More About: Home , Smoking , No smoking
Hangover science
2007-11-03 00:00:00 Chemists working with technology designed to find life on Mars have created a device they say can easily detect chemicals that many scientists believe can turn wine and other beloved indulgences into ingredients for agony. The chemicals, called biogenic amines, occur naturally in a wide variety of aged, pickled and fermented foods prized by gourmet ... More About: Science , Hangover
Direct lifestyle links to cancer
2007-11-03 00:00:00 A third of cancers are caused by diet and lack of exercise and could be prevented, according to a report which urges people to stay slim and abstain from too much fast food, red meat and preserved meat such as ham and bacon, and alcohol. The report from the World Cancer Research Fund, which had ... More About: Lifestyle , Links , Direct , Dire
Building up your back
2007-11-03 00:00:00 What, if anything, can you do to preserve and protect your spine? To build a better back, most experts agree, you need a solid core. To really include all of the elements that move and stabilize the spine, you have to go from your knees to your chest. The muscles, ligaments and tendons that make ... More About: Building , Back
A pain in the back
2007-11-03 00:00:00 You would not have thought it, but young fit tennis and soccer players have far worse back problems compared with all other kids. This is because when playing tennis and soccer, your lumber region has to stretch and react abruptly to changes in direction when in the middle of play. 85 percent of teenaged sportsmen ... More About: Pain , Back
Cancer trends
2007-10-30 00:00:00 There was good news about cancer last week, a report that death rates in the United States have begun falling by 2.1 percent a year, nearly twice the rate of previous declines. At the same time, some cancers seem to be becoming more common: myeloma and cancers of the thyroid and kidney in men and ... More About: Cancer , Trends
Skin cancer insight
2007-10-30 00:00:00 Non-melanoma skin cancers are normally considered to be the result of a build up of UV radiation over a lifetime. With sunlight becoming more harmful, skin protection is a growing concern among scientists and nutritionalists. UV rays, damaging lipids and other cell components, are responsible for skin inflamation and suppression of the immune system. So ... More About: Skin , Cancer , Insight , Skin Cancer
Your mind at night
2007-10-30 00:00:00 A big reason bad dreams offer insight into the architecture of dreams generally is that most of our dreams are bad. Whether research subjects keep dream journals at home or sleep in research labs and are periodically awoken out of rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep - the stage most often associated with dreaming - ... More About: Night , Mind
Anti-aging mouse genetics
2007-10-22 00:00:00 Scientists have found a gene that regulates lifespan in mammals which could one day lead to treatments to hold off aging and its related illnesses such as Alzheimer’s, cancer and heart disease. Experiments in male mice showed that those without a gene called IRS-1 lived 20% longer and had much healthier lives. Female mice without ... More About: Mouse , Aging , Anti , Genetics
Honey, I?m healed!
2007-10-19 00:00:00 Patients who’ve undergone surgery should ask their doctors whether they should apply honey to their wounds to speed up healing and reduce infection. Honey is one of the oldest foods in existence and was an ancient remedy for wound healing. Researchers started to document the wound healing properties of honey in the early 20th century, ... More About: Heal
Break out from a pimple routine
2007-10-19 00:00:00 People typically get acne after hormones cause oil to build up in the hair follicles, trapping bacteria and triggering superficial pimples as well as deep, painful lumps. The most severe forms of acne can be disfiguring and emotionally devastating and are often treated with prescription drugs. But until recently, adults with less serious facial blemishes ... More About: Break , Brea
The wrong kind of tiredness
2007-10-19 00:00:00 It could be a case of overwork, but if you are sleepy and lacking in energy whatever you do, you could be suffering from a thyroid related problem. Your thyroid regulates your metabolism, or body’s rate of processing. If it is underproductive, you will never be able to get yourself going in the morning, and ... More About: Wrong , Tired , Tire
Another energy depleter: Iron
2007-10-19 00:00:00 Lack of iron is another type of energy depleter that needs attention. If you are feeling low and don’t have a thyroid problem, consider anemia and its straightforward cure: iron. A regular dose of iron tablets will rebalance your body’s mineral store and quite possibly make the difference between a lacklustre week and brilliant go-getting ... More About: Energy , Iron , Eple
Polyunsaturated fats digested
2007-10-16 00:00:00 Which is better for you: butter or margarine? Butter, which has been used for thousands of years, is made from animal products, making it high in saturated fat, and linked to heart disease. Margarine is made from polyunsaturated vegetable oils like corn oil, which do not contain saturated fats. Most people assume that makes it ... More About: Poly , Fats
Mental!
2007-10-16 00:00:00 World Mental Health Day on Sunday has helped promote the cause of cultural sensitivity in treating mental health. With culture and diversity as the theme of this year’s awareness day, experts have been stressing the best way to improve mental health across the board. One in four people suffers from a mental disorder at some ...
Those gut bacteria
2007-10-16 00:00:00 How gut bacteria affect people is a hot field of scientific research. To be determined is if bacteria cause cravings, or whether early in life people’s diets changed the bacteria present in their guts, which then reinforce food choices. A study just out has links the desire for chocolate with bacteria living in the digestive ... More About: Bacteria
How to pick your diet to enhance both mood and brainpower
2007-10-16 00:00:00 A low-carbohydrate/high-fat diet and a high-carbohydrate/low-fat diet both improve weight loss, enhance mood, and speed thinking, a recent study has shown, but the low-carb diet may offer less benefit in terms of the rate of cognitive processing. In overweight and obese patients, an energy-restricted dietary plan for weight loss is associated with improvements in mood, ... More About: Diet , Pick , Mood
Baby blues
2007-10-10 00:00:00 You are supposed to be over the moon about being a mother, and yet some find their situation overwhelming. Post-pregnancy blues has been a recognised problem for many years, but new research out this week shows that a trend towards depression starts well before the growth of your child. A survey of almost five thousand ... More About: Baby , Blues , Baby Blues
Watch your memories
2007-10-02 00:00:00 With an increasing number of people suffering from some form of dementia and an aging population, a new UK survey highlights a lack of public awareness regarding Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. People surveyed were more concerned about future mobility or lost of loved ones than about possible mental deterioration. Experts know there are very clear ... More About: Watch , Memories
Fatty liver disease prevention
2007-09-26 00:00:00 We know that studies based on mice cannot be considered proof of the workings of nutrition in humans. However, they remain indicative and their results worth taking note of. Nutritionists have long argued that in the case of liver disease, we should be more careful of what we input into our systems: in particular high-glycemic ... More About: Prevention , Disease , Fatty , Liver
Water, water, everywhere, but not a drop to drinká
2007-09-24 00:00:00 In the west, we often take it for granted that tap water is safe and healthy for us, and that we should all be drinking bucket loads of the stuff every single day. But are we turning a blind eye to the negative effects of the chemicals every water source carries in its wake? Last ... More About: Water , Drop
Underweight-bad for the brain; Overweight-bad for the heart
2007-09-21 00:00:00 While past studies have found obesity in middle age increases a person’s risk for dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, the latest findings show that obesity in old age has no effect on a person’s memory. Indeed, as with some previous studies, they show that weight loss or low body mass index in old age may be ... More About: Heart , Brain , Overweight , The Brain , The Heart
Smoker?s acne
2007-09-20 00:00:00 If you smoke and you happen to be female, chances are you will be in for a bout of non-inflamatory acne. Non-inflammatory acne means your face will have blocked pores, large white heads and small cysts - if you are a woman and you smoke you run a much greater risk of developing this type ... More About: Acne , Smoker
Daily recommendations are outdated
More articles from this author:2007-09-18 00:00:00 Although daily recommendations for vitamin intake haven’t altered since the 60s, pharmacists and nutritionists have seen the need to change their advice. To fit growing research conclusions into the safety of some and the results of others, your use of vitamin supplements should now be adjusted. Take Vitamin A for example: it wasn’t known until ... More About: Daily , Recommendation , Dati 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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