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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
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 ...
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
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
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
Inherited anemia
2007-09-18 00:00:00 This month is sickle cell anemia awareness month, and for those who don’t know, its time to get familiar with this lifelong syndrome affecting thousands. Anemia, meaning a lower than average red blood cell count, makes you tired, causes pain, and makes it harder to get things done: your oxygen is less frequently replenished that ...
Surprise results of using the contraceptive pill
2007-09-14 00:00:00 No, not unexpected babies, but unexpected health benefits. The contraceptive pill actually protects women against cancer in later life, according to the largest study ever set up to evaluate the risks and benefits. Although the pill raises the risk of breast cancer while a woman is taking it and for about five years afterwards, real ... More About: Results , Result , Contraceptive , The Con
What?s your incentive?
2007-09-14 00:00:00 First we get news that being overweight is contagious. If friends and relatives are overweight and don’t complain, the chances are you will not do anything about it either. And now, new motivations have been tested, to help you go in the other direction. Money, even very small amounts, can provide an incentive. The study ...
U.N. Urges China to Speed AIDS Fight
2007-09-14 00:00:00 China needs to speed efforts to combat the spread of AIDS by giving freer rein to civil organizations and companies, a United Nations official said. China needs to speed up efforts to combat the spread of AIDS by giving freer rein to civil organizations and enrolling the help of companies, a United Nations official said. ... More About: China , Fight , Speed , Aids , Urge
Depression does more physical damage
2007-09-14 00:00:00 The World Health Organisation led the largest population-based study on the physical effects of several illnesses by analysing data from more than 245,000 people in 60 countries. Published in the Lancet, results show that depression had more impact on sufferers than angina, arthritis, asthma, and diabetes. Primary care providers must be taught not to ignore ... More About: Depression , Physical , Damage
ADHD and non drug alternatives
2007-09-07 00:00:00 To be diagnosed with ADHD, a child must have extreme symptoms when compared with youngsters of the same age. Evidence has emerged on the “cocktail” effect of certain food additives having a negative affect on children’s behaviour has proved what parents and teachers have been saying for years. Such additives are derived from industrial textile ... More About: Drug , Alternatives , Alter , Native , Alterna
Iron deficiency in children
2007-09-07 00:00:00 The researchers found that 20 percent of obese toddlers have iron deficiency, compared to 7 percent of normal-weight toddlers. Lack of iron reduces the amount of oxygen carried through the body by the blood and can cause anemia. Experts blamed parents who let toddlers drink cow’s milk and juice from a bottle, instead of weaning ... More About: Children , Iron
The alphabet of being tall
2007-09-05 00:00:00 The first tallness gene has been located. One of the most heritable of human traits, how tall you are, has been found to be determined by one genetic piece of code. Inheriting a form of the gene that has a C written in the genetic code instead of a T adds about half a centimeter ... More About: Tall , Alphabet
Old diseases come back to haunt us
2007-09-05 00:00:00 Human habits change, but diseases stick around. That seems to be the message behind the latest outbreak of the sexually transmitted disease, syphilis. An ancient disease that, untreated, led to madness and death, has been curable and in decline since the invention of penicillin and the spread of sexual health advice. The 20th century saw ... More About: Diseases , Back , Haunt , Seas
It?s the sleep, stupid!
2007-09-01 00:00:00 The latest research on sleep from the University of Pennsylvania shows that the average (workaholic) American will sacrifice sleep for living in the suburbs and enjoying a series of leisure activities. Sleep comes third in the list of priorities. With less than five hours’ sleep a day, people start suffering from a number of health ... More About: Stupid
Take more whole grains to avoid adult diabetes
2007-08-29 00:00:00 Type 2 diabetes is increasing worldwide and is the most common form of diabetes. It puts people at risk of poor health and death by increasing their risk of heart disease and stroke, and a range of other conditions including blindness, kidney disease, and ulcers. Eating carbohydrate-heavy foods, either high in sugar or high in ... More About: Diabetes , Adult , Grains , Avoid
Aging harmoniously
2007-08-28 00:00:00 The relationship between your kids when you are getting older has a habit of getting tense. Especially when the discussion turns to focus on you! As your kids take the reins, their attitudes towards where you live, how you live and who takes care of your growing needs will all vary. Your children will see ... More About: Aging , Harm
Another prostate cancer helper
2007-08-27 00:00:00 A new University of Georgia study finds that pectin, a type of fiber found in fruits and vegetables and used in making jams and other foods, kills prostate cancer cells. The study found that exposing prostate cancer cells to pectin under laboratory conditions reduced the number of cells by up to 40 percent. Pectin even ... More About: Cancer , Prostate Cancer , Prostate , Prost
Q: What does your local mosquito hate most?
2007-08-27 00:00:00 Possible As: chemical sprays, vitamin B, perfume, plant oils or cigarette smoke. Every year, you will notice your local mosquitoes hanging around longer, biting with more vicious intent and generally being greedier and greedier in the chase for your blood. How to tell your mozzie pals to politely* get lost? Recommendations spring from all quarters: should ... More About: Hate , Local , Mosquito , Loca
Multi advice
2007-08-23 00:00:00 Following the news that President Bush, perhaps one of the most active presidents around, takes a daily multivitamin, its time to check out what makes a good multivitamin and how to choose. Multi vitamins have been getting some bad press recently for being of poor quality and being generally lacking in effect. But if your diet ... More About: Advice
Hypertension in kids
2007-08-23 00:00:00 It may be rare, but that’s no excuse. Hyper tension is often not well diagnosed in kids. Difficult to diagnose because of childhood growth spurts and normal blood pressure changes and currently with just 5% of children suffering from it, high blood pressure in children is often passed over. Doctors and parents should tune into an ... More About: Kids , Pert
Be mindful of your cholesterol with diabetes
2007-08-21 00:00:00 When you have succeeded with lowering and stabilizing your blood sugar level, you are only half way there to controlling your diabetes. Your condition is much more complicated than you or the majority of general medics take it to be. If you end up focusing entirely on your blood sugar, you may be neglecting the ... More About: Diabetes , Cholesterol , Este , Holes , Estero
Unlikely vegetable allies 2
2007-08-20 00:00:00 Following our survey of eggplant posted below, here is one for okra. Known poetically as ladies fingers and more stickily as gumbo, okra is a classic southern US ingredient. Most okra in the world is eaten in the Indian subcontinent, but the premature pod has been known in the States for almost as long: in ... More About: Vegetable , Allies , Lies
Know your condition - men with diabetes
2007-08-17 00:00:00 While 48 percent of men with diabetes were unaware they had it during the period from 1976 to 1980, the figure fell to 22 percent during the period from 1999 to 2002. Untreated diabetes is a leading cause of heart disease, stroke, blindness, and kidney failure. Public health education efforts encouraging minorities to get tested ... More About: Diabetes , Condition , Condi
Kids can enjoy low-fat diets?
More articles from this author:2007-08-17 00:00:00 …if you teach them young enough! Teaching children from a young age to eat a low-fat diet can be effective - even as they reach their teens and begin eating more meals away from home, according to a new study.The study of children in Finland found that those who were taught to focus on healthy fats ... More About: Kids , Diets , Enjoy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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