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Cancer is Something We Do, Not Something We Get

2012-01-30T10:55:00.000+07:00

Cancer is a choice. This is what cancer patient and founder of http://www.StopDoingCancer.com - Nick Kay - believes as he perseveres in his battle against cancer.

Nick is in his 30's and has an aggressive form of bladder cancer. For the past few years, doctors have tried to treat Nick's cancer in a number of different ways, but nothing has worked. As a last resort, doctors proposed radical, life changing surgery. But Nick wasn't ready to take such a drastic step and, against the advice of his medical team, decided to treat his cancer using only natural means. Nick's doctors were not supportive of this decision, telling Nick that he would not see his children grow up unless he agreed to the surgery. Read more...

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Processed Meats Play Role in Developing Colon Cancer

2012-01-26T12:04:00.001+07:00

It has been estimated 3 million to 4 million cancer cases worldwide could be prevented each year through healthy eating and lifestyle changes. A prime example: Colon cancer.

Colon cancer is the third most common cancer among men and women. And while many risk factors boost the chance of developing this disease, high intake of red meat may be a major contributor. (Researchers have defined high intake of meat, including beef, veal, pork, sausages and bologna, as three or more ounces a day for men and two or more ounces a day for women.)

Researchers asked nearly 150,000 adults between the ages of 50 and 74 to provide information regarding personal meat consumption in 1982, and again in 1992 or 1993. Findings showed that the median intake of red meat was just over 2 ounces a day for men and 1.4 ounces a day for women. Also, the heaviest consumers among men ate 10 times as much red meat than those who ate the least, while the heaviest consumers among women ate 17 times as much.

It was also concluded:

Those who ate the equivalent of a hamburger a day were about 30 percent to 40 percent more likely to develop colon cancer than those who ate less than half that amount Read more...

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Heart Experts Make Boosting Bystander CPR a Priority

2012-01-21T20:33:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- People who suffer sudden cardiac arrest are more likely to survive if 911 and EMS dispatchers help bystanders assess victims and begin CPR immediately, says a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association.

One of its main goals is to increase how often bystanders perform CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation).

"I think it's a call to arms," statement lead author E. Brooke Lerner, an associate professor of emergency medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, said in an AHA news release. "It isn't as common as you think, that you call 911 and they tell you what to do."

The statement includes four recommendations:

Dispatchers should assess whether someone has had a cardiac arrest and if so, tell callers how to administer CPR immediately. Read more...

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WHO panel warns that cell phone use may cause cancer

2012-01-17T19:21:00.000+07:00

Scientists from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a group affiliated with the World Health Organization (WHO), say that mobile phones are a "possible" carcinogen that may be a cause of cancer. The findings, which support previous research on the subject, add to the growing body of evidence which suggests that the electromagnetic radiation emitted from mobile phones causes serious health problems.

"A positive association has been observed between exposure to the agent and cancer for which a causal interpretation is considered ... to be credible," states the IARC. However, in the same train of thought, the agency claims that evidence is "limited" to suggest that mobile phone usage is linked to glioma or acoustic neuroma, two types of brain cancer. Read more...

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Five ways to make your skin look younger naturally

2012-01-13T19:31:00.001+07:00

You don't need needles, surgery or expensive procedures to get younger looking skin. You can take years off of your appearance without surgical or chemical intervention by following a few guidelines. These practices will help you maintain smoothness, tone and integrity year after year.

The most popular procedures these days can often leave patients with a look that is anything but natural. Chemical peels can make the skin appear waxy. Injections of fillers and muscle-freezing toxins can make the face appear frozen and unnatural. In short, there are not any natural looking options found in a medical office.

Avoid refined sugar and simple carbohydrates
Refined sugar consumption triggers a process called glycation in which the sugar molecules attach themselves to proteins. This results in harmful new proteins appropriately coined "AGEs" (advanced glycation end-products) that cause harm to all cells in the body. Read more...

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Heart-Pacing Devices Hold Promise for Heart Failure

2012-01-08T20:23:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- New research provides more evidence that a new type of pacemaker/defibrillator technology may be a good option for patients with mild forms of heart failure.

An international team of researchers reports that the kind of heart "pacing" provided by new defibrillators and pacemakers can help these patients. But the research still needs to be confirmed before doctors begin embracing its findings, said a cardiologist familiar with the research.

The technology in question "is expensive, resource-intensive, and associated with increased risk of complications compared with less complex devices," explained Dr. Jeptha Curtis, an assistant professor of medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine.

Heart failure occurs when the heart fails to pump blood properly, often as a result of heart attacks, and affects an estimated 5.7 million Americans. "Patients often feel fatigue, as well as shortness of breath from fluid building up in the lungs and swelling of the legs from fluid building up there as well," said Dr. Kevin Heist, a cardiac electrophysiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Read more...

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Productivity Takes a Hit From Obesity, Diabetes

2012-01-04T19:24:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- Obese workers with diabetes are less productive than their normal-weight co-workers, says a U.S. study.

Researchers surveyed 7,338 working adults about missed work time, reduced work effectiveness and impairment of daily activities. The results showed that people who were obese and had type 2 diabetes lost 11 percent to 15 percent of work time (about 5.9 hours a week) because of health problems, compared with 9 percent of work time (about 3.6 hours a week) lost by normal-weight people.

The survey also found that obese people with type 2 diabetes reported impairment during 20 percent to 34 percent of their daily activities, such as taking care of children, shopping and exercising.

The findings are in the May/June issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion. Read more...

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Long-Term Problems Linked to Testicular Cancer Chemo

2011-12-30T20:35:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- Neurological side effects are among the potential problems faced by long-term survivors of testicular cancer who were treated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy, a new study has found.

The study included 1,409 Norwegian men treated for unilateral testicular cancer between 1980 and 1994 who took part in a follow-up survey conducted from 1998 to 2002.

The researchers found that between four and 21 years after the start of treatment, men who'd received any chemotherapy had a statistically significantly higher risk for more severe side effects, including sensory neuropathy, tinnitus, hearing impairment and a discoloration of the hands or feet when exposed to cold (known as Raynaud-like phenomena), than those who didn't have chemotherapy. Read more...

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Thyroid replacement, SHBG and Libido

2011-12-26T13:37:00.000+07:00

Couple Endos I've met claim that Thyroid replacement(TR) therapy cause an elevation in SHBG, thus binding free T and result in loss of libido.
Tried to locate references on medline for this but could not find anything.

It seems odd, as most people (men and women) who are hypothyroid, report an increase in libido after starting TR. Could this be a situation where there is a gradual increase in SHBG, after long-term use?

::Thyroid replacement for the hypothyroid person should cause a general upregulation of cellular output likely increasing testosterone more than SHBG which is somewhat regulated by its need to bind sex hormones which are at too high levels. Of course libido is also dependent on energy and feeling of well being both of which are also increased by thyroid replacement.

J Cell Biochem 1999 Jun 15;73(4):554-62
Regulation of thyroid hormones on the production of testosterone in rats.
Chiao YC, Lee HY, Wang SW, Hwang JJ, Chien CH, Huang SW, Lu CC, Chen JJ, Tsai SC, Wang PS
Department of Physiology, Schools of Life Science and Medicine, National
Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.

The effects of a thyroidectomy and thyroxine (T4) replacement on the spontaneous and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)-stimulated secretion of testosterone and the production of adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) in rat testes were studied. Thyroidectomy decreased the basal levels of plasma luteinizing hormone (LH) and testosterone, which delayed the maximal response of testosterone to gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and hCG in male rats. T4 replacement in Read more...

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Treat cancer - Recent research shows natural combinations boost IV vitamin C

2011-12-21T21:47:00.001+07:00

The latest research on high dose, intravenous vitamin C continues to confirm its cytotoxic effects on many cancers in tissue culture models. Results have been so promising that oncologists are now researching the combination of vitamin C with standard chemo drugs. Not surprisingly, vitamin C was found to boost the effectiveness of several chemo drugs so much that two clinical trials have been started. But recent research has also uncovered several natural compounds that boost the cancer-killing effects of vitamin C and may pave the way for highly effective, all-natural combination therapies in the future. Read more...

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Cholesterol Measurements May Be Made Easier

2011-12-17T21:58:00.001+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- Methods to gauge blood cholesterol to determine vascular disease risk can be simplified, researchers in England say.

Their method measures levels of either total or high-density lipoprotein (HDL, or "good" cholesterol) in the blood or apolipoproteins (proteins that help transport cholesterol), without the need to have patients fast and without regard to another form of blood fat called triglycerides.

"Expert opinion is divided" on which combination of measurements is ideal in gauging cardiovascular risk, explained John Danesh, of the Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration Coordinating Centre at the University of Cambridge, and colleagues.

In order to examine the association between major blood fats and apolipoproteins and coronary heart disease and ischemic stroke, the researchers analyzed data on more than 300,000 people without initial vascular disease who took part in 68 long-term studies.

During the follow-up periods of the studies, there were almost 8,900 nonfatal heart attacks, more than 3,900 coronary heart disease deaths, over 2,500 ischemic strokes, 513 hemorrhagic strokes and more than 2,500 unclassified strokes, the study authors noted.

The analysis of the data yielded a number of findings. Read more...

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Diabetes, Obesity After 60 May Drive Up Breast Cancer Risk

2011-12-13T19:58:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- A woman's risk of developing breast cancer appears to rise if she has diabetes or is obese after age 60, a new study indicates.

Previous research has linked obesity and increased breast cancer risk, but "the diabetes link had not been clearly shown," said researcher Dr. Hakan Olsson, a professor of oncology at Lund University in Lund, Sweden.

He is scheduled to present his findings this week at the 2011 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

The diabetes link held even after he accounted for obesity and levels of blood lipids, such as cholesterol. It is an association, however, not proven cause and effect.

A strength of the study, Olsson said, is that it looked at the population as a whole, not only women with breast cancer. He studied the medical records of more than 2,700 patients for up to 10 years before they developed breast cancer and also records for about 20,500 patients who never developed cancer. Read more...

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Lifetime Physician Supervised Detoxification

2011-12-09T18:06:00.000+07:00

The new specialty I hope all ACAM, A4M and AAEM doctors will start to practice is LEAD DETOXIFICATION.

The case for lead toxicity is overwhelming documented. I am pulling the extensive references together that permits every doctor to state without equivocation that there is NO SAFE LEVEL OF LEAD and that Lead contributes to all causes of morbidity and mortality. Thus every person with any health problem or those who merely want to avoid health problems deserve to be fully educated about the benefits from lifetime physician supervised detoxification, using lead as a surrogate for all toxic metals. It can be used as an indicator of general toxicity without doing the $4900 Mt Sinai test on everyone since no one has ever passed it without proven neurotoxins and carcinogens and hormone disruptors being found in their blood stream.Read more...

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Bone And Cartilage Growth To Blame For Heart Valve Disease

2011-12-04T19:00:00.000+07:00

Source: Northwestern Memorial Hospital
http://www.nmh.org

Research to be published in the April 18 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology provides the first explanation of an active rather than passive process that leads to heart valve degeneration, furthering a Northwestern researcher's effort to lead a paradigm shift in the medical community's beliefs about the cause of valve disease.
Heart valve disease is caused not by a 'wear and tear' phenomenon, but by an inflammatory process likely triggered by high cholesterol that stimulates certain cells to reprogram into bone cells in the aortic valve and cartilage cells in the mitral valve, says principal investigator Nalini Rajamannan, MD, newly appointed director of the Center for Heart Valve Disease in the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute of Northwestern Memorial Hospital and assistant professor of medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who examined diseased mitral and aortic valves removed during surgery for the study. Read more...

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Drunk Drivers May Respond to Brief Motivational Interview

2011-11-30T16:31:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- A program that gets persistent drunk drivers to consider why they should stop their dangerous behavior may lead to significant and long-lasting changes, researchers have found.

The new study included 184 men and women with two or more driving-while-impaired convictions, who were randomly assigned to one of two interventions. The first intervention was a 30-minute brief motivational interviewing session, which was a psychosocial intervention where participants were encouraged to review personal reasons for change. The other was a "control" intervention where participants received information about the hazards of driving while impaired.

Follow-up was done at six and 12 months, and the study findings have been released online in advance of publication in the February 2010 print issue of the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

"The drivers we studied may be among the most dangerous drivers, what some authorities call 'not allowed drunk drivers,'" principal investigator Thomas G. Brown, assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at McGill University in Montreal, said in a news release from the journal's publisher. "We figured that an intervention tailored to their specifications would have to be very brief, something that could be applied opportunistically, say at the time of a court appearance." Read more...

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Organic transplant horrors: Diseased organs routinely implanted into donation recipients

2011-11-25T21:14:00.000+07:00

(NaturalNews) Matthew Millington, 31, was an Iraq war veteran who served in the British army. Suffering from an unspecified "serious long condition", doctors told him he would be dead in two years unless he underwent a lung transplant. With tens of thousands of people world-wide awaiting organ transplants, the young man was one of the "lucky" patients who soon received his lungs from a donor. The problem was he was given lungs riddled with a fast growing cancer -- and Millington died less than 10 months after his operation.

This is just a horrible, rare, mistake right? Not necessarily, according to a warning just issued by the UK health service. It specifically lists other examples of diseased and damaged organs being inappropriatedly donated for transplantion -- in addition to cancer, these include "fatty" organs, which can be caused by a donor's obesity or alcoholism and result in cirrhosis in a transplant patient, and organs containing cuts and other damage resulting from the organ retrieval process. Most horrific was a report of a donor patient found to be infected with vCJD, the human form of mad cow disease, as well as hepatitis B. In addition, the report notes problems with patient identification errors and incorrectly matched tissue types. Read more...

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Debate continues on widespread use of mercury fillings

2011-11-20T16:55:00.000+07:00

Katherine Bouma
Newhouse News Service

A recent attempt by Alabama legislators to restrict the use of mercury in dental fillings is just the latest chapter in a long debate over the widespread practice. The bill, defeated last month in committee, would have prohibited dentists from giving children and pregnant women the fillings that still are the No. 1 choice of dentists.

The safety of the classic silver- colored amalgams that fill teeth in eight out of 10 Americans has been debated for years.

The extreme toxicity of mercury is widely accepted. Although amalgam fillings contain about 50 percent mercury, no state has banned their use. The question is whether the small amounts of mercury that leech from them over the years are enough to cause damage.

It almost certainly will be years before that question is answered, as scientists worldwide study the substance that routinely is placed in our mouths to stay for decades.

Mercury exposure can cause serious neurological problems, such as personality change, loss of memory, tremors, lack of coordination, insomnia, fatigue, depression, headaches, irritability, slowed nerve conduction, weight loss, appetite loss, psychological distress and, ultimately, death. Read more...

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Successful Biological Treatment of Vascular Diseases

2011-11-16T11:18:00.000+07:00

Arteriosclerosis - in particular cardiovascular – is one the most frequently suffered diseases. These are considered «diseases of civilization» which means they are caused by our lifestyle.
Thus, prophylaxis is indicated – a diet according to the recommendations given in Thomas Rau’s (MD) books, regular physical exercise, as well as a sufficient supply with antioxidants (vitamins, trace elements) and omega-3 fatty acids.

Usually, patients will not seek help before conditions such as «angina pectoris» appear. This also applies to a man aged 54 years, who – according to a cardiologist’s diagnosis – should have had to undergo invasive examination (coronary angiography etc.). However, the patient decided to allow himself a few months time for trying an alternative treatment and contacted us.
Apart from changing his lifestyle (diet, moderate circulatory training) and taking herbal and homeopathic remedies, he received - first on a weekly base, later each 2 weeks – EDTA- infusions (chelate infusions). Read more...

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Health Tip: Protect Feet From Fungus

2011-11-12T16:22:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- Fungal toenail infections can linger for years without causing pain or another reason to seek treatment. But infected nails can turn thick, discolored or brittle, which could be embarrassing.

The American Podiatric Medical Association suggests how to help prevent a fungal foot infection in the first place:
• Wash your feet with water and soap, then dry them thoroughly.
• Inspect the feet and toes regularly, looking for cracked or itchy skin.
• Don't go barefoot in a public shower or sauna. Wear a pair of flip flops or sandals.
• Change your socks and shoes more than once daily. Read more...

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Report: Antibiotics can permanently destroy gut flora balanc

2011-11-07T20:52:00.003+07:00

Report: Antibiotics can permanently destroy gut flora balance, leading to lifelong illness

Overuse and overprescription of antibiotic drugs has become a widely known culprit in causing the emergence of antibiotic-resistant "superbugs," as well as the onset of digestive and other health problems, caused by the elimination of beneficial gut flora. But a new review published in the journal Nature suggests that such gut flora alterations could be permanent.

Professor Martin Blaser from New York University's (NYU) Langone Medical Center has been studying the long-term effects of antibiotics on gut flora, which has already confirmed a definitive link between antibiotics and the disruption of beneficial bacteria in the digestive system. But what his research also seems to confirm is the possibility that such disruption might be permanent, at least in some individuals, and thus carry with it lifelong health consequences. Read more...

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Study Compares Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Methods

2011-11-03T13:18:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- A less-invasive method of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair reduces the short-term risk of death, according to a new U.S. study.

The interim findings are from a nine-year multicenter trial comparing patient outcomes after endovascular and open surgical repair of AAA. The report included postoperative outcomes of up to two years (average 1.8 years of follow-up) for 881 patients, aged 49 or older, who had endovascular repair (444) or open repair (437).

Endovascular repair is performed through a catheter inserted into an artery. Open repair involves an abdominal incision. Of the 45,000 patients in the United States who undergo elective repair of an unruptured AAA each year, more than 1,400 die in the perioperative period -- the first 30 days after surgery or inpatient status. There's limited data available about whether short-term survival is better after endovascular repair compared to open repair. Read more...

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Doctors Miss Half of Depressed Patients--Are You One of Them

2011-10-29T10:48:00.000+07:00

By Shankar Vedantam

A top independent advisory panel today recommended that doctors begin routinely screening all patients for depression, saying that:

America's primary care doctors are missing and mistreating more than half of all cases of the common mental disorder.

Asking all patients who walk into offices for tests, physicals and appointments two simple questions about whether they have experienced some of the warning signs of depression can swiftly begin to identify 90 percent of people who suffer from major depression, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The panel is a highly influential group of scientists that sets widely followed standards on topics ranging from prostate cancer screenings to mammograms.

The recommendation is the latest manifestation of the growing recognition that depression is one of the most common -- and most commonly undiagnosed and untreated -- chronic illnesses. About 19 million American adults suffer from depression, and estimates suggest that as many as two-thirds do not get treatment. Read more...

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Exposing the fraud and mythology of conventional cancer treatments

2011-10-23T09:30:00.000+07:00

Treating cancer is BIG business in America -- in fact, it's a $200 billion a year business. Yet 98 percent of conventional cancer treatments not only FAIL miserably, but are also almost guaranteed to make cancer patients sicker.

What's worse: The powers are suppressing natural cancer cures that could help tens of thousands of people get well and live cancer free with little or no dependence on drugs, surgery and chemotherapy.

The treatment of cancer in the U.S. is one of the most bald-faced cover-ups in medical history. Enough is enough! You deserve to know the truth about the criminality of oncologists and about the dangers of chemotherapy, conventional cancer treatments and the cancer "business."

Chemotherapy kills more than cancer
Want proof? Did you know that 9 out of 10 oncologists would refuse chemotherapy if they had cancer? That's up to 91% -- a huge percentage that clearly shines a light on the truth: chemotherapy kills. Conventional oncologists are not only allowing this to happen, but they're also bullying many patients into chemotherapy and surgery right after their diagnoses. Read more...

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Food Prep May Be as Important as Ingredients Themselves

2011-10-19T17:53:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- The methods used to produce or cook food may have as much impact on your health as the actual food, U.S. researchers report.

Grilled, fried or broiled animal products such as meats and cheeses contain a class of toxins called "advanced glycation end products" (AGEs), which have been linked to inflammation, insulin resistance, diabetes, vascular and kidney disease, and Alzheimer's disease, say a team from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.

AGEs are also produced when food products are sterilized and pasteurized.

In a new study, the Mount Sinai researchers found that healthy people can have elevated levels of AGEs in their blood and that levels tend to be higher in older adults than in younger adults.

The study of 172 healthy men and women, ages 18-45 and ages 60-80, found that AGE levels were 35 percent higher in participants age 64 and older than in those younger than age 45.

Overall, the higher the participants' consumption of foods rich in AGEs, the higher their blood levels of AGEs and the higher their levels of C-reactive protein and other biomarkers of inflammation. Read more...

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Eating certain foods alters expression of heart disease genes

2011-10-14T13:04:00.001+07:00

Did your mother or father have a heart attack? Did your grandfather and a couple of aunts and uncles or maybe a brother or cousin die from heart disease? Do you feel doomed that having a bad ticker "runs" in your family?

Actually, you may have good reason to worry if several of your relatives have suffered from cardiac problems. There is a gene passed down in families that researchers say is the strongest marker for heart disease. But now there's breaking news that shows you can actually change that genetic heritage.

No, we aren't talking about some gene zapping drug or high tech genetic medical therapy. Instead, you simply need to eat a lot of raw natural fruit and veggies.

This isn't a joke and it isn't an unsubstantiated "health nut" claim. Instead, it's the result of a study headed by an international team of scientists and directed by researchers at McMaster and McGill universities. These researchers have made an amazing discovery, which was just published in the journal PLoS Medicine: the gene responsible for much heart disease can be modified by eating generous amounts of fruits and raw vegetables. Read more...

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Obese? Diabetic? Try surgery

2011-10-10T10:20:00.001+07:00

Joel Fuhrman, M.D.

In 2009, over 220,000 people had bariatric surgery (weight loss surgery) in the U.S. – these procedures are growing in popularity as obesity rates climb.1
On Monday, the International Diabetes Federation announced that they now recommend bariatric surgery as a treatment for diabetics with a body mass index (BMI) of 35 or more; and also as an alternative treatment for diabetics with a BMI of 30-35, either when diabetes is not being adequately controlled with medication or in the presence of major cardiovascular risk factors. As its rationale, the IDF cites effective reversal of diabetes, reduced health costs, reduced risk of all-cause mortality, and reductions in cardiovascular risk factors that occur as a result of the surgery.2 Read more...

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Ginger is an amazing wide spectrum tonic and remedy

2011-10-06T10:17:00.000+07:00

(NaturalNews) Ginger root is more than a zesty culinary spice. It's both a general tonic and specific medicinal herb. Ginger is actually the rhizome or horizontal "creeping root" of the Zingiber officinale plant, which belongs to the same family as turmeric and cardamom. Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine has used ginger for centuries. Now mainstream medicine uses various ginger extracts for major health problems.

Ginger Benefits

Ginger has been used effectively for gastrointestinal problems as major as colitis and as minor as motion sickness. It stimulates good digestion. It helps alleviate congestion and minimizes mucous, even helping asthmatics. Various ginger extracts have been shown to improve cardiovascular health and circulation.

Ginger kills off 5-LO enzymes, without which prostate cancer cells die within hours. A component of ginger has demonstrated the ability to slow or stop several types of cancer mestastasis (spreading cancer cells). Some oncologists use ginger extracts as adjuncts to their toxic therapies, enabling them to shorten the length of their patients' suffering from chemo or radiation. Read more...

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Green tea blocks lung cancer

2011-10-02T10:25:00.000+07:00

Drinking at least a cup of green tea a day may significantly decrease a person's risk of lung cancer, according to a study conducted by researchers from Shan Medical University in Taiwan.

Cancer rates are significantly lower in Asia than in other parts of the world, and high consumption of green tea has been suggested as one of the potential explanations. Laboratory studies have suggested that the polyphenols in green tea can halt the growth of cancer cells, but the results of human studies have been mixed.

In the current study, researchers analyzed green tea consumption, smoking, genetic factors and lung cancer risk in more than 500 people. They found that among non-smokers, those who did not drink tea had five times the lung cancer risk of those who drank at least one cup per day. Among smokers, not drinking green tea was linked to 12 times the cancer risk of those who drank at least one cup per day. Read more...

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Leafy Green Vegetables May Help Keep Brains Sharp

2011-09-27T16:46:00.000+07:00

Now that all of you are beginning to learn about 5'methyltetrahydrofolate it is important to realize that the MTHFR mutation, which is found in every Autistic child, means essentially
that they can be harmed by taking Folic Acid in supplements, as it is the wrong form for them to handle.

Now, with increasing age, all of us have less efficient methylation putting many of us at risk for responding optimally to only the expensive form of Folic Acid patented by Merck. Unfortunately, they recently increased their price from around $8K per KG to $14K per KG meaning only the wealthy can afford the optimal form of the vitamin for anyone with MTHFR mutations Read more...

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Cholesterol Deposits Around Eyes Linked to Heart Risk

2011-09-23T10:19:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- Men and women who develop visible deposits of cholesterol in the skin around their eyelids appear to face a higher risk of heart disease in general and suffering a heart attack in particular, new Danish research suggests.

The link between the skin condition and heart disease, however, is characterized as an association, rather than a clear case of "cause and effect."

Nonetheless, the study team led by Dr. Anne Tybjaerg-Hansen, from the department of clinical biochemistry at Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark, said that the finding could perhaps help physicians screen for heart disease.

And the research, published in the Sept. 15 online edition of the BMJ, "could be of particular value in societies where access to laboratory facilities and thus lipid profile measurement is difficult," the authors said in a journal news release.

Individuals who have the raised yellow patches around the eyes that indicate the collection of cholesterol in the skin -- known as "xanthelasmata" -- are not always easily identified in blood tests as having high cholesterol, the study authors noted. Read more...

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Chocolate aids fatigue syndrome

2011-09-19T19:24:00.000+07:00

A daily dose of specially-formulated dark chocolate may help cut chronic fatigue syndrome symptoms.
Patients in a pilot study found they had less fatigue when eating dark chocolate with a high cocoa content than with white chocolate dyed brown.

Researchers from Hull York Medical School said the results were surprising but dark chocolate may be having an effect on the brain chemical serotonin.

Experts said patients should consume chocolate in moderation.

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as ME, is a condition with a diverse range of symptoms but particularly characterised by profound muscle fatigue after physical exertion.

Study leader Professor Steve Atkin, an expert in endocrinology, said the idea for the study came after a patient reported feeling much better after swapping her normal milk chocolate for dark chocolate with a high cocoa solid content.

He decided to see if other patients would benefit and carried out a trial of 10 patients who received a daily dose - 45g - of dark chocolate or white chocolate dyed to look like dark chocolate for two months.

The patients then had a month off before taking the other type of chocolate for two months.Read more...

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Lack of vitamin D can lead to diabetes, study finds

2011-09-14T16:52:00.000+07:00

The array of undiscovered health benefits afforded by high vitamin D intake is vast thanks to several new studies linking deficiency in this important hormone to diabetes.

One study published in the journal Diabetes Care explains that a simple 25 nanomole per liter (nmol/L), or 10 nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL), increase in blood levels of vitamin D results in a roughly 24 percent reduction in diabetes risk, while another study similarly reveals a correlation between high blood levels of vitamin D and reduced risk of diabetes.

Dr. Ken Sikaris and his colleague Zhong Lu, both of which are pathologists at Melbourne Pathology in Australia, tested the blood levels of 5,200 participants as part of their research. After accounting for more than ten outside risk factors that may affect outcomes, the duo found that participants with the highest blood levels of vitamin D had a significantly reduced risk of developing type-2 diabetes compared to those with the lowest levels. Read more...

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Moderate Drinking Guards the Heart

2011-09-09T18:48:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- A Spanish study has found that long-term moderate drinking decreased the risk of heart disease by up to one-third in men and to a lesser degree in women.

The type of alcohol -- beer, wine or spirits -- made no difference, the researchers reported in the Nov. 19 online issue of Heart. The Spanish analysis used 10-year data on 15,500 men and nearly 26,000 women who were participants in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer study.

But for men, there was a point at which the coronary benefits of alcohol declined, and risk began to rise again.

The rate of coronary heart disease for non-drinking women in the study was 56 per 100,000. For women listed as low drinkers, averaging less than 5 grams a day, it was 42. For women who were moderate drinkers (5 to 30 grams a day), it was 36; for high drinkers (30 to 90 grams a day) it was 12; and for heavy drinkers (more than 90 grams a day) it was 12.

The rates for men were 398 per 100,000 for those who never drank, 318 for low drinkers, 255 for moderate drinkers, 278 for high drinkers and 334 for heavy drinkers, the researchers reported. Read more...

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Scientists announce amazing findings: chocolate offers huge

2011-09-05T20:47:00.001+07:00

Scientists announce amazing findings: chocolate offers huge protection from heart disease and stroke

All regular readers of NaturalNews know that researchers have discovered chocolate (especially the organic, not junked up with additives and sugar type) contains phytochemicals which appear to promote good health. But no one has had much of a clue about the specifics of some of those benefits on the cardiovascular system -- until now. Scientists at the European Society of Cardiology Congress currently underway in Paris just announced that chocolate provides huge protection from heart disease as well as stroke. Read more...

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Salt increases heart attack and stroke risk, even if blood pressure is normal

2011-09-01T17:58:00.000+07:00

Joel Fuhrman, M.D.

Excess dietary salt is notorious for increasing blood pressure – blood volume increases, placing more stress on blood vessel walls. This forces the heart to pump harder against the pressure, and also structural changes that harden the vessel wall (this hardening is called stenosis) occur in response to these high pressures.
About one-third of all American adults and over 50% of those over the age of 55 have hypertension, and hypertension carries significant risks. Elevated blood pressure accounts for 62% of strokes and 49% of coronary heart disease. [1] Notably, the risk for heart attack and stroke begins climbing with systolic pressures (first number in the blood pressure reading) above 115 mm Hg – considered “normal” by most standards.[2] Also, dietary salt is not only dangerous to the cardiovascular system, but also contributes to kidney disease, osteoporosis , ulcers, and stomach cancer. Read more...

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Reverse Heart Disease without Meds

2011-08-26T22:45:00.000+07:00

Each day the media presents horrific news of death and destruction caused by war, terrorism, and other violence. It virtually ignores a silent but much more deadly enemy . . . heart disease.

More than 1.5 million people will have a heart attack this year, with 1 million deaths resulting from heart attacks (or a death every 30 seconds). When it comes to combating heart disease, most information sources promote drugs and surgery as the only viable defenses. We need to keep in mind that angioplasty and bypass surgery have some significant adverse outcomes, including heart attacks, stroke and death. Most people treated with such interventions continue to suffer from, and eventually die from, heart disease. The average person is not aware that there are safer, more effective options available.
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Large study confirms that omega 3s produce healthy babies

2011-08-21T22:39:00.000+07:00

Consumption of omega-3 fatty acids is crucial for the development and maintenance of the brain and nervous system, especially in young children (http://www.dreddyclinic.com/vitamins/Omega-3-Fatty-Acids.htm). And a new study published in the journal Pediatrics adds to this, having found that pregnant women who supplement with Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) during their pregnancies produce children that are much healthier and less prone to sickness than those born to women who do not supplement with, or otherwise consume enough, DHA.

Dr. Usha Ramakrishnan, associate professor at Emory University's Hubert Department of Global Health, and her team conducted a randomized, placebo-controlled trial on 1,100 pregnant women and 900 infants from Mexico. Some women received 400 milligrams (mg) of DHA, while others received a placebo, during the 18 to 22 weeks of gestation through childbirth. Read more...

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More U.S. Men Die From Cancer Than Women: Study

2011-08-15T20:35:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- Men in the United States are much more likely than women to die of cancer, a new report from the U.S. National Cancer Institute found.

Gender differences in cancer incidence -- more men than women develop cancer in the first place -- rather than differences in cancer survival appeared to drive the findings, the researchers said.

"If we can identify modifiable causes of sex difference in cancer incidence and mortality then preventative actions could reduce the cancer burden in both men and women," said lead researcher Michael B. Cook, a National Cancer Institute epidemiologist.

Cook said that for many cancers, male and female incidence rates, and by extension death rates, have changed disproportionately over time.

This is likely because of differences in "carcinogenic exposures, metabolism and susceptibility," he said. Increased rates of smoking among men, and differences in infections, hormones and contact with toxic metals may all come into play, he said. Read more...

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Health Tip: The Benefits of Meditation

2011-08-11T10:51:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- Meditation is gaining attention as a potential way to maintain well-being and good health. It can calm your mind, relax your body, and soothe your spirit. In addition, it's inexpensive and its risks are minimal.

Meditation techniques aren't new. They've been around for thousands of years. Anyone can meditate, regardless of religious or cultural background.

Consider these suggestions from the Mayo Clinic to get you started :
• Select a meditation technique that fits your lifestyle and belief system. Many people build meditation into their daily routine.
• Set aside some time. Start with 5-minute meditation sessions once or twice a day and work up to 20 minutes each time. Read more...

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Anti-foaming agent found in Chicken McNuggets

2011-08-07T20:47:00.001+07:00

Ever wonder what's really found in Chicken McNuggets? Some of the ingredients, it turns out, seem to belong more to an industrial factory of some kind, not a food retailer. According to the McDonald's Corporation, its famous Chicken McNuggets are made with ingredients including autolyzed yeast extract (which contain free glutamate, similar to MSG), sodium phosphates and sodium aluminum phosphate. But that's not the freaky part. According to McDonald's own website, Chicken McNuggets are also made with "hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness" and "Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent." (http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/nutritionexchange/ingredientslist.pdf)

At least two of these ingredients are artificially synthesized industrial chemicals. Read more...

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Fear of Dying During Heart Attack May Make Matters Worse

2011-08-03T17:12:00.001+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- People who become very afraid of dying in the moments during and days after a heart attack also seem to have more inflammation, an indicator that they may, in the long run, do worse than patients who are less fearful, a small British study suggests.

The finding, published online June 1 in the European Heart Journal, "reminds us of the connection between the mind and the body," said Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, a preventive cardiologist with Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.

"This trial shows us that when patients are so fearful, there's an increase in inflammation and decrease in heartbeat variability, which could lead to poor outcomes. So we must address not only the body issues but the mind issues as well," she said. Read more...

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Are Taller People at Heightened Cancer Risk?

2011-07-30T10:49:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- Tall folks may be more likely than shorter people to develop cancer, new British research says.

Among women, the risk of breast, ovarian, uterine and bowel cancer, leukemia or melanoma appears to go up about 16 percent for every 4-inch bump in stature, the researchers said.

"Taller women in our study had increased risk of a wide range of cancers," said study co-author Jane Green, from the cancer epidemiology unit at the University of Oxford in England. "And all the evidence from past studies is that this link is seen equally in men and women."

The findings also suggest that gains in height over the 20th century -- Europeans' average height grew nearly half an inch per decade -- might help explain some of the cancer differences seen in recent generations, the researchers said. Read more...

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Obese People at Higher Risk of Infection After Colon Surgery

2011-07-26T10:44:00.001+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- Obese patients are at a significantly increased risk for surgical site infections after undergoing partial or full removal of the colon, a new study finds.

It included 7,020 patients, aged 18 to 64, who had either partial or total colectomy for colon cancer, diverticulitis or inflammatory bowel disease between 2002 and 2008. Of those patients, 1,243 were obese.

The overall rate of surgical site infections was 10.3 percent, but the rate was higher in obese patients (14.5 percent) than in non-obese patients (9.5 percent). After adjusting for a number of factors, the researchers calculated that obese patients were 60 percent more likely to develop surgical site infections than non-obese patients.

The average cost of colectomy for all the patients was $16,399, but the average cost for obese patients was about $295 more than for non-obese patients.

The researchers also found that surgical site infections greatly increased the cost of the procedure. The average total cost for patients who developed surgical site infections was $31,933, compared to $14,608 for patients without infection. Read More...

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Flaxseed Fails as Treatment for Hot Flashes

2011-07-22T11:55:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- The search for a safe remedy for menopausal hot flashes has been foiled again, with flaxseed the latest in a long line of compounds that apparently don't reduce the incidence of the unpleasant symptoms.

Researchers presenting a new study Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago report that a daily flaxseed bar was no more effective than a placebo in helping with hot flashes in women with or without breast cancer.

"It's unfortunate because these are such common problems, not just in breast cancer survivors but in postmenopausal women in general," said Dr. Joanne E. Mortimer, director of women's cancers programs at City of Hope Cancer Center in Duarte, Calif. "These poor women have one less option." Mortimer was not involved with the study. Read more...

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Diet, Exercise Better Than Vitamins in Promoting Health

2011-07-18T10:35:00.001+07:00

Harvard men's health watch is telling everyone how dangerous vitamin supplements are. Unfortunately they are not kidding!

Please know that although we have our references to try to refute these statements, your patient's families will be hearing this stuff.

While it was once hoped that supplements of folic acid could help reduce colon cancer, new research has shown that taking more than the minimum daily requirement would be harmful. Simon says other studies underscore the downside to dietary supplements, which are unregulated in the United States. "The most striking example is beta carotene, which we used to be very hopeful about, but actually increases the risk of lung cancer in smokers. Vitamin E increases the risk of second head-neck cancers in people who have been successfully treated for a first malignancy. Read more...

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Chocolate compounds fight high cholesterol

2011-07-14T20:18:00.000+07:00

Chocolate has received a lot of attention for being a treasure trove of nutritional goodness. Polyphenols in cacao beans are linked to promoting heart, brain, and liver health, which has sparked renewed interest in chocolate as a medicinal food. And a new study adds to the growing list of benefits, showing that chocolate polyphenols also help to lower bad cholesterol.

Published in the journal Diabetic Medicine, the study tested the effects of polyphenol-rich chocolate in a group of 12 volunteers with type-2 diabetes. After 16 weeks, the researchers from Hull University in the U.K. discovered that the polyphenols helped lower participants' bad cholesterol levels while raising good cholesterol levels.

"Chocolate with a high cocoa content should be included in the diet of individuals with type-2 diabetes as part of a sensible, balanced approach to diet and lifestyle," said professor Steve Akin, author of the study.Read more...

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Study Questions Giving Babies Botanical Supplements, Teas

2011-07-09T21:12:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- The use of botanical supplements and teas for infants is a surprisingly common practice, new research finds, but experts warn that such products might not be safe for babies.

The study, conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, found that nearly 10 percent of babies are given botanical supplements or teas during their first year of life. The researchers found that even babies as young as 1 month old were given these products.

"Our study is the first to examine the prevalence of dietary botanical supplement and tea use among a sample of U.S. infants," wrote the study's authors. "The wide variety of dietary botanical supplements and teas given to infants increases the likelihood that some are unsafe."

Results of the study are published online May 2 in Pediatrics. The report is scheduled to appear in the June print version of the journal. Read more...

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How to choosing Suitable bodybuilding supplements

2011-07-05T21:12:00.001+07:00

At present, there are a variety of bodybuilding supplements that many are sold in shops and supermarkets. But many of the supplement will not have a good effect for all consumers and some other programs of a major change.
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Who Should Get a CT Scan to Screen for Lung Cancer?

2011-07-01T20:08:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- Annual low-dose CT scans cut the death rate from lung cancer by 20 percent in heavy smokers and formerly heavy smokers, compared to those who get annual chest X-rays, according to the results of a major National Cancer Institute study released on Wednesday.

Experts are calling the findings a major advance in efforts to combat lung cancer deaths. By catching the cancer early, the tumors can be removed surgically -- hopefully before they've spread and become very difficult to cure.

"This is a momentous time in the history of public health research," said Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society. "The NLST [National Lung Screening Trial] is the best-designed and best-performed lung cancer screening study in history."

Yet the findings raise as many questions as they answer, said Dr. Harold Sox, a professor emeritus of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School who wrote an accompanying editorial to the study published in the June 30 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Read more...

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Does being exposed to too much estrogen lead to high blood pressure?

2011-06-27T19:37:00.001+07:00

Contrary to widely-held belief, sustained high levels of estrogen in women via hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is not necessarily a good thing, as the hormone can create excess amounts of superoxide compound in the brain. According to new research out of Michigan State University (MSU), buildup of superoxide leads to blockages in the areas of the brain that regulate blood pressure, which has led researchers to conclude that estrogen may be directly responsible for high blood pressure and resultant heart disease. Read more...

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Biotech quick fix for superweeds could lead to 'super superweeds'

2011-06-23T13:06:00.000+07:00

Albert Einstein once defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. And that is exactly how the biotechnology industry and government agencies are trying to handle the escalating "superweed" epidemic.

According to a recent report out of Washington University (WU) in St. Louis, Mo., the chemical industry's answer to genetically-modified (GM) induced superweeds is to now tamper with the genetics of the superweeds themselves, which may appear to provide a quick fix, but will eventually spur an even worse breed of "super superweeds." Read more...

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Health experts announce 5 ways to protect children from toxic chemicals

2011-06-19T19:11:00.000+07:00

Imagine parents who would put their children in danger, placing them in situations that could cause serious health problems and distress such as difficulty breathing or a disruption of their male and female hormones -- or even shorten their kids' lives. We must be talking about psychopaths, right? After all, most moms and dads would do anything to protect their offspring.

Unfortunately, without realizing it, countless parents who wouldn't consciously do anything to hurt their youngsters are unwittingly exposing their children to dangerous, toxic chemicals in the home. The result could be health problems now and when the youngsters are grown, too. Read more...

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The health benefits of phytochemicals

2011-06-14T21:46:00.000+07:00

Phytonutrients, the chemicals that help plants defend against environmental challenges, such as damage from pests or ultraviolet light, appear to provide humans with protection as well. Mounting research shows their effectiveness in preventing and treating a range of conditions including everything from cancer and heart disease to diabetes and high blood pressure. But current law dictates that if anyone advertises health benefits without FDA approval, it is automatically considered an illegal health claim, even for everyday foods, such as walnuts. Read more...

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Apples Help Keep Muscles Strong, Mouse Study Finds

2011-06-10T11:43:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- A natural compound found in apples may help prevent muscle wasting that can result from aging and illness, according to the results of a study in mice.

The benefit appears to come from a compound in apple skin called ursolic acid, according to Dr. Christopher Adams, of the University of Iowa in Iowa City, and colleagues.

Adams and colleagues first identified 63 genes that change in response to fasting in both people and mice, and another 29 that change their expression in the muscles of both people who are fasting and those with spinal cord injuries. They then looked at 1,300 small molecules and zeroed in on ursolic acid as a compound that might counteract muscle atrophy.

In the next phase, the researchers found that ursolic acid could protect against muscle wasting in mice that were deprived of food. They also found that adding ursolic acid to the food of normal mice for a number of weeks prompted muscle growth. Read more...

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Stress Hormone Might Help Overcome Fear of Heights

2011-06-06T18:16:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- Adding the stress hormone cortisol to more traditional exposure therapy may help anxious patients overcome their fear of heights, researchers say.

Exposure therapy involves gradually exposing people to the thing they fear -- be it height or spiders -- in order to reduce fear responses.

But while promising, this experimental treatment is not yet ready for prime time, said the authors of a study published online March 28 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"This is a first study -- a proof of concept, if you wish," said study lead author Dr. Dominique J.-F. de Quervain, director of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Basel in Switzerland.

"We now need more studies to explore the therapeutic potential of cortisol in combination with psychotherapy in the treatment of anxiety disorders," de Quervain said. Read more...

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Scientists Discover How Peppermint Soothes Gastric Pain

2011-06-02T19:57:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- New research offers insight into how peppermint helps relieve the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome.

Researchers from the University of Adelaide in Australia report that peppermint activates an "anti-pain" channel in the colon. This contributes to relief of pain from inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract.

"Our research shows that peppermint acts through a specific anti-pain channel called TRPM8 to reduce pain-sensing fibers, particularly those activated by mustard and chili," Dr. Stuart Brierley said in a university news release.

"This is potentially the first step in determining a new type of mainstream clinical treatment for irritable bowel syndrome. This is a debilitating condition and affects many people on a daily basis, particularly women who are twice as likely to experience irritable bowel syndrome," Brierley added. Read more...

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Is it Hepatitis C or Iron Toxicity?

2011-05-29T12:09:00.000+07:00

By Joseph Mercola, D.O.

I recently had a patient visit me from Ohio with a remarkable story that needs to be shared, as it will likely save a number of people's lives.

This person is a 53-year-old healthy male who had absolutely no symptoms. He was the picture of health and from looking at him you would never believe he had any health problems. However, later we wound find out that he was rusting on the inside and had massive amounts of free radical damage.

Through a routine physical examination, his local traditional doctor found that he had elevated liver enzymes. So a hepatitis panel was drawn and he was found to have hepatitis C. He was not content with the traditional recommendations of going on Interferon as a treatment, so he visited my Web site and learned that high iron levels are frequently a major factor in most cases of hepatitis. This is where the story gets interesting. Read more...

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For Some Women, Knowing About Heart Failure Spurs Worry

2011-05-24T19:38:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- Being well-informed about their disease may lead to depression in women with heart failure who repress their anger and other emotions about their condition, according to new research.

The study included 35 women with heart failure who were taking medication to manage the disease, and had symptoms such as shortness of breath and swelling in the legs and abdomen.

The women's coping styles affected their levels of depression or anxiety. The less they discussed or expressed their emotions, the more likely they were to have depression and anxiety symptoms, the Ohio State University researchers said. Read more...

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Meat Lovers Face Greater Risk of Bladder Cancer

2011-05-20T21:29:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- Eating meat frequently, especially when it's well-done or cooked at high temperatures, can boost the risk of bladder cancer, a new study suggests.

"It's well-known that meat cooked at high temperatures generates heterocyclic amines that can cause cancer," study presenter Jie Lin, an assistant professor in the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center's department of epidemiology, said in a news release from the cancer center. "We wanted to find out if meat consumption increases the risk of developing bladder cancer and how genetic differences may play a part."

This study tracked 884 patients with bladder cancer and 878 who didn't have it. They responded to questionnaires about their diets. Read more...

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Alcoholic Parents May Predispose Kids to Drinking Problem

2011-05-16T19:57:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- Children of parents with an alcohol use disorder (AUD) are at increased risk for the same type of problem, says a new study from Denmark.

The risk of an alcohol use disorder, which includes alcoholism and alcohol abuse, was higher among those whose parents had an AUD. The increased risk was independent of other major predictors, such as gender, parents' social status and the psychiatric hospitalization of parents, the researchers noted.

"Furthermore, this association appeared to be stronger among female than male offspring, which suggests that inherited factors related to AUDs are at least as important among daughters as among sons," study corresponding author Erik Lykke Mortensen, associate professor in medical psychology at the University of Copenhagen, said in a journal news release. Read more...

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Seventy-five percent of prostate cancer cases treated with aggressive drugs

2011-05-10T17:48:00.000+07:00

Seventy-five percent of prostate cancer cases treated with aggressive drugs and surgery -- even when it's useless to do so

More than 75 percent of men diagnosed with prostate cancer are treated aggressively, even though most prostate cancers are slow-growing and will never pose a risk to a man's life, according to a study conducted by researchers from The Cancer Institute of New Jersey and UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

"There's no question there is a problem of overtreatment of prostate cancer," said Matthew Cooperberg of the University of San Francisco, who was not involved in the study.

Researchers examined data from 16 tumor registries covering roughly 26 percent of the U.S. population and found records from 124,000 men diagnosed with prostate cancer between 2004 and 2006. They found that even in men with low levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA), indicating a low-risk cancer, aggressive treatments were pursued more than 75 percent of the time. Read more...

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Treat Depression to Boost Diabetes Self-Care: Study

2011-05-06T22:15:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- Treating diabetes patients' depression boosts their overall health, according to a new study.

It included 145 people with type 2 diabetes and depression who received a year-long depression intervention that included 12 weeks of cognitive behavioral therapy over the phone, followed by nine monthly booster sessions. They also took part in a walking program.

They were compared to a control group of 146 diabetes patients with depression who received usual diabetes care.

At the end of the year, depression symptoms were in remission for 58 percent of the patients in the intervention group and 39 percent of those in the control group, said the researchers at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and the University of Michigan Health System.

The intervention program also led to lower blood pressure, an increase in walking of about four miles a week and improvement in general quality of life.

However, most patients already had good blood sugar control at the outset of the intervention, so A1C levels, a measure of blood sugar control, did not drop. Read more...

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Birch bark nutrient prevents obesity, diabetes and high cholesterol

2011-04-30T14:29:00.000+07:00

Researchers from the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBC) in China have identified a powerful compound in birch bark called betulin that helps lower cholesterol and prevent both diabetes and obesity. And betulin works particularly better than the statin drug lovastatin at lowering cholesterol, except without the harmful side effects.

Dr. Bao-Liang Song and his colleagues from SIBC tested the effects of betulin and found that it specifically targets the genes responsible for making harmful blood fats like triglycerides by effectively lowering their activity and protecting against disease. And since the compound is "abundant in birch bark," it has the potential to revolutionize the way blood fat levels are managed. Read more...

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Berry compounds lower risk of Parkinson's disease

2011-04-26T22:38:00.000+07:00

An enormous study spanning several decades has shown that people who eat berries regularly have a much lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease than othose who do not. Published in the journal ScienceDaily, the study adds significantly to the growing body of evidence proving that flavanoids, a polyphenolic type of antioxidant that is already known to exhibit anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer effects, can help stave off neurological diseases as well.

Xiang Gao, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues from the Harvard School of Public Health analyzed the effects of eating berries in a group of nearly 130,000 men and women. The team evaluated the correlation between flavanoid intake and cases of Parkinson's disease over the course of more than 20 years and found that the top 20 percent of men who consumed the most flavanoids were 40 percent less likely to develop Parkinson's than others. And in both men and women, consumption of anthocyanins, a specific type of flavanoid, was also related to reduced risk. Read more...

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Migraine With Aura Linked to Small Rise in Heart, Stroke Risks

2011-04-21T20:42:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- People who suffer migraines with aura are at increased risk of dying from heart disease and stroke, but the individual risk for a migraine sufferer is low, two new studies show.

Auras -- temporary visual or sensory disturbances that occur before or during a migraine headache -- affect about one in five migraine sufferers, according to the U.S. National Women's Health Information Center.

Both studies were published in the Aug. 25 online edition of the BMJ.

In one study, Larus Gudmundsson from the University of Iceland and colleagues examined the impact of mid-life migraines in 18,725 men and women born between 1907 and 1935 who took part in research (the Reykjavik Study) that was launched in 1967 to study heart disease in Iceland. Read more...

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Study: Living on a farm helps prevent asthma, allergies

2011-04-17T13:56:00.001+07:00

Dirty, dusty farm life appears to be better for your health than sanitized city life, according to a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers from Munich University Children's Hospital in Germany found that asthma rates among farm children was less than half the rate of other children, and experts believe the multitude of diverse microbes found in farm environments is responsible. Read more...

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Black Tea Shows Blood Sugar Benefits

2011-04-13T12:10:00.001+07:00

Drinking black tea may be beneficial for people with diabetes, as it appears to stimulate an insulin response and reduce blood sugar levels, according to researchers from King‘s College London and the University of Central Lancashire.

Sixteen participants drank glucose in either water, water plus a small amount of caffeine, or water plus instant black tea.

After two hours, plasma glucose concentrations were significantly reduced in those who consumed 1 gram of tea, compared to the plain water and caffeine drinks. Drinking black tea also increased insulin levels compared with the other drinks, after 90 minutes.

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Doctor pursues career exposing lies, quackery and fraud in "medical science"

2011-04-08T17:51:00.000+07:00

Greek doctor John Ioannidis has based his career on exposing the untrustworthy nature of medical research, and it has made him one of the most celebrated medical scientists in the world. Indeed, Ioannidis worries that the medical research system is so broken that it cannot ever be fixed.

Ioannidis first became aware of the problems in medical science as a young researcher, when he realized that even for well-researched diseases, doctors tended to make their treatment decisions based on intuition and basic guidelines rather than solid research. He became involved in the "evidence-based medicine" movement, searching for reliable data to help doctors make these decisions -- and discovered that there isn't any. Read more...

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Nicotine Raises Blood Sugar Levels in Lab

2011-04-03T15:29:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- Smoking is damaging to everyone's health, but the nicotine in cigarettes may be even more deadly for people who have diabetes.

In lab experiments, researchers discovered that nicotine raised blood sugar levels, and the more nicotine that was present, the higher the blood sugar levels were. Higher blood sugar levels are linked to an increased risk of complications from diabetes, such as eye and kidney disease.

"Smoking is really harmful for diabetics. It's even more harmful to them than to a non-diabetic," said study author Xiao-Chuan Liu, an associate professor in the department of chemistry at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. "This study should encourage diabetics to quit smoking completely, and to realize that it's the nicotine that's raising [blood sugar levels]."

For that reason, it's also important to limit the use of nicotine replacement products, such as nicotine patches, Liu said. Read more...

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Baby Names Prone to Boom-and-Bust Cycles

2011-03-30T16:16:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- New parents like baby names that are not merely popular but on the rise, compared to names that are falling out of favor, a new study suggests.

The findings by researchers at New York University and Indiana University provide evidence that parental naming choices are influenced by trends in ways that weren't previously understood, the study authors said.

"Our results give support to the idea that individual naming choices are in a large part determined by the social environment that expecting parents experience," the authors wrote. "Like the stock market, cycles of boom and bust appear to arise out of the interactions of a large set of agents who are continually influencing one another."

This trend seems to be a new phenomenon compared to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, said the study authors, whose findings were published online Oct. 12 in the journal Topics in Cognitive Science. Read more...

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2011-03-26T15:04:00.000+07:00

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PERIPLOCACEAE

Thai name :Thao En On

Woody twiner, lacticiferous. Leaves simple, opposite, ovate or obovate, 3-8 cm wide, 5-18 cm long. Inflorescence in peduncled, axillary cyme; corolla yellowish-white. Fruit a pair of follicles, ovate-lanceolate; seeds with silky comas.

Leaf or stem: strengthen tendons; relieves muscular pain.

By: Medicinal Plants in Thailand
Volume 2

Ayurtox for Body Detoxification

Eat to live foreword

2011-03-22T21:27:00.001+07:00

Eat to live foreword

Foreword by Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
Director, Cardiovascular Institute
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
Although the United States is the most powerful nation on earth, the one area where this country does not excel is health. The future is not bright. Almost a third of our young are obese, and many do not exercise. No matter how much information becomes available about the dangers of a sedentary lifestyle and a diet heavily dependent on processed foods, we don't change our ways. Read more...

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Kidney Removal May Be Ill-Advised for Some Elderly

2011-03-18T13:30:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- Removing a kidney does not seem to extend the life of elderly people with kidney cancer that has not spread, a new study finds.

Instead, it suggests, people with such cancer should undergo more conservative treatments that preserve the non-cancerous parts of their kidneys.

Kidney cancer cases have increased over the past 10 years, especially among older people, and doctors are trying to figure out the best way to treat what they call localized cancer in this age group.

In the new study, Dr. Steve Campbell of the Cleveland Clinic and his colleagues examined the medical records of 537 people who were at least 75 years old and had localized kidney tumors.

About 20 percent of them were simply observed, 53 percent had surgery that spared their kidney and 27 percent had their kidney removed. In the next four years, 28 percent of the overall group died, but just 4 percent of the deaths were attributable to progression of their cancer.

The type of treatment did not affect the risk for dying, the researchers found. Rather, additional medical problems were found to have raised that risk. And, people who had a kidney removed had increased problems with their remaining kidney, the study found. Read more...

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Maine town becomes first to declare food sovereignty

2011-03-14T17:39:00.000+07:00

The town of Sedgwick, Maine, currently leads the pack as far as food sovereignty is concerned. Local residents recently voted unanimously at a town hall meeting to pass an ordinance that reinforces its citizens' God-given rights to "produce, process, sell, purchase, and consume local foods of their choosing," which includes even state- and federally-restricted foods like raw milk.

The declaration is one of the first of its kind to be passed in the US, and it is definitely not the last. Several other Maine towns -- including Penobscott, Brooksville, and Blue Hill -- all have similar ordinances up for vote in the coming weeks.

"Tears of joy welled in my eyes as my town voted to adopt this ordinance," said Mia Strong, a Sedgwick resident who frequents local farms. "I am so proud of my community. They made a stand for local food and our fundamental rights as citizens to choose that food." Read more...

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UK Vitamin Users In Last-Dith Bid To Stop Ban

2011-03-10T09:55:00.000+07:00

Health Dr. 2 - If we are not careful and do not voice our opinions the US will be next. Please become informed about CODEX. If you are not sure what you can do to help, please email us and we will be glad to give you some suggestions.

Vitamin users in last-ditch bid to stop ban on supplements
By Geoffrey Lean and Steve Bloomfield
23 January 2005

Consumers and producers of popular vitamin and mineral supplements used by thousands every day will this week make a last-ditch attempt to prevent a European Union directive from banning them.

Campaigners claim products from well-known brands including Holland and Barrett, Solgar and Viridian will be removed from the shelves unless they are reformulated. Read more...

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An Onion A Day Will Keep the Cancer Away

2011-03-06T08:38:00.000+07:00

Forget "an apple a day" it is acidic, and opt for "an onion a day" if you're trying to cut your odds of developing an acidic or cancerous state, especially a cancerous pancreas. German scientists have found that eating an onion daily may deter the deadly acidic disease, but apples may not because of their high sugar content.

Ute Nuethlings, Ph.D. of the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke and colleagues studied dietary information on more than 215,000 people. They looked for possible links between flavonols, chemicals found in fruits and vegetables that scientists believe help fight the acids that cause fermentation leading to cancer, and the risk of pancreatic cancer.

They studied the intake of three types of flavonols -- quercetin (found in onions and apples), kaempferol (found in spinach), and myricetin (found in red onions and berries) as well as total flavonols consumed.

While total intake of flavonols was found to lower the risk of pancreatic cancer, onions seemed to be the most effective. Read more...

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Food prices to skyrocket, riots could follow, suggests USDA

2011-03-02T14:39:00.000+07:00

When the upswing in commodity prices eventually makes its way throughout the food system in mid-to-late 2011, food prices are sure to spike with levels potentially reaching those of 2008, announced U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) economist Ephraim Leibtag at the agency's annual Outlook Forum. And if conditions escalate rapidly, there is also the potential for food riots and other civil unrest.

The USDA is predicting a 3.5 percent increase in food prices in 2011, which is about twice the overall inflation rate but less than the 2008 increase, according to a recent Reuters report. In 2008, food prices rose 5.5 percent, which represents the highest increase since 1990. But the possibility of food prices dramatically rising in 2011 like they did in 2008 is a definite possibility. Read more...

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Olive oil provides amazing liver protection

2011-02-26T16:28:00.000+07:00

You may want to drizzle a little extra olive oil on your next salad, according to findings from a new study out of the University of Monastir in Tunisia and King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. Researchers there found that extra virgin olive oil provides powerful antioxidant protection against toxins that cause oxidative stress and damage to the liver.

"Olive oil is an integral ingredient in the Mediterranean diet," explained Mohamed Hammami, author of the study. "There is growing evidence that it may have great health benefits including the reduction in coronary heart disease risk, the prevention of some cancers, and the modification of immune and inflammatory responses."

Hammami and his team tested the effects of olive oil on a group of rats exposed to a toxic herbicide called '2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid' that causes severe liver damage. Compared to control group rats who received no olive oil, the rats that consumed extra virgin olive oil in the presence of the herbicide experienced significantly increased antioxidant enzyme activity and a decrease in the biomarkers of liver damage. Read more...

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Prevent heart disease with quality multivitamins

2011-02-22T11:05:00.000+07:00

Taking quality multivitamins is a great way to supplement one's diet with high doses of nutrients that are often lacking in modern-day food. And a new study out of Sweden has found that women who take multivitamins help to reduce their overall risk of cardiovascular disease and heart attack.

For ten years, Dr. Susanne Rautiainen and her colleagues from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm monitored 31,671 women with no history of heart disease and 2,262 women with heart disease to observe their progression in overall health. Roughly 60 percent of women from both groups took some kind of dietary supplement.

At the completion of the study, 3.4 percent of the women who had no heart disease to begin with, but who did not take any dietary supplements, ended up having heart attacks. In contrast, only 2.6 percent of women from the same group who did take a multivitamin had heart attacks. Statistically, the multivitamin group exhibited a 27 percent less chance of having a heart attack. Read more...

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Hundreds of herbal products to be outlawed across EU in early 2011

2011-02-18T22:23:00.000+07:00

The global effort to outlaw herbs, vitamins and supplements is well under way, and in just four months, hundreds of herbal products will be criminalized in the UK and across the EU. It's all part of an EU directive passed in 2004 which erects "disproportionate" barriers against herbal remedies by requiring them to be "licensed" before they can be sold.

It's called the Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive (THMPD), Directive 2004/24/EC.

The licensing requirements, however, were intentionally designed to make sure that virtually no herbs could ever meet them. It costs from $125,000 to $180,000 to license a single herb with the EU, and since herbs cannot be patented and don't have the monopolistic pricing found in pharmaceuticals, there's simply not enough profit margin in most herbs to justify such huge expenditures from any one company. Read more...

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Vitamin C and Treatment of Cancer

2011-02-14T19:30:00.000+07:00

It is clear from this excellent 10 year old review of mainstream published literature including papers from National Cancer Institute that the current focus on using Vitamin C in cancer is well founded but short sighted when doctors who have not studied the subject in any depth erroneously conclude that only intravenously administered vitamin C has value in the treatment and prevention of cancer.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
http://www.gordonresearch.com

http://www.garynull.com/Documents/vitaminc-cancer.htm

Vitamin C & Treatment of Cancer: Part I
Abstracts and Commentary from the Scientific Literature by Gary Null, PhD; Howard Robins, DPM; Mark Tanenbaum, DPM; & Patrick Jennings, Editor Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients - May 1997
Note: The information on this website is not a substitute for diagnosis and treatment by a qualified, licensed professional.

Why Review the Scientific Literature?
Proper basic nutrition is an essential foundation for health, but there is a growing awareness that it's not enough. One has only to consider the high disease rates in our society - infectious diseases are now the third largest killer in the US as well as the first in the world, and our rates of cancer, arthritis, and mental illness are not abating - to realize that we have to go beyond basic nutrition in combating disease. It is time to look at supplemental nutrients in a serious light, in order to better understand their role in helping our natural immune defenses prevent disease, and in altering the course of disease as well.Read more...

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Smoking is Injurious to Health

2011-02-10T13:37:00.000+07:00

‘Smoking is injurious to health.’ But seldom do people pay heed to this warning notice on the cigarette packets. The injuries done by smoking to the body are numerous.

From the very moment the cigarette smoke reaches the heart of the smoker, it is not allowed to work harder. The pulse rate increases and the heart is not allowed to beat an extra 10 to 25 times per minute, accounting to 36,000 additional times per day. The heart beat becomes more irregular due to the irritating effect of nicotine and other components of tobacco smoke. This leads to cardiac arrhythmia (http://www.dreddyclinic.com/findinformation/hh/heartarrhythmias.php) and other serious coronary conditions like heart attack (http://www.dreddyclinic.com/findinformation/hh/heartattack.php). It is estimated that about 170000 heart attacks per year are caused due to Smoking addiction. Read more...

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For One Man, It's All About Prevention and Wellness

2011-02-06T15:51:00.000+07:00

(HealthDay News) -- Adam Dougherty is laying the groundwork for a long and healthy life.

Dougherty, 25, is a health policy analyst living in Los Angeles with a master's degree in public health from the University of Southern California. He's applying the lessons learned for his career to his own health. He's in pretty good shape, 5-feet-9 and 160 pounds, and he wants to maintain his shape and his health.

"Coming from my public-health background, I'm a really strong believer in prevention and wellness," Dougherty said.

That means keeping both the mind and the body healthy. "I really think physical health and mental health are important counterbalances for the stresses we endure during the week," he explained.

Part of Dougherty's wellness routine includes taking some time each day to do something that relaxes him. "I play guitar," he said. "That's a good way to decompress and detach and calm my nerves."

Dougherty also eats a balanced diet, eating complete meals at breakfast, lunch and dinner. But he's aware of total calorie intake, adding that a person needs to burn as many calories as they eat in a day if they hope to maintain their weight, and burn more and eat less for weight loss. Read more...

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Liver diseases identified as Europes silent killers

2011-02-02T14:48:00.000+07:00

LIVER diseases have become a silent killer in Europe, and are now responsible for more than one in six deaths in the European Union.

More than 10 million people in the region suffer from viral hepatitis alone but many of them will not even be aware of it, according to medical experts.

The European association for the study of the liver want the European Union to launch a public awareness campaign especially about viral hepatitis.

Professor Jean-Michel Pawlotsky told members of the European Parliament yesterday that viral hepatitis is one of the most common and lift-threatening communicable diseases in Europe, and yet it seems to have been forgotten by governments.

"It has become a silent killer because of the large and increasing number of individuals who carry hepatitis B or C, but have not been tested and are so unaware of their condition.

"Without treatment, viral hepatitis can lead to cirrhosis, liver cancer and death," he said.

The condition should be recognised as an urgent health priority with awareness campaigns, primary prevention measures, earlier diagnosis and better management of the disease, said Prof Pawlotsky. Read more...

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Alcohol more dangerous than cocaine or heroin

2011-01-29T20:31:00.000+07:00

GENEVIEVE CARBERY
Tue, Nov 02, 2010

A new study found alcohol was the most dangerous of 20 legal and illegal drugs when the two criteria of harm to the user and harm to others were combined ALCOHOL IS more dangerous than crack cocaine and heroin when damage to users themselves and to wider society are combined, a study has found. The research, published yesterday in theLanc et medical journal, rated alcohol almost three times as harmful as cocaine or tobacco and some eight times as harmful as ecstasy. Alcohol was found to be the most harmful of 20 legal and illegal drugs examined when the two criteria of harm to the user and harm to others were combined. Read more...

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Exercise Prevents Acidic Prostate Treatment Bone Loss

2011-01-25T11:42:00.000+07:00

Exercise may reduce, and even reverse, bone loss caused by acidic hormone and radiation therapies used in the treatment of localized prostate cancer, thereby decreasing the potential risk of bone fractures and improving quality of life for these men, according to a study presented on October 28, 2007, at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology's 49th Annual Meeting in Los Angeles.

"Prostate cancer patients are not routinely advised to exercise. Walking is one tool that prostate cancer patients can use to improve their health and minimize the side effects of cancer and cancer treatments," said Paula Chiplis, PhD., RN, the lead author of the study and a clinical instructor and senior research assistant at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.Read more...

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Night light could equal weight gain

2011-01-20T09:43:00.001+07:00

A report published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (http://www.pnas.org/) suggests that some of the increase in obesity observed over the past several decades could be due to increased exposure to light at night and shift work, which disrupts the release of melatonin, a hormone produced by the pineal gland in the brain in response to darkness. "Light at night is an environmental factor that may be contributing to the obesity epidemic in ways that people don't expect," observed study coauthor and Ohio State University professor of neuroscience and psychology Randy Nelson. "Societal obesity is correlated with a number of factors including the extent of light exposure at night." Read more...

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Dental-Biological Treatment / Part Three: An Example Case

2011-01-16T20:43:00.001+07:00

The respective panoramic X-ray:

In the third part of this series, we will take a look at the correlation between teeth and symptoms. In this context, teeth are both – symptom as well as cause of respective problems.

The image above reveals that the root of the second molar, located on the upper right side, has been filled; underneath the second molar’s filling a cavity can be identified; and in the lower jaw, the second premolars underneath the bridges are missed. Those four regions represent the functional range of stomach and spleen, and thus the «digestion» of life, reluctance, the closer social environment, as well as the element of earth (= home).

The patient, who is about 40 years old, suffers from gastric pressure and acidic ructus – in particular after meals -, relationship problems, a low level of stress tolerance, and the impression of «not being home.
The correspondence is obvious. If no treatment is performed, chronic, degenerative diseases might appear in the future. Read more...

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High levels of vitamins C and E help prevent metabolic syndrome

2011-01-12T11:42:00.000+07:00

The precursors to cardiovascular disease and diabetes include a range of markers collectively known as metabolic syndrome. And researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University have found that maintaining high levels of both vitamin C and vitamin E helps to prevent the onset of metabolic syndrome.

Jean Mayer and her team evaluated 353 Ecuadorian men and women over age 65 from three different low-income communities outside of Quito, Ecuador. Forty percent of the population had metabolic syndrome, primarily due to a very poor diet rich in simple carbohydrates and processed sodium, and low in nutrient-rich whole foods. The authors observed, however, that those with the highest blood levels of vitamins C and E were less likely to have metabolic syndrome. Read more...

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Angioplasty and stents offer no advantage over medications alone

2011-01-08T22:59:00.000+07:00

Joel Fuhrman, M.D.

Our society has been falsely led to believe that only highly technological interventions and drugs are effective at treating disease. In many cases, however, these interventions merely act as band-aids – temporarily relieving symptoms while the disease process continues to progress.

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a term that refers to angioplasty and stent placement procedures, is already known to have no advantage over optimal medical therapy (OMT); which refers to modest lifestyle changes plus anti-platelet, blood pressure-lowering, and cholesterol-lowering medications) for reducing heart attack incidence or cardiac mortality. This information made headlines in 2007; the COURAGE trial compared PCI plus OMT to OMT alone, and found no advantage associated with PCI procedures. [1] Since that time, literature reviews have confirmed that PCI did not decrease the rate of heart attack or cardiac death compared to OMT. Read more...

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Doctors should be not allowed to tell patients they are seriously

2011-01-04T16:15:00.000+07:00

Doctors should be not allowed to tell patients they are seriously impaired from lack of sleep before they operate

Here's another one of those stories about mainstream medical practices that sounds like it couldn't be true -- but it is. According to an editorial just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, there are currently regulations in place to restrict the work hours of doctors in training -- but no such rules for fully trained physicians. That means doctors who are severely sleep deprived are currently performing operations on unsuspecting patients who have no idea their surgeons are as impaired as if they were drunk out of their minds. "Studies have shown that sleep deprivation impairs psychomotor performance as severely as alcohol intoxication," the authors of the study pointed out in a media statement. Read more...

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Pomegranate juice components block cancer cell migration

2010-12-31T19:03:00.000+07:00

One of the most dreaded consequences of cancer is when the disease metastasizes -- meaning it spreads from the primary site where it started to other parts of the body. But University of California, Riverside (UCR) scientists have announced what could be a major breakthrough in halting metastasis. They've discovered components in pomegranate juice that inhibit the movement of cancer cells and weaken the attraction of malignant cells to a chemical signal that has been shown to promote metastasis. Read more...

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Twenty-five percent of patients end up in worse shape after surgery than they were before

2010-12-27T13:04:00.000+07:00

A new study published in the British Journal of Surgery has found that surgical operations are not always beneficial to patients. According to study data, roughly 14 percent of patients end up with more physical and emotional pain after their surgeries than before them, and about 25 percent experience an overall decrease in strength a year after the procedure.

For the study, more than 400 men and women took a health survey prior to their operations, and at six and 12 months after them. The survey evaluated physical strength capability, levels of pain and mental acuity at these various intervals, and compared them to one another.

A year after their surgeries, 17 percent of patients reported more pain than before, 14 percent indicated reduced functional ability and 16 percent said their mental states had declined. Read more...

Blood sugar levels, Healthy blood

Do the Health Benefits of Humor and Laughter Have Scientific Support?

2010-12-23T10:31:00.000+07:00

By Paul J. Rosch, M.D.
President, The American Institute of Stress
http://www.stress.org/
Clinical Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry
New York Medical College
Originally published in Health and Stress, the newsletter (November 2005) of The American Institute of Stress

Part of the problem in obtaining proof that laughter promotes health or prolongs life is that it is sometimes viewed as being synonymous with humor and happiness. Laughter is not the same as humor or happiness.

Laughter is the physical and physiological response to humor that frequently results in a feeling of happiness.

The only link between all of these is that happy people and those with a good sense of humor are more apt to laugh at something that is funny than their crabby counterparts.

A prior article, titled Why Do Happy People and Optimists Live Longer?, reviewed the evidence that validates this view and discussed possible explanations for such relationships. Since then, this belief has been bolstered by other reports that also shed light on some mechanisms of action that may be responsible.

In one study of 2,500 senior citizens that were followed for six years, those who scored high on a happiness quiz had much fewer strokes than those at the bottom of the scale. Read more...

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Cinnamon may be a treasure of green nanotechnology

2010-12-19T19:03:00.001+07:00

Gold nanoparticles, so incredibly tiny they can't be seen by the naked eye, are used in electronics, healthcare products and as pharmaceuticals in some cancer treatments. Unfortunately, the positive applications of gold nanoparticles come with a downside -- producing the nanoparticles requires extremely toxic chemicals and harmful acids. And, because the nanotechnology industry is expected to produce large quantities of nanoparticles in the immediate future, serious concerns are being raised over the environmental impact of the global nanotechnological revolution and its current need for toxic materials. But now University of Missouri (UM) scientists have found a way to make "green" nanotechnology by replacing almost all of the toxic chemicals required to make gold nanoparticles. How can this be accomplished? By using a spice found in most kitchens -- cinnamon. Read more...

Detox, herbs detox, detox symptoms

Solar panels to become future source of toxic e-waste

2010-12-15T10:11:00.000+07:00

Scientists are calling upon solar panel manufacturers to set up a recycling infrastructure for their products now, before the supposedly green industry becomes the next major source of toxic e-waste.

Already electronics from televisions to cell phones and computers have become notorious for producing large quantities of toxic waste, including metals such as cadmium, selenium and silicon tetrachloride, and the greenhouse gas sulfur hexafluoride.

"Electronic waste is emerging as one of the central challenges of our era," writes Mark Schapiro in the book Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power.

Researcher Dustin Mulvaney of the University of California-Berkeley recently conducted a analysis of all solar panels on the market, and found major toxics concerns with every variety. Read more...

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How to Feed a City on Urban Organic Agriculture

2010-12-11T10:17:00.000+07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRz34Dee7XY

A clip from the BBC's "Around the World in 80 Gardens" (2008) showing some of the urban food gardening in Havana, Cuba. Presented by Monty Don.

Havana, Cuba, is a world leader in urban agriculture. Today more than 50 per cent of Havana’s fresh produce is grown within the city limits, using organic compost and simple irrigation systems. Can we all learn from this sustainable solution to agriculture?

When the Soviet Bloc collapsed in 1989, Cuba lost its food imports and agricultural inputs from which it depended for an adequate supply of food. The US Embargo also created a shortage of petrol necessary to transport the food from the rural agriculture sector to the city. This marked the beginning of serious food shortages that shook the entire country, but most of all Havana. Read more...

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Kidney Enhancer Tea Concentrate

2010-12-07T10:42:00.000+07:00

Chinese Herbal Medicine teaches that improved kidney energy improves sexual energy for men and women while promoting vitality and longevity. Take this formula when you feel you are losing sexual interest due to low vitality and low sexual energy or when you have the symptoms of chronic fatigue. Kidney Enhancer is a Traditional Chinese Herbal formula used for thousands of years to improve sexual/kidney energy and promote longevity. Kidney Enhancer delivers maximum benefits of Horny Goat Weed, Dong Quai & He Sho Wu. Horny Goat Weed is a kidney-yang tonic which helps low sex drive. Read more...

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High levels of natural plant antioxidant alpha-carotene are

2010-12-03T21:23:00.001+07:00

High levels of natural plant antioxidant alpha-carotene are associated with fewer deaths from all causes

Picture this: a chemical is discovered that has amazing health-protecting powers. In fact, if a person consumes enough of the potent life guarding compound, his or her chances of dying from heart disease, cancer or any other reason will plummet for many, many years into the future. Sound like a futuristic drug out of a sci fi story? It's not. Instead, it's a natural compound available right here and right now -- the antioxidant alpha-carotene, produced by plants. Read more...

Detox diet, liver detox, detox cleansing

Pumpkin for diabetics

2010-11-29T20:19:00.000+07:00

This sounds more interesting than the newest drugs being advertised with their horrific side effects. So eat your way to good health, first pumpkin then cinnamon and add some garlic and an apple!!

Happy Thanksgiving

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
http://www.gordonresearch.com

http://www.medaus.com

The humble pumpkin could end the need for people with diabetes to have insulin injections.
Compounds found in the vegetable could potentially replace or drastically cut the daily number of injections for diabetics, a new study published yesterday in the journal Chemistry and Industry suggests.

Research showed that pumpkin extract promotes regeneration of damaged pancreatic cells in diabetic rats, boosting levels of insulin-producing beta cells and insulin in the blood.
A group at East China Normal University found diabetic rats fed the extract had only 5per cent less plasma insulin and 8per cent fewer insulin-positive (beta) cells than healthy rats. Read more...

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