Diabetes is clearly a national epidemic, occurring far more frequently
today than it did 10 years ago. Most frighteningly, the increase in
diabetes has brought along much higher incidences of elevated
cholesterol, elevated triglycerides, coronary artery disease and heart
attacks.
Until now,
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Soyoung Lim of Kansas State University in Manhattan in Kansas says the
Kansas-developed sweet potato has purple flesh high in anthocyanin — a
flavanoid responsible for red/blue pigment that may have an anti-cancer
effect.
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Dr. Kamran Khan of St. Michael’s Hospital and colleagues analyzed the
flight itineraries of the more than 2.3 million passengers departing
Mexico on commercial flights during the months of March and April to
predict the spread of H1N1.
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The study, published in BMC Neuroscience, used magnetic resonance
imaging to look at the brains of both dyslexic and normal readers and
then linked neurological differences to different language difficulties
within the dyslexic group.
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Dr. Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston says
the presence of some saturated fat doesn’t automatically kick peanut
butter into the camp of unhealthy foods.
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Depending on which headlines you’ve seen recently, you may think that some pain relievers are being recalled because they’re dangerous and you might be wondering if you need to clean out the medicine cabinet and throw out any number of these products. I’m going to try to explain this highly complex situation, but the bottom line is that when taken as directed, all of the pain relievers currently on the market, be they prescription or over the counter (OTC), are still considered to be safe and effective and you don’t need to throw them away (and nothing is being recalled at the moment either).
The bottom line problem, however, is that when it comes to pain relievers many people don’t follow directions and wind up taking far more pills than they should. And when those products contain acetaminophen it can lead to toxic levels of that drug, which can and all […]
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A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published in
the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, found that people were
seven times more likely to be injured in a fall with a walker as with a
cane.
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Using X-ray crystallography, the researchers found a specific nook
contained within a channel protein of the brain where ethanol — the
cause of alcohol’s inebriating effects — may bind and act to alter
brain cells’ communication.
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Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and the University
of California, San Francisco, said a higher risk of more-aggressive
prostate cancer was seen in men with a certain genetic variant found in
about 75 percent of the prostate cancer patients in the study.
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CDC LEANWorks! — LEAN stands for Leading Employees to Activity and
Nutrition — was developed in direct response to organizations asking
CDC for help in addressing the obesity epidemic, Dr. William Dietz,
director of CDC’s division of nutrition, physical activity and obesity,
said in a statement. Specifically they wanted to know what
interventions were effective in helping employees maintain a healthy
weight.
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