Archive for June, 2008
Diabetes Diagnoses Latest Rising Trend
CDC: Eight Percent of U.S. Diabetic Have you noticed how everything seems to be “on the rise”? The cost of food is on the rise, the cost of oil is on the rise, tuition, housing, cost of living…The only thing that seems to be on the decline is the dollar. This rising trend has gotten [...]
Posted: June 30th, 2008 under Diabetes.
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Blocking Heart Attack Risk with Heavy ‘D’
Study: Heart Attack Prevalence Highest Among Men Low in Vitamin D If you’re a regular reader of my column, you’ve probably noticed that I’ve referenced the tragic death of Tim Russert with some consistency lately. I do this not only because his death shocked me as well as many others around the world who admired [...]
Posted: June 24th, 2008 under Heart Health, Vitamin D.
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Good Health & the Sunshine Vitamin
A study led by Austrian researchers has recently grabbed the attention of the medical world today. The patients within this study were tested for their vitamin D levels and in consequence their health record and futures as well. It was found that the patients who displayed lower levels of vitamin D were 2 times more [...]
Posted: June 24th, 2008 under Vitamin D.
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Bad News for Diabetes Sufferers
Another Reason to Reduce Caffeine Intake Diabetes has been in the news a lot lately and even with diabetes, the bad news seems to come in threes. After the Celtics beat the Los Angeles Lakers in dramatic fashion in game 5 of the NBA Finals, Ray Allen, Boston’s surefire shooting guard, quickly left the Staples [...]
Posted: June 23rd, 2008 under Diabetes.
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Why Happiness Really is the Best Medicine
Study: The Happy Outperform the Unhappy in Stroke Recovery There’s a great radio show I love listening to, and every Friday, he devotes an entire hour to the topic of happiness. Appropriately, he refers to the second hour of Friday’s broadcast as “The Happiness Hour.” During the hour, he fields calls and questions from around [...]
Posted: June 23rd, 2008 under Happiness.
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Smoking Cessation: How Best to ‘Pack’ It In
Study Suggests Peers Often Determine Success or Failure So I was watching one of those reality TV shows the other day and I happened to notice something that I thought was on the decrease: people smoking cigarettes. The participants in this reality series were all sitting around, talking about the latest task they had to [...]
Posted: June 23rd, 2008 under Smoking.
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Alzheimer’s Sufferers Put “Stalk” in Celery
Study: Luteolin in Celery, Peppers, Reduces Brain Inflammation There are a few staples found in just about every refrigerator. Milk is one of them. Eggs are another. A half-full bottle of ketchup is probably a third. For the health-conscious consumer, though, celery is as much of a pillar as milk is. Why? Well, other than [...]
Posted: June 23rd, 2008 under Alzheimer's Disease.
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Lose Weight by Eating More?
Big Breakfast, Best Bet for Battling Bulge The formula makes sense. If you want to lose weight, you have to do two things: eat less, exercise more. It sounds simple, but putting the formula into action is anything but. That said, what if I told you that eating less may not be the key [...]
Posted: June 23rd, 2008 under Dieting.
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Boost your Brain Activity with the Coffee Aroma
Many people have believed for years that drinking coffee first thing in the morning and breathing in the rich aroma was enough to get them going for the day. Today a recent study not only supports this theory but states that simply inhaling the fragrance of freshly brewed coffee is enough to jump start certain [...]
Posted: June 17th, 2008 under Coffee.
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Can Red Wine Control Obesity?
Researchers from the University of Ulm in Germany have taken what we already know about red wine and tested it on a different platform. Resveratrol is a compound found in grapes and red wine and has been apart of many different studies in the past. Within this study, Resveratrol has been found to reduce fat [...]
Posted: June 17th, 2008 under Obesity.
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