Archive for August, 2008
Run Down by Running?: To the Contrary, Running Improves Physicality with Age, Study Finds
I’ve been running regularly for a good many years now. While I like to run outside, I traditionally run on a treadmill, hoping that the soft landing will supplant any potential damage done to my knees if I were to run everyday on the hard pavement. While I always see myself exercising regularly, I must [...]
Posted: August 26th, 2008 under Physicality, Running.
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Two Countries, Same Ethnicity, Different Diets: Despite Shared Ethnicity, Country Dwelling Leads to Different Eats, Health Conditions
When people from other countries decide to immigrate to America – the most prosperous and opportunity-filled country in the world – they take a portion of their country life along with them. Whether it’s their language, their societal norms or their average diet, America has a splash of every culture mixed in to its proverbial [...]
Posted: August 26th, 2008 under Fatty Acids.
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The Birth Defect That May Hinge on a Binge: Study: Binging While Pregnant Doubles, Even Triples Oral Cleft Risk
Friends of mine recently traveled to the Far East and came home with a special surprise: a young toddler. As handsome and as happy as this young boy is sure to make his adoptive parents, he has an oral cleft – something that makes him highly susceptible to colds, ear infections and a host of [...]
Posted: August 26th, 2008 under binge drinking, pregnancy.
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Kids See the Light: Outdoor-Dwelling Kids Have Better Eyesight, Study Finds
For parents wanting to avoid spending hundreds of dollars on their kids eyes, lend me your eyes for a moment. According to new research, one of the easiest ways to keep them from having four eyes (i.e. glasses) is to keep them outside! We know that keeping kids’ active and healthy means they need to [...]
Posted: August 12th, 2008 under Eye Health.
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Eating Fish Chokes ‘Silent’ Stroke Risk: So Long as It’s Not Fried, Study Says
Well, you probably didn’t need another reason to eat fish, but I’ll give you another one anyway. A new study says that eating fatty fish like salmon, mackerel and tuna as little as two times a week significantly decreases the chances of suffering from a silent stroke, while significantly increasing one’s brain capacity. The only [...]
Posted: August 12th, 2008 under Stroke.
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Eat Your Way to a Diabetes-Free Life
The Archives of Internal Medicine recently published a study in which Vitamin C was used as a preventative measure against Type 2 diabetes. The study was performed by the Institute of Metabolic Science at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in England. Its focus was of middle-aged and older participants and how Vitamin C would affect their risk through [...]
Posted: August 11th, 2008 under Diabetes, Vitamin C.
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Better Health is a Walk in the Park
Among the unfortunate slew of diseases that tend to be prominent in the elderly populace is the heart rhythm abnormality, atrial fibrillation. It is the most common irregularity regarding heart rhythm in which the heart’s two upper chambers twitch rather than the expected steady beat. The pooling of blood that can occur causes harmful clots [...]
Posted: August 11th, 2008 under atrial fibrillation.
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“Finish those vegetables before you have your dessert!”: The Importance of Broccoli Concerning Diabetes
Paul Thornalley, professor at the University of Warwick and several of his colleagues were determined to find a way to mend the damage done to heart blood vessels in diabetes cases. These defective blood vessels are swarming with three times the normal amount of oxidative molecules called Reactive Oxygen Species, which makes the risk of [...]
Posted: August 8th, 2008 under Broccoli, Diabetes, Heart Disease.
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Vitamin C as a Safer Cancer Cure
The suffering and horrors associated with cancer is not due to just merely the disease itself. Chemotherapy pumps drugs into the body and leaves behind the side effects of general pain, nausea and vomiting, memory and hair loss and the depression of the immune system. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health published an alternative [...]
Posted: August 8th, 2008 under Cancer, Vitamin C.
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Exercise Away the Pain
A report in the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine is suggesting an alternative method of treatment for those suffering from chronic migraines. Researchers claim a routine of exercise and relaxation will significantly improve the intensity of migraine pain. Martin Kopp, MD and his team at Innsbrook Medical University chose thirty women who were also migraine [...]
Posted: August 5th, 2008 under Exercise, Migraine.
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