Archive for June, 2009
Obesity’s Deadly Deed
Obesity Increases Deadliest Forms of Cancer It goes without saying that any cancer diagnosis is bad news, but some diagnoses are worse than others. Virtually all cancers have good survival rates, so long as they’re diagnosed early, but some are hard just plain hard to pinpoint, which means that by the time they are diagnosed [...]
Posted: June 29th, 2009 under Cancer, Obesity.
Tags: pancreatic cancer
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Killer Painkillers
Did Painkiller Popping Kill King of Pop? Around 5:45 p.m. this past Thursday evening, people the world over received news so shocking, so earth shattering, it could very well could have registered on the Richter scale: Michael Jackson had died. Within hours, fans of the King of Pop descended on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, [...]
Posted: June 28th, 2009 under Pain Killers, Prescription Drugs.
Tags: demerol, demerol side effects, michael jackson, pain killer addiction
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Head ‘lies’
Correcting the ‘Chubby’ Headlines on Lifespan Claims I’ve found in my writing of articles over the years that misleading headlines are becoming more and more commonplace. I wonder if I shouldn’t make it a weekly feature, something like, “The Latest Head‘lie’.” It’s almost as if the goal of headline writers is to get people to [...]
Posted: June 24th, 2009 under Lifespan, Misleading Headlines, Obesity.
Tags: Misleading Headlines, overweight
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Great Com’bone’ation
Study: Together, Antioxidants and Exercise Fight Osteoporosis When it comes to bone health, we typically think of two nutrients that are particularly bone-friendly: calcium and vitamin D. But the results of a new study should cause the mind to think of a new bone-building bloc: antioxidants and exercise. A recent report from a Canadian university [...]
Posted: June 24th, 2009 under antioxidants, Exercise.
Tags: osteoporosis, osteoporosis exercise, osteoporosis women, prevent osteoporosis
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Green Tea: Great for Prostate
Why Dads Need to Be Drinking More Green Tea This past Sunday was pretty eventful day on the calendar. Not only was it the first day of summer, but it was also Father’s Day. And in an effort to honor the most influential man in most of our lives, Major League Baseball and the boys [...]
Posted: June 23rd, 2009 under Cancer, Green Tea.
Tags: green tea benefits, green tea cancer benefits, green tea cancer prevention, Prostate Cancer, serum levels
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FDA Snuffs Out Zicam
Popular Cold Remedy Can Ruin Sense of Smell As many of you know by now – and as I’ve written in the past – I’m not exactly the president of the Food and Drug Administration’s fan club. In fact, I just recently criticized them for not cracking down on the prevalence of GMOs in food, [...]
Posted: June 20th, 2009 under Cold Medications, FDA.
Tags: anosmia, zicam, zicam sense of smell, zicam side effects, zicam smell loss
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Young Have Little to Reap on No Sleep
Study: On Little Sleep, Older Folk Outperform Young in Brain Function As the school year comes to a close and finals make their ignominious return to young people’s lives, millions of high schoolers will be burning the midnight oil this week, hoping to cram in as much information as possible to nail that chemistry quiz, [...]
Posted: June 19th, 2009 under Sleep.
Tags: sleep and brain function, sleep and older adults, sleep and young adults
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Bariatric Weight Loss, Bariatric Bone Loss?
Weight Loss Procedures May Thin Bones, Increase Fracture Risk When it comes to losing weight, there are no quick fixes. It all boils down to diet and exercise: increasing the activity levels, and decreasing the caloric levels. Everything else either doesn’t work or is riddled with side effects. Not even surgery is void of side [...]
Posted: June 19th, 2009 under Weight Loss.
Tags: Bariatric surgery, weight loss procedure, weight loss surgery
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Lack of Sleep a Nightmare for Blood Pressure
University of Chicago Study Links Hypertension to Lack of Sleep With the recent release of my book The Blood Pressure Miracle in stores across the country and the amount of work I’ve done recently to promote it, my attention is immediately grabbed whenever I see a headline that links anything to high blood pressure. And [...]
Posted: June 15th, 2009 under Sleep.
Tags: hypertension, hypertension risk factors, lack of sleep
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Atkins Going Green?
Atkins to Promote Plant-based Proteins as the New Key to Weight Loss, Heart Health Remember the Atkins Diet? The diet that said you could splurge on pretty much any and all protein sources – no matter how fatty it was or how congested with cholesterol it happened to be? For many people, this form of [...]
Posted: June 15th, 2009 under cholesterol, Weight Loss.
Tags: atkins, healthy cholesterol, lose weight, plant protein
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