Archive for July, 2009
Finding the Booze Balance for Brain Health
Too Much, or Too Little, Can Affect Dementia Risk, According to Study In a recent posting, I talked about the importance of moderation in all things and used prostate cancer as an example. How something like alcohol could be beneficial to avoiding the deadly disease when drunk in moderation, but how it can actually increase [...]
Posted: July 26th, 2009 under Alcohol, Dementia.
Tags: dementia alcohol induced, dementia alcohol related, dementia and alcohol use
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Omega-6: Not Bad After All?
Why Omega-6s Should Be Commended, Not Contemned There are goods and bads when it comes to reporting on health news – and oftentimes, they’re one and the same. For example, it’s great that health news is constantly flowing and improving on itself. What was true today may not be true tomorrow. In other words, science [...]
Posted: July 26th, 2009 under Fatty Acids.
Tags: nuts, omega 6, omega 6 benefits, omega 6 fatty acids, pistachios
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Diagnoses Gone Wrong
Study: One in Three Women Treated for Breast Cancer Unnecessarily In about three months, you’re going to hear a lot about breast cancer. That’s because breast cancer awareness month is held every October, where women and men encourage their moms, sisters, and wives to get screened. While screenings have without question saved the lives of [...]
Posted: July 22nd, 2009 under Breast Cancer, Cancer.
Tags: breast cancer misdiagnosis, breast cancer screening, mammogram
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Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me…
Yet Another Drug Deemed Ineffective, Only Side-Effective Stop me if you’ve heard this before: A drug’s been taken off the market because it’s been found ineffective. I know, I know, you’ve heard it before, but humor me. The latest ineffective drug is called interferon gamma-1b. This drug – with a rather appropriate name given its [...]
Posted: July 13th, 2009 under Prescription Drugs.
Tags: heart failure, hypertension, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, interferon gamma-1b, ipf, lung cancer
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Young at Thought
UNC Study: Cardio Activity Keeps Brains Younger People often ask me, “Frank, when I exercise, should I do weight training or cardio training?” The answer to this is both, ideally, as weight training and cardio activity is a complete way of addressing the body’s anaerobic and aerobic exercise needs. But when push comes to shove, [...]
Posted: July 13th, 2009 under Brain Health, Heart Health.
Tags: cardio benefits
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Some Recollections on Recalls
Lots of Beef Recalls, But Can You Think of a Bison Recall? Is it me, or does it seem like food recalls have never been higher than they have been in the past few years? Whether its peanuts or peppers, sausage or spinach, it seems like there’s always a food in the headlines that’s being [...]
Posted: July 13th, 2009 under bison.
Tags: beef recall, bison
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Carbohydrate Conundrum
Study Shows Carbohydrates Contribute to Heart Disease. Are All Carbs Bad? Anyone who knows me knows I’m not one who shuns carbohydrates. I enjoy my carbs, I’m just careful about what kinds of carbohydrates I consume. Carbohydrates supply the body with the nutrients it needs to perform daily tasks that require effort (even the slightest [...]
Posted: July 13th, 2009 under Carbohydrates, Heart Disease, Weight Loss.
Tags: carbs and heart disease, carbs and weight loss
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Disease at Dunkin’s?
Salmonella Fears at Dunkin’ Donuts Make for a Great Time to Switch Coffees As most of you know, I’m not a coffee drinker. Nonetheless, I know that millions of Americans can’t live without their morning libation, which is why I recommend opting for organic coffee beans to brew at home, or to ask for them [...]
Posted: July 7th, 2009 under Coffee, Salmonella.
Tags: dunkaccinos, dunkin' donuts, salmonella scare
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Overcoming OCD
Parents’ Helping Hand May Make OCD Hand Washing Worse, Says Study There’s a humorous television series on one of the cable channels called “Monk.” The show is built out of the “Columbo” mold, only the show’s protagonist – Adrian Monk – is a bit quirkier and has a pretty severe case of obsessive compulsive disorder. [...]
Posted: July 7th, 2009 under OCD.
Tags: obsessive behavior, obsessive compulsive disorder, obsessive hand washing
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Booming Boomers
Baby Boomers Now the Heaviest Americans This article is brought to you by the word “boom.” The unemployment rate? Booming, reaching a 26 year high in the month of June at 9.5 percent. The amount of rain in New York? Booming, as June was one of the cloudiest, rainiest Junes on record – ever! And [...]
Posted: July 7th, 2009 under Obesity.
Tags: baby boomer statistics, obesity statistics, obesity statistics america
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