Public Health
- Stress, High-Fat Diets Slow Metabolism In Women
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A new study suggests that experiencing stressful events the day before eating a single high-fat meal can slow metabolism in women. Researchers questioned study participants about the previous day's stressors before giving them a meal consisting of 93 ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2014 - 11:00pm
- It's Time To Jettison The Pre-Diabetes Label
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You don't have a pre-pregnancy and your computer doesn't have a pre-power switch. Calling someone who has moderately high blood sugar a prediabetic is premature and creates unnecessary alarm and financial burdens. Imagine being at a party with g ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2016 - 7:16am
- Arsenic: Kids Shouldn't Have Rice Drinks At All, Say Gastroenterologists
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If your baby is allergic to milk, your choices might get a little more narrow, if the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) and the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrit ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2014 - 1:18pm
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: Who Needs Screening And Treatment
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An abdominal aortic aneurysm is a potentially life-threatening condition: If the body's major blood vessel ruptures, it can prove deadly. Abdominal aortic aneurysms are a bulge in the aorta, which is the body's largest artery and is located in t ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2014 - 1:01pm
- More Antioxidants. Less Filling.
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Last Friday a group of researchers announced their findings ahead of their report on the nutrition of organically produced food to be published in the British Journal of Nutrition. ...
Blog Post - Norm Benson - Jul 17 2014 - 8:46am
- Probiotics Linked To Diminished Fat Accumulation In The Liver- Study
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Spanish scientists did an experiment using obese rats and found that the consumption of probiotics over 30 days (equivalent to almost four years in human terms) helped diminish the accumulation of fat in the liver. ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2014 - 10:30am
- Utilizing Fat's Healing Properties In Heart Disease
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Too much dietary fat is bad for the heart, everyone knows that by now, but not all fats are equal. The right kind of fat keeps the heart healthy, and a paper in The Journal of Experimental Medicine shows how it works. Unlike saturated fats discussed in po ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 21 2014 - 1:00pm
- Probiotics Linked To Improved Blood Pressure- Review
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Eating probiotics regularly may modestly improve your blood pressure, according to a new review of none studies examining blood pressure and probiotic consumption in 543 adults with normal and elevated blood pressure. Probiotics are live microorganisms na ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2014 - 1:30am
- Secondhand Trauma in Childhood Doubles Addiction Risk for Adults
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We know the effects of childhood traumas like abuse and neglect on later substance abuse. But what impact does second hand trauma have? A study published in the August issue of the journal Addiction shows that when a child under age 15 is exposed to a fam ...
Blog Post - Richard Taite - Jul 22 2014 - 8:56am
- How To Distinguish Psoriasis From Eczema
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In some patients, the chronic inflammatory skin diseases psoriasis and eczema are so similar that dermatologists have had to examine tissue samples but a team of researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2014 - 12:30pm