Public Health

Substitute Lean Pork For Chicken Or Fish To Reduce Blood Pressure

Adults who are following the DASH-style eating pattern to lower their blood pressure can expand their protein options to include lean, unprocessed pork, according to research from Purdue University. 'This study supports that the DASH diet can include ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2015 - 10:00am

Active Video Gaming Is Much Activity As Unstructured Outdoor Play

The increasing use of video games is often blamed for children's lack of interest in physical activity and for obesity, but a study in the Games for Health Journal suggests that active video games may actually be a source of moderate or intense physi ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2015 - 11:30am

Blame Sugar: We've Been Doing That For Over 100 Years

After a successful soda tax was passed last year in Berkeley, California, copycat laws are being proposed across the US, often with the support of nutritionists, medical professionals and a majority of the voting public. On May 28, the Illinois chapter of ...

Article - Alan Levinovitz - Jun 15 2015 - 8:00am

Interventions Among Healthy People Save The Most Lives

Mortality from coronary heart disease declined in Sweden from 1986 to 2002. The improvement was due mainly to a reduction in risk factors among the healthy population (primary prevention) and, to a lesser extent, treatment of people who already had develo ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 22 2015 - 8:30am

Fad Craze For Human Breast Milk Is A Serious Health Risk

The recent craze for human breast milk amongst certain fitness communities and fetishists is ill advised. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2015 - 6:51pm

The Vicious Cycle Of Fructose

Put down that honey. Fructose, often in the form of table sugar, is not less harmful than glucose, according to Wilhelm Krek, professor for cell biology at ETH Zurich's Institute for Molecular Health Sciences.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2015 - 5:06am

MRSA Superbug Contamination Found In UK Sausages And Minced Pork

A survey carried out earlier this year has found the first evidence of the 'superbug' bacteria Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in sausages and minced pork obtained from supermarkets in the UK.  In February, a team of researche ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 22 2015 - 6:37am

Including 'Experimenters' In E-Cigarette Studies Have 'Questionable' Value

The inclusion of experimenters who are unlikely to become habitual users in e-cigarette prevalence studies is of 'questionable' value for monitoring population public health trends, finds research published online in the journal Tobacco Control. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2015 - 10:30am

Heartbeat Linked To Female Libido

Sexual dysfunction in women can be linked to low resting heart rate variability, a finding that could help clinicians treat the condition, according to a study by psychologists from The University of Texas at Austin. Heart rate variability (HRV)-- the var ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2015 - 11:21am

Normal Regulation of Human Body Weight

Let us start with nothing. A naive human has come to stay in your home. Perhaps it's a Tarzan type of character, just arrived from the wild, or, if you like a modern twist, it's a government agent who has been hit over the head and can't ev ...

Blog Post - Ignatius Brady - Oct 22 2015 - 8:41pm