Public Health

Antioxidants May Impair Muscle Function

Antioxidants have received a lot of attention in recent years for all the health benefits they supposedly provide. Some studies have suggested that they may play a role in lowering cancer and heart disease risk, slowing the aging process, and treating  neu ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2010 - 1:06pm

Want People To Eat Less Salt? Just Take It Out Of Their Food

It's well known that eating too much salt can be harmful. Despite that fact, many people choose to consume more of it than they need, and that to many in the health community means that something must be done population-wide to reduce salt intake. The ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2010 - 2:13pm

A Weight Loss Pill That Actually Works?

Scientists from the Université de Montréal are developing a weight loss pill composed of leptin, the protein that regulates appetite in mammals. The researchers say that leptin may be a good weight loss pill because its levels decrease when we fast and ris ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 25 2011 - 11:04pm

Should Parents Drink With Their Teenagers?

According to a new study in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, parents who try to teach responsible drinking to their children by letting them drink at home may be setting their teens up for all kinds of alcohol related problems later in life. Th ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2010 - 12:23pm

Bone Marrow Cells May Improve Stem Cell Therapy, Study Finds

Researchers say they have devised a new strategy that increases the likelihood of a recipient's immune system accepting embryonic stem cell transplants. The strategy involves fusing bone marrow cells to embryonic stem cells. Once fused, the hybrid cel ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2010 - 12:41pm

To Get The Most Out Of Exercise, Eat Fewer Carbs

Writing in the Journal of Applied Physiology, researchers say that many of the health benefits of aerobic exercise are due to the most recent exercise session, and the nature of these benefits can be greatly affected by the food we eat afterwards. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 31 2010 - 1:54pm

Smokers At Risk From Their Own Secondhand Smoke? Really?

Anti-smoking activists have made some ridiculous claims about smoking and the associated health risks. In recent years, studies have suggested that movies encourage teenagers to pick up the habit, any exposure to secondhand smoke is dangerous, and that suc ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2010 - 1:35pm

Is Your Five-Year-Old Obese?

A new study in Acta Paediatrica suggests that parents of four and five-year-olds may be unaware that their children are at an unhealthy weight.  Half of the mothers who took part in the new study thought that their obese four or five year-old was normal we ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2010 - 1:25pm

Cassia fistula an Ayurvedic medicinal plant

Ayurveda consist of two words ‘Ayur’ and ‘Veda’. It is a Sanskrit term and it literally means the science of life (Sharma, 1979). The scope of Ayurveda is vast. It not only deals with the prevention of disease and promotion of health and longevity but it a ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jan 31 2010 - 6:24am

'Starving' Fat May Be Newest Obesity Treatment

Proapoptotic Peptides that target blood vessels in White adipose (fat) tissue and cause them to go undergo programmed cell death could become a model for future weight-loss therapies, says a study published online in Diabetes. The study found that obese an ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2010 - 12:45pm