Health and Medical Care Tips
A new research published in online journal BMJ open has reported that young men who are obese in their early 20s are significantly more likely to develop serious ill health by the time they reach middle age, or not even make it that far.
For the study, the authors tracked the health of 6500 Danish 22 year old men, all born in 1955, for 33 years up to the age of 55. [Read more...]
150 minutes of physical activity per week live longer than those who don’t. This finding has been reported by a new new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
The study was conducted by Janssen and his team using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, the National Health Interview Study mortality linkage, and U.S. Life Tables to estimate and compared the life expectancy at each age for adults who were inactive, somewhat-active and active.
“Active” was defined as doing at least 150 minutes of moderate activity per week.
The authors found that men at age 20 were estimated to gain as much as 2.4 years of life from moderate activity. Women at age 20 gained about 3 additional years from engaging in moderate activity. [Read more...]
A new study shows that a week-long spa stay can correspond with marked changes in our physical and emotional well-being.
The research is from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital where researchers evaluated 15 participants before and after their visit to We Care Spa, a health and wellness spa in Desert Hot Springs California, and found the program safe and helped to improve the participants’ health.
Their complete findings will be available in the December issue of Integrative Medicine, A Clinician’s Journal. [Read more...]
A new study published in journal Sleep suggests that increasing the amount of sleep in teenagers could improve their insulin resistance and prevent the future onset of diabetes.
The study has been published in October issue of the journal.
The study tracked the sleep duration and insulin resistance levels of 245 healthy high school students.
Participants provided a fasting blood draw, and they kept a sleep log and wore a wrist actigraph [Actigraphy is a non-invasive method of monitoring human rest/activity cycles] for one week during the school year. [Read more...]
Children with persistent and drug-resistant seizures treated with the high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet may get an added therapeutic benefit from periodic fasting, according to a small Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study.
The results, published online Dec. 3 in the journal Epilepsy Research, suggest the ketogenic diet and fasting can work in tandem to reduce seizures but appear do so through different mechanisms — a finding that challenges the longstanding assumption that the two share a common mechanism.
In the study, six children, ages 2 to 7, and all on the ketogenic diet, were asked to fast on alternate days. [Read more...]
A recent study has refuted the claims that Gingko Biloba, believed to be a cognitive enhancer,is not effective in boosting memory in a healthy individual.
The study, a metanalysis, has been published in Human Psychopharmacology on 24 Sep 2012.
The study was done by Laws and colleagues by selecting quality reviews using Scopus, Medline and Google Scholar databases. [Read more...]
Adequate sleep is must for a proper weight loss plan and should be added to weight loss regime in addition to diet and exercise.
This has been stated by a commentary in Canadian Medical Association Journal.
The commentary published on 17 September, online by Chaput and Tremblay mentions that there is significant evidence that inadequate sleep is contributing to obesity. Lack of sleep increases the stimulus to consume more food and increases appetite-regulating hormones. [Read more...]
A palpitation is an abnormality of heartbeat that ranges from often unnoticed skipped beats or accelerated heart beat to very noticeable changes accompanied by dizziness or difficulty breathing.
Causes of Palpitations
Not all palpitaions are due to some disorder. They could also be physiological or may be due to nutritional factors. [Read more...]
Diabetes results in excess glucose circulating in body. This condition known as hyperglycemia slowly damages almost every cell and molecular structure in our body.
Diabetes can be controlled with oral or parentral drugs but there is no cure for it yet.
Vitamin K, a new study has shown, if taken regularly in diet, lowers the risk of developing diabetes in an elderly cohort by more than 50 percent.
The research has been published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, online on October 3, 2012,
Vitamin K promotes the removal of calcium from the blood to prevent heart disease and diabetes. [Read more...]
IF you are allergic to something and you are not sure if the stuff you are going t eat contains it or not, your cell phone might come handy.
A team of researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has developed a lightweight device called the iTube, which attaches to a common cell phone to detect allergens in food samples.
The new allergen testing platform has been reported by Ozcan and colleagues in the journal Lab on Chip, published online on Nov 29 2012.
The iTube attachment uses the cell phone’s built-in camera, along with an accompanying smart-phone application that runs a test with the same high level of sensitivity a laboratory would.
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