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Eating Fast Food Means Weight Gain, Insulin Resistance for Teens
Eating frequent fast food meals causes teens and young adults to gain more weight and face an increased risk of developing insulin resistance according to the results of a study funded by the National Heart,Lung, and Blood Institute(NHLBI) and published in the January 1, 2005 issue of The Lancet.Fast Food Effects on Health
In today's age of convenience, fast food needs no introduction. Everyone from a 2-year-old toddler to a 60-year-old grandpa seems to be enjoying it every chance they get. And why not? It's delicious, it's filling, is really affordable, and readily available just any time of the day, being only aEffects on Health and the Environment
Like photochemical pollutants, sulfur oxides contribute to the incidence of respiratory diseases. Acid rain, a form of precipitation that contains high levels of sulfuric or nitric acids, can contaminate drinking water and vegetation, damage aquatic life, and erode buildings. When a weather condiGender-Nonconforming Students at Elevated Risk for Abuse, Post-Traumatic Stress
One in 10 children is at increased risk of abuse as well as post-traumatic stress disorder in adulthood because they are gender nonconforming, according to a new study.Much of that abuse -- emotional, physical and even sexual -- is at the hands of their parents or other adults in the home,Face-Lift, Plastic Surgery Success Measured by New Study
People often get plastic surgery hoping to take the years off, but a new study gives an idea of just how many years they might be able to take off.More extensive facial surgery predicted a younger estimated age for patients after their operations, according to researchers from the UniversitBiotech company defends patent on gene mutation for breast cancer
By Dr Ananya Mandal, MD A US biotechnology company is defending the granting of a controversial patent over a common genetic mutation for breast cancer, rejecting accusations it amounts to the privatization of the human body.In the first court case in Australia chProtein may hold the key to breast cancer puzzle
A Newcastle University researcher investigating a tumour-suppressing protein, will now investigate the role it plays in breast cancer. Kelly Avery-Kiejda has been studying the protein, P-53, for seven years and has found it may be a contributing factor when it comes to resistFighting Alzheimer’s starts in the kitchen
Ginger, blackberries, rhubarb, cinnamon, turmeric, cranberries, pomegranate and blueberries are some of the foods that can help stop the disease progressing University of B.C. neurology research expert Dr. Pat McGeer eats ginger every day, one of hisAPPARENT PROLONGATION OF THE LIFE SPAN OF RATS BY INTERMITTENT FASTING
When a sufficient amount of choice food is available, laboratory rats, like many humans, eat enough to become more orless obese. As a consequence, the life span of rats feeding adlibitum, like the life span of their human counterparts, ispresumably shortened. This inference is supported by therepIntermittent fasting dissociates beneficial effects of dietary restriction on glucose metabolism and neuronal resistance to injury from calorie intake
Dietary restriction has been shown to have several health benefits including increased insulin sensitivity, stress resistance, reduced morbidity, and increased life span. The mechanism remains unknown, but the need for a long-term reduction in caloric intake to achieve these benefits has beRecent research by the University of Otago, Wellington has shown that giving brain cancer cells high dose vitamin C makes them much more susceptible to radiation therapy.
Person receiving radiotherapy The study, carried out in association with Wellington’s Malaghan Institute was recently published in Free Radical Biology and Medicine. Lead author Dr Patries Herst together with Dr Melanie McConnell investigated how combiniMillions mistakenly classed as mentally ill
MILLIONS of healthy people – including shy or defiant children, grieving relatives and people with fetishes – may be wrongly labelled mentally ill by a new international diagnostic manual, specialists said recently. In a damning analysis of an upcoming revision of theNorovirus vaccine four years away from production: Researcher
Scientists are less than five years away from producing a vaccine that could put an end to virulent norovirus outbreaks that plague hospitals, long-term care facilities and cruise ships. “We are going to have a vaccine,” Arizona State University Centre for InGlobal Scientists Rebuke Coming Decision on Carcinogenicity of Radiofrequency (RF) and Microwaves (MW) by WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Calling Any Opinion Rendered ‘Irresponsible’ Without Full Disclosure of the 2004 I
May , 2011, Oslo, Norway. In collaboration with the International EMF Alliance (IEMFA), scientists from Europe, North America, Australia and Israel have sent an Open Letter to Dr. Christopher Wild, Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), calling fInternational Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) CLASSIFIES RADIOFREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS AS POSSIBLY CARCINOGENIC TO HUMAN
Lyon, France, May 31, 2011 ‐‐ The WHO/International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) hasclassified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B),based on an increased risk for glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer1, associated withwireless phone usPage Navigation: 1 2 3 (All)