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December's
Tips
Intake
of Omega-3 With Fish
Oil Will Protect Against Disease
You want
to increase your overall health and energy level. You want to prevent
heart disease, cancer, depression and Alzheimer's. Perhaps you also
want to treat rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, ulcerative colitis,
Raynaud's disease and a host of other diseases. One of the most
important things you can do for all of these is increase your intake
of the omega-3 fats found in fish oil and cod liver oil, and reduce
your intake of omega-6 fats.
Weekly
Wellness
Stop
Ski Injuries Before They Happen
Getting ready for ski season means more than getting those skis
waxed. A
skier's body needs attention, too. To prevent injury, conditioning
should begin before the snowflakes fall, according to experts at
the Navy Environmental Health Center (NEHC).
Recent
News Posts
Simple
Steps in Youth Boost Bones in Old Age
Experts are warning
that it's time to bone up on bone health, with a recent U.S. Surgeon
General's report estimating that at least half of those over age
50 will suffer osteoporotic fractures by the year 2020.
Dirty
Teeth Can Kill You
Germs found in dental plaque can make their way into
the lungs and cause potentially fatal pneumonia in elderly nursing
home patients, U.S. researchers reported.
Muscle
Training Often Useful for Leaky Bladder
About half of women with stress urinary incontinence, a type
of urine leakage that occurs with actions like coughing or laughing,
benefit from training designed to strengthen the bladder muscles,
according to a new study.
Stress
May Promote Aging of Cells
A
new finding may explain how stress could ultimately lead to premature
aging.
Study Finds Health Benefit in Low-Glycemic Diet
A diet rich in
the type of carbohydrates that maintain a more stable blood sugar
beats out a conventional low-fat diet in reducing the risk factors
for heart disease and diabetes, according to a new study.
Parents
Failing To Recognize
Obesity in Their Children
Many
parents are failing to recognise obesity and overweight problems
in their children, according to a study on bmj.com.
Chest
Pain Not from Heart?
Check Again, Docs Urged
People who go to the emergency room with chest pain and are
told that it is not caused by a heart attack or angina might want
to get a second opinion. Findings from a new study indicate that
on rare occasions heart-related chest pain is incorrectly chalked
up to something else.
Weight
Gain Harder on Heart
than Maintaining Higher Weight
Gaining
15 pounds or more over several years puts people at greater jeopardy
of developing risk factors for heart disease than maintaining a
stable weight – even a stable weight that is considered obese,
according to a recent study.
What
Happens In The Brain When
We Remember Our Own Past?
Researchers are using functional magnetic resonance imaging
(fMRI) to probe brain activity in search of the answer. According
to a new fMRI study using a "diary" method to collect
memories, it all depends on what we're thinking about!.
It's
Never Too Early to
Teach Kids the Activity Habit
Movement Specialist, Jane Clark, calls this the age of "containerized"
kids. As infants, children are plopped from car-safety seats to
high chairs to baby seats to watch TV, said Clark, at the University
of Maryland.
More
Muscle Means Better
Regulation of Blood Pressure
People with more muscle than fat have increased ability to regulate
their blood pressure in response to stress, according to a Medical
College of Georgia study.
Chronic
Back Pain Shrinks Brain
Chronic back pain can shrink the gray matter in your brain by
as much as 11 percent in one year, the same amount of brain density
that's lost in 10 to 20 years of normal aging, says a Northwestern
University study.
Childhood
Obesity Leads
to Enlarged Heart
Obese children grow up to have bigger left ventricles
in their hearts, putting them at risk for heart disease, researchers
said.
Obesity
Bad for Brain, Study Finds
Obesity
is harmful to the brain for women, but it doesn't appear to raise
the risk of dying for men who have suffered heart attacks, according
to two new studies.
Arthritis
Pills Little Use in Beating Pain
Painkillers taken by millions of arthritis sufferers
worldwide are actually of limited use in relieving symptoms, Norwegian
scientists said.
Chocolate
May Hold Cure for Coughs
An
ingredient in chocolate could be used to stop persistent coughs
and lead to more effective medicines, researchers said.
Obesity
a Major Obstacle to Good Sex Life
New
research confirms the worst fears of those who worry about putting
on extra pounds: Severely overweight people are much more likely
to report poor sex lives.
Want
to Lose Weight? Eat More, Study Finds
Losing
weight may be as simple as eating more -- eating more fruits and
vegetables and less food that is "calorie-dense" such
as cheese, researchers said.
Long
Computer Use May
Be Linked to Eye Disease
Hours in front of a computer screen may increase
the risk of glaucoma in people who are myopic or short-sighted,
Japanese scientists said.
Program
Gets Kids to Be More Active
Exercise-intervention programs can help boost physical
activity in children, says a study by researchers at Vanderbilt
University School of Nursing.
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