What is fish’s role in protecting your heart?
Fish is really becoming a superstar so to speak when it comes to heart health primarily because it’s such a great source of the omega-3 fatty acids. These omega-3 fatty acids do a number...
Monthly Archive: November 2010
Heart Disease Q&A
What is the prevalence of heart diseases in Americans? Heart disease is the biggest killer of all of the chronic diseases. Cancer comes second. They say if you don’t die of heart disease you’re...
Ways to track your risk for cardiovascular disease
Carotid Ultrasound IMT Score Not surprisingly perhaps, the health of the carotid arteries (the ones that carry oxygen and nutrients to the brain) can give great insight into the health of the cardiovascular system...
Pancreatic Cancer and Diabetes
The findings come from Japanese investigators who tested the technique on 86 patients in the hopes of identifying the cancer in its early stages. Although the procedure failed to find the cancer before it...
Quitting Smoking Reduces Lung Cancer Risk
Quitting smoking can decrease the risk of developing all different types of lung cancer, including those most and least closely associated with tobacco use. Lung cancer is typically divided into two major types: small...
Can Vaccines Cause Autism?
Why has the incidence of autism increased? Do you think vaccines relate to this? There really is not a good hypothesis right now to explain that increase. I think many parents have been concerned...
Autism Disorders
Is there the chance that some of these disorders were completely different disorders and not autism? Yes, because autism is defined completely by behavior at this point. There are hints about the biological causes...
What is the incidence of autism?
Autism was conceived as a very specific disorder almost always associated with mental retardation, but quite severe. The estimates there were four or five per 10,000 kids, so maybe one in 2,000 kids, had...
Diabetics may Need More Than Diet
People with type 2 diabetes who try to control the condition with diet alone may not be receiving all the health services they need. That’s the key finding from a new study out of...
Halting Diabetes
Researchers from UCLA have discovered what they call a “remarkable” new tool in the fight against diabetes. An 18-month clinical trial shows a new drug halts the progression of type 1 diabetes and improves...
Morning Blood Pressure Surge Linked to Stroke Risk
High blood pressure is diagnosed when a person’s systolic or top number is higher than 140 and a person’s diastolic pressure, or the bottom number, is greater than 90. Often patients undergo an ambulatory...
USANA Sense product
Beautinutrients (InnerHealth) were originally designed as a bridge from the USANA Sense product line to the USANA Nutritionals and Dr. Wentz’ nutritional philosophy. This product played the supplement role of USANA Sense’s “inner and...
Eating Soy to Prevent Disease
Does soy kill the cancer or just prevent it? Kumar: Soy stops prostate cancer from progressing. One of the characteristics of prostate cancer cells is they proliferate purposelessly, very quickly and at a higher...
Soy Diet and Prostate Cancer
Nagi B. Kumar, R.D., explains the value of incorporating soy into your diet to prevent and/or lessen the effects of prostate cancer. What effect has soy shown to have in cancers? Kumar: Soy is...
Can we get too much of Vitamin D?
BALTIMORE (Ivanhoe Newswire) — Vitamin D is hailed by many as the wonder vitamin. It can boost your immune system, ward off osteoporosis, help lower your blood pressure. But can it lower your risk...
Risks of vitamin D deficiency Explained by Doctor
What makes vitamin D a hormone? Dr. Burnstein: A hormone is a substance that the body makes. A hormone travels in the bloodstream, and it affects targets such as organs and tissues. Vitamin D...
Supplements Slow Weight Gain
Jennifer Love, Ph.D., explains how some common supplements can keep middle-age weight gain from building up. When you learned of the study that showed these common supplements slow down weight associated with getting older,...
Coronary computerized tomography (CT) Scans
Once you reach the age of forty, annual physicals are a first line of detection for risk factors of cardiovascular and other life-threatening diseases. Typically your doctor will give you a standard battery of...
Stress Hormones
Our bodies naturally generate stress hormones on a daily basis, we need them to survive. During periods of stress, the levels of these hormones can go up and that’s generally a good thing. It...
New Vaccines for Cancer
BOSTON (Ivanhoe Newswire) — Could the cure for breast cancer come in a shot? What about a vaccine to treat prostate cancer? Doctors are now looking past measles and mumps and developing vaccines to...
High Job Stress = Increased Risk For Cardiovascular Disease
Women who report having job stress have a 40 percent increased risk of cardiovascular disease – including heart attacks as well as the need for procedures such as angioplasty – in comparison to those...
Teenagers to reduce salt intake
For many teens, fast food, pizza, and cereal are food groups in and of themselves. There are many problems with a processed food heavy diet, but high salt intake is of particular concern –...
Healthy Bacteria – Probiotics
Probiotics are finally being understood for their extreme importance in intestinal health and immune system strength. Stomach upset, fatigue, frequent colds and flu, sensitivity to milk and dairy products, are some of the signs...
Arrhythmia
An arrhythmia is any change in the regular rhythm of the heart. It is typically due to interference with the electrical pathways of the heart and are responsible for over 400,000 deaths each year....
Model to predict to predict earlier signs of anemia
A joint research between a physician and a mathematician has led to development of a mathematical model on how red blood cells change in size and hemoglobin content, which can lead to predicting earlier...
Urinary Tract Infections Vaccine
American scientists say they are a step close to a vaccine that could prevent majority of urinary tract infections. UTI is caused by E.coli bacteria and the vaccine could potentially save billions of dollars...
Research shows endothelial cells help liver regeneration
Scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College have found that endothelial cells play a key role in regeneration of liver, giving hope to new treatments for restoring liver and bone marrow. Endothelial cells are the...
Nutrients for A Healthy Heart Muscle
Coenzyme Q10 – The antioxidant coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) functions as a coenzyme in the energy-producing pathways of every cell in the body and is an important antioxidant that will fight the oxidation that creates...
Set a minimum calorie price
Setting a minimum price as a mechanism to reduce consumption of particular substances is fraught with difficulty. That lesson has been well-learned in Scotland during the extensive debate over the SNP Government’s proposal to...
Fight Type 2 diabetes
According to a study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly one in three Americans will be diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes by the year 2050. “That is just frightening,” said...