For Diabetes – When to eat
Should I eat at specific times? No, but if you know when your pills or insulin work, you can make sure that your meals or snacks coincide with these times – your health professional...
Monthly Archive: December 2010
Herb Treatment – Aloe vera
Aloe Also known as medicinal aloe, medicine plant, burn plant The name comes from the Arabic “alloeh”, meaning “bitter”, because of the bitter yellow liquid found between the gel and the leaf skin (once...
Garlic and Its Healing Powers
A hardy perennial, garlic grows to about 12-36 in (30-90cm), with long, green, strap-like leaves growing from leaf sheaths up the unbranched stem. On top of the stem, a clump of small, white florets...
Health conditions for baby boomers and how to prevent and/or treat them
OSTEOPOROSIS: Despite the high level of physical fitness among baby boomers, an alarming number are afflicted with osteoporosis. The National Osteoporosis Foundation says 44 million American men and women aged 50 and older have...
How RESET Works
It’s no secret that the key to effective weight loss is making positive changes in diet and exercise. That’s why USANA scientists developed the USANA RESET™ weight-management program—to help people jumpstart healthy eating habits...
Bone Scanner
An estimated 25 million American women either have or are at-risk for getting osteoporosis. Many people don’t even know they have the disease. Now, a lightweight, easy-to-use test helps doctors identify more people with...
Connections between nutrition, genetics and disease
Do you think that nutrition needs to get more personalized? It certainly needs to get more personalized for specific diseases like heart disease and like osteoporosis. Specific diseases that we know have a nutritional...
Osteoporosis Similar to Multiple Myeloma?
Martien Atkins was a 67-year-old grandmother who began to have pain in the bones, compression fractures in the spine and ribs and a loss of height and weight. The symptoms pointed to osteoporosis, a...
Put the Power of Two to Work for You
The USANA® Essentials™ are made up of two products that are meant to work together in order to build a strong foundation of exceptional nutrition for a lifetime: Mega Antioxidant provides essentials vitamins and...
Osteoporosis – Can It Happen To You? Self Test
Today, osteoporosis is a major public health threat for more than 28 million Americans, 80 percent of whom are women. It is estimated that in the United States, 10 million individuals already have the...
Dr Q&A on Men & Osteoporosis
How widespread is osteoporosis among men? Dr. Silverman: Osteoporosis occurs not only in women but men and children as well. If we judge our number of fractures by extreme old age, one in three...
Soy Shakes
Doctors say women are born with natural protection. The hormone estrogen protects them from heart disease, osteoporosis and some types of cancer. When menopause hits, estrogen production goes down. Judy Bahnson hates ice cream,...
Vitamins: What’s Right For You?
Go to any health store, and you might walk out feeling like you neglect your body. They sell every vitamin under the sun… and you might take just one of them. Don’t feel bad....
Spinal Cement Q&A
Do spinal fractures happen as a result of osteoporosis frequently? Dr. Zoarski: Osteoporotic compression fractures are a common problem particularly in elderly patients and particularly in women. Why do heart transplants or transplant patients...
A medical check-up for women
Oil changes, wheel alignments, emissions tests. You get them done regularly to keep your car running, but when was the last time you had a medical tune-up? Unfortunately, a woman’s good health sometimes takes...
Bone Cement to Treat Bone Fractures
Osteoporosis affects more than 10 million Americans each year. The condition causes brittle bones, which often results in painful fractures. Now doctors are using something known as “bone cement” to patch the problem. It’s...
Q&A on how many elderly people with asthma aren’t diagnosed
If asthma goes undetected, is it dangerous? Yes. Some people who aren’t given a diagnosis of asthma are poor perceivers of their symptoms, so their airways become narrower and narrower over just a few...
Treatment for Spine Fractures
Nearly 1 million osteoporosis patients suffer from fractures of the spine each year. The injuries are painful and often limit mobility. Traditional treatment includes bed rest and a brace, but a new procedure helps...
Reduced Risk for Hip Fracture
A new study shows moderate levels of activity are linked to reducing the risk of hip fractures in postmenopausal women. Previous studies showed active adults have a reduced risk of 20 percent to 50...
Future Risks childhood brain tumor survivors
New research shows long-term childhood brain tumor (CBT) survivors are at risk for serious medical problems later in life such as endocrine and cardiovascular diseases even years after successful brain tumor treatment. In a...
Bisphosphonates help children with osteogenesis imperfecta
Children who suffer from a bone-thinning disease may benefit from treatment with an intravenous drug used to strengthen the bone. According to a new study out of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, bisphosphonates...
Protect Yourself against Osteoporosis
According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, osteoporosis is a public health concern for around 44 million Americans. Ten million have it, and an estimated 34 million have low bone mass — a risk factor...
Count Calories, not Minutes, to Stay Healthy
Are you confused by the constantly changing guidelines for how long you need to exercise to maintain good health? In an effort to try to reconcile the debate, the July 2004 issue of the...
Experimental Drug for Insomnia
A new study shows an investigational compound called ramelteon can significantly reduce the time it takes older adults with insomnia to fall asleep. About 60 million Americans suffer from insomnia, and about half of...
Vision Rehab to Reduce Car Crashes Among Elderly
Special training to enhance visual information-processing ability could help prevent car accidents among older drivers, shows new research. Car accidents are a leading cause of injury-related deaths among people ages 65 and older due...
What Dose of Vitamin D is Most Effective?
The most beneficial dose of vitamin D supplementation needed to reduce fall risk has not been established. Douglas P. Kiel, M.D., associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston and the director...
Spit for Good Health
Someday, doctors may skip jabbing you with a needle for blood tests and just ask you to spit. Doctors at UCLA’s School of Dentistry are looking into ways to diagnose disease using saliva. The...
Celiac disease could be the cause of osteoporosis
What is celiac disease? Dr. Stenson: Celiac disease is an abnormal immune response to a protein that is found in wheat, rye and barley. In this abnormal immune response, the immune cells in the...
Tooth truths You Need to Know
You’ve been told your whole life to brush your teeth twice a day, every day. But it takes more than that to have a clean mouth. There are some surprising tooth truths you might...
Your risk factors for osteoporosis
Ten million people have osteoporosis … 80 percent of them are women. But the disease can be almost entirely prevented with healthy habits. Are you at risk? Several factors could determine your fate. Are...