More smokers than non-smokers accept HPV
A parent’s existing health habits or behaviors, like cigarette smoking, may influence the likelihood that they will have their daughters vaccinated against HPV. As per survey results on correlates of HPV vaccine use, whether parents would choose to vaccinate their daughters was not linked to one’s background or medical history, but was more closely linked to positive behavioral factors of the parents……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Making stem cells pluripotent
Tiny circles of DNA are the key to a new and easier way to convert stem cells from human fat into induced pluripotent stem cells for use in regenerative medicine, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Unlike other usually used techniques, the method, which is based on standard molecular biology practices, does not use viruses to introduce genes into the cells or permanently alter a cell’s genome……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Inhibiting serotonin in gut
An investigational drug that inhibits serotonin synthesis in the intestine, administered orally once daily, effectively cured osteoporosis in mice and rats reports an worldly team led by scientists from Columbia University Medical Center, in the Feb. 7 issue of Nature Medicine Serotonin in the intestine has been shown in recent research to stall bone formation. The finding could lead to new therapies that build new bone; most current drugs for osteoporosis can only prevent the breakdown of old bone……..
Original post by Heather Craven
The Significance of BMI
When it comes to weight watching and fitness levels today, there is a new buzz word, or shall I say buzz acronym, on everyone’s lips from pediatricians who are cautioning parents about their children’s track to weight gain, to adult weight and health counselors who are counseling their patients about how to lose weight, to your local gym worker who is training you to reach your fitness goals. You see, BMI, or Body Mass Index, is a measurement like no other that can measure your body’s overall health and “portions” of the poor stuff vs. the good stuff.
It basically measures the fat subject matter of your body, which should never go by a convinced percentage that quite frankly seems to be pretty low at first glance, but when you consider that most of your body is soft tissue and muscles, and organs and all that good stuff, thereupon you see why too much fat is a poor thing.
For one thing, visceral fat, which is the fat that surrounds and is amidst your vital organs like your stomach, your liver and kidneys and so on and so forth, is a major factor behind heart disease, as it’s been discovered by the past decade or so, and that is why doctors caution against a lot of stomach fat and put patients on diets and recommend changes to them.
BMI is significant not only to how you look and how you feel, but it’s additionally fundamental for your health and longevity. Since that has become painfully obvious, there are many gyms now that will measure your BMI for you. Heck, even the Wii Fit system measures your BMI for you and gives you rave reviews or high marks for getting a good reading. Either that, or it has your little gravatar holding it’s stomach and looking depressed. All that has a point to get across, that whether your BMI is at a healthy level, you will enjoy not only the fit and trim, fat reduced body that you deserve, but you will additionally enjoy a longer, more productive, more energetic life.
Original post by EatingToLive
Early abuse tied to depression in children
Eventhough children can be depressed for a number of reasons, new evidence suggests that there are physiological differences among depressed children based on their experiences of abuse before age 5. Early abuse appears to be particularly damaging due to the very young age at which it occurs. Those are the findings of a newly released study of low-income children that was conducted by scientists at the University of Minnesota and the University of Rochester, Mt. Hope Family Center. The study appears in the January/February 2010 issue of the journal Child Development…….
Original post by Heather Craven
Are 100 Calorie Snacks Really suitable?
I can’t help but laugh at the recommendations and prepackaged snacks that are 100 calories a pop. Honestly, even when I’m hardcore dieting, a 100 calorie snack usually does not do the job for me. I’m not certain whether I have a higher than usual metabolism and just burn it off too fast, or whether my problem is that I just eat it too dang fast, but a 100 calorie snack for me on most days is like a tease, a drop in the bucket, a “snack” before the real meal, whether you know what I mean.
I pass by the 100 calorie snack packs that adorn the grocery store aisles and think to myself, my gosh am I really that big of a pig, or is it just me who is not satisfied at all with a 100 calorie snack? Apparently though, there are lots of other humans like me considering a lot of folks say that they cheat and consume 2 of these bags considering 1 doesn’t satisfy their blood sugar plummeting suitable. How are you supposed to suppress hunger with these minimal snacks amidst meals?
And yet, most diet books will tell you to try to stick to two snacks a day at about 100 calories each. In all honesty, I usually prepare my snacks about 180 to 200 calories, and that tides me by until dinner, but 100 just leaves me really hungry and wanting to scarf down a lot more food at dinner date. I’m talking about my snack in the afternoon particularly, my mid snack I’m usually ok with the 100 calorie rule since my snack mid dawn is usually a 110 calorie yogurt cup -Activia in fact, and not the low fat version, which is my favorite.
I think that whether you under snack, you are setting yourself up for failure at dinner moment and you will just wolf down everything in your sight since you are still ravenous from the day at work. whether you consume about 180 calories, you’re not bottoming out at dinner and shoving food in your mouth indiscriminantly. that works for me, and what does not work for me is to do the 100 calorie one after lunch and before dinner. Now, whether I have not worked out that day and have a low appetite for some reason, it might work, but otherwise I just feel like it sets me up for eating too much at dinner duration and beyond, in the evening, which is when it’s worst to consume the bulk of your day’s calories.
Also, the 100 calorie rule, I feel, makes it harder to stick to diet plans that dictate that requirement considering you are still ravenous when you’re done with your measly little portion. Instead, just manufacture certain your meals and your other snacking is never out of control, and you should be fine.
Original post by EatingToLive
Test to Predict preeclampsia
Scientists at Yale School of Medicine have developed a simple urine tryout to rapidly predict and diagnose preeclampsia, a common, but serious hypertensive complication of pregnancy. Dubbed the “Congo Red Dot Test” by the research team, the analysis accurately predicted preeclampsia in a study of 347 pregnant women, allowing health care providers to offer better preventive care to pregnant women. The research will be presented February 4 at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine (SMFM) in Chicago……..
Original post by Heather Craven
