Archive for October, 2008
Therapeutic potential of stem cells
BOSTON, Mass. (Oct. 31, 2008) Adult stem cells resemble sofa potatoes whether they hang out and divide in a dish for too enlarged. They get fat and lose key surface proteins, which interferes with their movement and reduces their therapeutic potential. Now, via a simple chemical procedure, scientists have found a way to get these cells off the sofa and by to their therapeutic target……..
Original post by Heather Craven
FREE DIABETES MINI-SERIES
New Website Reveals How to Improve Life Quality for Diabetics with Free Mini-Series
King, NC October 27 2003– MyDiabetesAtoZ.com is a new website that offers help to the estimated 100 to 120 million people with diabetes worldwide, their family and friends. Considering for a moment that the average visit to a physician is about $65.00 (for maybe 15 to 20 minutes of their time), a visit with a certified diabetic educator averages $100/hr. and a visit with a dietitian also averages $100.00/hr., this website is well worth a visit.
?If you were to go out and try to gather this information yourself it would cost hundreds, even thousands of dollars,? said Janet Smith, website creator and diabetic since 2 ? years of age, ?not to mention the fact you would not be able to find some of the information written in my book, ?AAA Success Formula for Diabetics; Simple Secrets to A Happy and Healthy Life.?
The website at www.mydiabetesatoz.com contains a wide range of information. For example, visitors will discover research from the World Health Organization; in the United States alone, approximately 17 million people have diabetes. Of these, eight million have been diagnosed with diabetes, another eight million have the disease but are undiagnosed and a new case is diagnosed every minute.
Diabetes significantly increases an individual?s chance of premature death and often changes his lifestyle dramatically — yet half of all Americans with diabetes do not know they have the disease. Diabetes is the number one cause of amputations in America today. Kidney failure, and blindness are among a variety of complications caused by poor control of diabetes. Early detection and treatment has been shown to reduce the likelihood of complications.
Yet even in this age of new technologies and more medical information than ever available on diabetes, diabetics still have a very difficult time living a healthy, well-adjusted, happy life. For many, the trials and tribulations of living with diabetes seem endless. Sadly, there has also recently been a rise in the number of newly diagnosed patients with Type II diabetes.
Visitors to MyDiabetesAtoZ.com can find out Type 1 Diabetes Signs, High Risk Factors, Type 2 Diabetes Signs, What Causes Diabetic Symptoms and more.
MyDiabetesAtoZ.com also offers guests a chance to learn more about Smith?s book, ?AAA Success Formula for Diabetics; Simple Secrets to A Happy and Healthy Life, ? and ?Diabetes A to Z,? cutting edge newsletter. With the book, available for immediate purchase and download, readers will:
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Learn what most healthcare professionals can?t tell you about diabetes and how you can make the 24hour 7days a week diabetes control seem like a piece of cake
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Learn the single most important thing you must know living with diabetes and how this one secret will give you the winning edge to put your fears and frustrations to rest
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Learn 10 most common mistakes controlling your diabetes and how you can avoid them to feel much better day in and day out
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Learn how you can live?Really live a “normal” life with diabetes . Throw away the endless “sick days”, feel energetic, and happy to be alive!
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Learn where to find the help you need to effectively self-manage your diabetes- No more endless worry “Should I eat this?” “Should I be doing that?” How will I feel if…?”
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Learn how the latest scientific studies and research can help improve your life and where to find them
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Learn how to find the right healthcare professional for you and save yourself time, and worry, and money in the process.
?Implementing the changes in lifestyle required for good control of diabetes can often seem overwhelming to the diabetic. Almost every aspect of a person?s life is affected by diabetes. Anger, denial, and depression are common with the diabetic. They often give up and just ?get by? in life until complications and eventually death occurs,? said Smith. ?With the right healthcare professionals and with a specific how-to formula for implementing the knowledge gained about managing diabetes, diabetics can live a long, healthy, well adjusted life.?
Newsletter readers can keep up to date with Smith?s regular reports on Diabetes Facts And Figures, Glucose Monitoring, Diet And Diabetic Menus, Diabetes And Insurance, Exercise, Supplies And Tools To Help Your Management, Educators And Other Professionals And Latest Diabetic Research.
Visit MyDiabetesAtoZ.com to learn more about diabetes and diabetics’ management and to sign up for a free 5-part mini-series, “How To Avoid Diabetic Complications.? For more information, contact Janet Smith , AJ & Associates, PO Box 1221 King, NC 27021. Call: (336) 587-6601/ Visit http://mydiabetesatoz.com and email: Janet@Mydiabetesatoz.com .
Death to Discouragement!
Alright, so you started your new diet, you have the ‘eye of the tiger’ (again), and you are all excited. “This time it’s gonna work” you say to yourself. The first day isn’t so bad, and the second day you still have a little of that fire you originally set out with… But when day three comes that’s when you start to feel the same feelings of discouragement and despair that you might have felt in the past.
Hopefully, this is your first time out but with many dieters it is a common problem. This article will teach you how to put those thoughts and feelings into perspective. It is usually the same with everyone but in varying degrees. Depending on your will power it will be more or less. Here are some great guidelines and tips to help you on your way to achieving your goals:
1. Keep focussed on your goals - This is the first and foremost priority for anyone who is undertaking a weight loss program. A common thought that will come into mind when we start to get discouraged is “why am I doing this?” I’m sure most of us have been there before. Therefore we must keep track of our goals. Write them down if you have to. Things like:
- What do I want to achieve?
- How long do I think it will take?
- What do I want to look like?
- Who am I trying to impress?
A quick note on the last question would be to make sure you are mainly doing it for yourself. If you are trying to change to please others you will not be as happy and you will be a lot less motivated.
2. The first week is always the hardest - No matter what your eating plan is, whether it be low fat, low carbohydrate or anything else you will no doubt feel the uncomfortable feeling of hunger pangs at first. A quick rule is that if you can make it through the first week or two you have it made. Your stomach will shrink and you might not even notice it. For example, before your diet you can put down three hamburgers relatively easy. Try that again in two weeks on a treat day and you might find it a little more difficult. This is a good sign. Keep it up!
3. Take scheduled rests - This might seem obvious to some but to others it might not be. Instinct (doing what’s right for you) is a hard principle to master. After five or six weeks of hard dieting and exercise it is not that hard to experience burnout. You are more tired than you should be, you lost the motivation to train… These are good signs of overtraining and too much dieting. What you want to do is cycle your eating and training to avoid this. Every fifth or sixth week tone down your training a little as far as intensity is concerned or maybe even take the week off to recharge your batteries. Same goes for your diet. Up your calories a little for a few days to give your metabolism something to work with again therefore speeding it up. If you go too long constricting calories a slow metabolic rate will result. This is not a license to go to town on your eating either. You don’t want to counteract what it just took you a month and half to achieve.
4. If you end up cheating it’s not the end of the world - We’re all human and we are bound to do it once and awhile. Some will think that they wrecked their whole diet and will therefore give up. Don’t! It was only one day and tomorrow’s another day. Look at it positively, it will just work to speed up your metabolism. If you haven’t cheated in awhile maybe your body is trying to tell you something. All in all, if you can eat ‘clean’ for four to six days at a time cheating will not blow your whole diet. So don’t get discouraged!
5. Give things time to work - This is another ‘essential’ element that most people don’t realize. You have to give things time to work! Sometimes it can take weeks before you see improvements. If after a month or so you don’t see anything happening maybe then it’s time to fine-tune your program and make some adjustments. The key is to make sure you do your homework first before you go ballistic in your crusade to combat fat. This will save a lot of pain and time in the long run.
I hope this article helped you a lot in terms of thought processes while undertaking a weight loss program. If you want to learn how to ‘put it all together’ you can claim your free weight loss starter kit by clicking here. Take care and have fun!
Randy Mclean has a diploma in Fitness and Nutrition from Education Direct, a YMCA individual conditioning certificate and is the author of Instinct - Master Your Mind And Your Body! For free tips and tricks visit www.weightlossguidance.com
Candidate markers for gastric cancer
The sequencing of the human genome has opened the door for proteomics by providing a sequence-based framework for mining proteomes. As a aftereffect, there is intense interest in applying proteomics to foster a better understanding of cancer processes, develop new biomarkers for diagnosis and early detection of cancer. Gastric carcinoma is one of the most common malignancies worldwide and is the most common cause of cancer-related death in China. The main barrier for improving survival rate is short of useful marker for early diagnosis……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Obesity, other health problems delay MS diagnosis
People with pre-existing medical conditions, such as obesity, and vascular problems such as diabetes, hypertension or high cholesterol, may experience a delay in being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), or experience an increase in severity of the disease at diagnosis, as per a research studyreported in the October 29, 2008, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Hoodia Gum For Consistent Appetite Control
I’m loving the view of that new trend in appetite control, which is that the person chews on a piece of gum for a while and gets the benefit of a slow release into the blood stream of appetite suppressing ingredients. So goes the view behind the hoodia gum break through which helps to duration release the appetite controlling properties of the Hoodia p57 molecule, which is one of the latest and greatest natural appetite suppression tools used by citizens who just can’t seem to get the willpower they need without a little help from some natural chemicals which help tell the brain to stop eating when full.
That’s probably one of the biggest problems behind our national weight problem these days, is portion control. whether we could learn to just stop eating when we’re actually full, which is when our bodies don’t need any more calories, and that way nature intended for us to put a self-stop to overconsumption, next we would have very little problem with obesity and excess weight here in the US, the capital of overdoing it whether you ask me.
Heck, you got to any restaurant that is a chain, and the portions are usually about double or sometimes even triple what they should be according to a person’s actual daily caloric intake needs. that coupled with the fact that many restaurants pile on the sodium and the fat to invent their foods taste better, and that Americans are increasingly turning to fast food and restaurant foods in the wake of increasing duration constraints is just one of the many factors behind us eating too much, and eating foods that contribute greatly to weight gain and perpetual weight increases.
One of my favorite ways to kick start my diets is to take hoodia gum or some other similar natural appetite suppressant that is usually stimulant free, and use it to my favor to help me to both stop eating when I’m full as well as to not get hungry as often. that type of appetite suppressant usually helps to stabilize the blood sugar, which is one of the prime reasons we may feel too hungry too often.
It helps us to truly eat only when our bodies need the calories to be able to operate well, instead of randomly eating any junk that we want out of boredom or sheer ignorance as to when our bodies are truly satisfied and done eating. The other problem is that we tend to eat too fast, so our brains don’t catch up with our bellies and signal one that the other is satisfied, hence the phenomena of “extreme fullness” and feeling disgustingly stuffed not sinking in until way after we clear our plates, another reason we eat excessive calories.
Original post by EatingToLive
Treating PMS Naturally
Using a combination of herbal treatments and nutritional supplements along wtih lifestyle changes to treat PMS naturally.
In this day and age of science and technology, one would think that a disorder that affects somewhere between 30 and 70 percent of women would have a clear cure. In the case of Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS for short) this just isn’t the case. Ironically, there are still health care providers who doubt that this common ailment even exists, despite being a recognized problem in the health field for over 60 years.
Conventional medical treatments run the gamut from antidepressant drugs such as Prozac or Zoloft to Valium to hormonal treatment, such as the administration of gonadotropin-releasing hormone. Clearly, no set treatment for this problem exists, yet naturopaths have had excellent results treating PMS with a combination of lifestyle changes and natural remedies.
It is clear that PMS is a result of hormonal imbalances in the female body. Several hormonal patterns are typical in a PMS sufferer, the most common being an elevation of the hormone estrogen combined with a reduction of the hormone progesterone. This increased estrogen-to-progesterone ratio can lead to problems with the liver not functioning as it should, reduced levels of serotonin (an important mood-elevating neurotransmitter) in the brain, lower endorphin levels, and alterations in other hormone levels. Also, it is common to find hypothyrodism and elevated prolactin levels in a woman experiencing PMS, so it is important to rule out serious health care issues with an understanding physician.
Typical PMS symptoms include the following: abdominal bloating, acne, anxiety, backache, breast swelling/tenderness, changes in libido, cramps, depression, diarrhea and/or constipation, edema of fingers and ankles, food cravings (especially carbohydrates in the form of sweets), fainting spells, fatigue, headaches, insomnia, joint pain, nervousness, water retention, and personality changes such as drastic mood swings or bursts of anger and/or violence.
In most women, the best form of treatment is to increase progesterone while lowering estrogen in the body. The most popular and highly effective way among naturopaths is to use vitex or chastetree extract. In two surveys of gynecological practices in Germany, physicians graded chastetree berry extract as good or very good in the treatment of PMS, showing that even conventional medicine in other countries realize the effectiveness of chastetree berry extract. In a study of over 1500 women taking chastetree berry extract, one third of the women experienced complete resolution of their symptoms, while another 57% reported significant improvement; 90% reported improvement or resolution overall. Chastetree berry apparently has profound effects on the hypothalamus and pituitary glands, and is able to normalize the secretion of other hormones, namely progesterone and estrogen. Best results occur after three months of treatment in most cases.
Another popular herb in Europe for treating PMS symptoms is black cohosh. Black cohosh was widely used by the American Indians for the relief of menstrual cramps and menopause. Black cohosh seems to work by reducing feelings of depression, anxiety, and tension. It helps stabilize moods and is an excellent tonic for the nervous system. Recommended dosage for PMS symptoms is 2 mL daily in tincture form.
Another herb that is helpful in hormone balancing is dong quai. This herb has demonstrated it’s usefulness as an uterine tonic, and can ease the discomforts of menstrual cramps. A benefit to dong quai may be it’s ability to increase glucose utilization by the liver and uterus - especially helpful to the many women who experience glucose intolerance along with their PMS symptoms. The tincture form is preferred, and the recommended dosage is 4 mL daily, starting on day 14 of the menstrual cycle and continuing until menstruation begins.
To increase naturally occuring progesterone in the body, many women have found wild yam extract to be beneficial. This extract contains natural progesterone and has proved effective in alleviating several symptoms of PMS, including cramps, headache, mood swings, depression, and insomnia.
Nutritional considerations are also important in treating PMS. Many natural health care practitioners recommend women suffering from PMS to make several dietary changes, including reducing the amount of sugars and simple carbohydrates in the diet, and increasing fresh fruits and vegetables along with quality whole grain cereals and breads. High protein foods are also important - beans, peas, lentils, nuts and seeds are all good sources, as well as broiled chicken, turkey, and fish. Increasing the use of soy may be helpful for some women, as soy is an excellent source of phytoestrogens (plant estrogens), which bind to estrogen receptors in the body, thereby competing with estrogen naturally occuring in the body, reducing the amount of estrogen overall.
Calcium supplementation has also been beneficial for many women, but one must be cautious when considering calcium sources. For example, commercial milk is often laden with estrogen from injections given to the cows at the dairy. In fact, several sources indicate that calcium via milk is a possible causative factor of PMS, perhaps due to the combination of calcium, vitamin D, and phosphorus, which reduces the magnesium absorption by the body. However, women who took a calcium supplement of 1000 mg daily showed significant symptom improvements in several studies.
It’s important to try these treatments and see which work best. Because PMS may have so many different causes, not all treatments will be appropriate.
About the Author
Meredith Edwards-Cornwall is the owner of http://www.AttachedMamas.com and http://www.BeachDesigns.net. She is an attached mama to two children, Alexander and Elizabeth.
