Archive for March, 2009
Mice and men should have more in common
Just as no two humans are the. same, a Purdue University scientist has shown treating mice more as individuals in laboratory analyzing cuts down on erroneous results and could significantly reduce the cost of drug development. Mice have distant been used as analysis subjects for therapys and drugs before those products are approved for human examining. But new research shows that the customary practice of standardizing mice by trying to limit environmental variation in laboratories actually increases the chance of getting an incorrect outcome……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Transmission of drug resistant HIV-1
Drug-resistant forms of HIV can be spread amoung individuals who have not received anti-retroviral therapy, as per Professor Deenan Pillay from University College, London and the Health Protection Agency, speaking at the Society for General Microbiology meeting at Harrogate today, (Monday 30 March)……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Chocolate a Good Combination with Anything
I was reading something about food combining, and how that regimen for eating has been catching on amongst alternative health type folks, considering of it’s teachings that the reason for many digestive problems and even obesity is that we combine our foods all wrong, and that kind of screws up the whole digestive and metabolic process. Some of it does prepare sense whether I were honest with myself, but some of it additionally sounds a little like pseudo science when it starts getting downright zealous about convinced food combinations and what you need to do to get around eating positive combinations of foods.
It nearly makes it sound like you have to be a vegan to avoid combining positive types of foods such as dairy and starch, meat and dairy, starch and meat and so on and so forth, since these foods are so prevalent as least as ingredients in other foods in today’s typical American diet. One food though they say is combinable with any other type of food and shouldn’t put a kink in anything is chocolate, which I’m certain is music to chocaholic’s ears (like me).
Supposedly chocolate does not interfere with the digestion of any other type of food group, and it can therefore be eaten with any other type of meal. Now, as far as the food combining theory goes, it basically gives you convinced food groups that can be eaten together and positive food groups that should really be avoided eating together whether at all possible.
Let’s just put it that way, a hawaiian pizza would be the ultimate faux pas whether you were following that eating plan, considering it combines bread (starch), cheese (dairy), meat (ham), a derivative of vegetable (the tomato sauce) and fruit (the pineapple).
The notion is to get your digestive system doing the least amount of work possible, so that everything keeps moving right along smootly in the digestive tract, and you can save your energy for other, more urgent things, like working out. additionally it is supposed to help with weight loss considering you are not storing as many unused calories in your fat cells so your fat cells should, in theory, shrink. You still have to be careful that you don’t eat too much on that type of diet, it defeats the purpose and still overloads the system with too much food.
Original post by EatingToLive
Individualized Stroke Treatment
Nearly 90 percent of the 700,000 strokes that affect U.S. patients each year are caused by a blockage of blood vessels supplying the brain, known as ischemic stroke. A newly released study published in Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, the official journal of The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), provides solid evidence of the effectiveness of catheter-based treatment (CBT) to remove blood clots in stroke patients. CBTs, which include stents and thrombectomy, appears to be used for ischemic stroke patients who reach too late or have contraindications for intravenous thrombolysis, a drug therapy frequently used to break down blood clots……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Gene Responsible for Converting Carbs into Fat
Apparently most of us aren’t lucky suitable to have a faulty gene when it comes to the gene that is responsible for us converting all our leftover carbohydrates into fat. whether we did all have the disabled version of that gene, we’d probably all be really thin, and able to pack in as many noodles, breads and pretzels as we wanted without all the fat storing up in our thighs, bellies, upper arms and other undesirable areas that we’ve identified all too well.
This lovely gene that we could all do without I’m certain is called the DNA-PK gene, and in research studies when that gene was made faulty, the mice who were studied with the disabled gene type were able to eat all the carbs they wanted without gaining any weight. Their counterparts who had the gene intact on the other hand, gained weight in leaps and bounds when fed a diet rich in carbohydrates, just like the majority of us human folk do 
Now, does that mean that there may be some sort of gene therapy that can help us to build certain we don’t gain weight from eating carbs and automatically store it as fat on our problem areas? There may very well be something on the horizon to that effect, but day will tell. It’s such a thin line with things like that, considering you don’t want to mess with mother nature too much, it seems there’s always some sort of consequence to pay for that when we come out with new so called “miracle drugs” or therapies, and there are nearly always side effects to any type of weight loss medication on the market.
The best bet for now is to try out a self hypnosis program for weight loss. With that, you will be able to exact the root of your weight problem which begins with your subconscious conditioning and self imposed doubts about your abilities to lose weight and maintain a successful weight loss goal. Hypnosis has worked for me and gotten me through spells when I gained a few pounds, effortlessly taking them off by using the potential of the subconscious to tame my body and bend it to my will, which is ultimately to become the healthiest, most fit and fat free person I can be.
Original post by EatingToLive
Arsenic-poisoning crisis in Asia
Every day, more than 140 million society in southern Asia drink groundwater contaminated with arsenic. Thousands of public in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Myanmar and Vietnam die of cancer each year from chronic exposure to arsenic, as per the World Health Organization. Some health experts signal it the biggest mass poisoning in history……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Genetic machinery for thiostrepton synthesis
Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have identified the genetic machinery responsible for synthesizing thiostrepton, a vigorous antibiotic produced by assured bacteria. Though effective against the dangerous MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci, thiostrepton currently has only limited applications in humans considering it is not water soluble……..
Original post by Heather Craven
