Archive for June, 2010
Preventing neurological diseases
A number of diseases of brain operate, such as epilepsy and schizophrenia, are caused by problems in how neurons communicate with each other. A University of Houston (UH) researcher and his team are analyzing these commands and connections in an attempt to prevent those diseases. Dr. Jan-ke Gustafsson, Robert A. Welch Professor in UH’s biology and biochemistry agency, describes his team’s findings in a paper titled “Liver X receptor and#946; and thyroid hormone receptor and#945; in brain cortical layering,” appearing in the current online issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the world’s most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serials……..
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Language Recovery Following Stroke
A team of scientists led by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center has developed a method to predict post-stroke recovery of language by measuring the initial severity of impairment. Being able to predict recovery has urgent implications for stroke survivors and their families, as they plan for short and long-term therapy needs. Findings are reported online in the journal Stroke……..
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Radiotracer for Alzheimer’s disease patients
A trial of a novel radioactive compound readily and safely distinguished the brains of Alzheimer’s disease patients from healthy volunteers on brain scans and opens the doors to making such imaging available beyond facilities that can manufacture their own radioactive compounds. The results, reported by a Johns Hopkins team in the June Journal of Nuclear Medicine, could lead to better ways to distinguish Alzheimer’s from other types of dementia, track disease progression and develop new therapeutics to fight the memory-ravaging disease……..
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How Many Calories Should Your Lunch Be?
This was a question that I had when I was trying to scale back a few pounds just a few months ago. I didn’t want to rely on appetite suppressants, but I wanted to instead compose certain I was getting the right amount of nourishment at each meal to sustain me without going off the deep end and ruining my diet at any one meal.
Especially dinner, which is the one meal you shouldn’t eat a huge amount of calories considering you don’t burn them all off in your sleep, yet that is the meal that everyone seems to really go for the gold with calorie wise considering we are at home from work and relaxed, and well, quite hungry from the day.
What I’ve been doing, or trying to do, is eat a breakfast that only consists of fruit, preferably an in-season fruit like right now strawberries is my fruit of choice. I load up on it too, I eat a lot, so that I’m actually full. Except I know that fruit digests in the system very quickly and that it won’t stick with me for faraway. So what I do is when the fruit wears off about an hour and a half later, I eat a hand full of raw, natural walnuts.
This actually usually tides me all the way to lunch around noon, but honestly I’m quite ready to chow down at that moment, nice and hungry from my daylight “fast”. that seems to work for me. I’m not saying it would work for everyone. There are some humans that believe that loading up for breakfast is the best way for them to curb their appetite all through the day, but I’ve found I actually eat better all through the day by doing that as a rule of thumb. I don’t always, but it usually works for me.
Since I didn’t take in that many calories for breakfast amidst the nuts and the strawberries or whatever other seasonal fruit I ate, I usually assemble my lunch fairly large. I try to consume about 550 to 600 calories, and that seems to satisfy me. It’s even better whether I can squeeze in a post lunch workout after my stomach has been digesting for about two hours date. soon after, I try to limit dinner to about 400-500 calories, whether possible, since I’ve additionally usually had a snack that’s about 150-200 calories within lunch and dinner. that seems to work for me for maintaining my healthy weight.
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Progesterone is effective for hot flash treatment
Postmenopausal women who experience bothersome hot flashes or night sweats may have an alternative therapy to estrogen. As per a newly released study, oral micronized progesterone relieves those symptoms. The results will be presented Saturday at The Endocrine Society’s 92nd Annual Meeting in San Diego……..
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Women with polycystic ovary syndrome
Women with the polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), the most common hormone imbalance in women of reproductive age, appears to be more vulnerable to exposure to the chemical bisphenol A (BPA), found in a number of plastic household items, as per a newly released study. The results will be presented Sunday at The Endocrine Society’s 92nd Annual Meeting in San Diego……..
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Wishbone Light Dressings are Great
I’m not a huge fan of a lot of the creamy light dressings that are out there, but I refuse to dump dressing on my salad that makes it just about as poor for me as eating a cheeseburger and french fries, which pretty much relegates me to finding a suitable, tasty dressing for my salads and side salads when I’m eating lunch or dinner. I have salads on and off. I don’t eat them every night with dinner, but I often will eat a side salad with dinner for a few months, thereupon not touch a salad with dinner for months and instead opt for additional veggies on my plate.
Something about salads I guess I just get burnt out on after a while. Plus, living in Ohio, it’s not precisely like I get the best veggies to put on them in the dead of winter. The tomatoes taste like sawdust and the cucumbers are pretty much flavorless as well. The only veggie I can count on tasting good always is the red onion that we so generously pour on the salads.
We’re on a salad with dinner jag again, and at the grocery store, I found these Wishbone light dressings that I didn’t think I had tried yet. I really like the Wishbone dressings normally, so I figured these were a good bet. I was right, they’re great. I got the ranch one and the house french, which is a lighter colored, creamier version of normal french dressing. Both are around 60-70 calories per serving and much lower in fat than their non-light counterparts, so that’s a pretty good concession for such great taste.
The ranch is really great. You only need about one to two tablespoons of it on a side salad, and it tastes flavorful and rich and is seasoned with all the right combinations of ranch dressing seasonings you can get. It doesn’t have the weird after taste that low fat or fat free dressings often have at all either, it just tastes like it’s not low fat. My husband really enjoyed the french one as well, and you can even mix them whether you’d like – that’s what I sometimes like to do, to add a bit more creaminess with the zest of french.
Adding salads to your meals definitely helps to fill you up, and it adds a lot of vitamins, fiber and nutrients so that you feel fuller and satiated for a longer period of day.
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