Confused About Fats?
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Are you confused about fat? Do you think that fat is a four letter word when it comes to eating healthy? What’s a “healthy fat” and which fats should be avoided?
The good news is that the government is working to clear the air about fats. We’re closer to the day when you’ll be able to read a package label to learn both the total amount of fat in a product, and also the type of fat that’s in it. That’s so important, because all fats are not equal. Some fats are healthy and some are not.
The Obesity Epidemic and Its Effects on Eating Distress
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What is Eating Distress?
Eating Distress is a condition that effects people of all ages, gender and culture. The sufferer uses food obsession either through thoughts and/or behaviour to self harm which reinforces their negative mindset. Eating Distress is the negativity which fuels Eating Disorders.
Estrogen patch helpful in prostate cancer
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Men with advanced Prostate cancer are prone to develop dangerous blood clots, but treatment with an estrogen patch may reduce this risk, UK researchers report
The patch is also a helpful anti-tumor agent, since Prostate cancer is driven by male hormones, the team reports in the Journal of Urology.
They lose a lot, and gain even more
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Cathy Lombardo says she will never diet again.
Over the years, the 41-year-old Chadds Ford, Pa., resident tried just about every new diet that came her way—Weight Watchers, NutriSystem, Slim Fast, Optifast. With each attempt, Lombardo would lose about 20 pounds, but, inevitably, she would tire of the plan and the weight would come back, and then some.
The successive failures were discouraging, but there would always be another diet just around the corner, she reasoned. Maybe the next one would do the trick.
Bird deaths in Russian flu epidemic up sharply
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The number of bird deaths in a Russian bird flu outbreak jumped sharply in the past 24 hours but there were no cases of the virus spreading to humans, the Emergencies Ministry said on Wednesday.
The ministry said in a note the total number of bird deaths jumped to 8,347 on Wednesday from 5,583 on Tuesday in an epidemic that has been spreading in Russia’s Siberia since mid-July.
Hong Kong woman contracts pig disease
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A 78-year-old woman in Hong Kong has contracted a pig-borne disease that has killed 39 people in southwest China in recent weeks.
The case is the third in Hong Kong since an outbreak of the disease, caused by the Streptococcus suis bacteria, began in China’s Sichuan province around June. None of the three people had travelled recently outside Hong Kong.
China premier under fire over rising medical costs
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, under fire from political rivals over the disintegration of medical welfare, has pledged to expand a pilot programme that provides subsidised care to rural residents, sources and state media said.
The vow came days after a 42-year-old farmer with terminal lung cancer set off a home-made bomb aboard a bus in the southeastern province of Fujian in a suicide attack one political source said was linked to his inability to afford treatment.
Mental illness, fears stalk Aceh tsunami survivors
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Mental illness, access to health services and the threat of disease remain daily challenges for residents of Indonesia’s Aceh province nearly eight months after it was hit by Asia’s devastating tsunami.
But huge progress has also been made in caring for the more than half a million Acehnese left grieving and homeless by the disaster, says David Nabarro, head of crisis operations for the U.N.‘s World Health Organisation (WHO).
Canada boosts crystal meth penalty to life in jail
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Struggling to head off a growing threat of crystal meth use, the Canadian government announced on Thursday that traffickers in the easily made illegal drug could now face life in prison.
The use of methamphetamine—known as crystal meth, crank, speed, glass or ice—has mushroomed in Western Canada, as well as in the U.S. Midwest and West. It is also spreading in Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
Alcoholism may be in the genes, for flies
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Fruit flies carry a gene - aptly named ‘hangover’ - that appears to help them become tolerant to alcohol. Tolerance is thought to promote dependence, so if a similar gene is found in humans, it might lead to drugs to treat or prevent Alcoholism.
In the journal Nature, researchers report that only fruit flies that carry a functioning ‘hangover’ gene develop a tolerance for alcohol.
Could be that dad is not real father, report shows
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Perhaps one out of every 25 dads could unknowingly be raising another man’s child, a finding that has “huge” health and social implications, according to report released Wednesday.
Exposing so-called paternal discrepancy—when a child is identified as being biologically fathered by someone other than the man who believes he is the father—could lead to family violence and the breakup of many families. On the other hand, leaving paternal discrepancy hidden means having the wrong genetic information, which could have health consequences.
A UK-based research team reviewed scientific research dealing with paternity published between 1950 and 2004 and reports that rates of paternal discrepancy range from less than 1 percent to as much as 30 percent.
Sleep researchers study pilots flying east-west route
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Sleep researchers at the University of South Australia are studying the effects that late-night flights from Perth to the east coast have on the performance of commercial pilots.
Pilots taking part in the study will be asked to wear activity monitors for a week, either side of a late night or “back of clock” flight.
They will also use computers to test their reaction times during the flights.
Monkeys Adapt Robot Arm as Their Own
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Monkeys that learn to use their brain signals to control a robotic arm are not just learning to manipulate an external device, Duke University Medical Center neurobiologists have found. Rather, their brain structures are adapting to treat the arm as if it were their own appendage.
The finding has profound implications both for understanding the extraordinary adaptability of the primate brain and for the potential clinical success of brain-operated devices to give the handicapped the ability to control their environment, said the researchers.
Deaths fuel fears of post-flood epidemic in Bombay
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Hospitals in Bombay had admitted hundreds of people with fever and reported 26 deaths by Thursday, an official said, rekindling fears of an epidemic in India’s financial capital weeks after the worst floods in history.
More than 1,000 people were killed in the western Indian state of Maharasthra two weeks ago after record rain in the region triggered landslides and floods that brought Bombay, its capital, to a halt for a few days.
A municipal spokesman said 250 people had been admitted to hospitals, but played down concerns about an epidemic in and around India’s largest city, which is home to more than 15 million people.
Britain’s health inequality gap widening
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Health inequalities are widening in Britain despite government efforts to narrow the gap, a group of independent experts said on Thursday.
Life expectancy in the wealthiest areas is seven to eight years longer than in the poorest areas despite improvements in the health of the population as a whole, the Scientific Reference Group on health inequalities said in a study.
“This report gives no grounds for complacency that enough has yet been done,” the group’s chairman, Professor Sir Michael Marmot, said.
