Archive for the 'Research' Category
Too much exercise can be poor for you too!
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Exercise is an urgent part of a healthy lifestyle. But in individuals with heart troubles, too much exercise can be a naughty thing too — it can speed up heart failure … in rats, at least. These findings are in direct opposition to what researchers thought they would find — that the increa…
Boost glycemic control with Vitamin C
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Insulin not only moves glucose into the cells, but it plus escorts Vitamin C. Blood sugar hogs the seats on the bus in most diabetics, therefore reducing the amount of Vitamin C we can absorb. that is the premise of The GAA Theory: high glucose levels hinder vitamin C entry into cells.
Vita…
A large majority of physicians in training do not understand statistics, says Yale study
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A new study from Yale shows that 75 percent of physicians in training surveyed do not understand the statistics used in medical literature. The study surveyed internal medicine residents at 11 programs across the country.
The residents scored an average of 41% right on the analysis and the …
Spicy curry helps fight cancer
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It’s pretty well known that many natural foods build for great defenses against cancer, regardless of the opposition to that by the medical community. whether you’re into spicy foods like I am, it may be neat to compose out that curry could be added to that battle list.
Indian foods are, in m…
Secondhand smoke and pets
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You should think approximately protecting your pets from secondhand smoke. According to researchers at Oklahoma State University, secondhand smoke has been determined cancer-causing for household pets, such as dogs, cats, and birds
“There have been a number of scientific papers recently that …
Overall U.S. approval rate for cancer drugs is only 8%, according to Tufts study
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According to a study by the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, only eight percent of cancer drugs that entered clinical development and examining in humans made it through to final approval.
In comparison, during the same moment period, 1993-1997, the U.S. has an approval rate of…
Why Vioxx is so dangerous
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Vioxx has been in the news for awhile now for negative cardiac effects including heart attacks, and now new research may have pinpointed why. It all seems to come down to the pain killer’s side effect of causing the body to produce additional amounts of a protein called “tissue factor” that ha…
Tour de France cyclists have the biggest hearts
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We often describe others as having a “big heart,” but depending on who they are they might have an over-sized heart in a very literal sense. Particularly whether they’ve ever competed in the Tour de France, as research shows that Tour de France athletes have hearts that are 20-40% larger than av…
Fat can turn vitamin C into cancer-promoting agent
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Although Vitamin C is a great thing to have in your system at regular daily intervals, it can be used to actually promote the formation of cancer-causing chemicals when there is too much fat in the stomach, according to a recent essay in the journal intestine.
The interaction of vitamins an…
When a child can’t remember….
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In the fall of 1985, a very scary thing happened shortly after I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. One dawn I woke up and I couldn’t remember things I would normally remember. I couldn’t remember the name of my neighbor’s dog. I had a fanatical love for Cookie. Of course I would remember Coo…
Nutrigenetics the science of you and food
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Nutrigenetics is the study of the interaction of genes and diet. The Diet Channel has published an commentary explaining what nutrigenetics is and how it will revolutionize the world of diabetes.
Researchers believe elevated blood sugar can be mapped back to a genetic reaction. Drugs are only…













