tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83508092009-02-21T08:21:01.785-08:00advances-in-healthA recent study stated that nearly 40% of people online, are looking to for information about health and weight loss products. Products abound that could be beneficial to ones health, unfortunately when it comes to health and nutrition valid research is still lacking.
Advancesinhealth.com opens the door to new health technologies as a complement to traditional medicine. This integrated approach to nutrition and health products defines 21st century health and wellness.wjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350809.post-1098328704551071252004-10-20T20:17:00.000-07:002004-10-20T20:21:24.686-07:00A Controlled Trial To Increase Detection and Treatment of Osteoporosis in Older Patients with a Wrist FractureBackground: Despite the high risk for future fractures and the availability of effective treatments, fewer than 10% to 20% of patients who sustain a fragility fracture are tested or treated for osteoporosis. Objectives: To improve rates of testing and treatment for osteoporosis in patients with wrist fractures who are seen in the emergency department. Design: Nonrandomized, controlled wjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350809.post-1098328326024175902004-10-20T20:10:00.000-07:002004-10-20T20:12:06.026-07:00Advising Patients Who Seek Complementary and Alternative Medical Therapies for Cancer
Many patients with cancer use complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies. Physicians need authoritative information on CAM therapies to responsibly advise patients who seek these interventions. This article summarizes current evidence on the efficacy and safety of selected CAM therapies that are commonly used by patients with cancer. The following major categories of interventions wjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350809.post-1098328093801152692004-10-20T20:07:00.000-07:002004-10-20T20:08:13.800-07:00How Vitamin C Is Administered Affects How Much Reaches the Bloodstream and May Affect the Results of Studies of Its Potential Effect on Cancer Summaries for Patients are a service provided by Annals to help patients better understand the complicated and often mystifying language of modern medicine.
Summaries for Patients are presented for informational purposes only. These summaries are not a substitute for advice from your own medical provider. If you have questions about this material, or need medical advice about your own wjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350809.post-1098327783193304932004-10-20T20:02:00.000-07:002004-10-20T20:03:03.193-07:00Overview of Nutrition in Cancer CareCancer and cancer treatments may cause nutrition-related side effects. The diet is an important part of cancer treatment. Eating the right kinds of foods before, during, and after treatment can help the patient feel better and stay stronger. To ensure proper nutrition, a person has to eat and drink enough of the foods that contain key nutrients (vitamins, minerals, protein, carbohydrates, fat, wjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350809.post-1098228054704048362004-10-19T16:19:00.000-07:002004-10-19T16:20:54.703-07:00A Healthy Mouth for Your Baby1. Protect Your Baby's Teeth with Fluoride Fluoride(said like floor-eyed) protects teeth from tooth decay and helps heal early decay. Fluoride is in the drinking water of some towns and cities. Ask your dentist or doctor if your water has fluoride in it. If it doesn't, talk to your dentist or doctor about giving you a prescription for fluoride drops for your baby.
2. Check and Clean Your Baby's wjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350809.post-1098227913944691442004-10-19T16:16:00.001-07:002004-10-19T16:18:33.946-07:00
The 7 Principles for Controlling Your Diabetes for LifePrinciple 1: Find Out What Type of Diabetes You Have ^ top
Type 1 diabetes. People who have this type of diabetes need to take insulin every day. This type of diabetes used to be called juvenile diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes. This type of diabetes can often be controlled by the food wjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350809.post-1098227796225451082004-10-19T16:16:00.000-07:002004-10-19T16:16:36.226-07:00What Is Asthma? Asthma (AZ-muh) is a chronic disease that affects your airways, which are the tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs. If you have asthma, the inside walls of your airways are inflamed (swollen). The inflammation (IN-fla-MAY-shun) makes the airways very sensitive, and they tend to react strongly to things to which you are allergic or find irritating. When the airways react, they get wjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350809.post-1098227731175343022004-10-19T16:12:00.000-07:002004-10-19T16:15:31.176-07:00How Do the Lungs Work? To understand ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome) , it is helpful to understand how your lungs work.
Normal lung function. A slice of normal lung looks like a pink sponge—filled with tiny bubbles or holes. Around each bubble is a fine network of tiny blood vessels. These bubbles surrounded by blood vessels give the lungs a large surface to exchange oxygen (into the blood where it wjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350809.post-1098227369535192682004-10-19T16:08:00.000-07:002004-10-19T16:09:29.536-07:00Counseling parents and children on sun protectionBalk SJ, O'Connor KG, Saraiya M.
Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA. sbalk@montefiore.org
OBJECTIVE: To describe pediatricians' attitudes toward skin cancer (SC), sun protection (SP) counseling, and the quantity and content of such counseling and to identify barriers to counseling. METHODS: An American Academy of Pediatrics Periodic wjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350809.post-1098227266257395652004-10-19T16:06:00.000-07:002004-10-19T16:07:46.256-07:00Proximity of supermarkets is positively associated with diet quality index for pregnancy.Laraia BA, Siega-Riz AM, Kaufman JS, Jones SJ.
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina, Carolina Population Center, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Objectives. To investigate the association between distance to the closest supermarket and a composite measure of diet, the diet quality index for pregnancy (DQI-P) was constructed. Methods. Data from the wjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350809.post-1098227139666036622004-10-19T16:05:00.000-07:002004-10-19T16:05:39.670-07:00Proposal for a dietary "phytochemical index".Pantox Laboratories, 4622 Santa Fe St., San Diego, CA 92109, USA.
There is ample reason to believe that diets rich in phytochemicals provide protection from vascular diseases and many cancers; direct antioxidant activity as well as modulation of enzyme expression or hormone activity contribute to this effect. Phytochemicals derived from diverse foods presumably can interact additively and (wjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350809.post-1098148153821978142004-10-18T18:08:00.000-07:002004-10-19T16:01:29.640-07:00What We Know about the FluVirus Structure
A flu virus is roughly round, but it can also be elongated or irregularly shaped. Inside are eight segments of single-strand RNA containing the genetic instructions for making new copies of the virus. Flu's most striking feature is a layer of spikes projecting from its surface. There are two different types of spikes: one is the protein hemagglutinin (HA), which allows the wjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350809.post-1098147767409391062004-10-18T18:02:00.000-07:002004-10-18T18:20:01.023-07:00Heterocyclic Amines in Cooked MeatsResearch has shown that cooking certain meats at high temperatures creates chemicals that are not present in uncooked meats. A few of these chemicals may increase cancer risk. For example, heterocyclic amines (HCAs) are the carcinogenic chemicals formed from the cooking of muscle meats such as beef, pork, fowl, and fish. HCAs form when amino acids (the building blocks of proteins) and creatine (awjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350809.post-1098147683538389322004-10-18T17:59:00.000-07:002004-10-18T18:20:29.860-07:00Vitamins, Anti-Bacterials May Prevent Stomach CancerVitamin C, beta-carotene, and an anti-bacterial treatment may -- singly or in combination -- help prevent stomach (gastric) cancer, according to a long-term clinical trial involving more than 600 people at high risk of developing the disease. The results of the trial appeared in the Dec. 6, 2000, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Gastric cancer is the second leading cause ofwjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350809.post-1098147502234383302004-10-18T17:57:00.000-07:002004-10-18T18:21:11.726-07:00Diet Rich in Foods with Vitamin E May Reduce Alzheimer's Disease RiskA new population-based study of antioxidants, appearing in the June 26, 2002, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), suggests that a diet rich in foods containing vitamin E may help protect some people against Alzheimer's disease (AD). The study is also noteworthy for its finding that vitamin E in the form of supplements was not associated with a reduction in the risk of AD. The wjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350809.post-1098147394442028552004-10-18T17:55:00.000-07:002004-10-18T18:21:47.416-07:00Eating Hints for Cancer Patients: Before, During, and After TreatmentAfter Treatment Ends
Ways to Get Back Into Eating
Most eating-related side effects associated with radiation, chemotherapy, or other treatments go away after cancer treatment ends. If you have had side effects, you should gradually begin to feel better, and your interest in food and mealtimes will come back. Sometimes, though, side effects persist, especially weight loss. If this happens to youwjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350809.post-1098147299002037492004-10-18T17:54:00.000-07:002004-10-18T18:22:16.013-07:00High Homocysteine Levels May Double Risk of Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, New Report SuggesPeople with elevated levels of homocysteine in the blood had nearly double the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD), according to a new report from scientists at Boston University.The findings, in a group of people participating in the long-running Framingham Study, are the first to tie homocysteine levels measured several years before with later diagnosis of AD and other dementias.The wjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350809.post-1098147193983896622004-10-18T17:52:00.000-07:002004-10-18T18:22:42.240-07:00Antioxidant Vitamins and Zinc Reduce Risk of Vision Loss from Age-Related Macular Degeneration National Eye Institute (NEI)
High levels of antioxidants and zinc significantly reduce the risk of advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and its associated vision loss. These same nutrients had no significant effect on the development or progression of cataract. These findings from a nationwide clinical trial are reported in the October 2001 issue of Archives of Ophthalmology.
wjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350809.post-1098147065357876262004-10-18T17:47:00.000-07:002004-10-18T17:51:05.356-07:00Vitamins, Anti-Bacterials May Prevent Stomach CancerVitamin C, beta-carotene, and an anti-bacterial treatment may -- singly or in combination -- help prevent stomach (gastric) cancer, according to a long-term clinical trial involving more than 600 people at high risk of developing the disease. The results of the trial appear in the Dec. 6, 2000, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Gastric cancer is the second leading cause of wjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350809.post-1095562342169446802004-09-18T19:51:00.000-07:002004-09-18T20:03:07.653-07:00Beta-glucan enhanced killing of renal cell carcinoma micrometastases by monoclonal antibody G250 directed complement activation.Sier CF, Gelderman KA, Prins FA, Gorter A.
Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands. C.F.M.Sier@lumc.nl
Metastases from renal cell carcinomas (RCC) are resistant to radiation and chemotherapy but are relatively immunogenic. We have investigated the possibility to eliminate human RCC micrometastases using MAb G250. G250 penetrates human micrometastases wjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350809.post-1095562230052477082004-09-18T19:48:00.000-07:002004-09-18T20:03:55.113-07:00Mechanism by which orally administered beta-1,3-glucans enhance the tumoricidal activity of antitumor monoclonal antibodies in murine tumor models.Hong F, Yan J, Baran JT, Allendorf DJ, Hansen RD, Ostroff GR, Xing PX, Cheung NK, Ross GD.
Tumor Immunobiology Program of the James Graham Brown Cancer Center, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY 40202, USA.
Antitumor mAb bind to tumors and activate complement, coating tumors with iC3b. Intravenously administered yeast beta-wjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350809.post-1095562107496072132004-09-18T19:44:00.000-07:002004-10-18T05:45:27.593-07:00Antioxidant Activity of Fermented Soybean Extract.Hu CC, Hsiao CH, Huang SY, Fu SH, Lai CC, Hong TM, Chen HH, Lu FJ.
Department of Research and Development, Microbio Company, Ltd., No. 81, Gauyang N. Road, Longtan Shiang, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China; Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 1 Jen-Ai Road, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China; and Department of Life Sciences, Institute of wjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8350809.post-1095561039880385522004-09-18T19:29:00.000-07:002004-09-18T19:35:37.090-07:00Dietary vitamin c supplementation and common laboratory values in the elderly.Kyllastinen MJ, Elfving SM, Gref CG, Aro A.
Koskela Hospital and National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland.
The effects of dietary supplementation with vitamin C on several common laboratory values were assessed in 27 elderly patients in long-stay wards. The patients had shown low plasma ascorbic acid concentrations before the study. During three consecutive periods of six weeks wjennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12500819278530682271noreply@blogger.com0