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Want a Healthy brew? Have some Tea!

...in the menopausal age group by strengthening their bones by increasing their bone density. They say the anti-oxidants found in tea are 100 times more powerful than vitamin C and 25 times stronger than vitamin E. All this might tempt even the staunch tea haters to join the tea club. And with the mushroomin...

New treatment for Osteoporosis

...rosis could become available. As people age, their bones become weak and their sex hormone levels decrease....ing thereby prolonging their lives and keeping the bones strong. This signal acts directly, much faster than gene expression, taking minutes rather than ho...

Osteoporosis in men

...ny symptoms. Osteoporosis, a condition that causes bones to thin, weaken and break easily, affects women and men, nearly half of all people over the age of 75. One in eight men over age 50 will have an osteoporotic fracture of some kind in his lifetime. Fractures due to osteoporosis can lead to chronic pa...

Love the sun

...nto the active form, a steroid hormone that allows bones to absorb calcium and develop.Only 10 per cent of vitamin D in the body is from dietary sources - which include oily fish, eggs, butter and margarine - and this goes for babies too....

The tall gene

...en influences height because it is responsible for bones fusing over at the ends, which stops people growing. A person's height depends on both genetic and environmental influences. Previous studies have identified the aromatase gene and the Y chromosome gene as height genes in men who are very tall or v...

Hormone contraceptives lead to bone problems

... bone density -- the thickness and strength of our bones -- in check. In women, one of the key factors invo...and stopping ovulation, has the same effect on the bones as menopause -- preventing a woman from making new bone fast enough to keep up with the level of bon...

Is there a link between bones and memory?

...earchers have uncovered a strong link between thin bones and poor verbal memory. To investigate, Zhang and colleagues analyzed the relationship between bone mineral density (BMD) and verbal memory impairment among more than 4,300 elderly people included in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examinatio...

Miraculous Salads

...ndition - resorption, where calcium seeps from the bones making them brittle. And 500mg mixed with garlic, ... On a diet of onions the rats developed stronger bones and suffered less resorption, and the onions' effect on bones could be seen within 12 hours, the sci...

ZYDUS enters female health care segment

...is characterised by loss of bone mass, thus making bones very fragile thereby increasing the risk of fractures. Bonmax is a selective estrogen receptor modulator. It maximises bone mass thereby reducing the risk of breast cancer and decreases total and LDL cholesterol. Currently international trials are ...

Keys to good bone health

...rough the bones, working against gravity, and your bones respond to this force by growing stronger. Walking...eek. They strengthen the muscles and stimulate the bones to grow stronger. Exercising with weights or resistance bands are examples of this type of exercise....

Get, set, go...

... enough exercise are in danger of suffering broken bones in later life,// says the study. Many fail to strengthen up their skeleton during a vital two-year window before puberty, which is critical to building healthy bones. In girls this tends to be between 10 and 12 and in boys it is from 13 to 15. Extra...

Dr Reddy’s Laboratories launches Hyalosy

.... Hyaluronic acid acts as a lubricant that enables bones to move smoothly over each other and also acts as a shock absorber for joints. Hyalosyn is an emerging therapy for osteoarthritis. Hyalosyn will provide the much-needed relief to patients suffering from severe osteoarthritis and will enable them to r...

Do gardening and be fit

...bearing exercise is any activity that requires the bones to fully support the body's weight, such as jogging, dancing and weight training. Gardening and weight training were the only exercises found to significantly improve bone density in the age group studied. Jogging has also been found to be effective ...

Mutation connected to Osteoporosis

...one. As the mineral content of bone decreases, the bones become fragile and easily break, which leads to th...porosis treatment is aimed at replacing calcium in bones but there is no approved treatment aimed at growing new bones. Since the GSNA1 mutation is instructi...

Awakening call for fall prevention

...ine in general health. And since an older person's bones are often thinner, treatment is difficult and heal...and 300 International Units of vitamin D will keep bones strong. Women may wish to opt for hormone replacement after the menopause to stop bone loss, or an a...

New device for discerning Osteoarthritis

...lage direct it only shows that the gap between the bones is getting narrower. Researchers at the University of Texas, have been developing a technique called diffraction enhanced imaging (DEI) that can create an image of cartilage. They have found it can be used to detect early Osteoarthritis, before it'...

Surgery-Rigged pulley helps patients

...nose and hugely bulging eyes, sliced apart all the bones of her face but didn't re-join them before sewing ...l attached a pulley-like contraption to her facial bones that her parents tightened each day with a screwdriver, slowly pulling out the sunken bones so they ...

Genetic innovation

...en influences height because it is responsible for bones fusing over at the ends, which stops people growing. A person's height depends on both genetic and environmental influences. Previous studies have identified the aromatase gene and the Y chromosome gene as height genes in men who are very tall or v...

Vitamin D 'reduces heart risk'

...osis - which is caused by loss of calcium from the bones - are more likely to die of CHD than women without the disease....

Anorexia in boys is common too

... girls, boys with anorexia can develop debilitated bones as a result of the eating disorder. They also note...nsity. Boys were also more likely to have weakened bones if they consumed lower amounts of calcium, and had relatively little physical activity. According t...

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