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Lean Protein Could Be Key to Obesity Drugs

...hey eat more and weigh less." Like exercise, the excess UCP3 causes the mice to burn more fat but without the pain, sweat and hard work."In a research study published in the science journal Nature, Clapham and his team showed that even though the transgenic mice ate 15-54 percent more food than normal mic...

Cinnamon May Help Diabetics

...e and respond to insulin, the hormone that removes excess glucose from the blood and deposits it into cells. In a test tube and in animal studies, the spice appeared to increase glucose metabolism by about 20 times. While it is too soon to recommend the spice as a regular treatment for type 2 diabetes, pati...

Obesity raises IVF miscarriage risk

...ith insulin properly could be affected by carrying excess weight, this could impact on the supply of blood to the developing placenta....

Lose Weight With New Wonder Slimming FDA approved Prescription Drug

...the gut undigested. Your body cannot convert these excess calories to fatty tissue or use them as a source of energy. This will therfore help you to reduce your weight, maintain your lower weight and minimise any weight regain. The impact of Xenical treatment on quality of life was examined in research pr...

Obesity a risk for pancreatic cancer

...weight or slightly underweight.This may be because excess weight is linked to blood glucose and insulin abnormalities, and the pancreas makes insulin. But moderate physical activity - about 1.5 hours a week of walking, cycling, swimming, work outs in the gym or hiking - decreased the risk in obese people....

How to diagnose heart failure?

...e that the patient with heart failure is retaining excess fluid. These new findings should direct physicians' attention towards simple measures that can detect those patients most at risk. In this study, these two signs heralded an increased risk of death from heart failure....

Early puberty linked to nutrition

...he risk of developing breast cancer. Besides the excess of body fat is a source of extra feminine hormones, because its secretion doesn’t only depend of the activity of the ovaries. In the adipose tissue a complex biochemical mechanism takes place through which the androgens become in estrone and estradio...

Is Obesity a risk factor?

...y are not obstacles to survival - indeed, carrying excess weight may even be helpful. At one and two years after the start of the study, the overweight and obese patients had a higher survival rate. But at five years, there was no significant difference in survival based on body weight.// The reason why o...

Hemochromatosis Patients' Blood is Safe

...periodic phlebotomies or "blood letting" to remove excess iron from their body. Because these patients benefit medically and financially by giving blood, there has been concern that they might donate despite having infectious disease risk factors and that their blood might be less safe. As a result, FDA reg...

High-protein diets may pose health risks

...ready eat more protein than their bodies need, and excess dietary protein can, in itself, also increase health risks, he emphasises. High-protein diets induce a quick drop in weight primarily through loss of body fluids caused by the diuretic effect of eliminating most carbohydrates, he explains. Glycogen,...

Cinnamon combats Diabetes

... in the body normally responsible for dealing with excess blood sugar lose their ability to respond to insulin, the hormone which instructs them to perform this function. The increased blood sugar levels cause symptoms such as fatigue, weight loss and blurred vision, and can make the patient far more pro...

Asthmatics at increased risk of lung cancer

...er, for example chronic inflammation leading to an excess of free radicals.” Dr Paola also said there could be external environmental factors that play a role in the activation and progression of both asthma and lung cancer, particularly tobacco smoking. In conclusion, the researchers say their study conf...

Control of inflammation

...ne outside cells. Dr. Sitkovsky theorised that the excess adenosine binds to the adenosine receptors, which then initiate a chain reaction that slows and eventually stops inflammation. <br...

Moderate alcohol consumption protects against dementia

...y protect against dementia. The adverse effect of excess alcohol is beyond question. Besides destroying the liver, several studies have shown that excessive drinking can be toxic to the brain. Alcoholics can end up with a shrunken brain, which is linked to dementia. There is even a medical condition called...

Lower surgical volume linked to higher death rate

... was a low-volume centre. Less than a fifth of the excess deaths at the Bristol Royal hospital during the early 1990s can be attributed to the fact that it performed relatively few operations. Dr Spiegelhalter says caution is needed in interpreting his findings because the data sources are not of a high qu...

Herbs: rich soure of antioxidants

...vent certain types of chemical damage caused by an excess of free radicals, charged molecules that are generated by avariety of sources including pesticides, smoking and exhaust fumes. Destroying free radicals may help fight cancer, heart disease and stroke, researchers believe. Spices come from the bark, ...

Herbs: rich soure of antioxidants

...vent certain types of chemical damage caused by an excess of free radicals, charged molecules that are generated by avariety of sources including pesticides, smoking and exhaust fumes. Destroying free radicals may help fight cancer, heart disease and stroke, researchers believe. Spices come from the bark, ...

A Blood test for suicide risk?

... Thirty two of the 70 patients were churning out excess cortisol. Tracking the group over 12 years, Coryell found that seven of the 30 with abnormal results had killed themselves, compared with only one of the patients who had normal results. Those with high cortisol levels were 14 times more likely to co...

Outdoor cold is a health hazard

...iversity of Texas, it has been found that too many excess //deaths has occured in the winter - 40,000 - in B... problem. In colder countries, like Siberia, the excess death problem doesn't exist because people wrap up warmly. In Britain, and other European countries,...

Protection mechanism of fatty acids for Cancer

...is study, genetically-modified mice, which produce excess levels of PKCbII, were given a diet high in omega-3s. This measure was found to decrease the risk of these highly prone mice to that of normal animals. This new insight into how omega-3 fatty acids interfere with the mechanism of cancer could well le...

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