High Melatonin can Help Delay Ageing
... age-related processes. Therefore, daily melatonin intake in humans from the age of 30 or 40 could prevent – or, at least, delay – illnesses related to ageing, free radicals and inflammatory processes, such as many neurodegenerative disorders (e.g. Parkinson's disease) and complications linked to other illn...Alcohol Abuse During College Days Leads to Heart Disease in Later Life
...ease had higher CRP levels."While moderate alcohol intake appears to have some health benefits, we must advise against heavy and binge drinking," Donovan said. Caution should be exercised in interpreting these findings as the results were from a non-random survey of a small group of college students. Res...Modern Lifestyle Could Damage Heart
...t Foundation. Risk factors include smoking, high intake of salt and fat, excessive alcohol intake, and obesity. A major reason for failure to control it is the refusal of up to 50 percent of patients to take prescribed medication and stick to recommended lifestyle changes. The scientists warn that unl...Doctors in UK Promoting Awareness of Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease
... high-fat meals and bedtime snacks · limit coffee intake · reduce alcohol consumption · stop smoking. If the symptoms are not frequent - less than five times a month - they can be treated with over-the-counter medications such as antacids and histamine antagonists (drugs to counter histamines). Histam...Measuring Calcium Intake Help to Identify Osteoporosis in Prostate Cancer Patient
Measuring a man’s daily calcium intake is an effective way of identifying prostate cancer...00 mg of calcium a day - the average daily calcium intake was 610mg in men with osteoporosis and 683mg in those without. These levels are well below the 100...Poor Diet Puts Teenagers' Health at Risk
...l students aged 12—15 years to evaluate their food intake patterns. They found that the diets of a significant number of adolescents fell short of the recommendations outlined in the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating. "Teenagers need to be eating a variety of foods from the five food groups—breads/cerea...UK Scientists to Reveal Genetic Secrets Behind Serious Illnesses
...uccessfully lose weight by decreasing their energy intake and becoming more active, they have said. They have further warned that genetic testing could be problematic where genes are identified before therapies exist, meaning that people could be told that they have a risk of developing an illness, but w...Fish Oil - Foils Cognitive Decline
...cond study, American researchers evaluated omega-3 intake and cognitive decline in 2,251 white males, in the age group of 50 to 65 years. The study did not find any apparent connection between levels of omega-3 fatty acids in the men and cognitive decline in general. Detailed analysis revealed that omega-3...Canadians Consuming Too Much Salt
...number of studies have shown a link between sodium intake and hypertension. When sodium intake rises in susceptible individuals, blood pressure tends to increase.' So what are the foods respo...Blood Pressure Tackled Better With Cocoa Than Tea
...count for the major proportion of total polyphenol intake in Western countries,' the authors write. 'However...icate a widespread recommendation for higher cocoa intake to decrease blood pressure, but it appears reasonable to substitute phenol-rich cocoa products such ...Study Finds Dietary Fat Interacts With Genes
... adults in the Framingham Heart Study, dietary fat intake is associated with body mass index (BMI). However,...dy with a specific SNP (-1131T>C), dietary fat intake was not significantly associated with BMI and risk of obesity. We observed an interaction between ...Eat Apple During Pregnancy to Protect Baby from Asthma
... from the Netherlands and Scotland tracked dietary intake by nearly 2,000 pregnant women and examined the effects of the maternal diet on airway development in more than 1,200 of their children five years later. Among a variety of foods consumed and recorded by the pregnant women, the researchers found t...Red Meat Increases Breast Cancer Risk
...ed that pre-menopausal women who have the greatest intake of fiber have cut their risk of breast cancer in h... explain the positive association between red meat intake and hormone receptor-positive breast cancer risk.” Cooked and processed red meats have been shown...It's Never too Late to Get It Back! Aging Interrupted
Much research has shown that reduced calorie intake can increase health and longevity. //Professor Ste...llaborators* have discovered that reducing calorie intake later in life can still induce many of the health and longevity benefits of life-long calorie reduct...New Age Sweetener Launched for Diabetics
...cralose, and cyclamates leave a bitter taste after intake and only have one component. Cutkal is the first sweetener to be available in India with an Aspartame and Acesulfame-K combination and it leaves no bitter taste afterwards. “With Cutkal, we aim to broaden our product offering to the Indian diabe...Omega-3 Fatty Acids Affect Risk of Depression, Inflammation
...Medicine, suggests that we need to balance out our intake of omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids. The current typical American diet contains 20 times more omega-6 than omega-3, a ratio that researchers say should be lowered to 4-to-1, or even 2-to-1. This is the most recent in a long series of experiments Ohi...Higher Trans Fat Levels in Blood Associated With Elevated Risk of Heart Disease
...m foods and restaurant meals,” said Hu. “Trans fat intake in the U.S. is still high. Reducing trans fat intake should remain an important public health priority.” The study was supported by the National Instit...Cocoa Polyphenols may Offer Diabetes Benefits - Study
...koto Tomaru in the journal Nutrition. "The dietary intake of food or drinks produced from cacao beans might ...is study would be equivalent to a daily polyphenol intake of five grams for a human, said Tomaru, or about 2.5 kg of normal chocolate. However, studies using ...Eat Berries, Prevent Colon Cancer
...olon cancer, the disease has been linked to a high intake of saturated fats and calories, particularly in Western diets. Pterostilbene may be able to reverse this process, possibly by lowering lipids, Reddy says. He cites a recent study by co-author Agnes Rimando, a research chemist at the USDA-ARS, who dem...Study Attributes Elevated Liver Enzymes in HIV/hepatitis to Coinfection Rather Than Antiretrovirals
...tibodies and undetectable HCV RNA. Data on alcohol intake were also not included in the multivariate analysis. Of clinical significance in this study were that there was no increase in the risk of LEE for patients on ART and that the risk of LEE in coinfected patients is not modified by the use of ART. Lo...