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Yo-yo Dieting Increases Kidney Cancer Risk in Women

...uations might lead to kidney damage by stirring up metabolic or functional changes that increase cancer susceptibility. Dr Colin Waine of the National Obesity Forum insisted that yo-yo dieting was unhealthy as constant weight fluctuation does not allow the body to settle. "Yo-yo dieting is never a healthy ...

Drink Milk for a Healthy Heart

... six who took part in the study was diagnosed with metabolic syndrome - a combination of medical disorders that...yoghurt or cheese halves the chances of developing metabolic syndrome, the study showed. The condition - sometimes called insulin resistance - affects the body'...

Study Finds Abdominal Fat Not the Prime Cause for Metabolic Syndrome

...bdominal fat is not the primary factor for causing metabolic syndrome but insulin resistance also plays a part...tire that many of us carry has long been linked to metabolic syndrome, a combination of medical disorders that increase one's risk for cardiovascular disease and...

Avandia Improves Quality of Life in Diabetes Patients

... the published studies aimed primarily to evaluate metabolic or glycemic control, which is the drugs ability to...on, Richter said. The use of proxy indicators like metabolic control is not sufficient to approve drugs that many patients have to take for the rest of their liv...

High Nonfasting Triglyceride Levels Linked With Cardiovascular Risks

...ing triglyceride levels or attenuating atherogenic metabolic abnormalities. If our findings are confirmed, clinical care might be simplified by using nonfasting lipid profiles for atherosclerosis risk prediction, the researchers conclude. Contact the JAMA/Archives Media Relations Department at 312-464-JAM...

A Centre for Glycemic Index Testing Opened in Chennai

...nough substantiation about the Glycemic Index (the metabolic speed at which food is converted into blood glucose) to prompt a serious analysis of the Indian diet. The new centre will analyze some of the most common foods for their GI value. The direct purpose will be to collect a GI database for common food...

Sensible Diet, Exercise and Weight Control Increases Longevity

...in. This insulin-like pathway governs growth and metabolic processes in cells throughout the body. The pathway is activated when insulin and insulin-like growth factor-1 switch on proteins inside the cell called insulin receptor substrates (Irs). Other researchers have already shown that reducing the acti...

Simple Chemical Reaction may Help Early Disease Diagnosis

... visibility of markers for some genetically caused metabolic disorders up to 100 times when detected through nu...logical stress or a specific disease state. "The metabolic profile in biofluids, such as blood and urine, provides a snapshot of ongoing biological processes i...

Japanese are Weighed Down by Deviating from Their Traditional Diet

...se in the number of Japanese at risk of developing metabolic disorders associated with obesity, high cholestero...is considered obese and at high risk of developing metabolic disorders. Companies will have to provide counselling on fitness and nutrition to those high-risk ...

Smoking, Glucose Tolerance Level may Increase Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk

...smoking, low formal level of education and certain metabolic indicators are high risk factors in the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The study was conducted by a team of researchers led by Dr Ulf Bergstrom at the Malmo University Hospital, Sweden. As part of the studies, researchers examined peo...

New Definition Helps Identify Children at Risk of Metabolic Syndrome

...inition is published in The Lancet(1) today. The metabolic syndrome is a cluster of the most dangerous risk f...ild to disorders such as obesity, prediabetes, and metabolic syndrome. At the same time, urbanization, unhealthy diet and sedentary lifestyle are increasing the ...

Experimental Drug Ketasyn(TM) (AC-1202) Treats Alzheimer's as Diabetes of the Brain

...and cognition and brain shrinkage. Because these metabolic defects in the brain often appear 10 to 20 years earlier than other AD symptoms, targeting them may allow for earlier treatment of the disease. Based on this hypothesis, Accera is developing the AD drug, Ketasyn(TM) (AC-1202), which provides glucose-...

Stressed Mice may Hold Clue to How Fat is Stored: Study

...these findings might eventually lead to control of metabolic syndrome.... Decreasing fat in the abdomen of the ...re activated during stress, leading to obesity and metabolic syndrome in mice on fatty diets. By injecting Y2R blockers into abdominal fat, however, they manag...

Blocking the Y2 Receptors can Prevent Obesity

...ly, in addition to having flatter bellies, adverse metabolic changes linked to stress and diet, which include glucose intolerance and fatty liver, became markedly reduced. We do not know yet exactly how that happens, but the effect was remarkable, she said. Professor Herzog believes that these research findi...

"Decryption" of Enzyme's Functions Paves Way for Future Drug Discovery

...t the enzyme works in a previously uncharacterised metabolic pathway in bacteria....

Gene Responsible for Ageing Process Discovered and Calorie Restriction Could Help

... down on their calorie intake improved in terms of metabolic markers that are linked to longer living. There has been a dramatic increase in longevity over the past couple of centuries due to improvements in housing and sanitation, nutrition and health. People in the West especially are living longer, but...

Fertility Rates Felled By Diabetes

...not produce the hormone insulin needed for various metabolic activities. In such samples it was seen that diabetes brought about a damage of the sperms. Defective sperm DNA that was observed by the scientists in these men, is one of the leading causes of male infertility. Here an average of 52 percent of the...

Vitamin Extends Life in Yeast, Dartmouth Medical School Researchers Find

...d with aging including neurodegenerative diseases, metabolic syndrome, and elevating good cholesterol. There are also indications that NR could be a treatment for one type of Candida infection....

Spit Test Kit on the Cards to Ascertain Pre-eclampsia Risk

...e, quick and cheap, and can be done any time. As a metabolic test independent of blood pressure, it may obviate the need for unnecessary hospital admission." The conventional testing that employs using blood pressure and urine monitoring is not always reliable, as the indications could be attributed to facto...

Research Reveals Way to Speed Up Treatment of Deadly Malignant Hyperthermia

...e. Malignant hyperthermia is a silent, inherited metabolic disorder of the muscle that is triggered by specific inhaled anesthetics or succinylcholine and can result in a severely high body temperature. Affected individuals usually appear normal and have no functional difficulties in everyday life. Howeve...

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