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High Protein Sans Low Carb Diets Not Advisable For Pregnant Women

Pregnant women, whose protein intake is high, including meat, leaving behind the low carbohydrate diets are more prone to develop stress, according to a study.// Researchers led by Rebecca Reynolds at the Universities of Edinburgh and Southampton studied a group of 86 children born in 1967-8 to mothers who were told to eat a pound of red meat a day to avoid pregnancy complications. <...

High-Carbohydrate diet plus exercise !

A low-fat high-carbohydrate diet raises blood fats, unless it is combined with moderate exercise.It's assumed that a low-fat diet will reduce heart disease risk by lowering levels of cholesterol, especially low-density lipoprotein (LDL or 'bad' cholesterol). But a low-fat diet is often a high-carbohydrate diet (because you have to get calories from somewhere). And it's becoming evident th...

A high carbohydrate diet good for health

The American Department of indicates diets high in carbohydrates are actually lower in calories and higher in nutrients, despite of all the hype about the advantages of a low carbohydrate and no carbohydrate diet, new research by the Uhis type of diet,// they say, may be used for weight loss or weight loss management. Prevalence of Obesity has increased steadily during the past 25 yea...

Carbon monoxide passes down

Legislation pointed at reducing carbon monoxide emissions has resulted in a drop in poisoning deaths. Carbon monoxide can be fatal if inhaled and is involved in a number of accidental deaths and suicides each year. //The main sources of carbon monoxide are vehicle emissions and malfunctioning domestic heating equipment. In 1980, the Clean Air Act was passed in the US to reduce carbon mono...

Damage to arteries from injury can be avoided with carbon monoxide

Heart ailments that are treated with angioplasty or a transplantation may result in injury of the arteries. While in transplantation there is an ever-present risk of rejection of the// organ, in angioplasty, placing a balloon in the artery causes damage to the vessel walls. This in turn triggers the immune system response. A new study has however, revealed that pre-treatment with carbon m...

Good carb, bad carb? Experts debate.

Macaroni faster than spaghetti? A greenish banana faster than a freckled one? Yes, say some of the top-tier nutritional experts.They are convinced that carbohydrates should be labeled good or bad, just the way fats are.// The debate involves an idea called the glycemic index. It is a way of rating how quickly carbohydrates are digested and rush into the bloodstream as sugar. Fast, in t...

Low-Fat, High-Carb Diet Equally Effective In Weight Loss

For those trying to lose weight, there is a lot of confusion about what type of diet is best. While the trend right now is // to eat a low carbohydrate diet, a new study shows a low fat, high-carbohydrate diet is also effective at weight loss -- even when the amount of food is not restricted. For the research, investigators examined the effect of a 12-week low fat, high-carb diet alone a...

Evaluating The Benefits Of A Low – carb Diet

Low-carb diets do a better job of keeping metabolism on track when people are trying to lose weight, // and that might be helping people keep the pounds off for good, shows a new study. Researchers say carbohydrates such as white bread, refined breakfast cereals, and white sugar are rapidly digested, causing a quick rise in blood sugar and insulin. This in turn leads the body to slow th...

Hearing loss can happen from regular exposure to carbon monoxide

Animal studies have shown the regular exposure to carbon monoxide can damage// the ears of young children. Carbon monoxide enters into the atmosphere from kerosene and gas stove combustions, generators and other liquid fuel powered equipments, car exhaust and tobacco smokes. At moderate concentrations carbon monoxide can cause angina, poor vision, and at times brain function impairment...

Hope for Marburg treatment: vaccine successful in primates

The deadly Marburg virus that had affected a total of 423 cases in Angola,// which had left 357 dead, may finally have a treatment in the form of a vaccine. A virus causes Marburg hemorrhagic fever from the same family of virus that cause Ebola hemorrhagic fever. The disease is a rare condition but have the potential of causing an outbreak very fast. The symptoms begin with severe head...

Carboplatin Drug Is More Effective Than Radiation Therapy For Testicular Cancer

Treatment with chemotherapy drug Carboplatin is more effective and produces less toxic side// effects compared to radiation therapy for the treatment of testicular cancer. Professor Tim Oliver and colleagues from The London School of Medicine, UK has reported the results of their study in this week’s issue of The Lancet. 1477 patients with stage 1 seminoma from 70 hospitals in 14 coun...

Research Shows Carbon Monoxide Prevents Inflammations

Researchers from the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center had presented new findings// on the properties of the gas carbon monoxide that can cure inflammations in patients who had undergone organ transplants, strokes, or heart attacks. In a recent study the scientists had found that inhaling small amounts of carbon monoxide for several weeks after transplant surgery prevented t...

Weight loss accomplished by high carbohydrate, vegan diet

While it is important to lose weight for health, it is equally important to lose weight in a healthy way. A diet plan with unlimited servings of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and other such nutritious foods// seems tempting isn’t it? It is even easier to adapt and follow and is more effective than the conventional diet regime. It is time you had a peep into it! A low-fat, plant-base...

New Diet Sensation Insists That Carbs Are Good For Health

The Israeli researcher Olga Raz is all set to launch her diet plan, which recommends eating of bread to reduce weight, in US and other parts of the world through her book The Bread for Life Diet: The High-on-Carbs Weight Loss Plan.// The diet features bread, and lots of it – up to 12 slices a day for women and 16 slices a day for men – plus lots of other wholesome carbohydrates -- and...

Cataract incidence high among people on a high carbohydrate diet.

Cataract is a very common eye ailment generally associated with old age. Now-a-days it is easily treatable by a simple lens transplant and laser surgery.// But they are also a major cause of blindness worldwide is left untreated. According to a recent study at ARS Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Centre on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, women who ate an average of 200 to 268...

Lipoma Arborescens: A Rare Tumor Of The Knee

Lipoma arborescens (tree like, diffuse articular lipomatosis) is a rare, benign intra-articular lesion of unknown aetiology. //It is a very rare primary benign tumour of the synovium, and forms part of the differential diagnosis for a slowly progressive chronically swollen knee. About 50 cases of Lipoma arborescens have previously been reported, usually involving one knee, with occasion...

Protein Carbonyl Level Causes Oxidative Protein Damage In Diabetics

Oxidative stress is considered to be a unifying link between diabetes mellitus (DM) and its complications, including nephropathy.// There is sufficient evidence on increased production of oxidants and decreased level of antioxidants in diabetic patients. The dialysis procedure contributes to oxidative stress. An increase in oxidative stress may contribute to the development of oxidative p...

Attention Breakdown Is The Harbinger Of Alzheimer's Disease

A new study has found that breakdown in attention plays an important role in the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. People in early stages of Alzheimer's disease find it more difficult to shift attention back// and forth between different sources of information. The study, published in the recent issue of the journal Neuropsychology, suggests that routine tasks that require the...

Imported Plants Could Deadly Harbor Mosquitoes, Says Report

A report published in the Chemistry and Industry magazine says that tropical plants imported from Asia could harbor dangerous mosquitoes that transmit malaria, dengue and other related illnesses. // The Asian tiger mosquito has been implicated in about 23 diseases and this species was detected in the Netherlands leading to speculation that these diseases may spread in Europe. These mosqu...

Carbohydrate-rich Diet In Diabetes Raises Blood Pressure

A new study conducted by researchers at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center says that a carbohydrate-rich diet may compound the problem //faced by diabetics by increasing their blood pressure. The research team led by Dr Abhimanyu Garg, professor and chief of the division of nutrition and metabolic disease at the University compared the effects of a high-carb diet on blood pr...

Young Children Might Be Harboring Mental Health Problems

Experts addressing a recent conference at the Institute of Psychiatry in London warned that a tenth of children under five might be harboring a serious psychiatric illness // . In more than 11 % of cases, the children suffered symptoms bad enough to disrupt their daily lives, and failure to spot and treat these conditions early might be cause of unnecessary distress and suffering.<b...

Snippy haircuts, snappier AIDS lessons from barbers

Under the shade of a tree or by the side of a bus stand, they snap up conversations with customers while giving them a shave or a haircut. But the barbers // aren't quite indulging in idle chitchat: they are talking HIV/AIDS. In a novel initiative, 85 roadside barbers in the busy commercialised neighbourhood of Lajpat Nagar in south Delhi are spreading awareness about the disease and...

Low-Fat, High-Carb Diet For Post-Menopausal Women

The findings of a pilot study by The New Women's Health Initiative (WHI) suggests, a prolonged dietary pattern significantly deficient in fat but rich in carbohydrates results in negligible weight gain. // WHI investigated the connection between weight alterations in postmenopausal women Vis a Vis variations in consumed foods during a specific timeframe. Women in this category were a...

HIV/AIDS Awareness Info through Barber Shops, Salons

A Wilmington-based HIV/AIDS community outreach program in Delaware has thought of an offbeat salon approach to enhance awareness on HIV/AIDS.// Its “Do the Right Thing 4Life” program—supported by AIDS Delaware provides information on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, as well as condoms, to people via the participating barbershops and beauty salons. Do the Right Thing 4Life—foun...

HIV infected patients claim 30 million yuan in Harbin court

The verdict of the HIV transmission case is due today in Harbin court today. The case involves transmission of HIV virus to 15 people through blood collected from an infected couple who sold their blood to the Bei’an construction farm hospital in Heilongjiang province of Northeast China. // It was found that 15 people were infected from the virus directly through the contaminated blood tr...

90 Million Americans Harbor Drug Resistant Bacteria Inside Their Nose

A study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases has projected alarming reports of a 32% prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus in nasal samples, // among Americans. The organism is implicated as a causative factor in a majority of the hospital acquired infections. This report, prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is consistent with the increase in hospital-acqu...

Barbers In Malda Participate In HIV/AIDS Awareness Program

In an attempt to spread awareness about AIDS/HIV, the Rotarians of Malda and the district health officials of the State organized a health awareness program// ('One step for awareness about HIV-AIDS') in the English Bazaar town, targeted specifically at barbers. The local barbers, under the guidance of the organizing committee, organized a rally. A special AIDS/HIV awareness session w...

Absorption Of Carbon Nanotube Measured In Worms Revolutionize Cancer Research

Researchers from the University of Michigan have discovered how to measure the absorption of multi-walled carbon nanoparticles into worms and cancer cells. // Carbon nanotubes were discovered in 1991, and have a great value in several areas, including pharmacology and for hydrogen storage in fuel cells. But despite their promise, a big problem was that it's not known how multi-walled carb...

New Vaccine To Combat The Deadly Marburg Virus

The study team involving researchers from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and the National Microbiology Laboratory// at the Public Health Agency of Canada reported yesterday that the vaccine that is used to protect monkeys by in preventing hemorrhagic fever in monkeys after they were exposed to the deadly Marburg virus. Could also provide the first known tr...

Polymer Molecule Layered On Carb Molecule to Increase Sensitivity

According to a new research at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, scientists have developed a new biosensor which is highly sensitive in detecting// blood sugar levels. They have taken a polymer (protein) and layered it on the carbon nanotube to increase the detection capacity. This configuration can accommodate a wide range of applications, from ultra-precise blood-sugar monito...

Carboplatin, Lung cancer drug may be useful in treating breast tumor

If breast cancer in women has occurred because of two common genetic mutations, it may be possible to seek remedy from a prevalent chemotherapy medication. Carboplatin, which is being used// to treat ovarian and lung cancers, is getting known for its success rates in treating breast tumors. British scientists have conducted a research on mice which has revealed that cancer cells wit...

Low Carbohydrate Diet Packs No Bone Loss

A three-month study by rheumatologists at the University of South Florida stated that a restricted low-carbohydrate diet doesn’t increase the bone loss// for adults, who follows an Adkins diet prescribed for weight loss and it was published in the online issue of the journal Osteoporosis International. A more broadly used weight reducing technique nowadays is a low carbohydrate diet,...

Quality Of Dietary Carbohydrates May Determine Quality Of Eye Sight

In older adults Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is one of the primary causes of vision loss and a person's risk to develop the disease may partly depend upon his diet.// The quality of the carbohydrates consumed must be of primary concern rather than the quantity, according to a research led by Allen Taylor, PhD, director of the Laboratory for Nutrition and Vision Research , at...

Restriction of Carbohydrates to Prevent Alzheimer's Disease

Recent research has revealed that experimental dietary regimens can calm and even reverse symptoms of Alzheimer's disease//. The study, which appears in the July 2006 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, is the first to show that restricting caloric intake, specifically carbohydrates, may prevent AD by triggering activity in the brain associated with longevity. “Both...

Low Carbohydrate Diet Still the First Choice for Diabetics

Low Carbohydrate diets are still the first choice of combating type 2 diabetes because it is mainly a disease of insulin and blood sugar regulation// but have been resisted by some professionals and agencies in favor of pharmacologic approaches. Now, medical researchers in Sweden have reported a follow-up study of patients on a low-carbohydrate diet up to 22 months and report stable im...

Food Rich in High Carbohydrate, Effective in Maintaining the Weight Loss

According to a study it was found that food rich in carbohydrates was very effective in maintaining weight loss when compared to other diets. The study results are to be presented at the Australian //Institute of Food Science and Technology Incorporated Convention in Adelaide. The study was conducted by the University of Melbourne research dietician Liz Delbridge and her team. She stud...

Research Shows That Money May Not Harbour Many Pathogenic Bacteria

An Australian researcher has conducted a study that states that the long-held belief about people catching disease from handling money may be exaggerated.// Dr Frank Vriesekoop, a lecturer in food science at the University of Ballarat, conducted the research and found that there are generally very few pathogenic bacteria on banknotes and coins. He said, "The potential to spread diseas...

High Carb Diet Doubles Fat Loss

According to a study conducted by the Australian researchers, a diet rich in carbohydrate but low in glycemic index (GI) was found to be very effective //in preventing cardiovascular diseases. A diet with a high glycemic index results in the sudden rise in the blood sugar levels. Some of the food substances which have very low glycemic index are oats, barley, bran, wholegrain, sour dou...

Role of Carbohydrate trigger in Obesity and Diabetes

The absence of Carbohydrate Response Element Binding Protein (ChREBP) results in reduction of triglycerides, lowering of resistance to insulin and prevention of// normally obese mice from becoming fat. This study on mice was conducted by researchers at the University of Texas, Katsumi Iizuka, Bonnie Miller and Kosaku Uyeda of the UT Southwestern Medical Center, in Dallas. They discovere...

Carbon Monoxide May Prevent Pre-Eclampsia

Pre-eclampsia might be prevented if carbon monoxide is used, according to Bainbridge et al., who have published a paper called "Carbon monoxide inhibits // hypoxia/reoxygenation-induced apoptosis and secondary necrosis in syncytiotrophoblast." This report is published in the September issue of The American Journal of Pathology. Pre-eclampsia, a form of pregnancy-associated hypertension...