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Food Habits Could Change Your Genes

Eating specific food could change your genes, say researchers after success in a rodent study.Researchers Moshe Szyf, Michael Meaney and colleagues at McGill University in Montreal have found that nutrients // and supplements changed genetics by switching on or off certain genes in rodents, reports science portal EurekAlert. The new research was conducted in the lines of a two-year-o...

Heredity Can Decide Your Drinking Habits

New study says that how much we drink may be decided by a genetic factor. // The study has revealed that the gene called DRD2 Taq1A(C32806T) polymorphism and social alcohol drinking may be related in opposite direction. This means people with a stronger gene of this type will tend to drink alcohol less than people with a weaker effect of this gene. The gene is responsible for enhancing...

Omega 3 Fatty acids (fishy oil) Inhibits Breast Cancer Growth

Omega 3 fatty acids better known for their close association to fishes has been proven to inhibit growth of breast cancer cells. Dietary intake of omega 3 fatty acids such as docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) // may curb the growth of breast cancer cells, according to a study published in the International Journal of Cancer. Min Wu and colleagues at M...

Zyflamend inhibits 78 percent of prostate cancer cells

An article published in the October issue of the journal Nutrition and Cancer says that Zyflamend, an herbal extract from olive oil could end the search for a drug to beat prostate cancer.// It was found that this element caused the prostate cancer cells to commit "suicide." The researchers report that the drug had the ability to inhibit 78 percent of the cancer cell growth plus it also...

Garlic inhibits fungal growth and protects food

In a pilot study conducted it has been revealed that garlic extract can inhibit the growth of fungus. This study heralds a new chapter in food safety. Garlic extract can be used a inhibitory against fungal contamination // of food.The fungus on which the effect was seen was Aspergillus, a potent strain which spoils foods a lot. It is the commonest fungi to spoil foods and is a menace....

A Comparative Study On Dietary Habits In Middle School Students And Increase In Weight

A recent study in Chicago compares the dietary habits and increased weight in the middle school students reports that due to regular intake of high calorie diet and employment of food as motivation resulted in an increase in the weight of the students//. Other factors such as selling food and organizing fund raising programs with food as a sole aim all point out to the increased body weig...

Seasonal Variation In Exercise And Eating Habits Identified

A novel study conducted to analyze the fluctuations in eating and exercise habits of individuals has revealed that it may vary over different seasons with a tendency to eat more during winter. // It is further supported by the fact that there is a corresponding seasonal change in the body weight and physical activity. Researchers at University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester...

A new study on meal pattern and eating habits

A study that appears in the March 2006(forthcoming) issue of the Journal of Consumer Research studied the eating patterns and habits of people revealed that eating habits are made different.// The main researchers were Adwait Khare (University of Houston) and J. Jeffrey Inman (University of Pittsburgh). They identified two ways of characterizing eating habits. The term used to describe...

Snap Shot of the Drinking Habits of the Scots and Its Associated Memory Loss

According to the survey conducted by the Scottish executives large numbers of Scots is experiencing memory loss as a result of binge// drinking. The researchers feel that memory loss is associated with long-term brain damage. It can also leave young women in vulnerable situations, becoming a target for rapists. This survey targeted young people in four cities found that a large percenta...

Sports Can Improve Eating Habits In Adolescents

Adolescents involved in sports activities seem to eat healthy food compared to their peers who refrain from sports, a new study has found//. Teenage girls who participate in weight-related sports activities such as ice-skating, gymnastics and wrestling are more likely to eat breakfast regularly. Furthermore, they ate snacks and dinner more frequently compared to other girls who were not...

False Dietary Habits Gives Way To Food Poisoning Risk

A report on food poisoning says factors which lead to bad hygienic habits includes confusion, ignorance and a carefree attitude in food choices //. The Food and Drink Federation launched a National Food Safety Week focussing on the areas where cleanliness need a large role to play, since 79,283 cases were reported with food poisoning in UK last year. Now nearly half (54 p...

Good Sleep Habits Could Reduce the Intensity of Migraines

Good sleep habits can help lessen the intensity of migraines, says a study. Anne Calhoun, associate professor of neurology //at the University of North Carolina Medical School, studied over 100 women migraine sufferers and found those who improved their sleep habits had reduced headache frequencies. Those who improved their act reduced their headache frequency by 29 percen...

Unhealthy Oral Habits among Teenagers – Reported Dental Health Authoritie

While some progress has been taken to improve the oral health of children and adolescents but much remains to be investigated - Researchers team reported// in an international session of Dental Health. Researchers from eight countries including Australia, China, Finland, Ireland, Japan, Kuwait, Scotland, Thailand reported in the 84th General session of the International Association for...

Changing Food Habits: Fodder For Thought

India is a land of diversity-her myriad landscapes, varied tongues, resplendent festivals and multi-ethnicity reflect the culture of this ancient land. Indian cuisine, which// is as diverse and splendid as the colorful country, has gained connoisseurs, even among the rich and the renowned, across the globe. Since the pre-Christian era, the aroma of the famous Indian spices wafted far en...

School atmosphere have some bearing on bad habits in children

A research done in Scotland revealed that smoking and drinking habits in school kids are influenced by happy teachers, health education program// in classroom and encouragement of good behavior. Dr. Marion Henderson of the MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at Glasgow University conducted this study. 446 students at three Scottish schools were questioned about their smoking and...

Antibiotic Inhibits Cancer Gene Activity

A little-known antibiotic shows early promise as an anti-cancer agent, inhibiting a gene found at higher-than-normal levels in most human tumors, // according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. Their findings appear in the Oct. 1 issue of Cancer Research. "We chose to target a gene believed to be over-expressed in cancer cells to sc...

Study IDs Protein That Inhibits HIV From Growing In Cell Cultures

How a harmless virus called GB Virus type C (GBV-C) protects against HIV infection is now better understood. Researchers at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Iowa// City Health Care System and the University of Iowa have identified a protein segment that strongly inhibits HIV from growing in cell models. The team found that an 85-amino acid segment within a GBV-C viral protein c...

Phone Counseling Helps Patients Improve Eating and Exercise Habits

Telephonic counseling has been found to be of immense help for patients to lose weight and become fit, according// to a study. “There’s an important use for the telephone in delivering support for making changes to physical activity and diet,” said Elizabeth Eakin, Ph.D., lead study author, at the University of Queensland in Australia. Eakin and her colleagues in the Schoo...

Children Pick Up Drinking Habits from Home

A new study has found that children pick up boozing from home. Based on this, researchers are warning that if parents want to keep alcohol away from their middle school children, the best place to start is at home. The study was conducted by a team of researchers including principal investigator Kelli Komro and lead author Mary O Hearst at the University of Minnesota,...

Why Do People Stick To Their Bad Habits?

Why do people ignore public warnings and advertisements on the dangers of bad habits like smoking, drinking alcohol, overeating and stressing out //though they know that they aren't good for health? Why persist in bad habits have become the convention of many people across the Globe? Because, says a University of Alberta researcher, we aren't getting at the underlying reasons of why we...

Tidbits on Tarantula bites and fiery Pepper sensations!

In a recent study that was published by scientists from UCSF a leading university that advances health worldwide by conducting advanced biomedical research //it was established that the same nerves are sensitized when tarantula venom is introduced to mice as hot chili peppers when fed to them. This experiment throws interestingly proves that the defensive mechanism of some animals and...

Increase your life span by doing away with bad habits

Bad habits die hard! Indeed, but to have a long life, one needs to make a conscious effort to cut down risks to life, by giving up bad habits.// A study tracked more than 5,800 middle-aged Japanese-American men, whose average age was 54. The finding revealed that the chances of subjects reaching the age of 85, was almost 69% for men with no risk factors whatsoever. In contrast men with...

Mutated Gene and Bad Habits can Lead to Age-related Macular Degeneration

Blame it on your genes and yourself too. Scientists, lead by Dr Debra A. Schaumberg from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston,// US, have reported that the presence of a gene mutation as well as risk factors like smoking and obesity increase the chance of developing age-related macular degeneration. The gene mutation :complement factor H (CFH Y402H) mentioned in the Archives of...

Low Fat Dietary Habits can Help Check Breast Cancer Recurrence

Results from a study carried out by non-profit National Institute of Cancer Research delving into the influence of healthy dietary habits //in the prevention and treatment of cancer has come out with significant findings. The results published in the journal of the institute show that a low fat diet can decrease the recurrence of breast cancer in women, especially in that of estrogen re...

Excessive TV Viewing Linked to Poor Eating Habits in Children

The more a 3-year-old watches television, the more he or she consumes sugary drinks, and extra calories, Harvard researchers// said today. “For every one-hour increase in TV viewing per day, we found higher intakes of sugar-sweetened beverages including juice (one extra serving per week) and total calories (46.3 more kcal/day)," said Sonia Miller, B.A., lead author of the study and a...

Use Daylight-saving Change to Practice Healthy Sleep Habits

Ah, daylight-saving time. An extra hour to enjoy life outside. An extra hour to stay up late. And an hour less to sleep// . What should we do when the clock jukes and jives with our circadian rhythms, those biological waves that regulate our sleep? It’s bad enough for adults, who understand the concept. What about kids, who will want to squeeze out every last drop of sunsh...

Peptide Found in Human Blood Inhibits 60 Strains of HIV, Study Says

A peptide found in human blood inhibited 60 strains of HIV from infecting cells in laboratory tests, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Cell//, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Researchers found the peptide can inhibit HIV strains that have developed resistance to existing medications --a discovery that could lead to the development of new HIV/AIDS drugs -- the Chr...

Wheat Germ Extract Inhibits Breast Cancer in Study

CHICAGO, A fermented wheat germ extract inhibits estrogen positive and estrogen negative breast cancer tumors better than the world's best selling cancer drug, Tamoxifen, according to research published this past weekend at the 2007 meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, ASCO. The compound, Avemar, has been extensively studied in many cell lines, animal tumor models,...

Glucosamine-like Supplement Inhibits Multiple Sclerosis, Type 1 Diabetes

A glucosamine-like dietary supplement has been found to suppress the damaging autoimmune response seen in multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes mellitus, according to University of California, Irvine health sciences researchers. In studies on mice, Dr. Michael Demetriou and colleagues with the UC Irvine Center for Immunology found that N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc), which is simil...

Vaccines That Kick Drug Habits, Minimize Withdrawal Symptoms Developed

Researchers have designed a pair of new vaccines that not only fight cocaine and methamphetamine addiction but also minimize its withdrawal symptoms. The study was conducted by a team of researchers led by Dr. Thomas Kosten and Jay H. Waggoner at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). As part of the study, researchers examined the effect of the vaccines on subjects adminis...

Researchers Discover How Antibiotic Inhibits Bacterial Growth

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in collaboration with research teams from Pharmacia & Upjohn and Pfizer, have discovered precisely how the antibiotic linezolid inhibits bacterial growth. Scientists have known that the drug linezolid -- the first new antibiotic to enter the marketplace in 30 years -- works by binding to ribosomes, the protein production factory...

Cell Toxin Inhibits Survival Protein in Cancer Cells

A chemically-modified version of a mitochondrial toxin long used to control species of invasive fish in lakes has been found to selectively inhibit two "survival proteins in cancer cells. The research is a first step toward developing a molecularly-targeted drug that could eliminate cellular-level resistance to multiple types of chemotherapy and radiation therapy found in many type...

A Role Model Spouse can Pass on Good Health Habits

A new study has found that good health habits of a person can influence his/her spouse in adopting the same behaviour . The study, published in the journal Health Services Research, has shown that being a good role model can actually help a spouse take up a healthy lifestyle. When one spouse quits smoking or drinking, gets a cholesterol screening or rolls up a sleeve f...

Olive-pomace Oil Compound Inhibits HIV Spread

A new study has found that a compound from olive-pomace oil slows down the spread of HIV virus . Researchers from the University of Granada and Hospital Carlos III in Madrid, established that maslinic acid, found in wax from olive skin, inhibits serin-protease, the enzyme used by HIV to discharge itself from the infected cell into the extra cellular environment and, subsequently, to...