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Wednesday
03Feb2010

Chemical Exposure Linked to Attention Deficit Disorder in Children

Children exposed in the womb to chemicals in cosmetics and fragrances are more likely to develop behavioral problems commonly found in children with attention deficit disorders, according to a study of New York City school-age children published Thursday.

Scientists at Mount Sinai School of Medicine reported that mothers who had high levels of phthalates during their pregnancies were more likely to have children with poorer scores in the areas of attention, aggression and conduct.

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Tuesday
02Feb2010

Making Your Home Purposely Dirty

“How healthy bacteria can protect us from illness in the home.”

By Dr. Michael L. Johnson

In the 1800’s butter was made from cream using a device called a butter churn.  This simple wooden device would churn cream until it hardened into butter. Being made of wood, these devices were extremely porous and this allowed for the growth of bacteria, lots and lots of bacteria.  They were rarely washed and literally covered with bacteria.

Seeing how filthy these things were, would send a modern-day germophobe scrambling for the Purell and the Lysol.  But people were not dying from eating the butter from these horrifically dirty devices.  Why?

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Tuesday
26Jan2010

Vitamin D and Colon Cancer

Colorectal cancer is the second most common form of cancer in the western world. About 150,000 Americans will be told they have colon cancer this year and 50,000 will die. Your chance of developing colon cancer, sometime in your life, is about 1 in 15. Blacks are particularly affected by colorectal cancer, as well as other cancers, with both a higher incidence and mortality from colon cancer than non-blacks. We believe this is due to a widespread vitamin D deficiency within the black community.

Many factors contribute to causing colon cancer (it is multifactorial) but diet is probably the most important factor. Certain diets promote colon cancer, such as diets high in fat and red meat. Other diets help prevent colon cancer, especially diets high in fiber, calcium, fruits, and vegetables…

Vitamin D In the Fight Against Colon Cancer

Scientists first discovered the possible importance of vitamin D in preventing colon cancer more than 20 years ago. Let’s review some selected studies from the scientific literature to see what clues exist about the role vitamin D may play in preventing, and treating, colon cancer.

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Monday
25Jan2010

Mastering Your Own Mind

Distracted? Angry? Envious? There’s growing evidence that attention, emotion regulation—even love—are skills that can be trained through the practice of meditation. Perhaps it’s time for you to become a high-performance user of your own brain.

By Katherine Ellison, published on September 01, 2006 - last reviewed on January 21, 2010

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Friday
22Jan2010

Inclement Weather Linked to Headaches

As if there weren’t already enough reasons to curse fickle weather: a new study confirms it can trigger headaches.  For the 32 millions Americans who suffer from migraines, this may not come as a surprise.

Weather-related headaches are a common complaint, and several smaller studies have hinted that variables like temperature and barometric pressure may play a role in causing painful outbreaks.

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Thursday
21Jan2010

Scientists Find 'Baffling' Link between Autism and Vinyl Flooring

Children who live in homes with vinyl floors, which can emit chemicals called phthalates, are more likely to have autism, according to research by Swedish and U.S. scientists published Monday.

The study of Swedish children is among the first to find an apparent connection between an environmental chemical and autism.

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Wednesday
20Jan2010

Fish Oils May Slow Genetic Aging in Heart Patients

Heart disease patients have long been encouraged to eat more fish or take fish oil supplements containing omega-3 fatty acids. The reason? People who do, tend to live longer.  Researchers have discovered a clue to slowing down the aging process.

Now, some say a study out this evening in the Journal of the American Medical Association might explain why.

Specifically, the researchers behind the study report that for heart disease patients, omega-3 fatty acids may protect against death and illness by slowing biological aging.

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by AuthorDr. Michael L. Johnson DateWednesday, January 20, 2010 at 07:55AM | Print ArticlePrint Article
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Tuesday
19Jan2010

Mercury Common in U.S. Adults

Mercury exposure in the United States increases with age, then starts tapering off when people turn 50, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found in a study released today.

The CDC study is the first to measure mercury exposure in a wider U.S. population, following research that focused on young children and women in their childbearing years. People are often exposed to mercury through contaminated seafood, and a recent U.S. EPA survey found that almost half of U.S. freshwater fish carry mercury in excess of federal safe levels for human consumption.

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Thursday
14Jan2010

Chemical in Many Consumer Plastics Linked to Heart Disease

Higher concentrations of bisphenol A—a common ingredient in plastics found in products ranging from polyester to water bottles—have been linked to heart disease, according to a new follow-up study. A similar study was performed by the same team in 2008 using older data from a survey conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

“Our analysis of the [earlier data] was rightly treated with caution; it was the first ever report of these links,” says epidemiologist Richard Melzer of the Peninsula Medical School in England, an author of both studies, the latest one published Tuesday in PLoS ONE. “Associations with heart disease were clearly present again.”

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Tuesday
12Jan2010

H1N1 Flu Is a False Pandemic, Health Expert Claims

A leading health expert said the swine flu scare was a “false pandemic” led by drug companies that stood to make billions from vaccines, The Sun reported Monday.

Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, claimed major firms organized a “campaign of panic” to put pressure on the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a pandemic.

He believes it is “one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century,” and he has called for an inquiry.

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Tuesday
12Jan2010

Citing Hazard, New York Says Hold the Salt

First New York City required restaurants to cut out trans fat. Then it made restaurant chains post calorie counts on their menus. Now it wants to protect people from another health scourge: salt.

On Monday, the Bloomberg administration plans to unveil a broad new health initiative aimed at encouraging food manufacturers and restaurant chains across the country to curtail the amount of salt in their products.

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Thursday
12Nov2009

Brief Training in Meditation Eases Pain

A mini-course in  meditation may be all it takes to assist
in pain management.

A new study shows as little as an hour of mindfulness training is enough to reduce pain.

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Wednesday
04Nov2009

Snack And Soft Drink Sweetener Putting Millions At Risk Of High Blood Pressure

A sugary ingredient in processed snacks and soft drinks is putting millions at risk of high blood pressure, new research has revealed. High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is abundant in many types of foods and beverages and was originally viewed as a “healthy” method of sweetening.

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Wednesday
04Nov2009

Getting Yourself Back Part III:  Dreaming

“How to Find Yourself Again After A Period of Extreme Stress”

By Dr. Michael Johnson

Take a second and breathe.  Take a deep breath in and exhale it slowly.  Do this again.  There, that’s better.  Have you noticed people’s breathing shallows when they are stressed? 

When people are stressed out, it also limits their vision.  It makes them narrowly focus on their current needs and makes it impossible for them to plan for the future.  They lack vision.  They are in a fight with whatever stressor they are dealing with. 

So let’s try a radically different approach to how you handle things.  Instead of focusing solely on getting through the grind.  How about you allow yourself some time to focus on things you actually like!  Novel idea isn’t it?  Actually thinking about things that make you happy or would enjoy doing.

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Tuesday
03Nov2009

Aspirin 'Only For Heart Patients'

Low dose aspirin is widely given to people who have had heart problems.  The use of aspirin to ward off heart attacks and strokes in those who do not have obvious cardiovascular disease should be abandoned, researchers say.

The Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB) study says aspirin can cause serious internal bleeding and does not prevent cardiovascular disease deaths.  It says doctors should review all patients currently taking the drug for prevention of heart disease.

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by AuthorDr Jeri Neuman DateTuesday, November 3, 2009 at 08:12AM | Print ArticlePrint Article
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Friday
30Oct2009

Scientists Discover Influenza's Achilles Heel: Antioxidants

As the nation copes with a shortage of vaccines for H1N1 influenza, a team of Alabama researchers have raised hopes that they have found an Achilles’ heel for all strains of the flu—antioxidants. In an article appearing in the November 2009 print issue of the FASEB Journal they show that antioxidants—the same substances found in plant-based foods—might hold the key in preventing the flu virus from wreaking havoc on our lungs.

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by AuthorDr Jeri Neuman DateFriday, October 30, 2009 at 02:55PM | Print ArticlePrint Article
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Thursday
29Oct2009

House To Roll Out New Health Bill Today

Paving the way for a critical vote in the next two weeks, House Democratic leaders today plan to unveil a health-care bill that would create a new government insurance plan in all 50 states but step back from the most robust version of the public option.

According to senior lawmakers and aides, the legislation doesn’t dictate what the plan would pay hospitals, doctors and other providers, a goal that many liberal Democrats wanted as a means to control costs. Instead, much as commercial insurers do now, the federal government would negotiate rates with providers, a concession that Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and her lieutenants are making to Democrats wary of the public option.

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by AuthorDr Jeri Neuman DateThursday, October 29, 2009 at 08:28AM | Print ArticlePrint Article
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Thursday
29Oct2009

Diet Beats Drugs for Diabetes Prevention

Lifestyle changes resulting in long-term  weight loss of just a few pounds proved to be roughly twice as effective as drug treatment for preventing type 2 diabetes in an ongoing government-sponsored trial.  Researchers followed almost 3,000 high-risk patients for a decade in one of the largest and longest  studies aimed at  preventing diabetes ever conducted in the U.S.

Roughly a third of the participants were initially asked to eat a low-fat diet and engage in at least 30 minutes of moderate activity a minimum of five times a week, with the goal of losing 7% of their body weight within a year.  Another third were put on the diabetes drug  metformin; the remaining patients initially received no intervention. 

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Wednesday
28Oct2009

Job Stress Brings Gastrointestinal Problems

Stress can be hard on your gut. And that may be especially true when the work environment is extraordinarily stressful — such as cleaning up after the 9/11 attacks or serving in the military, according to researchers who have found a link between these stressful jobs and gastrointestinal problems.

The studies were presented this week at the annual meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology in San Diego.  Workers who helped with the cleanup at the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks are more likely than the general population to get  GERD (gastroesopheal reflux disease), in which contents of the  stomach travel back up to the  esophagus, says Yvette Lam, MD, a gastroenterologist at Stony Brook University Medical Center, N.Y., who presented the results of a study at the meeting.

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Monday
26Oct2009

American Cancer Society Rethinking Recommendations On Screening

For years, the American Cancer Society has promoted screening as an effective means of catching and killing tumors before they spread. Research published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that screening for some cancers may be less effective than previously thought, and that in turn is leading the ACS to reconsider its advice.

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