Month: April 2012 (Page 7 of 8)

Ten Great Reasons To Take Krill Oil!

April 9, 2012 / Staff

The benefits of krill oil are gaining recognition for improving health and overall wellness.

Krill are little crustaceans that look like shrimp and provide food for everything from salmon to blue whales and are one of the most nutritious creatures in the sea. Not only are they loaded with a powerful antioxidant called astaxanthin, but they’re a great source of omega-3 fatty acids which for years research has shown to help lower an individual’s risk for heart attack, stroke, certain cancers, depression and overall inflammation. The oil is naturally found in a species of krill called the Euphausia Superba and is extracted and sold as a nutritional supplement.
There has been a lot of research showing krill oil to be superior to fish oil in head-to-head testing. It has found to be healthier, safer, more potent and especially more absorbable.

These little crustaceans pack a powerhouse of health benefits from head to toe.

Ten Benefits Of Krill Oil:

Powerful Anti-oxidant

Protects Your Heart

Reduces Inflammation and Arthritis Pain

Improves Brain Function and Development

Regulates LDL and HDL Cholesterol

Improves Skin Health

Improves Immune Health

Improves Mental Health

Improves Premenstrual Syndrome

Anti-Aging Properties

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Tumor Risk From Cell Phone Use Disputed In Study

April 9, 2012 / Staff

A recent study has contradicted the tumor risk from cell phone use.

Although the study is far from conclusive it still causes a great deal of confusion to consumers.

There have been warnings about excessive use, use by young children and pregnant women.

It has been advised to blue tooth ear piece devices to divert electro-magnetic energy away from your body.

When the study first appeared last summer, Dr. Joel Moskowitz, from the School of Public Health at the University of California—Berkeley, said, “In my opinion, the interpretation of the results from this study and the accompanying editorial were biased in an attempt to reduce concerns that cellphone use increases brain tumor risk among children and adolescents.”
In December, a commentary in the journal Environmental Health, said, “Yet, in spite of low exposure, short latency period and limitations in study design, analyses and interpretation, there are nevertheless indications of increased risk … In any case, it is to go far beyond the findings of the study to say that the results are reassuring of no significant increased risk.”

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Doctors Recognize The Need To Test Less

April 4, 2012 / Staff

Doctors urge their colleagues to perform less tests.

When you consider that the majority of insurance dollars are spent in the last 6 months of a patient’s life we have to consider if this is money well spent.

This goes for testing, as well.

The Choosing Wisely project was launched last year by the foundation of the American Board of Internal Medicine. It recruited nine medical specialty societies representing more than 376,000 physicians to come up with five common tests or procedures “whose necessity … should be questioned and discussed.”
The groups represent family physicians, cardiologists, radiologists, gastroenterologists, oncologists, kidney specialists and specialists in allergy, asthma and immunology and nuclear cardiology.

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Obesity In The U.S. Is Worse Than We Thought

April 3, 2012 / Staff

Health officials now believe that we have underestimated the rates in obesity in the U.S.

The BMI (Body Mass Index), commonly used to measure obesity, gives an incomplete picture of a person’s physical condition.

BMI, the researchers say, is an overly simplistic measure that often misrepresents physical fitness and overall health, especially among older women. Nearly 4 in 10 adults whose BMI places them in the overweight category would be considered obese if their body fat percentage were taken into account, according to the study.
“Some people call it the ‘baloney mass index,'” says lead author Eric Braverman, M.D., president of the Path Foundation, a nonprofit organization in New York City dedicated to brain research.
Bodybuilders can be classified as obese based on their BMI, he says, while “a 55-year-old woman who looks great in a dress could have very little muscle and mostly body fat, and a whole lot of health risks because of that — but still have a normal BMI.”

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Breast Cancer Over-Diagnosis From Too Many Mammograms

April 3, 2012 / Staff

The potential for over-diagnosis and over-treatment from too many mammograms too early has become the subject of a recent study.

The Norwegian Study included nearly 40,000 women with invasive breast cancer.

The study allowed the researchers to compare the rate of breast cancers diagnosed through mammograms and those found because a tumor was palpable or produced symptoms.

Norway has data on virtually all women who get a diagnosis of breast cancer.

The researchers concluded that 15 percent to 25 percent of breast cancers were overdiagnosed — meaning 6 to 10 women were overdiagnosed for every 2,500 offered screening mammograms.
– Dr. Joanne Elmore of the University of Washington and Dr. Suzanne Fletcher of Harvard, in an editorial
Under current practice, those women get biopsies and treatment for breast cancers that would never have been detected otherwise. Either the cancers would have grown very slowly or not at all and never caused symptoms, or women would have died from something else before their breast cancer was diagnosed.

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