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      Non-Alcoholic Wine Is Best For Health Benefits

      September 8, 2012 /


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      Wine definitely has health benefits.

      Cardiovascular health, lowered blood sugar and healthy weight maintenance are all benefits of polyphenols and antioxidants in red wine, however, research has shown that without the alcohol the benefits are just as effective if not more so.

      Although there have been many studies on the impact of moderate drinking on health, the findings have been mixed, with some studies showing a benefit and others suggesting none. The new study found that 3 ounces of gin a day had no impact on blood pressure, while consumption of regular red wine led to a small, but not statistically significant, improvement.
      The new study suggests that if you’re going to have a drink, red wine would be the healthiest choice, said Dr. Kelly Anne Spratt, a heart disease prevention specialist and a clinical associate professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

      Nutrition, Quality Control, Research

      How To Be Environmentally Friendly With 33 Easy Tips

      September 8, 2012 /


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      It’s the little things we do everyday that can add up to real change.

      Using less, using smart and rethinking old habits can make a difference in your life and for the planet.

      Environmentally friendly tips won’t just help the planet but can help you live a healthier life, as well.

      Limiting your exposure to toxins, additives, factory farmed meats and dairy can whittle your waistline, improve your health and keep you in your budget.

      Tip Number 1

      Reuse it. Bring a reusable bag on your next shopping trip, and you’ve already helped out the planet. The U.S. alone uses about 100 billion new plastic bags each year, and (brace yourself) this massive production costs 12 million barrels of oil. Worldwide, only about 1% of plastic bags are recycled — which means that the rest end up in landfills, oceans or elsewhere in the environment. Why does it matter? Plastic bags don’t biodegrade, but light exposure can degrade them enough to release toxic polymer particles — most of which end up in the ocean. Approximately 1 million birds and 100,000 turtles and other sea animals die of starvation each year after ingesting after ingesting discarded plastics and other trash debris, which block their digestive tracts. And public agencies spend millions of dollars on litter clean-up each year. (In case you’re wondering, paper bags aren’t much better. Each year, 14 million trees are cut down to make paper shopping bags via a process that requires even more energy than the making of plastic bags.)

      Read on for more.

      Quality Control, Wellness

      High Blood Pressure Still Not Managed Very Well

      September 5, 2012 /


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      The CDC has done a great job of making the public aware of the dangers of hypertension yet many don’t make the changes necessary to keep their high blood pressure under control.

      High blood pressure quadruples the risk of a death from stroke and triples it for heart disease. So the CDC is pushing for more action.

      Previously, public health officials and groups in the private sector unveiled Million Hearts, a campaign to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2017. One plank of that plan is to improve the proportion of people with controlled blood pressure to 65 percent from 46 percent.

      So what will it take to achieve a goal like that? The CDC has some ideas.

      Among them:

      Take the blood pressure medicines you’ve been prescribed.
      Lose weight and stop smoking.
      Measure and keep track of your blood pressure between doctor visits.

      Simple lifestyle changes like consuming less salt and sodium and sugar along with maintaining a healthy weight and getting regular exercise go a long way toward keeping your blood pressure down.

      Hypertension is a contributing factor to stroke, and heart attack.

      Research, Wellness

      Study Shows That Lung Cancer Is On The Rise Among Non-Smokers

      September 5, 2012 /


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      Women are at much higher risk for contracting lung cancer and for women who have never smoked the rate of developing lung cancer is on the rise.

      The American Association for Cancer Research has found that lung cancer tumors in non-smokers are different than tumors in smokers and they are trying to determine why.

      The World Health Organization, WHO, recently classified diesel fumes as carcinogenic.

      This might explain the rise along with other environmental factors.

      “Not only has there been an increase in the number of women and non-smokers contracting the disease, but there has also been an increase in the number of cases diagnosed in stage 4 of the illness,” lead researcher Dr. Chrystèle Locher said in a statement.
      This change — 58 percent with stage 4 in 2010 compared with 43 percent in 2000 — might reflect new classifications of different stages of the disease, the researchers said. They also found big changes in the type of cancer being diagnosed. The rate of people developing adenocarcinoma, a form of non-small cell lung cancer, jumped from 35.8 percent to 53.5 percent over the decade.

      Quality Control, Research

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