Category: Research (Page 52 of 93)

      Frozen Food Can Be Healthier Than Fresh

      December 15, 2011 /

      Frozen fruits and vegetables are are great way to get the nutrients your body needs at their peak of freshness.

      Not only are frozen fruits and veggies just as nutritious as fresh, but they won’t spoil as quickly. By buying frozen, you’ll never be without a healthy option on hand. When making an omelet or pasta, you can easily throw in some broccoli and peppers for a delicious fiber boost. Next time you’re hankering for a smoothie—voila, just reach into your freezer for berries. Frozen produce is precut and prewashed, so the prep work is done for you. By making healthy food more readily available, you’ll be more likely to actually eat it.

      Nutrition, Research, Wellness

      Tanning Beds to Blame for Early Onset Skin Cancer

      December 14, 2011 /

      Warnings against sun exposure have overshadowed the risk of skin cancer caused by tanning beds.

      Indoor tanning beds were officially classified as a human carcinogen in 2009 as are cigarettes and asbestos.

      The findings indicate that frequent tanning-booth exposure will increase your risk of developing skin cancer.

      Basal cell carcinoma, a slow-growing cancer, has traditionally been a disease of middle age. But it’s been appearing with increasing frequency in people under 40, especially in women — a demographic that also happens to like indoor tanning — suggesting a link. So researchers at the Yale School of Public Health sought to study the association.

      Research

      Almost Everyone is Wearing Dirty Contact Lenses

      December 14, 2011 /

      Contact cleanliness has come under the microscope as more eye infections surface in contact lens wearers.

      In a survey of more than 400 contact lens wearers, Cavanagh found that just 2 percent of them are following the rules for safe contact lens use. Chief among the sins is showering or swimming while wearing contacts, sleeping in them and using them longer than recommended before throwing them out.

      With more and more people eschewing glasses for contacts the incidence of infections is on the rise and awareness is the best way to avoid illness.

      Quality Control, Research, Wellness

      Doctors Dodge Weight Issues

      December 14, 2011 /

      Doctors seem to have trouble discussing weight issues with their overweight patients.

      Lisa Flowers says weight is something she wishes her doctor would address more directly. At 47, Flowers stands 5 foot 7 and weighs nearly 300 pounds. She wasn’t always obese. But after she had a baby five years ago and moved from Washington, D.C., to Delaware, she says her workout and eating habits got off track.

      Flowers says she’s brought up her weight with her doctor, but the topic is “kind of avoided, almost as if he’s uncomfortable.”

      Doctors feel discouraged by the lack of commitment they perceive in their patients to losing weight.

      And as patients look to their doctors for answers their expectations may be unrealistic in that they are looking for a “magic bullet” to tackle their weight issues.

      Doctors, Quality Control, Research, Wellness

      The Risks of Being Left Handed

      December 11, 2011 /

      Left handedness has been a fascination of scientists for centuries.

      Curiosity ranged from fear to questions about how the brain works and what is different about left handed brains.

      New research explores what might cause left handedness and what, if any health risks may accompany this trait and whether or not the cause is in the genes or in the environment.

      Handedness, as the dominance of one hand over the other is called, provides a window into the way our brains are wired, experts say. And it may help shed light on disorders related to brain development, like dyslexia, schizophrenia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, which are more common in left-handed people.

      Other recent research suggests that mixed-handedness—using different hands for daily tasks and not having a dominant one—may be even more strongly linked than left-handedness to ADHD and possibly other conditions.

      About 10% of people are left-handed, according to expert estimates. Another 1% of the population is mixed-handed. What causes people not to favor their right hand is only partly due to genetics—even identical twins, who have 100% of the same genes, don’t always share handedness.

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