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Life begins at 40?
Well, really taking care of your health starts at 40, for sure.
Getting regular medical checkups, eating well, exercising and getting enough sleep are key to ushering in a new decade feeling great!
For women with faced with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer trastuzumab emtansine, commonly referred to as T-DM1, will offer a very important therapeutic option.
The drug, trastuzumab emtansine, commonly referred to as T-DM1, appears to be superior to the standard treatment for women with advanced HER2-positive breast cancer. Researchers are presenting the results of a large three-year clinical trial Sunday at the 2012 American Society of Clinical Oncology conference in Chicago.
This two pronged approach to treating cancer offers an effective result with fewer side affects than traditional treatments.
Because the drug is delivered directly to the cancer and not into the blood stream the immune system has the opportunity to help fight the cancer.
Coconut oil is credited with a great deal of health benefits which range from promoting weight loss to fighting bacteria, fungus and viruses, however it is the promise of a treatment for Alzheimer’s and dementia that has made the news.
Find ways to get nature’s superfood into your diet for all of the many health benefits offered by coconut oil.
Edible food “Stop Signs” may be just the thing to remind you to quite eating.
The visual reminder helps people to manage portion control and acts to snap you out of the compulsion to continue eating out of momentum.
And it actually works.
People consumed 250 less calories when the edible “stop signs” were used.
Such mindless habit-eating helps explain why some people go overboard while snacking. Other reasons, the study notes: people aren’t good at self-monitoring how much they eat, or they eat what they believe — incorrectly — is an appropriate portion.
“By inserting visual markers in a snack-food package, we may be helping them to monitor how much they are eating and interrupt their semi-automated eating habits,” lead researcher Brian Wansink, director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab and author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think, said in a statement.
As Western lifestyle habits extend into developing countries, so too, do the diseases which come with them.
In a paper from the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France the findings indicate that along with a rise in living standards, cancer will be on the rise.
A 75 percent increase in cancer by 2030 is expected in the developing world.
The researchers said that rising living standards in less developed countries would probably lead to a decrease in the number of infection-related cancers. But it was also likely there would also be an increase in types of the disease usually seen in richer countries.
They predicted that middle-income countries such as China, India and Africa could see an increase of 78 percent in the number of cancer cases by 2030.
Cases in less developed regions were expected to see a 93 percent rise over the same period, said the paper published in the journal Lancet Oncology.
Those rises would more than offset signs of a decline in cervical, stomach and other kinds of cancer in wealthier nations, said the researchers.
The most common types of cancer in the world are lung cancer, female breast cancer, colorectal cancer, stomach cancer, prostate cancer, liver cancer and cervical cancer.
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