You might be surprised to learn that at least 9 health habits that most of perform are definitely negotiable.
From going to the dentist twice a year to when to toss old milk read about a few unnecessary personal care rules which many of us follow.
Category: Wellness (Page 21 of 116)
For optimal nutrient digestion and absorption, eating on a schedule may be the best way to help your body keep off excess weight.
This may be the overlooked factor in the weight loss equation.
“Every organ has a clock,” said study researcher Satchidananda Panda, of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif. That means there are times that our livers, intestines, muscles and other organs work at peak efficiency, and other times when they are — more or less — sleeping, Panda said.
These metabolic cycles are critical for processes such as cholesterol breakdown, and they should be turned on when we eat and turned off when we don’t, Panda said. When mice or people eat frequently throughout the day and night, it can throw off those normal metabolic cycles, he added.
When it comes to our bodies we all know that the good fats are best.
But what about our brains?
The results published online May 18 in the journal Annals of Neurology has shown that the cognitive function of older women who ate monounsaturated fats was better than those who ate saturated and trans fats.
Compared with those women who ate the lowest amounts of saturated fats, women in the highest saturated-fat category showed worse overall cognition and memory over the four years of testing. Women who ate the most mono-unsaturated fats, which can be found in olive oil, had better patterns of cognitive scores over time. Trans fats weren’t associated with changes in cognition over time, the researchers reported.
With diseases such as Alzheimer’s and dementia on the rise, the benefits could be greater that simply better memories and improved cognition.
Preventive measures to stem the increase of debilitating brain illness could benefit millions.
More than 5 million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer’s and the future doesn’t look promising.
Alzheimer’s statistics projected for 2050 show the grim reality that will be faced by many.
11 million additional people will have the condition in the United States.
115.4 million will have it worldwide, compared to the current figure of about 35.6 million.
$1.1 trillion will be spent in the U.S. on caregiving costs, compared with $200 billion this year.
The new strategy supports a $7.9 million dollar study on an insulin nasal spray treatment. Separately, researchers will work on the first-ever Alzheimer’s prevention trial in people with a genetic predisposition to develop the condition. The strategy also offers solutions for collaborating across federal and state agencies and for informing the public through a one-stop website, www.alzheimers.gov.
“The plan gives us a blueprint to build on our research efforts,” U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday at the announcement of the government’s new plan. “These actions are the cornerstone of an ambitious and aggressive agenda.”
Good news for coffee addicts who get conflicting news about their favorite beverage.
Coffee has more than 1,000 compounds and the effects of these compounds on human health have yet to be discovered.
Although it is not certain exactly why coffee benefits health there definitely seems to be some correlation.
Overall, in the U.S. about 64 percent of adults drink coffee daily, according to Joe DeRupo, spokesman for the National Coffee Association. At 3.2 cups a piece, that amounts to some 479 million cups a day, agency figures indicate.
Those coffee fans can take the new results seriously. The mortality reduction is modest but solid, said Freedman, whose study offered the size and power to document associations other researchers had only suspected.
He and his team in NIC’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics reviewed the coffee habits of more than 402,000 people followed between 1995 and 2008, including more than 52,000 who died.
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