Archive for October, 2009
Protect Your Breasts – Get Your Heart Pumping
Since this Breast Cancer Awareness month, I suppose ZIOH should have something to say regarding this malady. If it’s not clear to you by now, you should know that breast cancer is a disease of civilization and is unknown in “primitive” populations. The latest headlines report that the key to avoiding breast cancer may be [...]
In: Cancer, Diet, Disease, Exercise, Obesity
Aging Heart Can Be Prevented, Say Scientists
Tetsuo Shioi, lead researcher and assistant professor of medicine at Kyoto UniversityGraduate School of Medicine in Kyoto, and his team described how they managed to suppress a variety of the P13K gene in a group of elderly mice. They claim to have uncovered evidence that shows it may be possible to delay or prevent heart [...]
In: Diet, Disease, Heart Disease, Insulin
Fatty Foods May Help Pilots Concentrate
That was the surprising finding of a new military-funded study that sought to figure out what types of foods were best for pilots when missions restricted when or what they could eat. University of North Dakota researchers found that pilots who ate the fattiest foods such as butter or gravy had the quickest response times [...]
In: Diet, Pemmican, Video
U.S. Losing Ground on Preventable Deaths
The Washington Post reported that in comparison to other countries, Americans are dying too soon. They are dying from an array of injuries and illnesses that should not kill at an early age. What’s worse, the problem is getting worse, not better. The US spends some 2.4 trillion per year on medical care which is [...]
Bad Acne in Teens. Blame Parents?
This particular headline was particularly interesting to me. As a growing adolescent, I certainly had a major problem with acne. It got better as I aged, but it didn’t go away completely. Even as an adult, I still had the occasional pimple on my face but it moved to other parts of my body, whereas [...]
