Dairy Products Contain Fatty Acids That Reduce The Risk Of Developing Type 2 Diabetes.
New scrutinization suggests that whole-fat dairy products - ordinarily shunned by healthfulness experts - contain a fatty acid that may discount the risk of type 2 diabetes. The fatty acid is called trans-palmitoleic acid, according to the burn the midnight oil in the Dec 21, 2010 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, and commonality with the highest blood levels of this fatty acid reduce their odds of diabetes by 62 percent compared to those with the lowest blood levels of it. In addition, "people who had higher levels of this fatty acid had better cholesterol and triglyceride levels, soften insulin stubbornness and lower levels of mutinous markers," said study author Dr Dariush Mozaffarian, co-director of the program in cardiovascular epidemiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard School of Public Health.
Circulating palmitoleic acid is found honestly in the benign body. It's also found in small quantities in dairy foods. When it's found in sources longest the human body, it's referred to as trans-palmitoleic acid. Whole draw off has more trans-palmitoleic acid than 2 percent milk, and 2 percent milk has more of this fatty acid than does glide milk. "The amount of trans-palmitoleic acid is proportional to the amount of dairy fat," said Mozaffarian.
Animal studies of the needless to say occurring palmitoleic acid have previously shown that it can watch over against insulin resistance and diabetes, said Mozaffarian. In humans, research has suggested that greater dairy consumption is associated with a lessen diabetes risk. However, the reason for this association hasn't been clear.
To assess whether this overlooked and rather rare fatty acid might contribute to dairy's unmistakable protective effect, the researchers reviewed data from over 3700 adults enrolled in the Cardiovascular Health Study. All of the participants were over 65 and lived in one of four states: California, Maryland, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Blood samples were analyzed for the mien of trans-palmitoleic acid, as well as cholesterol, triglycerides, C-reactive protein and glucose levels. Participants also provided poop on their usual diets.
Monday 30 June 2014
Monday 23 June 2014
Adolescents Who Watch R-Movies Smoke Are Three Times More Often
Adolescents Who Watch R-Movies Smoke Are Three Times More Often.
Teens who are allowed to safeguard R-rated movies are more no doubt to take up smoking than teens whose parents rod them from viewing mature movie content, according to new research. In fact, the burn the midnight oil authors estimated that if 10- to 14-year-olds were completely restricted from viewing R-rated movies, their endanger of starting to smoke could drop two to threefold. However, the study found that only one in three inexperienced American teens is restricted from viewing R-rated films, which are restricted at the box office to teens 17 and older unless the boy is accompanied by an adult.
And "When watching popular movies, whippersnapper are exposed to many risk behaviors, including smoking, which is rarely displayed with negative trim consequences and most often portrayed in a positive manner or glamorized to some extent. Previous studies have shown that adolescents who take in movie smoking are more likely to begin smoking," said the study's lead author, Rebecca de Leeuw, a doctoral swotter at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
So "Our findings tell that parental R-rated movie restrictions were directly related to a lower risk of smoking initiation, but also indirectly through changes in children's furor seeking," de Leeuw added. "Sensation seeking is coupled to a higher risk for smoking onset. However, children with parents who restrict them from watching R-rated movies were less probable to develop higher levels of sensation seeking and, subsequently, at a degrade risk for smoking onset," she explained.
Findings from the study are scheduled to appear in the January issue of Pediatrics. The writing-room included data from a random sample of 6522 American children between the ages of 10 and 14 years old. The middling age of the children at the start of the investigation was 12. The children were followed for two years, and given periodic re-evaluations at 8, 16 and 24 months to associate with if they had begun smoking during that time period.
Teens who are allowed to safeguard R-rated movies are more no doubt to take up smoking than teens whose parents rod them from viewing mature movie content, according to new research. In fact, the burn the midnight oil authors estimated that if 10- to 14-year-olds were completely restricted from viewing R-rated movies, their endanger of starting to smoke could drop two to threefold. However, the study found that only one in three inexperienced American teens is restricted from viewing R-rated films, which are restricted at the box office to teens 17 and older unless the boy is accompanied by an adult.
And "When watching popular movies, whippersnapper are exposed to many risk behaviors, including smoking, which is rarely displayed with negative trim consequences and most often portrayed in a positive manner or glamorized to some extent. Previous studies have shown that adolescents who take in movie smoking are more likely to begin smoking," said the study's lead author, Rebecca de Leeuw, a doctoral swotter at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
So "Our findings tell that parental R-rated movie restrictions were directly related to a lower risk of smoking initiation, but also indirectly through changes in children's furor seeking," de Leeuw added. "Sensation seeking is coupled to a higher risk for smoking onset. However, children with parents who restrict them from watching R-rated movies were less probable to develop higher levels of sensation seeking and, subsequently, at a degrade risk for smoking onset," she explained.
Findings from the study are scheduled to appear in the January issue of Pediatrics. The writing-room included data from a random sample of 6522 American children between the ages of 10 and 14 years old. The middling age of the children at the start of the investigation was 12. The children were followed for two years, and given periodic re-evaluations at 8, 16 and 24 months to associate with if they had begun smoking during that time period.
Sunday 15 June 2014
Smoking And Excess Weight Can Lead To A Cancer
Smoking And Excess Weight Can Lead To A Cancer.
Men with prostate cancer may rise their survival chances if they restore animal fats and carbohydrates in their nutriment with healthy fats such as olive oils, nuts and avocados, new research suggests June 2013. Men who substituted 10 percent of their routine calories from animal fats and carbs with such beneficial fats as olive oil, canola oil, nuts, seeds and avocados were 29 percent less indubitably to die from spreading prostate cancer and 26 percent less meet to die from any other disease when compared to men who did not make this healthy swap, the study found. And a miniature bit seems to go a long way.
Specifically, adding just one daily tablespoon of an oil-based salad dressing resulted in a 29 percent demean risk of dying from prostate cancer and a 13 percent earlier risk of dying from any other cause, the study contended. In the study, nearly 4600 men who had localized or non-spreading prostate cancer were followed for more than eight years, on average. During the study, 1064 men died.
Of these, 31 percent died from marrow disease, slight more than 21 percent died as a follow-up of prostate cancer and slightly less than 21 percent died as a upshot of another type of cancer. The findings appeared online June 10 in JAMA Internal Medicine. The swat can't say for sure that including healthy fats in the council was responsible for the survival edge seen among men.
Men with prostate cancer may rise their survival chances if they restore animal fats and carbohydrates in their nutriment with healthy fats such as olive oils, nuts and avocados, new research suggests June 2013. Men who substituted 10 percent of their routine calories from animal fats and carbs with such beneficial fats as olive oil, canola oil, nuts, seeds and avocados were 29 percent less indubitably to die from spreading prostate cancer and 26 percent less meet to die from any other disease when compared to men who did not make this healthy swap, the study found. And a miniature bit seems to go a long way.
Specifically, adding just one daily tablespoon of an oil-based salad dressing resulted in a 29 percent demean risk of dying from prostate cancer and a 13 percent earlier risk of dying from any other cause, the study contended. In the study, nearly 4600 men who had localized or non-spreading prostate cancer were followed for more than eight years, on average. During the study, 1064 men died.
Of these, 31 percent died from marrow disease, slight more than 21 percent died as a follow-up of prostate cancer and slightly less than 21 percent died as a upshot of another type of cancer. The findings appeared online June 10 in JAMA Internal Medicine. The swat can't say for sure that including healthy fats in the council was responsible for the survival edge seen among men.
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