Sunday 29 November 2015

Scientists Concerned About The Amount Of Fat And Trans Fats In Food

Scientists Concerned About The Amount Of Fat And Trans Fats In Food.
Fears that removing damaging trans fats from foods would unestablished the door for manufacturers and restaurants to unite other harmful fats to foods seem to be unfounded, a new cramming finds. A team from Harvard School of Public Health analyzed 83 reformulated products from supermarkets and restaurants, and found inconsiderable cause for alarm. "We found that in over 80 brand name, big national products, the great majority took out the trans fat and did not just replace it with saturated fat, suggesting they are using healthier fats to restore the trans fat," said lead researcher Dr Dariush Mozaffarian, an subsidiary professor of epidemiology.

Trans fats - created by adding hydrogen to vegetable lubricate to make it firmer - are cheap to produce and long-lasting, making them ideal for fried foods. They also reckon flavor that consumers like, but are known to decrease HDL, or good, cholesterol, and broaden LDL, or bad, cholesterol, which raises the risk for heart attack, fit and diabetes, according to the American Heart Association. The report, published in the May 27 consequence of the New England Journal of Medicine, found no increase in the use of saturated fats in reformulated foods sold in supermarkets and restaurants.

Baked goods were the only exception. Mozaffarian said trans fatty was replaced by saturated paunchiness in some bakery items, but they were the minority of products studied. Saturated fats have been associated in examine studies with an increased risk of atherosclerosis, diabetes and arterial inflammation.

The big up-front cost to toil is reformulating the product. "When industry and restaurants go through that effort, they are recognizing that, 'We might as well win the food healthier,' and in the great majority of cases they are able to do so. So, I think that there is greater acclaim to health than ever before, and industry and restaurants are trying to do the right thing".

Tuesday 17 November 2015

Smoking And Excess Weight Can Lead To A Cancer

Smoking And Excess Weight Can Lead To A Cancer.
Men with prostate cancer may hike their survival chances if they refund animal fats and carbohydrates in their chamber with healthy fats such as olive oils, nuts and avocados, new research suggests June 2013. Men who substituted 10 percent of their diurnal calories from animal fats and carbs with such hale fats as olive oil, canola oil, nuts, seeds and avocados were 29 percent less like as not to die from spreading prostate cancer and 26 percent less probably to die from any other disease when compared to men who did not make this healthy swap, the study found. And a wee bit seems to go a long way.

Specifically, adding just one daily tablespoon of an oil-based salad dressing resulted in a 29 percent mark down risk of dying from prostate cancer and a 13 percent put down 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 humanity disease, somewhat more than 21 percent died as a outcome of prostate cancer and slightly less than 21 percent died as a follow-up of another type of cancer. The findings appeared online June 10 in JAMA Internal Medicine. The read can't say for sure that including healthy fats in the slim was responsible for the survival edge seen among men.

Monday 16 November 2015

Patients With Alzheimer's Disease Observed Blunting Of Emotional Expression

Patients With Alzheimer's Disease Observed Blunting Of Emotional Expression.
Patients with Alzheimer's plague often can seem reclusive and apathetic, symptoms frequently attributed to memory problems or predicament finding the right words. But patients with the progressive brain disorder may also have a reduced power to experience emotions, a new study suggests. When researchers from the University of Florida and other institutions showed a humble group of Alzheimer's patients 10 positive and 10 negative pictures, and asked them to classify them as pleasant or unpleasant, they reacted with less intensity than did the group of healthy participants.

And "For the most part, they seemed to cotton on the emotion normally evoked from the picture they were looking at ," said Dr Kenneth Heilman, ranking author of the study and a professor of neurology at the University of Florida's McKnight Brain Institute. But their reactions were separate from those of the healthy participants. "Even when they comprehended the scene, their hotheaded reaction was very blunted". The study is published online in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences.

The swat participants - seven with Alzheimer's and eight without - made a mark dow a write on a piece of paper that had a happy face on one end and a sad one on the other, putting the mark closer to the lucky face the more pleasing they found the picture and closer to the sad face the more distressing. Compared to the in good participants, those with Alzheimer's found the pictures less intense.

They didn't find the pleasant pictures (such as babies and puppies) as charming as did the healthy participants. They found the negative pictures (snakes, spiders) less negative. "If you have a blunted emotion, kinsmen will say you look withdrawn". One important take-home point is for families and physicians not to automatically think a patient with blunted emotions is depressed and beg for or prescribe antidepressants without a thorough evaluation first.

Monday 9 November 2015

Uncontrolled Intake Of Vitamin E Is An Increased Risk Of Hemorrhagic Stroke

Uncontrolled Intake Of Vitamin E Is An Increased Risk Of Hemorrhagic Stroke.
People who stand vitamin E supplements may be putting themselves at a mortify increased endanger for a hemorrhagic stroke, researchers report. Some studies have suggested that taking vitamin E can cover against heart disease, while others have found that, in high doses, it might increase the danger of death. In the United States, an estimated 13 percent of the population takes vitamin E supplements, the researchers said.

And "Vitamin E supplementation is not as strongbox as we may like to believe," said distance researcher Dr Markus Schurks, who's with the division of preventive nostrum at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "Specifically, it appears to carry an increased risk for hemorrhagic stroke. While the jeopardize is low translating into one additional hemorrhage per 1250 persons taking vitamin E, widespread and unruly use of vitamin E should be cautioned against".

The report is published in the Nov 5, 2010 online version of the BMJ. For the study, Schurks and his colleagues did a meta-analysis, which is a rethinking of published studies, that looked at vitamin E and the risk for stroke. There are basically two types of stroke: one where blood spill to the brain is blocked, called an ischemic stroke, and one where vessels severance and bleed into the brain, called a hemorrhagic stroke. Of the two, hemorrhagic strokes are more rare, but more serious, the researchers noted.

The analysis team looked at nine trials that included 118756 patients. Although none of the trials found an overall imperil for stroke associated with vitamin E, there was a incongruity in the risk of the type of stroke.

Tuesday 3 November 2015

Teens Need Regularly Make Medical Examination

Teens Need Regularly Make Medical Examination.
Doctors often disdain to have a conference with their teen patients about sexuality issues during their annual physical, a new study reveals. This results in missed opportunities to enlighten and counsel young people about ways to help frustrate sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted teen pregnancies, the researchers suggested. The study, published Dec 30, 2013 in JAMA Pediatrics, complex 253 teens and 49 doctors from 11 clinics from the Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina area.

One-third of these teens did not expect questions about intimacy or discuss their sexual activity, sexuality, dating or sexual identity during their yearly check-ups, the muse about found. The researchers, led by Stewart Alexander of the Duke University Medical Center, recorded conversations between the teens and their doctor, and analyzed how much span was spent talking about sex. They also considered the involvement of teens in these discussions.

New Methods Of Recovery Of Patients With Stroke

New Methods Of Recovery Of Patients With Stroke.
Patients who go down a spelt type of stroke often have lasting problems with mobility, normal daily activities and the blues even 10 years later, according to a new study. Effects of this life-threatening type of stroke, known as subarachnoid hemorrhage, goal to a need for "survivorship care plans," Swedish researchers say. Led by Ann-Christin von Vogelsang at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, the researchers conducted a consolidation assessment of more than 200 patients who survived subarachnoid hemorrhage.

These strokes are triggered by a ruptured aneurysm - when a dull-witted quandary in one of the blood vessels supplying the brain breaks. The research was published in the March issue of the journal Neurosurgery. Participants, whose average period was 61, consisted of 154 women and 63 men. Most had surgery to treat their condition.

A decade after trial a stroke, 30 percent of the patients considered themselves to be fully recovered. All of the patients also were asked about health-related trait of life: mobility, self-care, usual activities, anxiety or depression, and hurt or discomfort. Their responses were compared to similar people who didn't have a stroke.