Daily diet of almonds is no magic solution for weight loss
ConclusionDespite the excitement in the tabloid headlines, this is a very small study with not particularly surprising results. You would expect that adding a food with known nutritional value to a daily diet would increase the overall quality of that diet, for the time that people continued to eat the food in question. The researchers' more ambitious aims – to show that nuts improved immune system and bowel function – were not met. In addition to its small size, the study had other limitations. As the people in the study were not blinded to the intervention period, this could have affected their answers to questio...
Source: NHS News Feed - February 24, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Food/diet Lifestyle/exercise Pregnancy/child Source Type: news
Oversleeping: The Effects and Health Risks of Sleeping Too Much
This article originally appeared on the Amerisleep blog. Rosie Osmun is the Creative Content Manager at Amerisleep, a progressive memory foam mattress brand focused on eco-friendly sleep solutions. Rosie writes more posts on the Amerisleep blog about the science of sleep, eco-friendly living, leading a healthy lifestyle and more. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website. (Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post)
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The global spectrum of plant form and function
Do existing plants represent all theoretically possible combinations of structure and function for growth, survival and reproduction? To answer this question an international team from 14 countries analyzed the most comprehensive global data set of essential plant functional traits ever compiled, containing plants ranging from Arabidopsis to Araucaria, from bramble to Brazil nut, from hemp to Hakea, from Sedum to Sequoia, from watercress to wattle. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - January 20, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Eating healthily at Christmas
We all know that the festive season can also be the season of food. But that doesn’t have to stop you getting the vitamins and minerals that you need.
Not having enough (a deficiency) of some vitamins and minerals seems to be linked with arthritis progressing more quickly. The most important vitamins and minerals to think about if you have arthritis are:
calcium
vitamin D
iron
vitamin C.
It's also important to keep to a healthy weight as being overweight puts extra strain on weight-bearing joints like your back, knees, hips, feet and ankles. And having too much body fat may also incr...
Source: Arthritis Research UK - December 17, 2015 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: news
Half Of The Amazon's Tree Species Are Threatened
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Source: Science - The Huffington Post - November 21, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Half Of The Amazon's Tree Species Are Threatened
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Source: Science - The Huffington Post - November 21, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
The “organic” Way to Younger Skin
What do you think when you hear about stem cells?
Perhaps you think they are “experimental” or you’re concerned about what you’ve read or heard in the news media about stem cells from embryos.
But there is a better way to view this therapy. Stem cells are part of your body and its own natural healing mechanism. In my view, they are probably the ultimate natural healer.
We began offering stem cell treatments last month at the Sears Institute of Anti-Aging Medicine — and the results have been just amazing.
I now use stem cells right across the anti-aging medical spectrum — from cosmetic procedures to treating chr...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - November 19, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Al Sears Tags: Anti-Aging anti-aging treatment fat transfer linoleic fats omega 3 omega diet organic skin stem cells Source Type: news
Nut Jobs, Nut Cases & Brazil Nuts: Eradicating Derogatory Terms
In a Telegraph headline on Monday 14th Sept. Assistant editor Jeremy Warner published a piece on the British Labour Party's new leader and his choice of John McDonnell in his opposition 'cabinet', entitled "Corbyn has just appointed a nutjob as shadow chancellor". The piece came in for rightful criticism with many believing the use of the term 'nutjob' to be offensive, generating complaints that it was being derogatory of the mentally ill. Jeremy Warner himself took to Twitter to try to justify his choice of words: (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - September 24, 2015 Category: Disability Tags: Disability Discrimination Source Type: news
Nut Jobs - Nut Cases - Brazil Nuts: Eradicating Derogatory Terms
Paul Dodenhoff writes on why it is important to eradicate derogatory terms regarding mental illness and mental impairment (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - September 24, 2015 Category: Disability Tags: Disability Discrimination Source Type: news
Rare Harpy Eagle Found in the Amazon
Biologist Aaron Pomerantz and wildlife photographer Jeff Cremer recently visited a rare harpy eagle nest in Tambopata, Peru. Timing is everything in the Amazon rainforest. So when Jeff and I heard that there was a harpy eagle nest near the Refugio Amazonas jungle lodge, we knew that we had a narrow window of opportunity to see these rare birds caring for their young. Why are harpy eagles so cool? For one, they are the largest eagle in the Americas and are considered the most powerful bird of prey in the entire world. With tarsal claws 5 inches long and a wingspan of up to six and a half feet, these beautiful and formidab...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - July 7, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Half a handful of nuts a day 'reduces early death risk'
Conclusion
This Dutch cohort of middle-aged to elderly adults generally found people were less likely to die in the following 10 years if they ate a small number of nuts a day compared with none.
The study has strengths in its large sample size and that cause of death was followed up for the full cohort using valid medical codes.
However, there are various points to bear in mind before we jump to the conclusion that nuts are the magic ingredient that will slash our risk of death.
No clear trends
It is difficult to draw any clear interpretations about how nut consumption may be associated with risk of death overall or fr...
Source: NHS News Feed - June 12, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Food/diet Cancer Heart/lungs Diabetes Source Type: news
How Dreams of My Father Help Me Cope With His Death
My father helped me with my third grade science project, carefully using Tonka Toys to adhere styrofoam "planets" when creating the solar system. He was there when I was in the Girl Scouts, standing alongside my mother as I went door to door selling cookies. It was for that same troop that he volunteered to play Santa and months before that, when he dressed up as a scary creature for a Halloween party on the military base where we lived. There were father-daughter dances, the time he took me to the hospital during a dehydration episode and many instances of playing "guess the profession" as we'd people watch while waiting...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Don't Stall the Sandman!
Are you thinking of staying up for an extra half-hour tonight so you can watch a sitcom or finish that scary vampire novel? The latest research may make you change your mind.
In the study, researchers recruited 522 patients with newly-diagnosed type 2 diabetes. They asked all of the participants to fill out seven-day sleep diaries, and calculated their weekday "sleep debt" -- that is, how much sleep they missed each night.
At the start of the study, participants who cut their sleep short on weekdays were 72 percent more likely to be obese than other participants. Six months into the study, the researchers found a signifi...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
“Youth” mineral gives you anti-aging advantage
I always had an idea that deep down, living longer isn’t what people want.
As long as they’re mobile and independent, and still have a sharp mind, most people accept that nature has given us a pretty good lifespan.
And that’s what my patients often tell me. They want a better quality of life, not more years.
That’s why I have always been about anti-aging. Extending life is a noble goal. But I want to help you live better now. And I’m very grateful to be living in a time when technology allows me to help you achieve that goal.
Because the fact is, you have an advantage over everyone who’s come before you. And th...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - January 12, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Dr. Al Sears Tags: Anti-Aging Source Type: news
Failed at Gwyneth Paltrow's 7-day detox? Then try my path to purification
Detoxing is easy: just finish your Christmas chocolates, buy some misshapen vegetables and bash up some brazil nuts (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - January 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: cleanse new you fitness diet gwyneth paltrow 7-day detox allison pearson new year Source Type: news
