Health News and AlertsNews about health discoveries comes and goes. Here we have posted alerts and news that are important for your well being: Sleeping Gets Better Fat Loss, Less Muscle Weight LossYou are mostly trimming MUSCLE and LITTLE FAT when you cut back on BOTH calories AND sleep. When sleep deprived, FAT LOSS virtually stops, and you lose only lean body mass. Fat loss is better on a diet with a full night's rest, resulting in equal amounts of muscle and fat loss.SLEEP DEPRIVATION stimulates the hormone ghrelin which triggers hunger and promotes FAT RETENTION instead of fat loss. (Annals of Internal Medicine, Plamen Penev) Lower Breast Cancer Death Rate NOT due to MammogramsIncreased awareness and improved treatments for breast cancer, BUT NOT mammograms, are the main force in reducing breast cancer death rate by 10 percent, while the effect of mammograms alone could be as low as 2 percent or even zero. (New England Journal of Medicine September 23, 2010; 363(13):1203-10)• Recognizing Breast Cancer Symptoms Plastic in Food & Beverage Cans Found ToxicThe chemical in nearly all food and beverage cans called bisphenol A, or BPA, has been officially declared toxic by Health Canada, Canada being the first jurisdiction to do so.Already banned from baby bottles and baby formula packaging, independent studies have raised red flags about the use of BPA -- finding it to be an endocrine disruptor at very low doses, even causing cancer in offspring. MS: Breakthrough New Treatment for Multiple SclerosisA new way of thinking about Multiple Sclerosis has yielded stunning new treatments. New surgical successes for MS suggest that it is not, as widely believed, an autoimmune condition, but a vascular disease: Dr. Paolo Zamboni now calls MS: "chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency.” * MS: New Mechanism for Protection Found for Multiple Sclerosis *Parkinsons Medications Side Effects: More Parkinsons SymptomsResearchers report that after several years of treatment with L-DOPA (Levodopa), these Parkinsons medications in turn cause Levodopa-induced dyskinesia (LID), a jerky, dance-like movement of the arms and/or head. (Brand names: Dopar, Larodopar, Sinemet) New Findings for Treating these Serious Side Effects of Parkinsons MedicationsWhy Fructose Makes You the Fattest!Calorie for calorie, high fructose corn syrup, HFCS (not fructose in fruit) causes MORE WEIGHT GAIN than glucose, or sugar. Why? Your body converts it primarily into blood fats (triglycerides) and adipose tissue, NOT into ENERGY.Obese people who drank a fructose-sweetened drink with a meal had almost 200 % higher fat (triglyceride) levels than obese people who drank a glucose sweetened drink. HFCS is a recipe for obesity, lack of energy and metabolic syndrome because chronic high triglycerides lead to insulin resistance, inflammation and heart disease. (Teff KL and others. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. doi:10.1210/jc.2008-2192) Infections may speed Alzheimer's Memory Loss & Virus Linked to Prostate CancerCatching a cold or the flu could speed memory loss in people with Alzheimer's disease, report researchers in, Neurology, 2009 * Researchers also Link a Virus to Aggressive Prostate Tumors * * Viruses & Infectious Disease: Natural Protection Breakthrough *High Cholesterol Good? High Cholesterol Slows Memory LossA British study of 3,700 people found that at age 55, people with low HDL cholesterol had a 27% higher risk of memory loss.At age 60 those with low HDL cholesterol had a 53% higher risk of memory loss than those with high "good" HDL cholesterol levels. Total levels of cholesterol and triglycerides had no association with memory decline. "Good" Cholesterol Slows Memory Decline * Brain Science: What's Good for the Heart's Good for the Brain * Insomnia & Cellphones Linked for Teens & ChildrenSleep problems: The more children or teens use their cellphones, the more they have trouble falling asleep, have disrupted sleep, stress, restlessness and fatigue. Sleep Problems, Insomnia and Cellphones Linked * Sleep: Natural Discoveries for Better SleepWomen Unaware of Fatal Heart Attack SymptomsWomen, more often than men, experience heart attack symptoms such as extreme or unexplained fatigue, nausea and vomiting, shoulder pain, jaw pain, headaches and muscle spasms. Heart Disease Causes Death of 41% of Women, 37% of Men * Statins e.g. Lipitor not Effective for Healthy Men, Women & People over 70?Breast Feeding Improves IQ in ChildrenChildren who are breast fed exclusively for three months do better in verbal, non-verbal and overall intelligence tests and have significantly higher academic ratings in reading and writing at the age of six than those who received formula. Large Study: Breast Feeding Improves IQ * Doctors Change Rules for Breast FeedingEating Bad Carbs Can Cause BlindnessPreventing poor eyesight and Macular Degeneration as you get older may be as simple as cutting out white bread, white rice, sugar and high glycemic index foods, say researchers at Tufts University. * About Bad Carbs and the Glycemic Index * Nutrition for Preventing Macular Degeneration, Glaucoma and Cataracts *How To Know The Products You Buy are Really "Green?"When buying your shampoo, your food, toys or a printer, how do you tell genuine environmental claims from "green-washing?"Look for certifications such as ECO-LOGO on products that are really good for the environment -- products that have their environmental claims properly backed up rather than "green-washed:" How To Recognize the "Six Sins of Greenwashing" Is Your Prescription Based on Research or Promo?Researchers find that drug companies spend their money on promo to doctors, and that the more doctors heed the promo, the more their judgment is affected when they write prescriptions. Drug companies have their eye on their share holders, not on research or on your health. * $57- billion Cost of Pushing Pills * Overlooked Nutrition Discovery Restores Health *Flouride Harmful After All: Scientific AmericanAfter 3 years of scrutinizing hundreds of studies, a National Research Council (NRC) committee "concluded that fluoride can subtly alter endocrine function, especially in the thyroid -- the gland that produces hormones regulating growth and metabolism." John Doull, professor emeritus of pharmacology and toxicology atthe University of Kansas Medical Center, who chaired the NRC committee thusly, reports that "The thyroid changes do worry me." Reuters: Second Thoughts About Flouride * Thyroid Disrupting Foods and ChemicalsLack of Vitamin D Doubles Heart Disease Risk and Causes SeizuresModerate vitamin D deficiency nearly doubles the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke and heart failure in patients with high blood pressure, according to Harvard researchers.And Vitamin D deficiency still persists in babies, say doctors, which can trigger seizures, and if prolonged, can result in brain damage. * Most Overlooked Vitamin for Preventing and Curing Disease * Yet Another Study Links Diabetes Drug to Heart Attack and DeathMany risks have been found for the drug Avandia (GlaxoSmithKline) in older people with diabetes. Dr. Curt Furbeg, professor of public health sciences at Wake Forest University School of Medicine says that in his view we don't need this drug, because the bad news is that it:1)more than doubles the risk of heart failure, 2) doubles the risk of fractures in women, 3) increases heart attacks by 40% and 4)in some cases, causes blindness. See Lorraine Lipscombe, a lead author of an Avandia study at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences: Risk of Heart Failure Increased by 60% with Avandia * Diabetes Drug Unsafe: Studies, NYT * Researchers Find New Diabetes Cures * Health Breakthrough: Closer to Breast Cancer CureBig new pieces of the puzzle have been found that explain why breast cancer rates are so much higher in the developed world and away from the equator. Scientists are revealing simple ways to prevent and treat breast cancer based on these dramatic health discoveries:• Finally Solving Breast Cancer? Major Discoveries for Breast Cancer Prevention and Treatment * Health Alert: Low-Dose Chemicals in Most Plastics Disrupt HormonesNot just toys from China! Scientists raise the alarm about the safety of hidden chemicals in toys, soda cans, shampoos & most food containers.• Find out about the most toxic plastics: # 3 # 5 and # 7: “Low-dose Toxicity” of hormone-disrupting plastics Health Breakthrough: Degenerative Diseases Stopped and ReversedNutritional and lifestyle strategies for reversing and preventing disease are being proven by scientists and people world-wide. You will want to know about:• Nutrition Against Macular Degeneration Cataracts & Glaucoma * Diabetes: Researchers Find Diabetes Cures * Auto immune Disease: Reducing Pain Inflammation & Meds * Alzheimers Disease And Prevention: Exciting New Approaches * Health Alert: Addictive Anxiety and Sleeping PillsAnti anxiety and sleeping meds are addictive even though there are plenty of safe, non pharmaceutical ways to improve your sleep and get over anxiety.• Scientists Sound the Alarm About Addictive Sleeping Pills and Meds * Natural Discoveries for Better Sleep * Health Alert: Doctors Urge New Rules for Infant FeedingFor a stronger immune, less asthma, fewer allergies and later-life health problems, doctors are urging breast milk only for the fists six months of life -- not even cereals -- but ONLY breast feeding.Health Breakthroughs for Heart Health For Life Without MedsScientists are showing that diet and lifestyle are as good as or better than heart meds. With diet and exercise they are getting people off of their medication in as little as three weeks:• What Nutrition Helps Heart Health Compared to Meds? * Better Predictor than High Cholesterol Found * Health Alert: Brain Strokes Caused by WarfarinPeople rarely understand the trade-offs they are making by taking high-cholesterol drugs such as Lipitor, Zocor, and “blood thinners” such as Warfarin, which are increasingly causing bleeding and brain strokes:• Brain Strokes Found To Be Warfarin Side Effects * Health News and New Alerts: News of Recent Health DiscoveriesGO TO Health Discoveries HOME PAGE from Health News Alerts |