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Atkins works by killing your appetite Washington:
A new study has revealed that low carb diets like the Atkins Diet
work because they cut on carbohydrates which stimulate the appetite
and increase the calorie intake of people. "We proved that people lose
weight on the Atkins diet because they eat less (consume fewer calories),
not because they get bored with the diet or lose body water or because
the carbohydrate calories are treated differently by the body than fat
or protein calories," said Guenther Boden, MD, a Laura H. Carnell Professor
of Medicine and chief of the division of endocrinology/diabetes/metabolism
at Temple University School of Medicine. "All the weight loss was in
fat. We weighed and measured every calorie that participants ate and
every calorie they spent. We knew what went in and what went out," he
added. Boden also believes that the carbohydrates actually stimulated
the patients' big appetites during the regular-diet week. "Participants
went from an excessive caloric intake to a normal caloric intake for
their height and weight when we reduced their carbohydrates. This indicates
to me that it was the carbohydrates that stimulated the excessive appetite,"
Boden said. "You don't have to cut carbs as drastically as participants
did. If you cut carbs modestly, you cut calories, and you'll lose weight,"
he added. Nothing better than soap n water for killing germs (Go To Top) Washington:
Researchers from the University of North Carolina have said that
different studies conducted to find out the effectiveness of hand hygiene
product has revealed that soap and water works best when it comes to
getting one's hand rid of disease causing viruses. The study which appears
in the March issue of the American Journal of Infection Control revealed
that among the viruses soap help to get rid off, includes the ones associated
with common cold, hepatitis A, acute gastroenteritis and a host of other
illnesses, compared to waterless handwipes, which removed only 50 percent
of bacteria from the hand. "We studied the efficacy of 14 different
hand hygiene agents in reducing bacteria and viruses from the hands.
No other studies have measured the effectiveness in removing both bacteria
and viruses at the same time," Emily E. Sickbert-Bennett, a public health
epidemiologist with the University of North Carolina Health Care System
and the UNC School of Public Health was quoted as saying. The study
further revealed that anti-microbial agents were best at reducing bacteria
on hands, but waterless, alcohol-based agents had variable and sometimes
poor effects, becoming less effective after multiple washes, "Previous
studies have had people clean their hands for 30 seconds or so, but
that's not what health-care workers usually do in practice, and we wanted
to test the products under realistic conditions. For removing viruses
from the hands, physical removal with soap and water was most effective
since some viruses are hardy and relatively resistant to dis-infection,"
she added. Dr. William A. Rutala, professors of medicine and epidemiology
at the UNC schools of medicine and public health said, that "these findings
were important because health-care associated infections ranked in the
top five causes of death, with an estimated 90,000 deaths each year
in the United States". "Hand hygiene agents have been shown to reduce
the incidence of health-care associated infections, and a variety of
hand hygiene agents are now available with different active ingredients
and application methods. Our study showed that the anti-microbial hand
washing agents were significantly more effective in reducing bacteria
than the alcohol-based handrubs and waterless handwipes. Our study also
showed that, at a short exposure time of 10 seconds, all agents with
the exception of handwipes demonstrated a 90 percent reduction of bacteria
on the hands," Rutala added. Rutala further added that while the use
of alcohol-based handrubs will continue to be an important infection
control measure, it is important to recommend or require traditional
hand washing with soap and water throughout each day. Waist size reveals your heart disease risk (Go To Top) London:
Measuring patients' waist size can give a better assessment of heart
disease risk, as fat in the abdominal region is strongly linked to the
risks of suffering a heart attack or stroke, obesity experts claim.
Scientists at the annual American College of Cardiology scientific session
in Orlando, Florida, claimed that the use of a tape measure could be
more important in indicating cardiovascular risks than the current practice
of emphasizing mainly on body mass index (BMI). According to The Telegraph,
the experts said that the type of fat and where it accumulates on the
body is generally more important than the amount. A waist circumference
of more than 35 inches in women and 40 inches in men indicates an increased
risk for heart diseases. "The position of fat is key. At the core of
the body, anything that is secreted into the blood stream goes straight
into the liver and other key organs. We need to introduce waist measurement,
simply using a tape measure, as a matter of priority," the report quoted
Dr David Haslam, chairman of the National Obesity Forum, as saying. Oily fish can heal your heart (Go To Top) Washington:
Researchers have found that fish high in oil content, like salmon
or mackerel, can be beneficial in reducing inflammatory conditions that
have negative cardiovascular side effects, especially in combination
with low doses of aspirin. Fatty fish contain large amounts of omega-3
fatty acids--diet- derived essential fatty acids known to benefit patients
with cardiovascular disease and arthritis. This research group recently
identified a new class of aspirin- triggered bioactive lipids, called
resolvins, the activity of which may in part explain the beneficial
effects of omega-3 fatty acids. Resolvins are made from the omega-3
fatty acids by cellular enzymes and can reduce inflammation in mice.
The researchers have now identified this lipid in plasma taken from
volunteers given omega-3 fatty acids and aspirin. Human resolvin E1,
the authors show, inhibits both the migration of inflammatory cells
to sites of inflammation and the turning on of other inflammatory cells.
This study also reveals a potential pitfall of COX-2 inhibitors, drugs
designed to block inflammation, which have been shown to have negative
cardiovascular side effects. COX-2 is involved in making resolvin E1
and the authors suggest that inhibition of vascular COX-2 by these inhibitors
might block the synthesis of resolvin E1, which would eliminate an important
anti-inflammatory pathway. The experiment to prove this idea, however,
has yet to be done. You can laugh your heart troubles away (Go To Top) Washington:
The clichi 'laughter is the best medicine' may hold some truth as
scientists have found that laughter is linked to healthy function of
blood vessels and has an effect on cardiovascular health. According
to researchers University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore
have shown for the first time laughter appears to cause the tissue that
forms the inner lining of blood vessels, the endothelium, to dilate
or expand in order to increase blood flow. "The endothelium is the first
line in the development of atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries,
so, given the results of our study, it is conceivable that laughing
may be important to maintain a healthy endothelium, and reduce the risk
of cardiovascular disease," says principal investigator Michael Miller,
M.D., director of preventive cardiology at the University of Maryland
Medical Center and associate professor of medicine at the University
of Maryland School of Medicine. "At the very least, laughter offsets
the impact of mental stress, which is harmful to the endothelium," he
added. Dr. Miller says this study was not able to determine the source
of laughter's benefit. "Does it come from the movement of the diaphragm
muscles as you chuckle or guffaw, or does it come from a chemical release
triggered by laughter, such as endorphins?" he asks. Dr. Miller says
a compound called nitric oxide is known to play a role in the dilation
of the endothelium. "Perhaps mental stress leads to a breakdown in nitric
oxide or inhibits a stimulus to produce nitric oxide that results in
vasoconstriction," says Dr. Miller. Low socio-economic status linked to mental disorders (Go To Top) Washington:
According to a new study conducted by the American Psychological
Association (APA), a person's socio- economic status(SES) is closely
associated with his or her mental health. The survey covered 34,000
psychiatric patients who were admitted to mental hospitals atleast twice
in Massachusetts during 1994- 2000, and found problems like unemployment,
poverty and houses unaffordability in the backdrop in most of the cases
. "The poorer one's socioeconomic conditions are, the higher one's risk
is for mental disability and psychiatric hospitalization" said, Christopher
G. Hudson, Ph.D., of Salem State College. And this was found regardless
of what economic hardship or type of pshychological disorder the person
went through. A person's socio-economic status(SES) is mainly decided
on the basis of community income, education and occupational status.
The study considered economic stress as one of several possible explanations
for the correlation between SES and mental illness, and this was determined
by how much the local income income was below the federal poverty level,
the rate of unemployment, and an index of rental housing unaffordability.
This research has proved that SES is directly responsible for the development
of mental illness. It even indirectly impacts mental status of a person
through its association with adverse economic stressful conditions among
lower income groups, said Dr. Hudson. He also said, "the study highlights
the need for the continued development of preventive and early intervention
strategies that pay particular attention to the devastating impacts
of unemployment, economic displacement, and housing dislocation, including
homelessness." This research is published in the current issue of the
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry published by the American Psychological
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