Healthy Food Improves Kids' Reading
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Do you want your child to have academic success? Here’s a simple solution - throw out the sweets and junk food and serve more healthy foods to make it happen.
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FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE
Helping Teens to Eat Better
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It’s no secret that the adolescent years can be challenging: young teens have a heightened sensitivity to perceived injustice and react against authority.
Read MoreDoes Omega 3 help heart attack survivors
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Heart attack survivors seemed to have found an ally by taking high doses of omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil according to new research from the American Heart Association.
Read MoreNutrient-drug interactions concerns
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Drugs can interact with foods, nutrients, and herbs in a number of ways. Each may affect the absorption, actions, metabolism, or excretion of the others.
Read MoreTeen’s sweet spot for soda has fizzled
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A recent government survey revealed teens are turning away from soda and switching instead to bottled water.
Read MoreDoes Someone You Know Have an “Alcohol Identity?”
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You're not the only one who has wondered whether these seemingly random pictures were a silent cry for help. A team of researchers from North Carolina State University and Ohio University discovered that having an "alcohol identity" puts college students at greater risk of having drinking problems - and that posting about alcohol use on social media sites is actually a stronger predictor of alcohol problems than having a drink.
Read MoreCoping With An Eating Disorder
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Eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia are common in western countries, with between 1 and 3% of young women meeting the criteria for diagnosis and up to 10% having some form of eating problem.
Read MoreIs Fish Oil the Answer for Heart Health?
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Omega-3’s are essential fatty acids necessary for human health but the body cannot make them, meaning you have to get them through food.
Read MoreRed Wine vs Heart Disease?
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Red wine is often brought up as one of those foods that, counter-intuitively, might actually be good for you.
Read MoreWhey protein may help manage type 2diabetes
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Several studies have shown over the years whey proteins ability to play a key role in stimulating insulin release in order to reduce blood glucose levels.
Read MoreDried Plums May Help Shield You From Radiation
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New research is indicating that dried plums could protect you from bone loss caused by ionizing radiation.
Radiation from the lower part of the electromagnetic spectrum surrounds us;we're practically bathing in it. Visible light, magnetic waves, radio waves, lasers – these are a pervasive, if invisible, part of all our lives.
At the higher, ultraviolet end of that spectrum dwell gamma rays, X-rays and other ionizing forms of radiation, and our cohabitation with these is not always as amicable. By definition, ionizing radiation packs enough energy to strip away electrons from other atoms. And although these forms of radiation certainly have their uses and roles in modern life, it all comes at a cost of some personal wear and tear. Not least among these concerns is bone loss.
Bone loss can lead to osteoporosis, a disease in which the bones become more fragile and more prone to breaking. It is estimated that osteoporosis is responsible for more than 8.9 million fractures worldwide each year.
"Bone loss caused by ionizing radiation is a potential health concern for those in occupations or in situations that expose them to radiation," explains Dr. Nancy Turner, who is the co-author of a new study conducted by the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at Texas A&M University. But she and her colleagues may have an answer, and it might already be in your kitchen cabinet.
The researchers discovered that dried plum was an effective agent for reducing radiation-related bone damage as well as preventing later bone loss induced by ionizing radiation.
"Dried plums contain biologically active components that may provide effective interventions for loss of structural integrity caused by radiotherapy or unavoidable exposure to space radiation incurred over long-duration spaceflight," Dr. Turner noted.
The study concluded that inclusion of dried plums in the diet may prevent the skeletal effects of radiation exposures either in space or here on Earth.
Good news for astronauts – and cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy, radiation workers and victims of nuclear accidents, among others.
Binge Drinking Leads to Hypertension
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Binge drinking” is defined as having five or more alcoholic beverages at a single occasion.
Read MoreIs resveratrol the key to anti-aging
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What has anti-aging research shown about this antioxidant?
Read MoreWeight Loss Pitfalls You May Be Missing
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Some common pitfalls of weight loss that you may be missing
Read MoreWhat to eat to improve neurological function
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Aim to drink at least six to eight glasses of cold water a day.
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Are you Hypoglycemic?
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Hypoglycemia is a condition that causes an abnormally low level of blood sugar, or blood glucose.
Read MoreAre kidney stones on the rise? According to a new study, Yes.
/Are kidney stones on the rise? According to a new study, Yes.
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