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5 Mind Blowing Benefits of Exercise

Posted: 02/17/2012

5 Mind-Blowing Benefits of Exercise Think exercise is all about toned abs and weight loss? It also makes you happier and smarter By DEBORAH KOTZJune 30, 2010 RSS Feed Print Maybe you exercise to tone your thighs, build your biceps, or flatten your belly. Or maybe you work out to ward off the big killers like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. But how about sweating...

Body image: Men 'most unhappy about beer bellies'

Posted: 01/12/2012

Four out of five men confess to being unhappy about their body, suggests an online survey by the University of the West of England.The Centre for Appearance Research at UWE studied the responses of 384 British men with an average age of 40.The biggest body issue for them was their "beer belly" and lack of muscles.Thirty-five percent of respondents said they would trade a year...

A Drink A Day Increases Breast Cancer Risk

Posted: 11/02/2011

Even moderate drinking increases a woman’s breast cancer risk, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The research found as few as three to six glasses of wine a week increased the chance of developing breast cancer. The risk of breast cancer rose with the amount of alcohol consumed, the study found, with the best...

Rx Drugs Deaths Triple in Decade

Posted: 11/02/2011

Inappropriately used prescription pain medications kill 15,000 people in the United States each year, according to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "We're in the midst of an epidemic," says CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden. "Narcotics prescribed by physicians kill 40 people per day."Deaths due to prescription painkiller overdoses now exceed...

Obesity 'worse for teen girls' blood pressure'

Posted: 10/17/2011

High blood pressure is a risk factor for heart disease and stroke in later life.The study of 1,700 teenagers, presented to the American Physiological Society conference, found girls had three times the risk of higher blood pressure.A British Heart Foundation spokeswoman said a third of young people in the UK were overweight or obese.The teenagers, aged between 13 and 17 had their...

Vitamins linked with higher death risk in older women

Posted: 10/11/2011

When it comes to vitamins, it appears you could have too much of a good thing, say researchers who report a link between their use and higher death rates among older women.Experts have suspected for some time that supplements may only be beneficial if a person is deficient in a nutrient.And excess may even harm, as the study in Archives of Internal Medicine finds.All of the women,...

Men 'more prone to type 2 diabetes'

Posted: 10/03/2011

Men need to gain far less weight than women to develop the condition, study findings suggest.The Glasgow University team found men developed the disease at a lower Body Mass Index (BMI) than women.They believe distribution of the body fat is important - men tend to store it in their liver and around the waist.Women, meanwhile, have greater amounts of 'safe' subcutaneous fat stored...

The 'heart attack proof' diet?

Posted: 08/31/2011

Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. didn't become a doctor to change the way America eats. He was a general surgeon.But researching cancer, he stumbled on a fact that changed his career: Certain cultures around the world do not suffer from heart disease, the No. 1 killer in the Western world.Esselstyn's practice took a dramatic turn -- from performing surgery to promoting nutrition. For...

Early Morning Smokers Have Higher Cancer Risk

Posted: 08/10/2011

Smokers who indulge in their first cigarette shortly after waking up have an increased risk of developing lung and head and neck cancers, according to two new studies published in Cancer, a journal of the American Cancer Society. The findings may help identify smokers who have a greater risk of developing cancer. These smokers could then be more urgently targeted for smoking...

Train your brain to crave healthy foods

Posted: 08/10/2011

Looking back on it, Wendy Fox thinks it was the M&M's that did her in.They sat in a glass bowl on her living room table, taunting her every time she walked by, seemingly calling out for her to scoop up a few and eat them. Eat them she did, as well as anything else chocolaty that crossed her path, such as a brownie at her favorite restaurant or a mocha drink at Starbucks.Fox's...