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Reality TV show and E! News host Giuliana Rancic’s breast cancer has caught the attention of many people, since she is an apparently healthy 37-year-old. Her difficulties becoming pregnant have been front and center on her reality TV show. She has tried in vitro fertilization (IVF) three times. The medical community was quick to negate that IVF had anything to do with her breast cancer – how convenient.
Posted: 2011-10-27
Category: Breast Cancer
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health1, in a study funded by the National Institutes of Health, have come to the conclusion that dietary intake of high-fat dairy offers significant protection against developing a variety of metabolic problems, including the onset of type 2 diabetes.
Posted: 2010-12-27
Category: Diabetes
Your body recycles all of its red blood cells over a six week period. During this process heme is released from your red blood cells in your spleen and converted to unconjugated bilirubin.
Posted: 2010-08-26
Category: Alternative Medicine
Potassium is highly concentrated in your cells, whereas sodium (salt) is concentrated between your cells. New science is showing that a lack of potassium is a primary reason why salt can cause high blood pressure and cardiovascular damage.
Posted: 2010-08-26
Category: Heart
In a dire warning to the global community scientists have identified a new strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that is rapidly spreading around the world, including to the United States.
Posted: 2010-08-26
Category: Disease & Illness
Niacinamide (also called nicotinamide) is a form of vitamin B3 (niacin) that drastically disrupts the reproduction of Candida albicans — offering a new approach to dealing with a nagging health problem.
Posted: 2010-08-26
Category: Alternative Medicine
Friendly flora (also known as probiotics or acidophilus) has been found to drastically reduce the rate of gestational diabetes during pregnancy, benefiting both mother and child.
Posted: 2010-08-26
Category: Pregnancy
In a rather sobering study, scientists have demonstrated that a high-fat diet has the potential to drastically alter the architecture of the brain, resulting in poor circulation within the brain, down-regulated metabolism, and outright brain damage in areas of the brain central to appetite regulation.
Posted: 2010-08-24
Category: Weight Loss
Sirtuin1 is a longevity gene that is activated during times of food scarcity. It enables metabolism and your brain to maintain a higher level state of function. The activation of this gene by eating less food is central to the anti-aging theory of calorie restriction.
Posted: 2010-08-24
Category: Weight Loss
A new study indicates that one major factor causing today’s obesity epidemic is the garbage fat diet of Americans for the past century. The Western diet is almost void of omega 3 essential fatty acids.
Posted: 2010-08-24
Category: Weight Loss
Americans have entered into a new type of competition with the Chinese – who will produce the next bacterial superbug plague first? This is no laughing matter.
Posted: 2010-07-27
Category: Alternative Medicine
Americans are progressing towards heart disease in alarming numbers, with significant signs of poor cardiovascular health occurring even in our overweight teenagers. Whether young or old, DHA from fish oil can help offset the stress of a poor diet and dietary indiscretions. While I’m all in favor of everyone being perfect – it is easier said than done. A number of recent studies demonstrate the value of DHA as an invaluable protector of your health.
Posted: 2010-07-27
Category: Cardio
Vitamin K is an important antioxidant nutrient well known for its important assistance in the clotting of blood. It is also the target of the commonly over-prescribed Coumadin, adding to society-wide problems of vitamin K deficiency.
Posted: 2010-07-27
Category: Nutrition
A new independent report, F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2010, makes it plain that America is in the midst of a rapidly expanding obesity epidemic. Obesity rates rose in 28 states in the past year. 38 states now have obesity rates above 25% and 8 states have rates above 30%. If health care costs are to be spread amongst all Americans then this is everyone’s problem.
Posted: 2010-07-22
Category: Weight Loss
Struggling to maintain composure in front of 6,000 fans Glenn Beck disclosed that he had been diagnosed with a serious eye condition, macular dystrophy, a progressive genetic disorder that may lead to blindness. As he told his story he took a shot at health care reform, quipping that he “went to the best doctor I can find while I could still go to the best doctor I can find.”
Posted: 2010-07-21
Category: Disease & Illness
