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Posted in Cardiovascular, General, Nutrition, Prevention, Weight Management on Apr 9th, 2012
A recent study confirmed what we probably all already know: Women who don’t smoke, have a body mass index lower than 25, exercise at least 30 minutes a day and eat a Mediterranean-style diet have a significantly lower risk of sudden cardiac death. In the Nurses’ Cohort Study that followed 81,722 women from 1984 to […]
Posted in Botanicals, General, Green Tea, Prevention on Feb 29th, 2012
Here is another study on the benefits of green tea and the incidence of influenza—this time in children. During the influenza season in Japan, a survey was conducted to detect the incidence of influenza infection and preventive measures that were being used including the flu vaccination status of children in a household, the frequency and […]
Posted in Botanicals, General, Green Tea, Prevention on Feb 20th, 2012
About two hundred health care workers in three different healthcare facilities in Japan were randomized to receive either a placebo or a combination of green tea catechins and theanine that contained 378 mg/day of catechins and 210 mg/day of theanine, both constituents found in green tea. Of these eligible health care workers, 98 received the […]
Data from the Women’s Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) was used to examine the effect of soy intake on breast cancer prognosis in 3,088 breast cancer survivors. These women were early stage breast cancer patients who were followed for an average of 7.3 years. Soy isoflavone intakes were measured after the diagnosis with a food […]
Posted in Dietary Supplements, General on Dec 20th, 2011
A recent study was at first glance, alarming to users of dietary supplements. However, understanding the details of the study tells a different story. The authors report that the use of multivitamins and select nutrients was assessed in relation to total mortality in 38,722 older women in the Iowa Women’s Health Study. Over a period […]
Posted in General on Dec 16th, 2011
The effect of oral sea buckthorn (SB) oil was studied in 100 individuals ages 20-75 in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Participants took 2 gm/day of SB oil or placebo oil for 3 months. Eighty six participants completed the study. Tear film samples were collected at the beginning, after one month, and at the end of […]
Posted in General, Prevention, Weight Management on Nov 29th, 2011
I often say to my patients, “there is no medication, herb, vitamin, mineral or therapy that does as much for your health as does exercise”. Regular exercise is associated with so many health benefits… you wonder why we are so resistant to it. Exercise research is associated with reducing the risk of most of the […]
Posted in Dietary Supplements, General on Oct 21st, 2011
A recent study was published reporting on the results of using melatonin for the treatment of chronic tinnitus (ringing in the ears) in adults. This was a randomized, double-blind, cross over trial in which one group was given 3 mg of melatonin nightly and the other group was given a placebo nightly for 30 days. […]
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