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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 […]
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 Prevention on Sep 20th, 2011
This trial involved 100 women with recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs), who were seen at the University of Washington and an average age of 21. Lactobacillus crispatus or placebo was inserted vaginally for 5 days and then once weekly for 10 weeks, starting 7-10 days after they had received standard antibiotic therapy for their UTI. […]
Posted in Cardiovascular, Prevention on Aug 19th, 2011
Researchers in Australia observed 1216 older women whose average age was 75, for close to 10 years and compared atherosclerotic vascular disease with chocolate intake, categorized as rare intake = < 1 25-50 gm serving per week and frequent intake = > 1servings per week. Approximately half of the women rarely ate chocolate and 36% […]
Posted in Cardiovascular, Dietary Supplements, Prevention on Jul 22nd, 2011
A review of 25 trials that evaluated the risk of CHD related to the body’s omega-3 levels showed that there was an inverse relationship with major cardiovascular (CV) events and tissue levels of EPA and even more so, with DHA. [1] There have been three large randomized trials documenting omeg-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) in […]
Posted in Dietary Supplements, Pregnancy, Prevention on Jun 29th, 2011
The Childhood Autism Risks from Genetics and Environment (CHARGE) study is a population-based case-control study of Northern California families. Using standardized clinical assessments, enrolling 288 children aged 24–60, with autism and 144 with autism spectrum disorders, and compared them with 278 children who were developing normally. Researchers calculated the odds ratios for associations between autism […]
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