Health & Wellness

Arthritis drugs shown to be useless -- exercise is best

Madlen Davies
Prevent Disease
Mon, 04 Apr 2016 15:50 UTC

Those plagued with the most common form of arthritis are told to take Acetominophen and other anti-inflammatory medications to relieve their pain. But a major study published found it does little to ease agony caused by osteoarthritis - as many sufferers can no doubt attest.

The research, published in The Lancet, warned no matter how high the dose, acetaminophen based drugs such as paracetamol are ineffective against this form of the condition.

Osteoarthritis affects up to 10 percent of men and 18 percent of women worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.

Paracetamol has traditionally been the main treatment for the condition, because although stronger drugs are more effective, paracetamol has fewer side effects.

Comment: For more on arthritis treatments see:

Also, don't discount the benefits of a proper diet as it relates to joint function:

Food Allergy and Joint Pain - Is There a Connection?

Keeping your home cooler could result in a smaller waistline

Science Daily
Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00 UTC

Elderly adults are bigger around the middle when they turn up the heat inside their homes during the cold season and have smaller waistlines when their homes stay cool, new research finds. Investigators from Japan will present their study results Friday at the Endocrine Society's 98th annual meeting in Boston.

"Although cold exposure may be a trigger of cardiovascular disease, our data suggest that safe and appropriate cold exposure may be an effective preventive measure against obesity," said the study's lead investigator, Keigo Saeki, MD, PhD, of Nara Medical University School of Medicine Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Nara, Japan.

Cold exposure activates thermogenesis, to generate body heat, in brown fat. This type of fat is the good calorie-burning fat that prior research found most humans have. However, Saeki said the association between the amount of cold exposure and obesity in real life remains unclear.

Comment: For more information on the many ways that adapting to cold can improve health, listen to: The Health & Wellness Show: The benefits of cold adaptation

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The science of hunger and how to control cravings

Sara G. Miller
Live Science
Fri, 01 Apr 2016 07:27 UTC

Whether you're trying to lose weight, maintain weight loss or just stay healthy, at some point, you're going to get hungry. But simply eating whenever the urge strikes isn't always the healthiest response — and that's because hunger isn't as straightforward as you may think.

A complex web of signals throughout the brain and body drives how and when we feel hungry. And even the question of why we feel hungry is not always simple to answer. The drive to eat comes not only from the body's need for energy, but also a variety of cues in our environment and a pursuit of pleasure.

To help you better understand and control your hunger, Live Science talked to the researchers who have looked at hunger every which way, from the molecular signals that drive it to the psychology of cravings. Indeed, we dug into the studies that have poked and prodded hungry people to find out exactly what's going on within their bodies. We found that fighting off that hungry feeling goes beyond eating filling foods (though those certainly help!). It also involves understanding your cravings and how to fight them, and how other lifestyle choices — such as sleep, exercise and stress — play a role in how the body experiences hunger.

Taiwan sees 37% increase in gonorrhea cases

Robert Herriman
Outbreak News Today
Sat, 02 Apr 2016 15:21 UTC

Taiwan health officials are urging the public to avoid unsafe sex in light of the new numbers on gonorrhea cases on the island released earlier this week.

According to the surveillance data compiled by Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the number of gonorrhea cases reported increased from 2,622 in 2014 to 3,584 in 2015, reflecting a 37% increase. Moreover, the increase in the number of infected women (41%) is higher than that in the number of infected men (36%).

Further, a 47% increase in cases aged between 10 and 19 from 2014 to 2015 has been observed. Although the number of reported cases among underage girls is only a few, an 107% increase in the number of reported cases among girls aged between 10 and 19 from 2011 to 2015 has been observed, which is higher than the 102% increase in the number of reported cases among boys in the same age group.

Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused the bacterium, Neisseria gonorrhoeae. This bacterium can infect the genital tract, mouth and rectum of both men and women. Ejaculation does not have to occur for the disease to be transmitted. It can also be transmitted from mother to baby during delivery.

Symptoms of gonorrhea usually appear with 2 to 5 days after sexual contact with an infected partner, occasionally symptoms make take longer to appear.

Men have symptoms more often than women and they may include; a white, yellow or green discharge from the penis with pain, burning sensations during urination, and painful, swollen testicles.In women, infection may be asymptomatic. If present, the early symptoms of gonorrhea are often mild. The first symptoms in women are frequently; painful or burning sensations when urinating, an increase in discharge (yellow or bloody) and bleeding after intercourse.

The Complete Guide to Breaking Your Smartphone Habit

Brett and Kate McKay
The Art of Manliness
Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:54 UTC

Smartphones are magical.

A device that's small enough to fit in your pocket, allows you to instantly communicate with virtually anyone on earth, take breathtaking photos, and access humanity's collected knowledge. Amazing!

But like any magical implement, the smartphone's power can be so consuming that all you want to do is stare into its comforting, glowing, little screen and cling to it like Gollum does his "Precious" in The Lord of the Rings.

Vaccine Hesitancy: A new mental disease?

John P. Thomas
Health Impact News
Wed, 30 Mar 2016 12:28 UTC

There is a new affliction that is threatening the world population. It is so new that it hasn't even been officially declared to be a disease, but the World Health Organization and bioethicists are already waving the red flag of warning.

Do You Have "Vaccine Hesitancy?"

The World Health Organization (WHO) is very concerned about the problem of "vaccine hesitancy," which they say is threatening the effectiveness of their worldwide vaccination program. In short, some parents are not automatically allowing their babies to be vaccinated even though such services are available. They are pausing, thinking, and in many cases walking away with their babies in their arms, and leaving the vaccine filled hypodermic syringes to be used for someone else. Adults also are not responding to calls for receiving vaccines even when they are free.

As always, WHO is on the quest for 100% compliance with all vaccine schedules, and is warning the world that vaccine hesitancy is causing unnecessary illness and death. They believe that 1.5 million children die each year from causes that could be prevented by vaccines. ^{[1, 2]}

Sustainable profits: Corporate agribusiness globalizing bad food and poor health

Colin Todhunter
Global Research
Sun, 03 Apr 2016 00:00 UTC

The proportion of deaths due to cancer around the world increased from 12 percent in 1990 to 15 percent in 2013. Globally, cancer is already the second-leading cause of death after cardiovascular diseases.

In India, government data indicates that cancer showed a 5 percent increase in prevalence between 2012 and 2014 with the number of new cases doubling between 1990 and 2013. The incidence of cancer for some major organs in India is the highest in the world. Reports have also drawn attention to rising rates of breast cancer in urban areas, and, in 2009, there was a reported increase in cancer rates in Tamil Nadu's textile belt, possibly due to chemically contaminated water.

The increase in prevalence of diabetes is also worrying. By 2030, the number of diabetes patients in India is likely to rise to 101 million (World Health Organisation estimate). The number doubled to 63 million in 2013 from 32 million in 2000. Almost 8.2 percent of the adult male population in India has diabetes. The figure is 6.8 percent for women.

In India, almost 76,000 men and 52,000 women in the 30-69 age group died due to diabetes in 2015, according to the WHO. The organisation reports South-East Asia had a diabetic population of around 47 million, which is expected to reach 119 million by 2030.

A new study in The Lancet has found that India and China continue to have the largest number of underweight people in the world; however, both countries have broken into the top five in terms of obesity.

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Low levels of thyroid hormone in the blood raises type 2 diabetes risk

Science Daily
Sat, 02 Apr 2016 00:00 UTC

Having too little thyroid hormone in the blood--even in the low-normal range--raises the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, especially in people with prediabetes, a new study in nearly 8,500 people finds. The study results will be presented Sunday at the Endocrine Society's 98th annual meeting in Boston.

Prediabetes is a mild elevation in blood glucose, or sugar, level that usually occurs before diabetes develops. One of every 10 people with prediabetes will develop Type 2 diabetes every year, according to the Hormone Health Network.

In the new study, the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes over long-term follow-up increased by 13 percent for people with low thyroid function--often called underactive thyroid gland or hypothyroidism--or even those with low-normal thyroid function. However, the diabetes risk was up to 40 percent higher for individuals with reduced thyroid function if they already had prediabetes, the investigators reported.

"These findings suggest we should consider screening people with prediabetes for low thyroid function," said lead investigator Layal Chaker, MD, of Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Comment: Supplementing with iodine can help to normalize the body's thyroid function and can improve or even heal hypothyroidism without the use of synthetic drugs.

It's time to put the vaccine sacred cow out to pasture

Catherine J. Frompovich
Activist Post
Sun, 03 Apr 2016 20:28 UTC

The graphic below indicates that VACCINE-DERIVED POLIOVIRUSES have been known, and apparently tracked, since 1962 and yet those very vaccines are still being given to developing countries' children under the guise of polio prevention! What is it that the pro-vaccine contingent doesn't get?

Apparently, pro-vaxxers may believe that the moon is made of green cheese, too! Vaccines cause the very diseases they are supposed to 'immunize' against. How's that efficacious? It certainly is efficacious for vaccine makers' financial interests [1], but certainly not for those who contract vaccine-induced polio or experience the adverse events associated with many vaccines, particularly the HPV 'anti-cervical cancer' vaccines [2], which are now given to young boys, who don't have cervixes.

Comedian Jim Carrey criticizes U.S. government for allowing Big Pharma to influence policy

healthyholisticliving.com
Sun, 03 Apr 2016 09:50 UTC

Comedian and actor Jim Carrey has been making a name for himself as an activist in recent years as he attacks the government for the influence big corporations have on it, and lately his attacks have been directed at Big Pharma's monetary leverage over policy and legislation.

In July 2015, Carrey went on a long Twitter rant that called out Governor Jerry Brown of California for being a "corporate fascist" after Brown approved legislation to make vaccines mandatory. Whatever your stance on vaccines might be, Carrey's position is interesting because he is both pro-vaccine but critical of governments forcing citizens to be vaccinated because the health risks haven't been fully evaluated and reported. Carrey's exact tweet that faced a lot of criticism before he elaborated read, "California Gov says yes to poisoning more children with mercury and aluminum in mandatory vaccines. This corporate fascist must be stopped."

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Health & Wellness

Arthritis drugs shown to be useless -- exercise is best

Keeping your home cooler could result in a smaller waistline

The science of hunger and how to control cravings

Taiwan sees 37% increase in gonorrhea cases

The Complete Guide to Breaking Your Smartphone Habit

Vaccine Hesitancy: A new mental disease?

Sustainable profits: Corporate agribusiness globalizing bad food and poor health

Low levels of thyroid hormone in the blood raises type 2 diabetes risk

It's time to put the vaccine sacred cow out to pasture

Comedian Jim Carrey criticizes U.S. government for allowing Big Pharma to influence policy

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