Meat-eaters who prefer their steak charred or very well done are at a higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer, a new study finds.
The study presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research links eating well-done meat, especially red meat, to an increased risk of pancreatic cancer.
No such relation was found between eating charred meat and colon cancer.
Compared to those who eat steak medium or do not eat steak, individuals with the highest intake of well-done meat are 60-70 percent more likely to develop pancreatic cancer.
Eating a handful of walnuts every day can not only lower heart disease but also reduce the risk of breast cancer in women, a study finds.
FDA health officials have reported that including 1.5 ounces of walnuts in a daily diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol reduces the risk of developing heart disease.
The walnut-based diet can also reduce the risk of developing atherosclerosis - hardening of the arteries. When eaten at the end of a meal, walnuts overcome the damage caused by fatty foods on the arteries, lowering total and LDL (bad) cholesterol levels.
Aziz El-Kaissouni
ReutersTue, 21 Apr 2009 11:27 UTC
Cairo - A six-year-old Egyptian boy has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus, the 24th human fatality of the disease in Egypt, state news agency MENA said on Tuesday.
Ali Mohamed Ali Somaa from Qalyubia died of respiratory failure, Egypt's first bird flu fatality of 2009, MENA quoted a health ministry spokesman as saying.
Somaa had been admitted to hospital in late March.
The spokesman also said Ahmed Ramadan Kamal el-Din, a 4-year-old boy from Sohag province, had contracted bird flu and was in hospital. The boy was being treated with the antiviral drug Tamiflu.
© Rohini GuptaAnger mandala
Take a red and roaring emotion like anger. It consumes you, it can even lead to a heart attack. Can you think of a fun and easy way to overcome your anger or express rage in a calm manner?
There is one - it's called mandalas. The name originates from the Sanskrit, meaning circle. The circle is your magic space in which there are no rules, in which you alone exist, in which your feelings swirl out in lines and colours. It's a form of art therapy.
Benefits of drawing mandalasOnce you finish drawing an angry mandala , you automatically feel inclined to draw a happy one, as you have left the anger behind. You actually feel happy and relaxed after that. Try it out.
Kafi Drexel
ny1.comWed, 22 Apr 2009 05:54 UTC
A study at a Queens hospital has found that children are not getting sufficient vitamin D in their diets. NY1's Health & Fitness reporter Kafi Drexel filed the following report on what parents can do to change that.
Taking vitamin D supplements has become an essential part of seventh-grader Dominique Sermon's diet. With close to zero levels in her system about a year ago, now she's taking a dose of 50,000 international units a month. That's equal to four to five times the recommended daily amount so she can get her levels back up.
"The healthier my body is, meaning getting my vitamin D in, the healthier my body is, the easier it may be to lose weight or to help myself," she says.
In a national study conducted by doctors at New York Hospital Queens, they found that 14 percent of children in general are vitamin D deficient. For the black population, the deficiency is even greater, with 50 percent of teens affected.
Spinal cord damage and paralysis are substantially more common in the United States than researchers had previously believed, according to a new study by the University of New Mexico's Center for Development and Disability.
In a study released Tuesday by the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, Anthony Cahill and his colleagues reported that about 5,596,000 Americans are living with some form of paralysis, defined as a central nervous system disorder resulting in difficulty or inability to move the upper and lower limbs. That is about 40% more than the previous estimate of 4 million.
Most doctors agree that breast-feeding is best for babies' health. Now a large study suggests that the practice benefits mothers as well: women who have breast-fed, it says, are at lower risk than mothers who have not for developing high blood pressure, diabetes and cardiovascular disease decades later, when they are in menopause.
The benefits increase with duration of past breast-feeding, the study found. Women who had breast-fed for more than a year in their entire lifetimes were almost 10 percent less likely than those who had never breast-fed to have had a heart attack or a stroke in their postmenopausal years. They were also less likely to have diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol.
The study found that even those postmenopausal women who had breast-fed for just one month had lower rates of diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, although the risk of heart disease after such limited breast-feeding was comparable to that among mothers who had never breast-fed.
Mike Snyder
USA TodayWed, 22 Apr 2009 05:43 UTC
Nearly one in 10 children and teens who play video games show behavioral signs that may indicate addiction, a new study reports.
The study found 8.5% of those who played had at least six of 11 addictive symptoms, including skipping chores and homework for video games, poor test or homework performance and playing games to escape problems. The research, which is published in the May issue of the journal Psychological Science, is based on a 2007 Harris poll of 1,179 U.S. youngsters, the first nationally representative poll on the subject.
Researchers suspect chronic inflammation is common thread among all 3 conditions
A new study lends more credence to a long-suspected connection between psoriasis, diabetes and hypertension.
Researchers reporting in the April issue of the Archives of Dermatology suspect the link may have to do with the chronic inflammation that is associated with all three conditions.
It's likely that when Kari Ferrell walked into the Vice magazine offices in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, last month to interview for an administrative assistant job, they thought they'd hit the jackpot. Ms. Ferrell - petite, 22 years old, of Korean heritage - had a huge tattoo of a phoenix across her chest and a cute pixie haircut. She was talkative, funny, charming, adorable. She had a tattoo on her back that read "I Love Beards." She told them she'd been working for the New York office of the concert promotion company GoldenVoice, which puts on huge rock festivals like Coachella near Palm Springs, Calif., and that she'd moved to New York from Utah just a few months earlier. They hired her on the spot.
A few days later, one of Ms. Ferrell's new colleagues came by her desk. "I said, 'Excuse me, miss, is [her boss] downstairs?'" the 29-year-old told The Observer. "She thought that was very polite that I said, 'Excuse me, miss,' and after that she started talking to me, instant-messaging me. She asked if I was from the South. I told her no. It escalated from there."
