I received this article from the International Business Times about Drug Trials Neglect Children in my email today. It is more than a little disturbing.
Some researchers at Children’s Hospital in Boston reviewed nearly 2500 drug trials and found that only 12% of them focused on children. They also found that the relatively few studies that did focus on children [...] Continue Reading…
I found this article on the Hartford Courant website: Too little calcium, water linked to kidney stones.
Researchers in a study tracked 78,000 women in their 50s and 70s to find links to kidney stones. They found that women who got more calcium in their diet (in their food, not from supplements), drank more water, and consumed less salt had [...] Continue Reading…
Dr. Mercola had a great article today about the microflora in your gut. In the article he says that:
Probiotics, along with a host of other microorganisms, are so crucial to your health that researchers have compared them to “a newly recognized organ.”
To give you an idea of how much microflora you have, your body contains about 100 trillion cells. [...] Continue Reading…
In an article on Yahoo! News titled Sugar-Sweetened Drinks May Pose Heart Risks to Women, Study Suggests they report that drinking two or more sugary drinks a day may boost a woman’s risk for developing heart disease and diabetes even if doing so doesn’t increase her weight. Middle-aged women who drank two or more of these drinks, such as [...] Continue Reading…
Have you seen the report Adolescent Sleep Needs and Patterns from the National Sleep Foundation?
The National Institutes for Health (NIH) determined that teens and young adults are a high risk for problem sleepiness. In other words, a large percentage of that group doesn’t get enough quality sleep at night and has trouble staying alert and focused during the day. [...] Continue Reading…
Does lack of sleep affect your ability to lose weight? It appears that the answer is yes, it does.
I found one study on PubMed that shows that sleep deprivation does reduce your ability to lose weight, even when you are on a diet. The results say that lost sleep “decreased the proportion of weight lost as fat by 55%” [...] Continue Reading…
Osteoporosis has become a serious problem. It used to be considered a disease that only elderly women developed, but not anymore. It is becoming a problem for younger people, both men and women. A large part of the rise in osteoporosis is the increasing amount of acidic foods and drinks that people are taking in. As a society, we [...] Continue Reading…
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