Health 03 (Apr 09 - Feb 10)

Re: Health 3 (Apr 09 - Feb 10)

Postby iam802 » Mon Feb 15, 2010 7:03 pm

winston wrote:Running Barefoot? by Bob Tschannen-Moran

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There's a book called 'Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen' by Christopher McDougall

It provide a fascinating page turning experience which provide for the setting of the greatest long distance race among not just the elites but also runners from a Mexican tribe.

In the book, it also touch on barefoot running and how the tribesman can run so fast, so long with only thieir simple sandals. Reading through the book will challenge our modern days perception of buying the most expensive or most technological advanced shoes looking for the promise of injury free, and performance enhancement.

Available at the local library.
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Re: Health 3 (Apr 09 - Feb 10)

Postby winston » Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:49 am

Happiness helps when it comes to the heart

New advice on avoiding heart attacks: it helps to be a happy person

MARIA CHENG
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Feb 17, 2010 19:03 EST

You've heard it before: to avoid a heart attack don't smoke, eat right and exercise. But it also may help to be happy, a new study says.

Even if you're grumpy by nature, just try to be cheerful.

Researchers at Columbia University rated the happiness levels of more than 1,700 adults in Canada with no heart problems in 1995.

After a decade, they examined the 145 people who developed a heart problem and found happier people were less likely to have had one.

The study was published online Thursday in the European Heart Journal.

"If you aren't naturally a happy person, just try acting like one," said Dr. Karina Davidson of Columbia University Medical Center, the paper's lead author. "It could help your heart."

Davidson and colleagues used a five-point scale to measure people's happiness. They then statistically adjusted to account for things like age, gender, and smoking.

For every point on the happiness scale, people were 22 percent less likely to have a heart problem. The study was paid for by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and others.

Davidson said happy people were more likely to have a healthier lifestyle.

It could also be there is an unknown genetic trait that predisposes people to be happy and have less heart disease.

Other experts said happiness itself could result in a healthier heart compared to other emotions such as stress or depression.

Stress often releases hormones that can damage heart muscle. Stress can also cause blood vessels to open too wide, allowing plaque buildups to break off and clog the arteries, according to Joep Perk, a professor of health sciences at Sweden's Kalmar University and spokesman for the European Society of Cardiology. Perk was not linked to the study.

"I often tell my patients not to get too depressed because it's bad for your heart," Perk said. "You need time to recharge your batteries or else your heart won't be able to take it."

Depression has long been noted as a risk factor for heart problems. Davidson said it was premature to draft guidelines recommending patients boost their happiness levels just to protect their hearts, even if it might help, until broader studies now under way are completed. But she does recommend trying to be happy for other reasons, like better mental health.

"Anything that patients can do to increase the amount of (happiness) in their lives will be helpful," she said, adding there was a slight proviso. "No smoking, eating unhealthy food, not exercising or anything potentially damaging," she said. "That's the only trick."

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Re: Health 3 (Apr 09 - Feb 10)

Postby winston » Sat Feb 20, 2010 2:25 pm

Is too much sitting as bad as too little exercise?

PARIS : Sitting all day may significantly boost the risk of lifestyle-related disease even if one adds a regular dose of moderate or vigorous exercise, scientists said Tuesday.

The health benefits of pulse-quickening physical activity are beyond dispute - it helps ward off cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity, among other problems.

But recent scientific findings also suggest that prolonged bouts of immobility while resting on one's rear end may be independently linked to these same conditions.

"Sedentary time should be defined as muscular inactivity rather than the absence of exercise," concluded a team of Swedish researchers.

"We need to consider that we are dealing with two distinct behaviours and their effects," they reported in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

Led by Elin Ekblom-Bak of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, the scientists proposed a new "paradigm of inactivity physiology," and urged fellow researchers to rethink the definition of a sedentary lifestyle.

They point to a recent study of Australian adults showing that each daily one-hour increase in sitting time while watching television upped the rate of metabolic syndrome in women by 26 per cent - regardless of the amount of moderate-to-intensive exercise performed.

Thirty minutes of daily physical exercise decreased the risk by about the same percentage, suggesting that being a couch potato can cancel out the benefits of hitting treadmill or biking, for example.

Metabolic syndrome is defined as the presence of three or more factors including high blood pressure, abdominal obesity, high cholesterol or insulin resistance.

New research is required to see if there is a causal link between being sedentary and these conditions and, if so, how it works, the researchers said.

One candidate is lipoprotein lipase, or LPL, an enzyme that plays a crucial role in breaking down fat within the body into useable forms.

Recent research has shown that LPL activity was significantly lower in rats with restrained muscle activity - as low as one tenth of the levels of rats allowed to walk about.

The LPL level during such activity "was not significantly different from that of rats exposed to higher levels of exercise," the scientists reported.

"This stresses the importance of local muscle contraction per se, rather than the intensity of the contraction."

These studies suggest that people should not only exercise frequently, but avoid sitting in one place for too long, they said.

Climbing stairs rather than using an elevator, taking five-minute breaks from a desk job, and walking when possible to do errands rather than driving were all recommended.

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Re: Health 3 (Apr 09 - Feb 10)

Postby kennynah » Sat Feb 20, 2010 4:51 pm

this is a true account...

i have a friend, who over the years became very big.... i guess, partly due to excessive drinking and was based in Beijing...

he came back just 2 weeks ago for CNY...we met up for drinks on a thurs night before CNY weekend... and i was just informed that last thurs, he suffered a stroke and although he was discharged a day later, he left the hospital with his left eye blinded as a consequence of that stroke...

so...folks who are on the heavier side, do be very careful about your blood pressure...
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Re: Health 3 (Apr 09 - Feb 10)

Postby winston » Sun Feb 21, 2010 1:05 pm

Green Tea - A vaccine for eye diseases Submitted by Piyush Diwan

Green Tea - A vaccine for eye diseases. A possibility of cure for Glaucoma and other eye ailments can be aided by green tea. Researchers in Hong Kong have found that it may be a possibility that eye diseases can be treated by consumption of green tea.

The above statement comes in support with an experiment which was performed on rats which yielded positive outcomes. After the laboratory rats drank green tea; analysis of their eye tissues revealed that eye structures absorbed significant amounts of individual catechins (present in green tea and have a number of antioxidants which look after our eye. It includes vitamin C, lutein, vitamin E and zeaxanthin). The retina, for example, absorbed the highest levels of gallocatechin, while the aqueous humor tended to sop up epigallocatechin.

Although green tea's catechins effect longed for 20 hours helping in reducing harmful oxidative stress in the eye. Still, it is on trials whether it can be efficiently used for eye cure or not. A hitch involved in this research; ambiguity of the fact if the catehin is synthesized from the stomach and gastro intestinal parts and passed to eye tissues or some other body part synthesizes it.

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Re: Health 3 (Apr 09 - Feb 10)

Postby millionairemind » Mon Feb 22, 2010 2:21 pm

Feb 22, 2010
Childhood poverty shapes future
SAN DIEGO (California) - LIVING in poverty can shape the neurobiology of a developing child 'in powerful ways', affecting children's behaviour, health and how well they do later in life, a study presented here on Sunday shows.

US researchers found what they called 'a biology of misfortune' among adults who were poor as children, in particular if they lived in poverty before the age of five, the study presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) shows.

Early childhood is a 'crucial time for establishing the brain architecture that shape's children's future cognitive, social and emotional well-being,' the study says.

'Children growing up in a disadvantaged setting show disproportionate levels of reactivity to stress, and it shows at the level of hormonal studies, neurological brain imaging studies and at the level of epigenetic profiling,' said Thomas Boyce, of the University of British Columbia.

The researchers studied data on more than 1,500 individuals born between 1968 and 1975 taken from a 40-year demographic study of US households that measured family income during every year of childhood, educational attainment, what level people reached in their careers, plus crime and health as adults.

They found 'striking differences' in how the children's lives turned out as adults, depending on whether they were poor or comfortably well-off before the age of six. -- AFP
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Re: Health 3 (Apr 09 - Feb 10)

Postby kennynah » Mon Feb 22, 2010 2:46 pm

read, re-read the above...and i got nothing concrete out of it.. don't know what it implies?


'Children growing up in a disadvantaged setting show disproportionate levels of reactivity to stress, and it shows at the level of hormonal studies, neurological brain imaging studies and at the level of epigenetic profiling,' said Thomas Boyce, of the University of British Columbia.
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Re: Health 3 (Apr 09 - Feb 10)

Postby millionairemind » Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:29 am

I am not sure what to make of this kind of study. Is it the sedentary lifestyle that contributed to the increased risk, or is it the soft drinks?

Perhaps both? How about those that take soft drinks and exercise alot... you don't hear about this segment of the people.

Many times people confuse causality with direct relationship.

Soft drinks up diabetes risk
Study of 61,000 ethnic Chinese in Singapore finds up to 40% higher risk of type 2 diabetes

By Judith Tan

GRANNY was right when she said that drinking too many sodas and sweet drinks was bad for you.

Taking two or more soft drinks a week can increase one's risk of type 2 diabetes, a new study by Singapore scientists has found.

They are 30 to 40 per cent more likely to contract diabetes compared to those who rarely consumed them, said Associate Professor Koh Woon Puay of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

The beverages surveyed included soda and fruit and vegetable juices in a glass, can or fresh from hawker centres, and it did not distinguish between 100 per cent juice and juice drinks or cordial.

Participants with a higher intake of soft drinks were younger, mostly men with higher body mass indexes (BMI) and leading sedentary lifestyles. Those who drank more juice were also younger and were men, with higher levels of physical activity and were educated.

The findings are from the Singapore Chinese Health Study of more than 61,000 ethnic Chinese living here, aged between 45 and 74.
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Re: Health 3 (Apr 09 - Feb 10)

Postby kennynah » Fri Feb 26, 2010 1:43 pm

eat too much, drink too much sugary drinks, and dont exercise enough....
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Re: Health 3 (Apr 09 - Feb 10)

Postby iam802 » Fri Feb 26, 2010 2:03 pm

millionairemind wrote:I am not sure what to make of this kind of study. Is it the sedentary lifestyle that contributed to the increased risk, or is it the soft drinks?

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Maybe, this study is carried out so that a certain entity can use it to promote certain 'new kind of water' :lol:
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