Archive for February, 2010

    Glucose is a main source of energy for the cells that make up your muscles and other tissues. Glucose comes from 2 major sources: the food you eat and your liver. During digestion, sugar is absorbed into the bloodstream. Normally, sugar then enters cells with the help of insulin. When you have diabetes, [...]

I would not recommend strict diets to anyone to improve their health. No diet has ever extended anyone’s life. I proceed from the assumption that food must bring you pleasure. You can’t just fight against your food throughout the whole life. People always struggle – for peace, for harvests and for many other things. If [...]

“When you add omega-3 to a high carbohydrate, low-fat diet, you can prevent the long-term adverse effect that a high-carbohydrate diet induces on [blood fats],” said study author Dr. Jose Lopez-Miranda, a professor of medicine at the Reina Sofia University Hospital and the University of Cordoba, Spain. For people with the metabolic syndrome — a [...]

Drinking green tea and practicing Taichi may promote bone health of postmenopausal women and reduce the risk of inflammation, a new study suggests. The study, conducted by researchers at the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, focused on postmenopausal women and investigated the potential for green [...]

Researchers tracking more than 6,000 women for up to six years found that most cases of breast cancer occurred in those without a family history of the disease, although many of the women had other known risk factors that can help predict an individual woman’s likelihood of developing the disease. A new study reconfirms something [...]

Ever feel as if you’ve aged ten years overnight? New research shows this might not be just paranoia. While it used to be thought ageing was gradual, scientists now believe we have a tipping point when we suddenly lose the battle to hold back the years. In a study of 100 Japanese women aged between [...]

Researchers concluded that levels of sexual desire were higher in women who were moderate drinkers of red wine than in their counterparts who preferred other alcoholic drinks, or were teetotal. How red wine could have such effect to sex ?

More middle-aged American women have heart attacks but the death rate has dropped in the past years, according to studies made by researchers at the University of Southern California. The two studies also found that heart attacks for women have increased but for men there is a decrease. “We found that men still have a [...]

If you are a smoker who wants to get rid of the nasty habit, you can bid farewell to cigarettes on May 31, the World No Tobacco Day. This day appeared in 1988 when the World Health Organization set a goal to the international community to root out the problem of tobacco smoking in the [...]

    A person’s lifetime risk of getting heart disease may be much higher than previously thought, according to a major US study published on Wednesday. A single risk factor — such as smoking, having diabetes, high blood pressure or elevated cholesterol — can significantly boost one’s likelihood of having a heart attack or stroke [...]

Terrible things happen but there are things you can do to build up emotional resilience. If you can turn them into regular habits, they’re the mental equivalent of vitamins, fresh air and exercise. The first two underline all the rest. Step One is the practice of Gratitude. It’s a housekeeping tool for the heart. In [...]