Magnesium is a chemical element that chemists refer to by the symbol Mg, but Mg never exists by itself anywhere on the planet. It is embedded in rocks, or molten in earth, or dissolved in seawater.
Two sobering stories released about adolescents and cardiovascular risk. The first catalogues the distressing degree of cardiovascular disease present in today’s teens, with 2-3 or more cardiovascular risk factors present in the overweight and obese teens.
For people new to meditation, the activity can seem daunting. There are many excellent books, articles and religious traditions that describe different practices of meditation. When people read a book about meditation, many people give up before they start, fearing they will never be able to quiet their mind.
Alzheimer’s disease developed more frequently in French women – aged 76 to 84 – who were consuming less vitamin D in their diet, according to a study to be published soon from the Angers University Hospital Group. The association between vitamin D levels and preserved cognition has been noted before, but this is the first study to follow people prospectively and to assess their dietary vitamin D intake, aside from sun exposure.
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is still wrong. Reflecting on the obesity epidemic, an IOM spokesperson laments that “People have heard the advice to eat less and move more for years, and during that time a large number of Americans have become obese.
Just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should look for evidence of a possible cancer. The debate over cancer screening has flared over recommendations for mammography as well as those for prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood levels. In both cases, the test is relatively easy, inexpensive, and now largely covered by insurance.
Evidence accumulates from various sources about the different hazards of our unnaturally scrubbed clean and urban environments.
I am amazed that most of the comments and the implications of Mr. Hoffman’s writing is that fat people are gluttonous and slothful, somehow deficient as human beings, and that is why they are fat.
Sleep deprivation is associated with an increased risk of obesity, presumably by altering the hormones our body produces and releases during sleep hours. Some interesting findings in the study, such as an increased progression from pre- to full diabetes in people shifted to an alternate sleep schedule.
Nutritional studies are notoriously difficult to perform with certainty. Nevertheless, each new study result can be compared to what we already know to gauge its worthiness. In this study, known dietary habits were sifted against tested cognitive ability.