The holiday season can be a busy and stressful time. The Minnesota Chiropractic Association and Dr. Scott Bautch, past president of the American Chiropractic Association’s Council on Occupational Health, encourages you to consider the following tips to help keep you and your loved ones stay healthy, happy and safe this season.
Stay hydrated! Drink at least one half your body weight of water in ounces each day. (i.e. a 200 pound person needs at least 100 ounces per/day) Coffee, tea, soft drinks and alcohol are dehydrators. Don’t substitute them for water. On shopping days, you may need to drink even more water.
A calorie is not a calorie. Empty calories coming from sugar, artificial sweeteners and processed foods have no nutritional value and can increase your appetite for 90 minutes after consumption. On average, people gain five to six pounds during the holidays. Make choices that include organic fruits, vegetables and lean proteins. Read the rest of this entry »
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a medical device that supports the weakened heart of children with heart failure to help keep them alive until a donor for a heart transplant can be found.
The mechanical pulsatile cardiac assist device is called the EXCOR Pediatric System, made by a German company, Berlin Heart. The device comes in graduated sizes to fit children from newborns to teens.
“This is a step forward, it is the first FDA-approved pulsatile mechanical circulatory support device specifically designed for children,” said Susan Cummins, M.D., M.P.H., chief pediatric medical officer in the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health. “Previous adult heart assist devices were too large to be used in critically ill children to keep them alive while they wait to get a new heart.”
The device consists of one or two external pneumatic (driven by air) blood pumps, multiple tubes to connect the blood pumps to heart chambers and the great arteries, and the driving unit. Read the rest of this entry »
A new study published in the January 2012 edition of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that beef can play a role in a cholesterol-lowering diet, despite commonly held beliefs.
The study found that diets including lean beef every day are as effective in lowering total and LDL “bad” cholesterol as the “gold standard” of heart-healthy diets (DASH, Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension).
The Beef in an Optimal Lean Diet (BOLD) clinical study (Effects on Lipids, Lipoproteins and Apolipoproteins),(1) conducted by The Pennsylvania State University (PSU) researchers, evaluated adults with moderately elevated cholesterol levels, measuring the impact of diets including varying amounts of lean beef on total and LDL cholesterol levels. Study participants experienced a 10 percent decrease in LDL cholesterol from the start of the study, while consuming diets containing 4.0 and 5.4 oz. of lean beef daily. Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: Health Informer
- Filed under: Health News
- Date: Dec 15,2011
New research points to soy as a potential solution for men with prostate cancer that is unresponsive to the conventional treatment of surgery and radiation.
For many men in this situation, no standard therapeutic option exists, and the most common choice has sexual and other side effects that worsen quality of life. In this pilot study, conducted at Pennsylvania State University by Monika Joshi and colleagues and published in the Southern Medical Journal in November 2011, fifty percent of participants benefitted from soy (three servings a day, for two years) either permanently or short-term.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among U.S. men and the second most common cause of cancer death, according to American Cancer Society statistics. Read the rest of this entry »