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"Soy does not ease the menopause"
By Rob Winters - Published on Monday, 08 August 2011 20:17
"Soy appears to do nothing to relieve the symptoms of menopause, scientists say, despite the high hopes of many.A controlled study involving nearly 250 US women going through "the change" found soy tablets did not abate hot flushes or bone density loss.
The tablets were no better than placebo over the two-year-long investigation, Archives of Internal Medicine reports.
But experts said other studies have shown soy can ease menopause symptoms.
The dose given in the latest trial was twice that normally ingested by people with soy-rich diets."
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14442851
"Heart disease in a can"
By Rob Winters - Published on Sunday, 07 August 2011 21:14
"Adults who consume high levels of sugar—particularly fructose or high fructose corn syrup—have significantly elevated levels of several risk factors for heart disease, a new study shows.
The results suggest U.S. dietary guidelines for sugar may be lax and should be reconsidered, the researchers say. Their findings are scheduled for publication in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
“While there is evidence that people who consume large amounts of sugar are more likely to have heart disease or diabetes, it has been controversial as to whether high-sugar diets may actually promote these diseases,” said Kimber Stanhope, the study’s senior author and a research scientist at the University of California, Davis.
“Our new findings demonstrate that several factors associated with an elevated risk for cardiovascular disease were increased in individuals who consumed 25 percent of their calories as fructose or high fructose corn syrup,” Stanhope adds."
Read more: http://www.futurity.org/health-medicine/big-sweet-gulp-heart-disease-in-a-can/
"Love of the usual"
By Rob Winters - Published on Sunday, 07 August 2011 21:07
"Just before 11 on a Sunday morning in February 2000, I find myself driving south in Beverly Hills en route to a celebrated church.My friend Sandra has breathlessly told me that the church's leader is renowned among New Agers. Judging from my visits to her San Diego church, I earlier decided that the church follows as its First Commandment "Whatever Works." (Because her church seemed so forgiving that it had banished the very idea of Sin, I had started calling it "The Church of the Holy Go-For-It.")
Two blocks from the building, the backed-up traffic signals that my companion is right: Perhaps a thousand New Agers are walking to the front door. I finally find an open parking spot two football fields away from the building, from which we make our trek to the church and our seats."
Read more: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/unthinking/201107/what-is-beautiful
"Nephropathy – Kidney Disease from Long Term Diabetes"
By Rob Winters - Published on Sunday, 07 August 2011 20:50
"Nephropathy alone is damage or disease of the kidney; however, diabetic nephropathy is kidney disease that is associated with long-term diabetes also referred to as Kimmelstiel-Wilson disease or intercapillary glomerulonephritis.
This disease affects the tiny blood vessels found in the glomerulus, which is the main structure in the capillary blood vessels of the kidneys."
Read more: http://healthlifeandstuff.com/2011/06/nephropathy-kidney-disease-from-long-term-diabetes/
"The Death of Kings"
By Rob Winters - Published on Saturday, 06 August 2011 15:48
"Most people by now may recall a moment of clarity, an inkling of doom. Maybe it helped a guy make money, or at least lose less. Maybe it came too late or went unheeded, so that now it nettles. The majority didn’t expect it to be so bad, and wouldn’t have been able to profit from or guard against it anyway. The sad fact is that betting against the global financial system requires more than pluck; you need to be a participant. Most of the mechanisms in place for the implementation of pessimism are known only to members of the guild.Page 83 of 152