Meditation Technique Helps Lower BP
Transcendental meditation in an effective alternative to blood pressure-lowering medication, according to the results of a study involving African Americans. People may choose to try to lower their blood pressure naturally, “but it matters what you do,” study author Dr Robert H. Schneider of the Maharishi University of Management in Iowa. “Not everything has the [...]
Evercise and balanced diet best precautions against stroke!
Exercise and a balanced diet are the best precautions against strokes, notes the Berlin-based German Neurological Society (DGN). Citing a recent US study that showed vitamins to be ineffective at reducing the risk of strokes or heart attacks, it advised against regularly taking vitamins C and E to help prevent vascular disease. The study was [...]
Low Fat Diet & Ovarian Cancer!
Long-term adherence to a low-fat diet may reduce the risk of ovarian cancer, according to the results of the Women’s Health Initiative Dietary Modification trial, which involved nearly 50,000 postmenopausal women. “While other studies have examined the association between dietary fat and the incidence of cancer, including cancer of the ovary, among postmenopausal women, this [...]
Virulent Virus Attack
Diarrhea is always a messy business, more so when it happened to a child. But when it becomes acute, then parents have to be extra vigilant to the possibility of a rotavirus attack. Rotavirus is the main cause of severe diarrhea worldwide in both developed and developing countries. This virus infects the bowels and causes [...]
Pregnancy mistakes even smart women make
With the wealth of medical knowledge that’s out there for everyone to access, it’s a wonder that people still engage in patently non-healthy behavior. Millions of individuals still smoke cigarettes, for instance, despite overwhelming evidence against their use. Even the more prudent make the occasional health-care “mistake”–over-flossing, for instance (dentists recommend doing so only once [...]
Fish-rich Diet
A study was conducted at Addenbrooke’ Hospital in Cambridge, UK, to determine the frequency of fish consumption among 22,000 middle-aged and older men and women, of whom 517 had diabetes. The researchers discovered that diabetics who consumed an average of less than one serving of fish per week had four times the risk of microalbuminuria [...]
Experts draw link between tainted milk, kidney stones
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Scientists in China and Hong Kong have established for the first time in a study that consuming the plastic-making chemical melamine can cause kidney stones in people. At least six children died and 290,000 fell ill in China last year after consuming milk formula tainted with melamine, which was added to [...]
HIV Increase Risk of Bone Fractures!
In the study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, it was found that HIV positive individuals have an increased risk of fractures of the hip, vertebra, wrist and combined fractures. Data from 8525 HIV positive and more than two million non-HIV patients were collected from two hospitals in the United States. Incidentlally, [...]
