About half of both men and women in the U.S. will be obese by 2030 if current trends continue, health experts warned today. Obesity is fast replacing tobacco as the single most important preventable cause of chronic non-communicable diseases, and will add an extra 7.8million cases of diabetes, 6.8million cases of heart disease and stroke, [...]
Archive for Category: "Genetic Research for Optimizing Your Health"
HALF of U.S. population will be obese by 2030 experts predict as the number could swell to 164 million Americans!
Vitamin D Can Decrease or Increase Breast Cancer Development and Insulin Resistance
In mice models of breast cancer, researchers at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, a part of Georgetown University Medical Center, found that vitamin D significantly reduced development of estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer both in lean and obese mice, but had no beneficial effect in estrogen receptor-negative (ER-) cancer. In fact, obese mice destined [...]
Common Drugs Linked to Cognitive Impairment and Possibly to Increased Risk of Death
Common drugs linked to cognitive impairment and possibly to increased risk of death, study suggests. Most drugs do no improve the health of individuals but rather modulate a symptom. Proper nutrition and lifestyle modification are key to avoiding medications as we age.
Obesity Induces Depression and Anxiety and Inhibits the Anti-inflammatory Effect of a Fast in Mice
When Obese mice were put in a fasting state they did not exhibit the same anti-inflammatory state that less obese mice experienced. When inflammation continues it inhibits the breakdown of fat. This also may explain depressive symptoms are related to inflammation and inhibits lypolyisis or fat breakdown.
Vitamin D Deficiency is Associated with Different Types of Obesity in Black and White Children
Vitamin D deficiency is associated with different types of obesity in black and white children. Vitamin D deficiency is as epidemic levels. I continually see children have levels of severe deficiency which are under 10 when over 33 is considered normal. Take home pearl is get your Vitamin D checked and optimize it [...]
Dawn of Agriculture Took Toll on Health
Dawn of agriculture took toll on health. This study shows that the sudden change in our dietary habits from a wide spectum of food sources to a mono crop caused a change in our health as humans. Today our food sources are still primarily from just a couple of biomass crops such as corn [...]
Dietary Changes Appear to Affect Levels of Biomarkers Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease
Previous research has suggested multiple links between diet and cognitive ability, the authors note as background information. Health conditions in which insulin resistance (the body’s inability to use insulin effectively) is a factor — obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and high cholesterol levels — have also been associated with “pathological brain aging.” However, studies [...]
Ancestry Plays Vital Role in Nutrition and Disease
The latest research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the laboratories of Floyd H. “Ski” Chilton, Ph.D., professor of physiology and pharmacology and director of the Center for Botanical Lipids and Inflammatory Disease Prevention, and Rasika Mathias, Sc.D, assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, reveals how humans [...]
