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Health Nutrition for Cancer Patient : Ornish diet alters genes in prostate cancer patients
Prostate cancer patients who followed an extremely low fat diet and an exercise and stress management regimen turned on cancer preventing genes and turned off genes linked to triggering the disease.
A new study from the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, Calif., found that men who had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and had refused […]
AMA Adopts New Public Health Policies At Annual Meeting
The American Medical Association (AMA), the nation’s largest physician organization, voted today at its Annual Meeting to adopt the following new public health policies.
Appropriate supplementation of Vitamin D: The current Reference Intake Values for Vitamin D were established by the Food and Nutrition Board in 1997. Current research suggests that the Upper Limits for adults […]
LA BioMed Researcher Finds Clear Racial Discrepancies Among Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease
Black patients are more likely to die in the early stages of chronic kidney disease than whites, according to a new study by a Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed) researcher and his team that will be published in the July issue of the Journal of the American Society of […]
Eating Your Way to a Sturdy Heart
Give up your favorite foods. Break a sweat. Lose weight. But some of the best things you can do for your heart do not involve deprivation or medication. Simple and even pleasurable changes in the foods you eat can rival medication in terms of the benefit to your heart.
“Almost everyone has something they can […]
60 Percent of New Mothers Breast-fed Their Babies
About 77 percent of new mothers breast-feed their infants at least briefly, the highest rate seen in the United States in more than a decade, according to a government survey released on Wednesday.
In 1993 and 1994, just 60 percent of new mothers breast-fed their babies, but rates have been gradually rising ever since, according to […]