More On Spot Reducing
March 27, 2008
Steve Turano from Body Performance TV explains in this video series why you should ignore Sunday morning infomercials on offering misleading information about spot reduction. Read more
Miss America Interview on Miss USA & Diet
March 27, 2008
2008 Miss America 2008 Winner Kirsten Haglund is featured in an exclusive interview with Diet.com. Kristen’s platform as a beauty queen and role model is to promote eating disorder awareness. She also talks trash on Miss USA. Read more
Trim and Tone Your Abs Workout Video
March 27, 2008
Personal trainer Stephen Cabral pushes Sarah to the limit in this intense belly blasting ab workout. Learn how to work the abs with fitness moves you’ve never thought of. Visit Stephen’s Website at http://stephencabral.com 8 minute abs quick results fast 6 pack bikini calories weight loss. Read more
Popular apple variety harbors unusual cell growth
March 27, 2008
A UK scientist has discovered clumps of previously-unreported callus hairs growing in the flesh of mature apples of Fuji and closely-related varieties, which may have storage implications for commercial growers.
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Obesity may keep some women from getting screened for breast, cervical cancer
March 27, 2008
A review of cancer screening studies shows that white women who are obese are less likely than healthy weight women to get the recommended screenings for breast and cervical cancer, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Public Health.
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Dramatic rise in hepatitis C-related deaths
March 27, 2008
Hepatitis C-related deaths in the United States increased by 123 percent from 1995 through 2004, the most recent year for which data are available. Mortality rates peaked in 2002, then declined slightly overall, while continuing to rise among people 55 to 64 years old. These findings appear in the April issue of Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). The article is also available online at Wiley Interscience (www.interscience.wiley.com).
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Longer flu season and unexpected strains make prevention plan key
March 27, 2008
Millions of Americans took the advice to get a flu shot this season, but many are still becoming infected with the flu. This flu season is lasting longer than initially expected and has introduced unforeseen new strains of the virus, making other flu prevention steps even more important. Today, the Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA) and The Clorox Company launched the inFLUenza Resource Center, an online resource with tips and tools needed to help protect families and help prevent the spread of the flu virus.
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Scripps Florida scientists develop a process to disrupt hepatitis C virion production
March 27, 2008
HCV is a significant human pathogen, infecting more than three percent of the world’s population. The incidence of infection in the United States has been estimated to be as high as 4 million cases. In the March issue of the journal PLoS Pathogens, Timothy Tellinghuisen, an assistant professor in the Department of Infectology at Scripps Florida, and his colleagues describe how they used mutations of the viral NS5A phosphoprotein to disrupt virus particle production at an early stage of assembly. NS5A has long been proposed as a regulator of events in the HCV life cycle, but exactly how it orchestrates these events has been unclear.
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Levels of folate in men’s diets is linked to chromosomal abnormalities in their sperm
March 27, 2008
Researchers have found an association between a vitamin found in leafy green vegetables, fruit and pulses [1] and levels of chromosomal abnormalities in men’s sperm. Men who consumed high levels of folate (a water-soluble B vitamin that occurs naturally in food) and folic acid (the synthetic form of the vitamin) tended to have lower levels of abnormal sperm where a chromosome had been lost or gained (known as aneuploidy).
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Hispanics with clogged arteries at greatest risk of stroke, heart attack
March 27, 2008
Hispanics who have even a small amount of plaque build-up in the neck artery that supplies blood to the brain are up to four times more likely to suffer or die from a stroke or heart attack than Hispanics who do not have plaque, according to a study published in the March 19, 2008, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
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