Friday
Mar192010
Vitamin D helps fend off flu, asthma attacks: study
March 19, 2010 In a study of Japanese schoolchildren, vitamin D supplements taken during the winter and early spring helped prevent seasonal flu and asthma attacks.
Forging his way through the predictable UK media censorship: Dr Andrew Wakefield Responds to Measles Outbreak in Swansea
Entries from March 1, 2010 - March 31, 2010
March 19, 2010 Friday
Mar122010
In defence of omega-3
March 12, 2010 First, the BBC runs an article on it website with the title, “The cult of omega-3”, which left a very fishy taste in this reader’s mouth. On the other side of the pond, legal action was announced in a San Francisco court over allegations of excessive limits for the pollutant polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) in some omega-3 supplements. And all this in a week that celebrated Omega-3 Awareness Day.
Thursday
Mar112010
Human brains grow, change and can heal themselves
March 11, 2010 By the time Scott Hayner of Highland Park was 7, he had had one skull fracture and three major concussions from falling off horses. Nobody connected those accidents to the difficulties he had in school as he acted out, stopped talking for three months and cried daily for two years. As an adult, he seemed to be a thriving, successful stockbroker, until traumatic brain injury from a 1999 soccer accident led to seizures and sidelined his ability to talk to people and stay on task, it seemed, for good.Two realizations have turned his life around at 42. First, he realized that brain injuries were behind the troubles he had had all his life. And second, he read about brain plasticity -- the concept that the brain can heal and learn at all ages.
Thursday
Mar042010
90 Percent of High School Kids Lack Sufficient Intake of Fruits, Veggies
March 4, 2010 (NaturalNews) Less than 10 percent of high school students in the United States meet the federally recommended daily intake of fruits and vegetables, according to a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Thursday
Mar042010
Prostate cancer therapy can increase risk of heart disease and death
March 4, 2010 (NaturalNews) A new report published in the American Cancer Society journal, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, and in the American Heart Association journal, Circulation, reveals that androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT), a type of prostate cancer treatment, can increase heart risk factors and possibly lead to heart attack or cardiac death.
Thursday
Mar042010
Red clover may counter depressive symptoms in older women
March 4, 2010 Post-menopausal women taking supplements of a red clover extract may experience fewer symptoms of depression and anxiety, says a new randomised trial from Austria. Symptoms of depression and anxiety were reduced by about 80 per cent following 90 days of supplements containing 80 milligrams of red clover isoflavones, according to findings of a prospective randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled trial published in Maturitas.
