Monthly Archive for May, 2011
When Dieting Interferes with Dieting
The good news is that a tendency to binge on diet-destroyers is likely to be a matter of genes. The bad news is that our brain, body and external environment can fire up this tendency making some of us more likely to binge eat than others.Dietary restraint or just plain dieting involves a conscious and voluntary reduction in caloric intake, or at the very least, an intent to do so. In a well controlled experiment involving 1,678 women, each a twin of another, Sarah Racine and her crew of four researchers employed a series of tests with the aim of conclusively determining the relationship between dietary restraint and genetic factors.
Pass the Salt – Risks Linked to Low Salt Diet?
In light of the fact that approximately 90% of all Americans will develop high blood pressure during their lifetime, the American Heart Association recommends a daily intake of no more than 1,500 milligrams of sodium to reduce the risk of high blood pressure, heart attacks, stroke, and kidney disease. However, results published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) from a recent European study coordinated in Belgium have challenged the notion that a reduced sodium (salt) consumption lowers the risk of heart attacks, congestive heart failure, and stroke.
The Strangling Angel of Children – Birth of Endotracheal Intubation
Up until the beginning of the 1920’s in the United States and contemporarily in many parts of the world, diphtheria has been a leading cause of death in children. Referred to as “the strangling angel of children,” large outbreaks occurred in Europe and in America in the 18th century, and more recently in the 1990’s in Russia and Eastern Europe. In the western frontier of the US in the 19th century, illnesses were common, and epidemics such as cholera, smallpox, and typhoid fever came recurrently. Diphtheria was second only to malaria in taking the lives of young children. The disease was awful, causing pain, swelling of the neck and lymph nodes, and eventually suffocation and death.
Maternal Relationship Reduces Violence and Improves Intelligence
There is no substitute for a good mother, and a mother’s influence is one of the most powerful forces in the lives of young children. Now, research shows that a healthy, playful relationship between a child and a mother leads to adult children with higher intelligence and less involvement in violence.
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