Articles Tagged ‘nutrition’
Articles & Studies | By April 28, 2008 | By Sudip Ghosh, MD | 2 Comments
Killer Anti-Oxidant Vitamins: When Excess Could Be Exceedingly Dangerous
Vitamin E today ranks as the second highest single vitamin consumed in the world after vitamin C, following well organized marketing campaigns extolling its anti-oxidative properties. Anti-oxidation is today a key marketing buzzword for the growing market segment of anti-aging dietary supplements, although how it affects human life spans is poorly understood. According to Wellcome Trust [1] there is no evidence in humans that anti-oxidative vitamins (A, C and E) slows aging; only in laboratory mice have they led to a sight increase in lifespan. Nevertheless, these vitamins are widely sold today without prescription as tablets, fish oils and capsules across chemists, superstores and even eBay. Read more →
- Silent Strokes Contribute to Rapid Alzheimer’s Progression
- Beat Depression with Brain Food while Eating Junk Food
- Gooble Gobble, One of Us, ADD, One of Us
- Problem Eating Behavior in Preschool Children
- Latest Lines of Biopsychosocial Research
According to new research published in Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease can see a rapid acceleration of symptoms as a result of a small silent stroke. The study on 150 patients at the Catholic University of Korea demonstrated that patients showing... Read more →
Depression sucks, and we have probably all heard that it can be combated with proper diet and adding in missing nutrients. But who are we are fooling? Often, a clinically depressed person would prefer chocolate cake and potato chips for dinner rather than the salmon and salad that would help their condition.... Read more →
I keep hearing that all our children are being diagnosed ADD. Perhaps this comes from our fear of being maligned, diagnosed, and forced to conform to some dystopian, fascist mind control future in the making. Or perhaps it’s fueled by our morbid fascination with subcultures of freaks. Hence, this... Read more →
Greek physician Hippocrates once said, “If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.” According to the National Institutes of Health, at least one out of five kids in the U.S. is... Read more →
Generally, the latest hot topics in biopsychosocial fields include medical ethics, international medicine and health, reducing health care costs and expanding health services, and correlations between nutrition and illness. To view the latest research in health psychology, behavioral medicine, and the... Read more →
Thursday, May 15, 2008
- Should Doctors Have Guns?
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder: The Mind/Body Connection
- Extremist Muslim Doctors Do More Than Heal
- Are You Depressed Because You're Introverted?
- The Difference Between Doctors and Lawyers
- The Human Injury of Lost Objectivity: An Insider's Look into the Corruption of Clinical Trials
- Persistent Vegetative States: Legal and Political Ramifications
- A Failed Attempt to Improve Perceived Greatness: The ENHANCE Trial
- Domestic Violence: Call for Primary Care Screening and Gender Issues - Part I
- How Yoga Improves Balance in the Elderly
- Democracy vs. Domestic Violence
- Cell Transplants for Parkinson’s Disease
- Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD): No Heart for the Meds?
- A Failed Attempt to Improve Perceived Greatness: The ENHANCE Trial
- Should Doctors Have Guns?
- Extremist Muslim Doctors Do More Than Heal
- Drugs and Pharmacology, Seventh Edition
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder: The Mind/Body Connection
- Domestic Violence and Executive Dysfunction
- Brain Blogging, Thirty-Second Edition
- Great article. I am believe in the mind/body link and the value of understandin...
- You have excellent articles.
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- Excellent article. An area I've been looking at lately. I also see the connect...
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- I'd feel a lot more comfortable if I knew my doctor had a firearm handy. I haven...
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