Fish oil's heart benefits may be overstated. Fish oil supplements may not be as heart-healthy as once thought, a new study suggests. A study shows fish oil supplements may not protect against heart problemsIt may be that fish oil doesn't provide the same benefits as natural omega-3sPeople looking to boost heart health should continue to eat plenty of fish (Health.com) -- Fish oil supplements, widely touted for their ability to improve heart health, may not be as useful in protecting the heart as once thought, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Fish oil supplements contain omega-3 fatty acids, which are found in salmon and other cold-water fish. These healthy fats have been shown to lower blood pressure, reduce triglycerides, and prevent heart rhythm abnormalities, but clinical trials investigating whether these properties translate into a lower risk of heart attack and stroke have had mixed results.
Could fish oil help lower suicide rates? Health.com: Good fats, bad fats: How to choose. The Surprising Reason Why Some Kids Are Shorter: Study | Parenting. How we die (in one chart) The New England Journal of Medicine looks through 200 years of back issues to understand how we die differently: The first thing to notice here is how much our mortality rate has dropped over the course of a century, largely due to big reductions in infectious diseases like tuberculosis and influenza. The way we talk about medical conditions has changed, too. NEJM finds that, back in 1812 - the first year it published - reports of spontaneous combustion were taken quite seriously by the medical community, as were debates over how, exactly one would be injured by a close-call with a cannonball: Doctors agreed that even a near miss by a cannonball — without contact — could shatter bones, blind people, or even kill them (1812f).
Reports of spontaneous combustion, especially of “brandy-drinking men and women,” received serious, if skeptical, consideration (1812g). Top 6 Workout Recovery Foods. 5 Best Toothpastes. Human Body Myths Page 11 - AskMen Australia. All red meat is bad for you, new study says - latimes.com. Any amount and any type -- appears to significantly increase the risk of premature death, according to a long-range study that examined the eating habits and health of more than 110,000 adults for more than 20 years.
For instance, adding just one 3-ounce serving of unprocessed red meat -- picture a piece of steak no bigger than a deck of cards -- to one's daily diet was associated with a 13% greater chance of dying during the course of the study. For The Record Los Angeles Times Thursday, March 15, 2012 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 4 News Desk 1 inches; 41 words Type of Material: Correction Red meat: An article in the March 13 LATExtra section about a study linking red meat consumption to an increased risk of premature death said that preservatives like nitrates probably contributed to the danger. It should have included nitrites as well.
Eating a serving of nuts instead of beef or pork was associated with a 19% lower risk of dying during the study. Cancer researcher Lawrence H. Mark Hyman, MD: How Malnutrition Causes Obesity. Americans are overfed and undernourished. That's right, the most obese children and adults in the country are also the most nutritionally deficient (1)! How can those two things possibly co-exist? The mistake is to think that if you eat an abundance of calories, your diet automatically delivers all the nutrients your body needs. But the opposite is true. The more processed food you eat, the more vitamins you need. That's because vitamins and minerals lubricate the wheels of our metabolism, helping the chemical reactions in our bodies run properly. A Nutritionally Deficient Culture After reviewing the major nutritional research over the last 40 years and doing nutritional testing on over 10,000 patients -- I can tell you that Americans are suffering from massive nutritional deficiencies.
So, what happened? * Food is less nutritious. *Soil is being squeezed. Because those foods contain fewer nutrients, the servings we do eat don't deliver as much nutrition as they once did. Mark Hyman, MD. Is Diet Soda Addictive? Darren Jones wants to check himself into rehab for an unusual “addiction.” He says he’s so hooked on Diet Coke that he downs 18 cans a day and can’t leave home without it.
Judging by his photos in The Daily Mail, all that diet soda hasn’t helped him control his weight, which was edging toward 500 pounds when the pictures were taken. He’s not alone. Former president Bill Clinton, Victoria Beckham, Elton John and movie moguls Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Katzenberg have all admitted to a Diet Coke habit, according to the New York Times. And then there’s Elisa Zied, a high profile registered dietician with no discernible weight problem and three books and numerous TV appearances to her credit.
Replace soda with these healthy smoothie recipes. The Addiction Question Surveys show that people who drink these beverages rarely stop with just one. Learn about the most addictive prescription drugs on the market. Insights from Brain Science Study author Martin P. Is diet soda making you fat? Ron Paul’s claims about life without Medicare and Medicaid. (Jack Dempsey, AP) “When I started medicine, there was no Medicare or Medicaid, and nobody was out in the streets without it.” -- Ron Paul, during a CNN debate in Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 26, 2012 “When I got out of medical school in 1961, I practiced for a couple years before there was Medicaid. I worked in a Catholic hospital and didn't make hardly any money.
Nobody was turned away, and people were treated. . — Paul, during town hall meeting in Manchester N.H., Dec. 19, 2011 These comments reminded us of the character-probing question that CNN moderator Wolf Blitzer threw at Paul during the Sept. 12 debate in Tampa: Should society allow an uninsured 30-year-old to die from lack of medical care? The libertarian congressman suggested people should embrace personal responsibility, and he described Blitzer’s hypothetical as implausible, since hospitals don’t turn people away for lack of money or insurance coverage. The Facts As our colleagues at FactCheck.org pointed out, the U.S. How Fit Are You? Ask 10 experts for their definition of fitness, and you’ll hear 10 different answers. That’s because how you define the word depends on the type of performance you expect. Some athletes need to develop a particular type of fitness over all others—powerlifters at one extreme, marathoners at another—but most of us are at our best when we achieve balanced fitness.
In other words, we’re good at everything a healthy, active man needs to be able to do. On these points the experts agree: You need core stability. You need lower-body strength and power to run, jump, and lift heavy objects off the ground. You need torso strength to lift your own body weight in repeated challenges. That’s why we asked our experts to create seven fitness tests that will help you assess the shape you’re in.
Try the fitness challenge to find out how strong you are. And don’t aim for average. Fitness Test #1: Core Stability Fitness begins in the middle of your body. Have a friend set the dowel along your back. I had a tuna meltdown - m.NYPOST.com. It’s a wonder he didn’t get sick of the taste first. A Westchester man who says he ate 10 cans of tuna a week for nearly two years is suing Bumble Bee Foods for allegedly giving him mercury poisoning. Lee Porrazzo of White Plains told The Post he and his roommate and workout partner, Roland Muccini, would make regular runs to the local Stop & Shop to load up on cans of tuna fish thinking they were eating healthy.
“There was tuna in my diet every day, just about,” Porrazzo said. “I thought it was the cleanest source of protein.” But the 48-year-old BMW salesman said he was soon plagued by a mystery malady that gave him chest pains and sent him to the hospital “believing he was having a heart attack,” according to his White Plains federal court suit. He’s blaming it on the canned tuna and wants unspecified damages for breach of warranty and negligence from the fish cannery. “One day I got a call from the [state] Health Department,” he said.
“It changed my life,” he said.