“Children and teens who ate fast foods multiple times a week were at an increased risk for severe asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis, and eczema, researchers found.”
Read the rest at MedPageToday.
This is likely related to the improvement in asthma seen in followers of the Mediterranean diet. Do ya’ think it’s something in the food?
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“Finally, young people need to understand how much their grandparents’ generation has ruined things for them. The average American retires with less than $70,000 in savings, but an elderly man and woman receive about $275,000 in medical care during that time — and you kids are paying for it by inheriting trillions upon trillions in Medicare bills that granny and grandpa never intended to pay and will be too dead to worry about soon.”
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Avocado consumption linked to better diet quality overall and lower risk of metabolic syndrome. http://www.nutritionj.com/content/12/1/1/abstract
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“If exercise is a miracle drug, as it has been recently described, then it is a drug that is not prescribed enough for the prevention of cardiovascular disease. And if exercise is a “central and indispensable component” of a strategy in the primary prevention of coronary artery disease, then it is even more valuable in secondary prevention, according to a new viewpoint in the Journal of the American Medical Association.”
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American Institute for Cancer Research has the list along with a helpful article. You’d think that a person moving from obese down to overweight or normal weight would reduce future cancer risk, but I’m not sure that’s ever been proven. We’ve learned in the last decade that obese and overweight patients with heart disease seem to live longer if they stay overweight – an example of the obesity paradox.
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That’s $2.7 trillion in 2011. Per capita, it’s $8680, an increase of 4% over the previous year. Boring details here.
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See Scientific American. We need more data on humans and less on rats.
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An article at MedPageToday suggests that carvedilol may be superior to other beta blockers for patients with heart failure and heart attacks. Other beta blockers would include metoprolol, bisoprolol, propranolol, and nadolol. It’s difficult to come up with reliable results in this arena.
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Details are at JournalWatch. A two-week gluten-free trial could be helpful. Of course, check with your personal physician first.
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