A scientific team at the Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, in Cambridge, UK, suggests that eating more at breakfast and less later in the day will limit middle-age weight gain.
At the outset, the investigators gathered 7-day food diaries to measure overall diet and breakfast eating habits, and collected information on lifestyle, such as physical […]

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According to a new study at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore most children seem to outgrow allergies to eggs, but it may take longer than past research has suggested.The study conclusions were reported in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

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According to conclusions reported by researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University, people with early Alzheimer’s disease were involved in more traffic accidents and performed worse on road tests than drivers without cognitive impairment. The study also found that people with mild dementia were much more likely to fail a road test than those […]

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New research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore suggests a link between acne and prostate cancer.
The research team investigated the acne-prostate cancer link following on recent study that concluded the acne-related bacterium Propionibacterium acnes in one third of prostate samples taken from men with prostate cancer. The tissue containing P. […]

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Recently at the Center for Medical Biomics, University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands a research team suggested that the association between whole grain foods and type 2 diabetes risk appears to have backed the theory that such foods may reduce the likelihood of developing the disease, especially in people who consume a diet high […]

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A new study reported in the European Heart Journal revealed that a stressful job has a direct biological impact on the body, raising the risk of heart disease, research has indicated. The research focused on more than 10,000 British civil servants. During investigations, those under 50 who said their work was stressful were nearly 70% […]

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A new study at Yale School of Medicine have revealed that a low concentration of vitamin E in the blood is linked with physical decline in older persons.
The study conclusions are published in the January 23 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association

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Researchers at the cardiology department of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington, D.C. revealed that even a moderate amount of exercise can dramatically prolong a man’s life.
The government-sponsored analysis — the largest such study ever — found that a regimen of brisk walking 30 minutes a day at least four to six days a […]

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Side effects accompanying androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), including sarcopenia, loss of bone mass and reduction in muscle strength, can compromise physical function, particularly in older patients.
According to latest reviews, exercise, specifically resistance training, may be an effective and cost-efficient strategy to limit or even reverse some of these adverse effects during and following therapy. In […]

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According to the results of a study at the University Hospital Basel in Switzerland, male aging is associated with a gradual decrease in circulating testosterone, which may be detrimental to bone. In community-dwelling men older than 60 years, serum testosterone levels were independently associated with the risk for osteoporotic fracture.
However, the authors report in the […]

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