Green tea protects against heart disease: study - Yahoo! News (Reuters)
Yet another report about the value of green (also dark) tea.
Neat thing about tea, unlike coffee, it doesn't matter if it's hot, cold, or room temperature.
Drink up!
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Coffee can be good for you, experts say
Coffee can be good for you, experts say - Yahoo! News (Reuters)
In a glucose kind of way according to these studies. As in coffee might possibly help prevent Type 2 diabetes.
I'm guessing that if one already has Type 2 diabetes or are in a pre-diabetes, in-between place (as I am, and so many), the slowing of the intestinal absorption of glucose that coffee appears to do would apply to us pre-diabetics as well.
A tip: cinnamon appears to good for diabetics/those-of-us-with- glucose-issues. Just in case, I usually sprinkle some cinnamon in my coffee. Makes it better, anyway. Cinnamon is otherwise supposed to be good for you as well, as is its "cousin", nutmeg.
Tip #2: As in how much coffee to drink? I would think this old adage would apply - All things in moderation, including moderation.
In a glucose kind of way according to these studies. As in coffee might possibly help prevent Type 2 diabetes.
I'm guessing that if one already has Type 2 diabetes or are in a pre-diabetes, in-between place (as I am, and so many), the slowing of the intestinal absorption of glucose that coffee appears to do would apply to us pre-diabetics as well.
A tip: cinnamon appears to good for diabetics/those-of-us-with- glucose-issues. Just in case, I usually sprinkle some cinnamon in my coffee. Makes it better, anyway. Cinnamon is otherwise supposed to be good for you as well, as is its "cousin", nutmeg.
Tip #2: As in how much coffee to drink? I would think this old adage would apply - All things in moderation, including moderation.
Monday, April 30, 2007
Reversing Alzheimer's memory loss may be possible
Reversing Alzheimer's memory loss may be possible - Yahoo! News (Reuters)
It's good to hear such positive and hopeful news about Alzheimer's Disease.
This article makes me wonder yet again about something I've long suspected - that Alzheimer's patients frequently get worse, or at least deteriorate at a faster rate, when they are "put away" into nursing homes. ("Warehousing" some have called it.)
This could be from lack of stimulation. A lack of mental exercise - literally!
Also, being home alone in that easy chair in front of the TV too much would have a similar effect it would seem.
It's becoming more and more obvious to me that throughout our lives we need to continue to work our minds, as well as work our bodies.
It's good to hear such positive and hopeful news about Alzheimer's Disease.
This article makes me wonder yet again about something I've long suspected - that Alzheimer's patients frequently get worse, or at least deteriorate at a faster rate, when they are "put away" into nursing homes. ("Warehousing" some have called it.)
This could be from lack of stimulation. A lack of mental exercise - literally!
Also, being home alone in that easy chair in front of the TV too much would have a similar effect it would seem.
It's becoming more and more obvious to me that throughout our lives we need to continue to work our minds, as well as work our bodies.
Toddler calls 911 after mother collapses
Toddler calls 911 after mother collapses - Yahoo! News (AP)
I like this story and had to share it. Good for this little guy!
Add this toddler hero to the assortment of other heroes who you would not think able to contact 911 for help in an emergency (dogs, cats, etc.), but surprise and gratify us all by doing just that.
I like this story and had to share it. Good for this little guy!
Add this toddler hero to the assortment of other heroes who you would not think able to contact 911 for help in an emergency (dogs, cats, etc.), but surprise and gratify us all by doing just that.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Hormones can raise breast cancer risk
Hormones can raise breast cancer risk - Yahoo! News (AP)
Yet more verification of the nastiness - no, the danger - of HRT.
From this article...
"After rising steadily through the 1990s, the breast cancer rate dipped from 2001 to 2002, from 138 cases to 135 cases per 100,000 women. After the federal Women's Health Initiative study reported in July 2002 on the health risks of hormones, use of the pills plunged.
So did the breast cancer rate the following year — to 126 cases per 100,000 women. It was the steepest fall since the government started keeping records in the 1970s.
The drop was seen in all of the cancer statistics registries reviewed in the study, and no other cancer rate changed as dramatically — strong signs that hormones were playing a role, specialists said."
I resisted my doctors' entreaties to take HRT for years (they started in at me when I was only 45!), and I only give in because doctors urged it as a prevention against osteoporosis - which I got anyway!
Doctors were really suckered in by the drug companies on this, I believe, BTW. Related, I also believe doctors didn't handle this well.
Anyway, whether or not HRT was entirely the cause of my tumor I can't answer, but I do know that the tumor was "very strongly receptive" (quoting my pathology report) to hormones. OIOW, whatever the cause, it was indeed a fact that the HRT was feeding my tumor royally and generously. Every pill I took, every patch I put on, was feeding my tumor. : ( I can't believe I went to so much trouble and expense to feed and grow my cancer.
No wonder some women like me have sued these people. You can tell it makes me angry. I don't dwell, though, what's the point? I do warn others about HRT, though, when the subject comes up.
Yet more verification of the nastiness - no, the danger - of HRT.
From this article...
"After rising steadily through the 1990s, the breast cancer rate dipped from 2001 to 2002, from 138 cases to 135 cases per 100,000 women. After the federal Women's Health Initiative study reported in July 2002 on the health risks of hormones, use of the pills plunged.
So did the breast cancer rate the following year — to 126 cases per 100,000 women. It was the steepest fall since the government started keeping records in the 1970s.
The drop was seen in all of the cancer statistics registries reviewed in the study, and no other cancer rate changed as dramatically — strong signs that hormones were playing a role, specialists said."
I resisted my doctors' entreaties to take HRT for years (they started in at me when I was only 45!), and I only give in because doctors urged it as a prevention against osteoporosis - which I got anyway!
Doctors were really suckered in by the drug companies on this, I believe, BTW. Related, I also believe doctors didn't handle this well.
Anyway, whether or not HRT was entirely the cause of my tumor I can't answer, but I do know that the tumor was "very strongly receptive" (quoting my pathology report) to hormones. OIOW, whatever the cause, it was indeed a fact that the HRT was feeding my tumor royally and generously. Every pill I took, every patch I put on, was feeding my tumor. : ( I can't believe I went to so much trouble and expense to feed and grow my cancer.
No wonder some women like me have sued these people. You can tell it makes me angry. I don't dwell, though, what's the point? I do warn others about HRT, though, when the subject comes up.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Cancer society recommends breast MRIs
Cancer society recommends breast MRIs - Yahoo! News (AP)
Interesting...
Something for me (and many of you reading this) to ask our doctors about the next time we have our annual mammograms. Especially if you have the risk factors mentioned in this article.
It is true that sometimes it's better to use more than one tool in order to make sure one is tumor-free. And it's all about catching any possible tumor as soon as possible. Whatever you do, don't wait for it to show up as a lump - I had Stage 2 breast cancer and never had a perceptible lump - not even to doctors!
Over 40? Be sure you get your mammogram (and whatever other relevant tests you might need) annually.
Interesting...
Something for me (and many of you reading this) to ask our doctors about the next time we have our annual mammograms. Especially if you have the risk factors mentioned in this article.
It is true that sometimes it's better to use more than one tool in order to make sure one is tumor-free. And it's all about catching any possible tumor as soon as possible. Whatever you do, don't wait for it to show up as a lump - I had Stage 2 breast cancer and never had a perceptible lump - not even to doctors!
Over 40? Be sure you get your mammogram (and whatever other relevant tests you might need) annually.
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