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Weight Loss :: Foods Improving Consumers Ability to Manage Calorie Intake Key to

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has received a report that could help American industry and consumers take important steps to successfully combat the nation’s obesity problem. The report is titled, the “Keystone Forum on Away-From-Home Foods: Opportunities for Preventing Weight Gain and Obesity.” It provides recommendations from experts in industry, government, civic sector organizations, and academia, for improving consumers’ ability to manage calorie intake from foods prepared and purchased away-from-home. The Keystone Report offers recommendations related to: 1) understanding and influencing consumer behavior; 2) increasing the availability of lower-calorie products, menu items, and meals; and 3) providing consumers with nutrition information.

Cholesterol :: ‘Good’ cholesterol drug trialled

A major international trial has been set up to see whether a treatment to increase so-called “good” cholesterol can prevent heart attacks and strokes.

Heart Disease :: Two more heart risk genes identified

U.S. researchers studying older athletes have discovered two more genes implicated in early heart attack risk.

Weight Loss :: Not enough sleep associated with weight gain

Women who fail to get enough shut-eye each night risk gaining weight, a Cleveland-based researcher reported at a medical conference in San Diego today.

Heart Disease :: Tomatoes could prevent heart attacks, strokes

Tomatoes, earlier known to protect against various cancers, could also prevent heart attacks and strokes, say scientists.

Heart Disease :: Scientists discover protein that holds key to preventing heart

A newly discovered gene known as MCPIP could provide scientists with the key to developing treatments for preventing inflammation that can cause heart disease, according to University of Central Florida researchers.

Homeopathic Medicine :: Digitalis Purpurea – Purple Foxglove

Indicated in affections of the heart, with weak, irregular contractions, causing a fluttering sensation. Sense of faintness and fear of death from dread that the heart?s action will suddenly cease. Of great value in organic heart disease, with scantiness of urine and dropsical effusion. Also in hepatic disease with jaundice, ascites, nephritis with cardiac symptoms, percarditis with effusion; pneumonia, especially of the aged, with weakness of the heart?s action. Less often in urethritis, specific and non-specific, and in prostatitis.

Stress :: How to reduce STRESS?

We live in times when stress has become part of our physical existence. Stress oriented problems like hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, various kinds of ulcers and even spondylosis are increasing by the day. Stress is normally different from what we consider as disease: for it has no biological structure as in the case germs and virus. It cannot be cultivated or observed under a microscope. Rightly so modern drugs and methods have failed in producing a cure for health problems related to stress. At the most it has been able to provide temporary relief from some symptoms.

Smoking :: Varenicline – New pill helps quit smoking

A Pfizer drug shown to help more than one in five smokers quit after a year?s use received approval in the US, adding another option to the limited pool of effective stop-smoking prescription medicines.

Hypnosis :: Hypnosis may relieve non-cardiac chest pain

People with chest pain that’s not caused by a heart condition or heartburn may find hypnosis provides significant pain relief and improves their sense of general well-being, British investigators report.