Drug addiction :: Boosting social skills reduces teenage drug use and addiction
School-based programmes that develop individual young people’s social skills are the best way to reduce drug use.
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Obesity :: Psychological interventions can help fight fat
People who are overweight or obese can use behavioural and cognitive-behavioural strategies to help lose weight.
Alzheimer’s Disease :: Memantine helps in moderate to severe Alzheimer’s disease
The low affinity glutamate NMDA receptor antagonist memantine can slightly reduce deterioration in patients with moderate to severe Alzheimer’s disease, but the effect in less severely affected people is unknown.
Schizophrenia :: Music therapy can help people with schizophrenia
When added to standard care, music therapy helps people with schizophrenia improve their global state, mental state and social functioning.
Oral Cancer :: Screenings could reduce oral cancer
French researchers said visual screenings of people with a high-risk of developing oral cancer could prevent 37,000 deaths worldwide annually.
Diabetes :: People with Diabetes More Sensitive to Cardiovascular Effects
People with diabetes may be at higher risk for cardiovascular problems when air pollution levels are higher, according to a new study of Boston-area residents. The ability of the blood vessels to control blood flow was impaired in adults with diabetes on days with elevated levels of particles from traffic and coal-burning power plants.
Childhood Obesity :: Find Environmental Solutions to Childhood Obesity
National and community leaders join researchers today to sort out how a child?s environment increases the risk for obesity and to identify ways the environment can be changed to address this health epidemic. More than 700 people will gather for a two-day conference, Environmental Solutions to Obesity in America?s Youth – sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, one of the National Institutes of Health.
Obesity :: Obesity associated with colorectal cancer
Obesity is associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer.
Zone Diet :: Basis for the Zone diet
The basis for the Zone diet, by Barry Sears, Ph.D. (a biochemist, neither a physician nor a dietitian), is that if a person eats the correct ratio of carbohydrate to protein to fat (40/30/30), s/he will improve his or her health, weight, and athletic performance, because certain hormones will be balanced and therefore in the preferred “zone.” The hormones he focuses on are insulin (necessary for glucose to enter our cells) and eicosanoids (hormone-like substances that regulate inflammation. Some eicosanoids are by-products of metabolism.).
GI Diet :: Significance of Glycemic Index
The glycemic index is a ranking of carbohydrates based on their immediate effect on blood glucose (blood sugar) levels. It compares foods gram for gram of carbohydrate. Carbohydrates that breakdown quickly during digestion have the highest glycemic indexes. The blood glucose response is fast and high. Carbohydrates that break down slowly, releasing glucose gradually into the blood stream, have low glycemic indexes.