A new study finds that eating mostly meat, refined starches, and sodium may increase the likelihood of developing chronic respiratory symptoms, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Researchers found that individuals whose diets are rich in meat, refined starches and sodium are 1.43 times more likely to report new onset of persistent coughs with phlegm than those who consume a diet high in fruit and soy.
A new study shows that treatment with a lifestyle modification program of diet, exercise and behavioral therapy when used in combination with the weight loss medication sibutramine (Meridia?) resulted in significantly greater weight loss among obese adults than treatment with the medication alone.
Martha Clare Morris of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago reports that a six-year study demonstrates that eating fish at least once a week slows down age-related mental decline.
Hasan Mukhtar of the University of Wisconsin, and team, gave high doses of pomegranate extract to mice that had been bred to have weak immune systems.
Dr. Xuemei Huang, and team, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, compared the lipid levels of 124 Parkinson’s patients with a comparable group of 112 healthy subjects.
Dr. Jun Tan of the Silver Child Development Center at the University of South Florida, and team, injected epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) into mice that had been genetically engineered to develop Alzheimer’s-like symptoms.
Dr. Joseph C. Anderson of Stony Brook University in NY, and colleagues, studied the effect of routinely consuming alcohol on colorectal tumor risk in 2,291 patients undergoing routine colonoscopy.
Glutathione (GSH), a protein that is essential to cell metabolism, also plays a strong role as an antioxidant and defender against infection and environmental toxins.
Scientists at the University of Washington, Seattle, raised blood insulin in 16 healthy seniors and then examined the volunteers’ cerebrospinal fluid and plasma.
Dr. Donald Wigle, of the University of Ottawa in Canada, and Dr. Bruce Lanphear of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Ohio contend that more must be done to protect people from the most common environmental toxins – lead, radon, tobacco smoke and byproducts of drinking water disinfection.