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Cutting Salt From Your Diet ‘Would Prevent One Fifth Of Heart Disease Deaths’

November 2, 2010 by ·

Heart disease could be cut by almost a fifth if food companies were banned from adding too much salt to their products, research has found.

Banning manufacturers from adding salt to ready meals, cereals, crisps and sandwiches would save tens of thousands of lives a year by lowering the number of heart attacks and strokes.

A major study has found such laws would be 20 times more effective in improving health than offering dietary advice.

Heart attacks and strokes are by far the biggest killers in Britain, claiming 230,000 lives every year. [Read more...]

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Smoking Doubles Dementia Risk In Late Life – Study

October 26, 2010 by ·

Heavy smoking during middle age can double the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia two decades later, researchers said on Monday.

Smoking already causes millions of deaths each year from cancer and heart disease.

“Our study suggests that heavy smoking in middle age increases the risk of both Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia for men and women across different race groups,” Rachel Whitmer, a research scientist with Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California and colleagues wrote in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

They said smoking also causes cancer and heart disease. The new findings show it threatens public health in late life, when people are already more likely to develop dementia. [Read more...]

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Eating Less Meat Could Save 45,000 lives A Year, Experts Claim

October 19, 2010 by ·

Cutting meat consumption to 210g a week would hugely reduce deaths from heart disease and cancer, research shows

Joint of Honey roast ham Processed meat such as ham is particularly bad for health, says the FoE report. Photograph: Food Features / Alamy/Alamy

More than 45,000 lives a year could be saved if everyone began eating meat no more than two or three times a week, health experts and Friends of the Earth claim today. [Read more...]

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Compound In Carrots, Peppers Boosts Brain Health

October 14, 2010 by ·

A plant compound found in carrots, peppers, celery, olive oil, peppermint, rosemary and chamomile helps reduce age-related inflammation in the brain and memory deficits, according to a new study conducted in mice.

The compound luteolin reduces age-related inflammation in the brain and related memory deficits by directly inhibiting the release of inflammatory molecules in the brain, researchers report. [Read more...]

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Energy Drinks Just A Waste Of Money: Expert

October 5, 2010 by ·

All those who are spending money on those energy sports drinks are just wasting their money-as they just end up consuming lots of extra calories, warns an expert.

Nick Hudson, national fitness manager for Virgin Active said while the drinks may be suitable for people training for events such as marathons, those doing workouts of less than two hours did not really benefit from the drinks.

“They’re certainly useful for people who compete in very long distance events,” the Scotsman quoted him as saying.

“Your body is generally thought to be able to store enough glycogen (a form of glucose] to last roughly two hours and marathon runners swear by them. [Read more...]

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Vigorous Exercise Reduces Breast Cancer Risk In African-American Women

October 3, 2010 by ·

Vigorous exercise of more than two hours per week reduces the risk of developing breast cancer in postmenopausal African-American women by 64 percent, compared to women of the same race who do not exercise, according to researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Results were presented at the Third AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, held Sept. 30 to Oct. 3, 2010.

“People often want to know what they can do to reduce their risk of disease, and we have found that just two or more hours of vigorous activity per week can made a difference in one’s risk of developing breast cancer,” said the lead researcher Vanessa Sheppard, Ph.D., a cancer control scientist and assistant professor in the department of oncology at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. [Read more...]

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Women Who Get Dental Care Have Lower Risk Of Heart Disease

October 1, 2010 by ·

A new study led by a University of California, Berkeley, researcher could give women a little extra motivation to visit their dentist more regularly. The study suggests that women who get dental care reduce their risk of heart attacks, stroke and other cardiovascular problems by at least one-third.

The analysis, which used data from nearly 7,000 people ages 44-88 enrolled in the Health and Retirement Study, did not find a similar benefit for men.

Published online Sept. 29 in the journal Health Economics, the study compared people who went to the dentist during the previous two years with those who did not. [Read more...]

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