All Americans will be fat in 40 years?

Published in August 6th, 2008
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This article says it could happen. I doubt it (for a variety of reasons: technology being one of them), but it’s definitely a wake up call. So, stop surfing the Internet and GO WORK OUT NOW!

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Diet and exercise can change your gene activity (for the better)

Published in June 16th, 2008
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Dr. Dean Ornish, head of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, CA, and his team showed that changing diet and exercise led to changes in what genes were switched on or off. Reuters reports that “the activity of disease-preventing genes increased while a number of disease-promoting genes, including those involved in prostate cancer [...]

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Medical tourism

Published in May 5th, 2008
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Here’s an interesting article in the SF Chronicle about medical tourism. According to the article, ” No official statistics are kept on how many Americans travel overseas for medical care, but one estimate places the number at 150,000 in 2006.” Hip replacement in India, anyone?

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“Good Brain? Thanks, Mom”

Published in April 26th, 2008
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A study by Steven Zeisel, M.D., Ph.D. Nutritionist of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has apparently shown that “Pregnant women who get sufficient levels of the nutrient choline in their diet may have offspring with a higher IQ as a baby, better verbal skills as a child and better memory in old [...]

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