A 7-year-old girl died after a Botox injection paralyzed her lungs, her family says, and they are suing pharmaceutical company Allergan for wrongful death.
Botox is the trade name for the botulinim toxin, which is produced by the botulism bacteria. Botulinim toxin blocks nerve signaling, leading to muscle paralysis, and has been called the single most toxic protein known. In small doses, it is approved for use to smooth away facial wrinkles. Although it is not approved in the United States for the treatment of muscle spasms such as those caused by cerebral palsy, U.S. law allows doctors to prescribe drugs for unapproved uses if they wish.
Kristen Spears began Botox treatment for cerebral palsy-related spasms at age six. In November 2007, Spears died from pneumonia and respiratory failure, which her family claims was caused when the botulinim toxin spread to her lungs and weakened her breathing muscles. Read more…
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(HealthDay News) — A very private health problem, it turns out, is associated with potentially significant and costly complications.
In a review of the scientific evidence, researchers found that constipation might lead to or boost the risk for more serious complications such as hemorrhoids, anal fissures, fecal incontinence, colonic conditions and urologic disorders.
Dr. Nicholas J. Talley, chairman of internal medicine at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, said that few people appreciate the seriousness of constipation because symptoms can vary greatly, from mild to severe.
“Most people have mild intermittent symptoms, and they should not worry, although some do become excessively concerned,” said Talley, who is also a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Mayo’s College of Medicine. “Others suffer in silence, because it’s embarrassing to talk about your bowels.”
Roughly 12 to 19 percent of the population in North America — as many as 63 million people — suffer from constipation, according to the review. Read more…
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A team of researchers from Boston University has determined that the healthier your heart is, the slower your brain ages. On the flip side, those with less-than-optimal heart health experience more rapid brain aging than those whose hearts have a more healthy blood flow.
The team evaluated 1,500 people for the study and found that, as the brain ages, it actually begins to shrink. When the heart is pumping blood at a healthy rate, the brain is able to keep “fit”. But in people whose blood flow is restricted by poor cardiac function, their brains age roughly two years quicker on average.
Interestingly, it is not just old people with heart disease whose brains age quicker; otherwise healthy people in their 30s who have less-than-par blood flow to the heart experience more rapidly aging brains than those with healthy flow. Read more…
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“Environmental pollution is one of the most serious problems facing humanity today,” states Alan McGowan, president of the Scientists’ Institute for Public Information. Similarly, in an article entitled Global Change, scientist George M. Woodwell reported that scientists around the world believe that human activities are threatening the biosphere, the thin layer on the surface of the earth where life occurs. The biosphere maintains an incredible richness and variety of life, including human life, yet in the final part of our century humans are destroying the natural systems upon which life depends. Read more…
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(HealthDay News) — In research inspired by Buddhist monks, a new study has found that meditation can seemingly help increase a person’s attention span.
The study included 60 people who had previously attended meditation retreats and were familiar with the practice. The researchers assigned half of the participants to study Buddhist meditation for three months at a retreat in Colorado, while the other half waited their turn and acted as a control group.
At three points during the retreat, participants took a computer test designed to measure their ability to make fine visual distinctions and sustain visual attention. As the meditation retreat progressed, the participants showed improvements in their ability to sustain visual attention. This improvement continued for five months after the retreat had ended, especially among those who continued to meditate every day, the study authors found. Read more…
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Summertime heat is an annoyance to some people, but according to Xu Qian, director of the infectious diseases department at the China-Japan Frienship Hospital in Beijing, sweating from the hot, summer heat is a natural part of keeping your body healthy, and avoiding this heat can actually cause health problems.
People typically run their air conditioners throughout the summertime in order to beat the heat, but doing so can actually compromise the immune system.
“People should go with the rules of nature. Summer is the time to sweat. It’s a natural process for the body to respond to the outside environment, and adjust itself through the constricting of blood vessels and nerves. In this sense, air conditioning is a reactive restrain of the body against nature,” Qian explained in a China Daily article. Read more….
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(HealthDay News) — Eating less to remember more might become a new prescription for some elderly people, German researchers say.
They found that memory and thinking skills improved among healthy, overweight subjects who cut their calorie intake by 30 percent over a three-month period.
If further research supports this conclusion, “from a public health point of view, you could actually do something for the prevention of cognitive decline from aging,” said lead researcher Dr. Agnes Floel, assistant professor of neurology at the University of Munster.
The study suggests that the calorie restriction may boost memory and cognition by reducing insulin resistance and inflammation, which may be linked to age-related cognitive decline. Improvements in memory could be especially important, the study added, because memory losses are an early indication of Alzheimer’s disease and its precursor, mild cognitive impairment.
The research also tested whether a dietary increase in unsaturated fatty acids, such as the omega-3 fatty acids found in some fish, would yield similar benefits. Although these healthy fats have spurred better cognitive performance in rats, the new study failed to find a similar effect in humans. Read more…
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Self-Assessment to Determine if You May Have
Biological Pollutants in Your Home
by SixWise.com
Americans spend up to 90 percent of their time indoors, and often at home, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Imagine, then, the impact it could have on your health if the air inside your home is contaminated.
Did you know that common activities like cooking, cleaning, redecorating, heating and cooling can all release and spread indoor pollutants in your home? Considering this, its no wonder that the EPA says studies have shown that the inside of our homes can be even more polluted than outside!
The primary category of pollutants inside our homes is known as biological pollutants. These include biological agents like: Read more…
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Diabetes (http://www.dreddyclinic.com/findinformation/dd/diabetes.htm) means your blood glucose, or blood sugar, is too high. If you can’t control your diabetes with wise food choices and physical activity, you may need diabetes medicines. The kind of medicine you take depends on your type of diabetes, your schedule, and your other health conditions.
With Type 1 diabetes, your pancreas does not make insulin. Insulin is a hormone that helps glucose get into your cells to give them energy. Without insulin, too much glucose stays in your blood. If you have type 1 diabetes, you will need to take insulin.
Type 2 diabetes, the most common type, can start when the body doesn’t use insulin as it should. If your body can’t keep up with the need for insulin, you may need to take pills. Read more…
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Let’s lighten things up a bit. If you haven’t seen this hilarious video by Anita Renfroe, you really should watch it.
Funny Wrinkled Ladies Video is a post from: Anti Aging Nutrition News
(HealthDay News) — Eating a Mediterranean diet may help keep your brain healthy as you age, findings from an ongoing study show.
“This diet emphasizes vegetables, fruits, fish, olive oil, lower meat consumption, and moderate wine and non-refined grain intake,” study author Dr. Christy Tangney, of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, said in a news release from the American Society for Nutrition.
Rather than asking people to avoid certain foods, the study found data that “adults over age 65 should look to include more olive oil, legumes, nuts, and seeds in their diet in order to improve their recall times and other cognitive skills, such as identifying symbols and numbers,” Tangney said.
The study included 4,000 adults aged 65 and older who were given a series of tests to examine their cognitive (or thinking) skills every three years over a 15-year period. Those who scored highest in following a Mediterranean diet were least likely to suffer cognitive decline, the study authors found. Read more…
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Again, from our friends at Prevention, here are some unknown ways to increase your fruits & vegetable nutrition. You may be saying, “But I already eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. Isn’t that enough?” Not anymore.
Increase Your Fruits & Vegetables Nutrition is a post from: Anti Aging Nutrition News
(HealthDay News) — Scientists have grouped together a series of genetic variants that can predict with 77 percent accuracy whether or not a person will live to 100 years of age.
Although experts and others probably could have predicted life span with even greater accuracy had they asked people how long their parents had lived, said Dr. Robert Marion, chief of genetics and development medicine and director of the Center for Congenital Disorders at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, that method would not pave the way for advances in science, as this study likely does.
“Right now, this is kind of like a party trick but eventually, if you can identify early in life those individuals who have a predisposition to living longer and those who are destined to die young, you might actually be able to come up with some interventions for those who are going to die young and allow them to live longer,” Marion said. “One of the big benefits of the new genomic medicine is that we’re going to be able to do personalized medicine, and this is one way to approach that.”
The study, funded by the National Institute on Aging and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, appears in the July 2 issue of Science. Read more…
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Today’s water is low in Electrons that destroy free radicals that cause disease
The disease markers of former users are still in the water!!!
That’s why water from the purest water products goes bad in a bottle or quickly develops such a horrible smell in a hot tub, you couldn’t get in the hot tub if it’s not treated! For centuries (vapor to rain), the disease markers from the waste products of billions and billions of people and animals spread diseases everywhere! Read more…
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From our friends at Prevention, here are some interesting health duos you may not have heard of. Some of them were new to me. Most are healthy food combinations, some are other ways our bodies utilize different forms of energy.
Healthy Combinations You May Not Have Heard Of is a post from: Anti Aging Nutrition News
(HealthDay News) — Regular exercise reduces the risk of falls in both young and old, a new study shows.
Falls are a major hazard in the United States, with about 19,000 people dying from them each year and an estimated 8 million seeking treatment in emergency rooms annually.
The protective effect of exercise was documented by University of Pittsburgh researchers, who analyzed data from people taking part in the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study from 1970 to 1989 and in a follow-up survey conducted in 1990. The survey asked whether they had fallen within the previous year and, if so, what they were doing when they fell.
Participants also took a treadmill test and answered questions about how many minutes of aerobic exercise they got each week.
Twenty percent of the 10,615 participants, aged 20 to 87, reported falling in the previous year. Of those, 15 percent fell while walking.
In general, people need about two hours of exercise a week to reduce the risk of falls, the researchers found.
Women were 2.8 times more likely than men to fall while walking, but the women’s fitness levels appeared to make little difference. Fitness levels in men were important, however: Men with low fitness levels were 2.2 times more likely to fall than men with high fitness levels. Read more…
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By now, almost everyone is aware of the out-of-control oil spill down in the Gulf of Mexico that seems to be getting exponentially worse with each passing day. But what people may not know is that BP’s efforts to control the oil by burning it are actually burning alive a certain rare and endangered species of sea turtle.
For several weeks now, rescue crews have been feverishly trying to save Kemp’s Ridleys sea turtles, as well as four other endangered varieties, from being caught in the oil corral areas that are being intentionally burned by BP, but according to Mike Ellis, one of the boat captains involved in the project, BP has now blocked all such rescue efforts from taking place.
“They ran us out of there and then they shut us down, they would not let us get back in there,” he explained in an interview with Catherine Craig, a conservation biologist.
According to Dr. Brian Stacy, a veterinarian with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there are five different endangered sea turtles living in the Gulf that are all at risk, but the type being found “dead or covered in oil” the most is the Kemp’s Ridleys variety, which is the rarest species of them all. Read more…
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(HealthDay News) — Exercising during adolescence may help guard against a deadly form of brain tumor in adulthood, new research suggests.
The study also found that avoiding obesity during the teen years was associated with a lower risk of developing the cancerous brain tumors called gliomas, while being tall increased the chances of such malignancies.
The study appears in the Nov. 1 issue of Cancer Research.
Gliomas are the most common type of brain and central nervous system cancers, accounting for 80 percent of cases, according to background information in the study. Gliomas cause 13,000 deaths in the United States each year.
Though little is known about why people develop the tumors or who is at risk, previous research has hinted that “early life exposures” may increase the risk of developing the cancer in adulthood, said study author Steven C. Moore, a research fellow in the Nutritional Epidemiology Branch of the U.S. National Cancer Institute. Studies have shown that people who are left-handed, for example, are at higher risk of the disease. Read more…
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I can’t believe it’s been TWO YEARS since I’ve talked about pesticides in our fruits and vegetables — so it’s definitely time for an update.
The Pesticide Clean & Dirty List is a post from: Anti Aging Nutrition News
(HealthDay News) — Just as humans tend to model their behavior after that of famous and admired individuals, chimpanzees also appear to copy the example of their older, higher-status cohorts, new research reveals.
The finding that chimpanzees share the human inclination to adopt new behaviors and problem-solve based on the influence of what anthropologists call “prestige” is new, and is the result of a collaborative investigation conducted by researchers at Emory University in Atlanta, the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and Beloit College, Wisc.
The authors published their findings in the May 20 issue of PLoS One.
Celebrities, politicians and community leaders are the figures of emulation for people. Previously, the practice of mimicking behavior in this way was thought to be uniquely human. Read more…
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