How to Manage High Blood Pressure

Having high blood pressure myself, I found this article interesting and realize I really need to manage it better... and get some exercise!

clipped from healthteria.com When you think about blood pressure, you are referring to the blood's pressure as it makes contact with arterie's walls within the body. It is normal to think of it as two numbers which are the heart beats or systolic pressure and also the heart relaxation or the diastolic pressure.

Diet soda is not good for you

Soda in general is not good for you.

clipped from www.nytimes.com Researchers have found a correlation between drinking diet soda and metabolic syndrome — the collection of risk factors for cardiovascular disease and diabetes that include abdominal obesity, high cholesterol and blood glucose levels, and elevated blood pressure. The scientists gathered dietary information on more than 9,500 men and women ages 45 to 64 and tracked their health for nine years. Over all, a Western dietary pattern — high intakes of refined grains, fried foods and red meat — was associated with an 18 percent increased risk for metabolic syndrome, while a “prudent” diet dominated by fruits, vegetables, fish and poultry correlated with neither an increased nor a decreased risk.

Type2 Diabetes: Avandia deaths error by Lab.

clipped from www.guardian.co.uk Home Therapy not Avandia said to blame for trial deaths Reuters The popular diabetes drug Avandia did not cause higher rates of death in a study testing ways to prevent heart problems in high-risk diabetics, researchers said on Wednesday, who instead blamed overly aggressive therapy They said high-risk patients with type-2 diabetes who got intensive treatment to bring their blood sugar or glucose down to normal died at a higher rate than patients allowed higher blood sugar levels The researchers said they would adjust the trial, called ACCORD, so the blood sugar of patients would not be lowered so much The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, which funded and helped organize the trial, stressed that all the patients in the study were less likely to die than similar type-2 diabetics in the general population Patients in one group were given aggressive treatment to lower their blood sugar levels -- a measure known as hemoglobin A1c -- to below 6 far below the current target of under 7

Another cure for bad breath, stress

clipped from www.newstarget.com The latest research news from scientists in Illinois report that breath mints made with magnolia bark extract kill most oral bacteria that causes bad breath and tooth decay within 30 minutes of chewing the mints. A magnolia bark extract could be a boon for oral health when added to chewing gum and mints according to a study reported in the ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a bi-weekly publication. In this new study, Mints containing the extract killed more than 61 percent of the germs that cause bad breath within 30 minutes, compared with only a 3.6 percent germ-kill for the same flavorless mints without the extract, the researchers say. Magnolia bark is much more effective than existing anti-bacterial products for bad breath, which are far from ideal, with some having side effects like tooth staining.

Bras and Breast Cancer

Lymphatic circulation in many tissues (especially the primary lymphatics) are highly dependent on MOVEMENT. Wearing a bra, especially a constricting one with underwires, and especially to bed, prevents normal lymphatic flow and would likely lead to anoxia (lower than normal oxygen content), which has been related to fibrosis, which has been linked to increased cancer risk.

There we have it, ladies! Get those lymphatic fluids flowing! Chuck those restricting bras and shake those boobies!! It's good for you!

clipped from www.all-natural.com Natural Health and Longevity Resource Center Bras and Breast Cancer by Ralph L. Reed, Ph.D. In essence, what Singer and Grismaijer found was that the odds of getting breast cancer dramatically increased with bra-wearing over 12 hours per day. Women who wore their bras 24 hours per day had a 3 out of 4 chance of developing breast cancer (in their study, n=2056 for the cancer group and n=2674 for the standard group). Women who wore bras more than 12 hour per day but not to bed had a 1 out of 7 risk. Women who wore their bras less than 12 hours per day had a 1 out of 152 risk. Women who wore bras rarely or never had a 1 out of 168 chance of getting breast cancer. The overall difference between 24 hour wearing and not at all was a 125-fold difference. The results of this study are compelling, even considering that it was not a "controlled study" for other risk factors. most of the known risk factors can be related to bra-wearing behavior and/or the lymphatic system.

Ah! Why we scratch an itch

I'm not really sure they really know exactly, but they have more of an idea what is happening in the brain, by comparing results from MRI scans.

clipped from www.abc.net.au Julie Steenhuysen Oh, it brings such blessed relief and now scientists can tell you why. Scratching an itch temporarily shuts off areas in the brain linked with unpleasant feelings and memories. "Our study shows for the first time how scratching may relieve itch," says Dr Gil Yosipovitch, a US dermatologist at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina. studies show that pain, including vigorous scratching, inhibit the need to itch Yosipovitch and colleagues looked at what goes on in the brain when a person is scratched, publishing their results online in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology He and colleagues used a technique known as functional magnetic resonance imaging to see which areas of the brain are active during scratching. Scratching reduced activity in the anterior cingulate cortex and the posterior cingulate cortex, areas linked with pain aversion and memory. the more intensely a person was scratched, the less activity they found in these areas of the brain

Medical slang - Reading the whiteboard

clipped from en.wikipedia.org Medical slang 404 moment Baby Catcher Blade Ax(e) BoneHo CNS-QNS Cock Doc CTD Cunts and Runts DBI Digging for Worms Disco biscuits Doc in a Box FLK GOMER GLM GPO GROLIES Inbreds Humpty-dumpty doctor LOBNH MVA O-sign PAFO Pecker checker Q-sign Raisin Farm Rear Admiral Rule of Five Shadow gazer Short-order chef Stat Stream team Testiculation TEETH TTFO TTR UBI - "Unexplained Beer Injury" [2] [5] [4] [1] Unclear medicine Woolworth's Test Hearts and Farts - unit specialising in geriatrics and cardiology [3] Departure lounge - geriatric ward [1] Code Brown - a faecal incontinence emergency. [2] [4] Code Yellow - a patient who has lost control of his or her bladder [4] C&T Ward - Coma ward - "cabbages and turnips" [3] Bounceback - a patient who returns to the emergency department with the same complaints shortly after being released [4] Blood Suckers/Leeches - those who take blood samples, such as laboratory technicians [4] [3] Acades vulgaris - medical students. [3]