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Wednesday, Sep 2nd, 2009 ↓Blueberry juice displays weight management benefits: Mouse study →
Sept 2, 2009 (Foodnavigator.com)—Drinking a modified blueberry juice may reduce food intake and body weight, and offer weight management potential, suggest findings from a new study with mice.
Canadian researchers report that mice prone to obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes and hypertension drinking the blueberry juice were protected against the development of glucose intolerance and diabetes mellitus.
The blueberry juice used in the study was not standard juice but had undergone a transformation using the Serratia vaccinii bacterium.
“Results of this study clearly show that biotransformed blueberry juice has strong anti-obesity and anti-diabetic potential,” said lead researcher Pierre Haddad, from the Université de Montréal.
“Biotransformed blueberry juice may represent a novel therapeutic agent, since it decreases hyperglycemia in diabetic mice and can protect young pre-diabetic mice from developing obesity and diabetes.”
Blueberries, nature’s only ‘blue’ food, are a rich source of polyphenols, potent antioxidants that include phenolics acids, tannins, flavonols and anthocyanins.
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Tags: blueberry juice antioxidant weightloss weight management obesity carotenoid insulin diabetes hypertension serratia vaccinii bacterium cholesterol cancer alzheimer prevention
Inhaled Anesthetic During Surgery Linked to Alzheimer Pathology →
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) May 14 09 - Experiments show that sevoflurane, the most commonly used inhaled anesthetic, may promote Alzheimer disease neuropathogenesis, Harvard scientists report in the May issue of the Archives of Neurology.
For full medical article, see link above.
NOTE FROM ACTIVE HEALTHCARE: This illustrates the necessity of exploring non-surgical options of care, even for “elective” surgical procedures.
Medical News: AAN: Diet Linked to Alzheimer's Risk - in Meeting Coverage, AAN from MedPage Today →
SEATTLE, May 1 09 (Medscape) — A diet that’s high in vegetables, nuts, and fish but low in fatty dairy products may help protect against Alzheimer’s disease, researchers said here.
Patients in the highest tertiles of such a diet had a 42% reduced risk of developing Alzheimer’s, Yian Gu, Ph.D., of Columbia University, and colleagues said at the American Academy of Neurology Meeting.
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Pesticide Exposure Found To Increase Risk Of Parkinson's Disease →
ScienceDaily (Apr. 22, 2009) — The fertile soil of California’s Central Valley has long made it famous as one of the nation’s prime crop-growing regions. But it’s not just the soil that allows for such productivity. Crops like potatoes, dry beans and tomatoes have long been protected from bugs and weeds by the fungicide maneb and the herbicide paraquat.
Scientists know that in animal models and cell cultures, such pesticides trigger a neurodegenerative process that leads to Parkinson’s disease. Now, researchers at UCLA provide the first evidence for a similar process in humans.
In a new epidemiological study of Central Valley residents who have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, researchers found that years of exposure to the combination of these two pesticides increased the risk of Parkinson’s by 75 percent. Further, for people 60 years old or younger diagnosed with Parkinson’s, earlier exposure had increased their risk for the disease by as much as four- to six-fold.
Reporting in the April 15 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology, Beate Ritz, professor of epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health, and Sadie Costello, a former doctoral student at UCLA who is now at the University of California, Berkeley, found that Central Valley residents who lived within 500 meters of fields sprayed between 1974 and 1999 had a 75-percent increased risk for Parkinson’s.
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Statins Fail to Prevent Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease →
April 15, 2009 (Medscape) — High serum cholesterol may contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and vascular dementia, but lowering cholesterol levels with statins does not prevent these problems, according to a new Cochrane review.
“The most important point is that we did not find any effect on dementia prevention from use of statins,” lead author Bernadette McGuinness, MD, MRCP, from the Queen’s University of Belfast, in the United Kingdom, told Medscape Psychiatry.
For full medical article, see link above.
Mediterranean Diet Cuts Risk of Alzheimer's, Dementia →
Apr 07 09 (NaturalNews) A Mediterranean diet may significantly decrease the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain at Columbia University Medical Center and published in the journal Archives of Neurology.
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Living Near Power Lines Linked to Alzheimer's Disease: New Research →
Apr 07 09 (NaturalNews) Living near power lines may significantly increase a person’s risk of death from Alzheimer’s disease or senile dementia, according to a new study conducted by researchers from the University of Bern, Switzerland, and published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. The study is the first to definitively link exposure to low-frequency electromagnetic fields to elevated mortality from dementia.
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Aluminum and Silica in Drinking Water Affect Alzheimer's Disease Risk →
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Mar 04 09 - Higher levels of aluminum in drinking water increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, whereas higher levels of silica appear to decrease the risk, according to a report by French investigators published in the February 15th issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology.
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Aluminum and Silica in Drinking Water Affect Alzheimer's Disease Risk →
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Mar 04 09 - Higher levels of aluminum in drinking water increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, whereas higher levels of silica appear to decrease the risk, according to a report by French investigators published in the February 15th issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology.
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Can This Miracle Spice Stop Cancer, Alzheimer's and Arthritis? →
Feb 26 09 (mercola.com) — For more than 5,000 years, turmeric has been an important part of Eastern cultural traditions, including traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda. Valued for its medicinal properties and warm, peppery flavor, this yellow-orange spice has more recently earned a name for itself in Western medicine as well.
Turmeric comes from the root of the Curcuma longa plant, which is native to Indonesia and southern India, and is widely used as an ingredient in curry dishes and yellow mustard. As research into this powerful spice has increased, it has emerged as one of nature’s most powerful potential healers.
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Exercise Boosts Mental Performance in Adults with Memory Problems →
Feb 18 09 (NaturalNews) Adults who are having trouble remembering things may be able to boost their mental performance with only moderate physical activity, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Midlife Diabetes Increases Dementia Risk →
February 5, 2009 (medscape) — Diabetes increases the risk for dementia, including vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (AD), especially if onset is in midlife, a population-based study in twins suggests.
Analysis of data from the Swedish Twin Registry revealed that onset of diabetes before the age of 65 years was associated with a 125% increased risk for AD.
“The study suggests that maintaining a healthy lifestyle during adulthood may help reduce risk of later dementia,” author Margaret Gatz, PhD, from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, told Medscape Psychiatry.
For full medical article, see link above.
Pomegranate juice protects diabetics from heart disease, prostate cancer, Alzheimers
by Jessica Fraser
(NewsTarget) Oct 18 2006 - Drinking pomegranate juice may protect diabetics from developing heart disease, according to a new Israeli study published in the August issue of the journal Atherosclerosis.
Atherosclerosis — a condition in which the walls of the arteries become thickened and hard — is associated with roughly 80 percent of all deaths of patients with diabetes. The study — conducted by researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology — examined the effects of daily consumption of pomegranate juice on the development of atherosclerosis.
The researchers, led by Professor Michael Aviram of the Technion Faculty of Medicine, found that diabetic patients who drank 6 ounces of pomegranate juice every day for 90 days experienced a lower risk of developing atherosclerosis.
The study’s authors concluded that the juice inhibited the uptake of oxidized “bad” LDL cholesterol by immune cells called macrophages — a process that can bring about the development of atherosclerosis.
Though pomegranate juice contains sugars identical to those found in other fruit juices — which can increase blood sugar and exacerbate diabetes — the sugars found in pomegranate juice did not appear to adversely affect the patients, the researchers found.
“In most juices, sugars are present in free — and harmful — forms,” said Aviram. “In pomegranate juice, however, the sugars are attached to unique antioxidants, which actually make these sugars protective against atherosclerosis.”
Though the study was fairly small — consisting of only 20 participants — it was part of a larger study aimed at proving the beneficial effects of pomegranate juice on cardiovascular diseases and the oxidation of cholesterol.
Previous research by Aviram has also examined the beneficial antioxidant and anti-atherosclerosis properties of onions, olive oil, licorice and red wine. Pomegranate juice has also been shown in earlier studies to be effective at reducing the risk of prostate cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.
