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BBQ Red Meat: Kidney Cancer Might
Develop From Cooked Red Meat
Animal muscles produce heterocyclic amines and polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons when exposed to high heat.
By Ma. Camille Arigo | Nov 10, 2015 07:13 AM EST
People who consume red meat cooked over high heat or through an open flame might be more vulnerable to kidney cancer, according to a recent study from the University of Texas.
The study revealed that
when an animal with red meat is cooked with high heat, it's muscles manufacture
substances such as heterocyclic amines (HCAs) and polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons (PAHs) that alter some part of the DNA that could possibly result
in an elevated cancer risk, the National Cancer Institute discovered, according to the Journal of Cancer
Research.
Researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center studied the specific diet and genetic background of 659 patients that were newly diagnosed of renal cell carcinoma (RCC), one of the typical forms of kidney cancer, and compared them to 699 healthy patients. There was still no definite connection found with regards to cooked or barbecued red meat towards cancers such as colon, pancreatic and prostate.
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/43854/title/How-Fats-Influence-the-Microbiome/
How Fats Influence the Microbiome
Mice fed a diet high in
saturated fat show shifts in their gut microbes and develop obesity-related
inflammation.
By Kate Yandell | August 27, 2015
The types of lipids mice consume affect the composition of their gut microbiota, which influences whether the animals develop obesity-related inflammation, according to a study published today (August 27) in Cell Metabolism.
https://www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org/education/obesity_and_the_media/index.html
Obesity and the Media
Television Teaching
About Food
In addition to their parents, American children are
exposed to numerous verbal and non-verbal messages about food from peers and
the media, with television — and advertising in particular — being
the largest single media source of these messages. Most prevalent is
advertising for branded foods, such as cereal, juice, cookies, chips and other
snack foods, in addition to commercials for fast-food restaurants.
The majority of commercials during programs aimed at
children are for unhealthy high-fat, high-sugar or high-salt foods with little
nutritional value. These prominently advertised foods are consumed in
greater quantities than healthier foods, like fruits and vegetables, which are
rarely advertised. In addition, the ads focus on the value of the foods as
coming from the satisfaction of emotional rather than health needs.
Media Use
American youth devote more time to media than to any other waking activity, with the average child spending a third of each day exposed to media. In 1999 a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that the average child between the ages of 8 and 18 spent 6 hours and 43 minutes each day with media — more time than they spent in school, with parents or involved in any activity other than sleep. Television dominates the free time of children and reduces their involvement in other activities.
http://www.breastcancer.org/risk/factors/unhealthy_food
Breast cancer is less common in
countries where the typical diet is plant-based and low in total fat
(polyunsaturated fat and saturated fat). Still, research on adult women in the
United States hasn't found breast cancer risk to be related to dietary fat
intake. But one study suggests that girls who eat a high-fat diet during puberty, even if
they don't become overweight or obese, may have a higher risk of developing
breast cancer later in life.
More research is needed to better
understand the effect of diet on breast cancer risk. But it is clear that
calories do count -- and fat is a major source of calories. High-fat diets can
lead to being overweight or obese, which is a breast cancer risk factor.
Overweight women are thought to be at higher risk for breast cancer because the
extra fat cells make estrogen, which can cause extra breast cell growth. This
extra growth increases the risk of breast cancer.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/mar/20/sugar-deadly-obesity-epidemic
Sugar, not fat, exposed as deadly
villain in obesity epidemic
Sarah Boseley 20
Mar 2013
It's addictive and toxic, like a drug, and we need to wean ourselves off it, says US doctor
Lustig's food advice
¥ Oranges. Eat the fruit, don't drink the
juice. Fruit juice in cartons has had all the fibre squeezed out of
it, making its sugars more dangerous.
¥ Beef. Beef from
grass-fed cattle as in Argentina is fine, but not from
corn-fed cattle as in the US.
¥ Coca-Cola, Pepsi and other sweetened beverages. These deliver sugar but with no nutritional added value. Water and milk are the best drinks, especially
for children.
¥ Bread. Watch out for
added sugar in foods where you would not expect it.
¥ Alcohol. Just like sugar, it pushes up
the body's insulin levels, which tells the liver to store energy in fat cells.
Alcohol is a recognised cause of fatty liver disease.
¥ Home-baked cookies and cakes. If you must eat them, bake them yourself with one third less sugar than the recipe says. Lustig says they even taste better that way.
Sugar – given to children by adults, lacing our breakfast
cereals and a major part of our fizzy drinks – is the real villain in the
obesity epidemic, and not fat as people used to think, according to a leading
US doctor who is taking on governments and the food industry.
Dr Robert
Lustig, who was this month in London and Oxford for a series of talks about his
research, likens sugar to controlled drugs. Cocaine and heroin are deadly
because they are addictive and toxic – and so is sugar, he says. "We
need to wean ourselves off. We need to de-sweeten our lives. We need to make
sugar a treat, not a diet staple," he said.
"The
food industry has made it into a diet staple because they know when they do you
buy more. This is their hook. If some unscrupulous cereal manufacturer went out
and laced your breakfast cereal with morphine to get you to buy more, what
would you think of that? They do it with sugar instead."
Lustig's
book, Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth About Sugar has made waves in America and
has now been published in the UK by 4th Estate. As a paediatrician who
specialises in treating overweight children in San Francisco, he has spent 16
years studying the effects of sugar on the central nervous system, metabolism
and disease. His conclusion is that the rivers of Coca-Cola and Pepsi consumed
by young people today have as much to do with obesity as the mountains of
burgers.
That does
not mean burgers are OK. "The play I'm making is not sugar per se, the
play I'm making is insulin," he says. Foodstuffs that raise insulin levels
in the body too high are the problem. He blames insulin for 75% to 80% of all
obesity. Insulin is the hormone, he says, which causes energy to be stored in
fat cells. Sugar energy is the most egregious of those, but there are three
other categories: trans fats (which are on the way out), alcohol (which
children do not drink) and dietary amino acids.
These amino
acids are found in corn-fed American beef. "In grass-fed beef, like in
Argentina, there are no problems," he said. "And that's why the
Argentinians are doing fine. The Argentinians have a meat-based diet É I love
their meat. It is red, it's not marbled, it's a little tougher to cut but it's
very tasty. And it's grass-fed. That's what cows are supposed to eat –
grass.
"We [in
the US] feed them corn and the reason is twofold – one, we don't have
enough land and, two, when you feed them corn they fatten up. It usually takes
18 months to get a cow from birth to slaughter. Today it takes six weeks and
you get all that marbling in the meat. That's muscle insulin resistance. That
animal has the same disease we do, it's just that we slaughter them before they
get sick."
But his
bigger message is that cheap sugar is endangering lives. It has been added to
your diet, "kids have access" to it, and it is there in all sorts of
foods that don't need it, he says. When high-fat foods were blamed for making
us overweight, manufacturers tumbled over each other to produce low-fat
products. But to make them palatable, they added sugar, causing much greater
problems.
Cutting
calories is not the answer because "a calorie is not a calorie". The
effect of a calorie in sugar is different from the effect of a calorie in lean
grass-fed beef. And added sugar is often disguised in food labelling under
carbohydrates and myriad different names, from glucose to diastatic malt and
dextrose. Fructose – contained in many different types of sugar –
is the biggest problem, and high-fructose corn syrup, used extensively by food
manufacturers in the US, is the main source of it.
Lustig says
he has been under attack from the food industry, but claims they have not
managed to fault the science. "The food industry wants to misinterpret
because they want to discredit me. They want to paint me as this zealot. They
want to paint me as somebody who doesn't have the science. But we do," he
says.
Evidence of
dietary effects on the body is very hard to collect. People habitually lie in
food diaries or forget what they ate. Randomised controlled trials are
impossible because everyone reverts to a more normal eating pattern after a
couple of months. But his sugar argument is more than hypothesis, he says, citing
a recent study in the open journal Plos One, of which he was one of the
authors. It found that in countries where people had
greater access to sugar, there were higher levels of diabetes. Rates of
diabetes went up by about 1.1% for every 150 kcal of sugar available for each
person each day – about the amount in a can of Coke. Critics argued sugar
availability was not the same as sugar consumed, but Lustig and his colleagues
say it is the closest approximation they could get.
That study
was aimed at the World Health Organisation although he believes it is a conflicted
organisation.
But so is
the US government, he says. "Government has tied its wagon to the food
industry because, at least in America, 6% of our exports are food. That
includes the legislative and executive branches. So the White House is in bed
with the food industry and Congress apologises for the food industry."
Michelle
Obama appeared to be onside when she launched her Let's Move
initiative in February 2010 with a speech to the Grocery Manufacturers
Association of America. "She took it straight to them and said, 'You're
the problem. You're the solution.' She hasn't said it since. Now it's all about
exercise.
"Far be
it from me to bad-mouth somebody who wants to do the right thing. But I'm
telling you right now she's been muzzled. No question of it." In his book
he tells of a private conversation with the White House chef, who he claims
told him the administration agreed with him but did not want a fight with the
food industry.
Some areas
of the food industry have appeared to be willing to change. PepsiCo's chief
executive officer, Indra Nooyi, who is from India which has a serious diabetes
epidemic, has been trying to steer the company towards healthier products. But
it has lost money and she is said to be having problems with the board.
"So here's a woman who is trying to do the right thing and can't," he
says.
Court action
may be the way to go, he says, suggesting challenging the safety of fructose
added to food, and food labelling that fails to tell you what has been added
and what has been taken out. Fruit juice is not so healthy, he says, because
all the fibre that allows the natural sugars to be processed without being
stored as fat has been removed. Eat the fruit, he says, don't drink the juice.
Lustig is taking a master's at the University of California Hastings college of
law, in order to be a better expert witness and strategist.
It is not a
case of eradicating sugar from the diet, just getting it down to levels that
are not toxic, he says. The American Heart Association in 2009 published a
statement, of which Lustig was a co-author, saying Americans consumed 22
teaspoons of it a day. That needs to come down to six for women and nine for
men.
"That's
a reduction by two thirds to three quarters. Is that zero? No. But that's a big
reduction. That gets us below our toxic threshold. Our livers have a capacity
to metabolise some fructose, they just can't metabolise the glut that we've
been exposed to by the food industry. And so the goal is to get sugar out of
foods that don't need it, like salad dressing, like bread, like barbecue
sauce." There is a simple way to do it. "Eat real food."
Does he keep
off the sweet stuff himself? "As much as I can. I don't go out of my way.
It finds me but I don't find it. Caffeine on the other hand É"
Brains Sweep Themselves Clean Of Toxins During Sleep
OCTOBER 17, 2013
While the brain sleeps, it clears out harmful toxins, a
process that may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's, researchers say.
During sleep, the flow of cerebrospinal fluid in the
brain increases dramatically, washing away harmful waste proteins that build up
between brain cells during waking hours, a study of mice found.
"It's like a dishwasher," says Dr. Maiken Nedergaard, a
professor of neurosurgery at the University of Rochester and an author of the
study in Science.
The results appear to offer the best explanation yet of why
animals and people need sleep. If this proves to be true in humans as well, it
could help explain a mysterious association between sleep disorders and brain
diseases, including Alzheimer's.
Nedergaard and a team of scientists discovered the
cleaning process while studying the brains of sleeping mice.
The scientists noticed that during sleep, the system
that circulates cerebrospinal fluid through the brain and nervous system was
"pumping fluid into the brain and removing fluid from the brain in a very
rapid pace," Nedergaard says.
The team discovered that this increased flow was
possible in part because when mice went to sleep, their brain cells actually
shrank, making it easier for fluid to circulate. When an animal woke up, the
brain cells enlarged again and the flow between cells slowed to a trickle.
"It's almost like opening and closing a faucet," Nedergaard says.
"It's that dramatic."
Nedergaard's team, which is funded by the National
Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, had
previously shown that this fluid was carrying away waste products that build up
in the spaces between brain cells.
The process is important because what's getting washed
away during sleep are waste proteins that are toxic to brain cells, Nedergaard
says. This could explain why we don't think clearly after a sleepless night and
why a prolonged lack of sleep can actually kill an animal or a person, she
says.
So why doesn't the brain do this sort of housekeeping
all the time? Nedergaard thinks it's because cleaning takes a lot of energy.
"It's probably not possible for the brain to both clean itself and at the
same time [be] aware of the surroundings and talk and move and so on," she
says.
The brain-cleaning process has been observed in rats and
baboons, but not yet in humans, Nedergaard says. Even so, it could offer a new
way of understanding human brain diseases including Alzheimer's. That's because
one of the waste products removed from the brain during sleep is beta amyloid, the
substance that forms sticky plaques associated with the disease.
That's probably not a coincidence, Nedergaard says.
"Isn't it interesting that Alzheimer's and all other diseases associated
with dementia, they are linked to sleep disorders," she says.
Researchers who study Alzheimer's say Nedergaard's
research could help explain a number of recent findings related to sleep. One
of these involves how sleep affects levels of beta amyloid, says Randall Bateman, a
professor of neurology Washington University in St. Louis who wasn't involved
in the study.
"Beta amyloid concentrations continue to increase
while a person is awake," Bateman says. "And then after people go to
sleep that concentration of beta amyloid decreases. This report provides a
beautiful mechanism by which this may be happening."
The
report also offers a tantalizing hint of a new approach to Alzheimer's
prevention, Bateman says. "It does raise the possibility that one might be
able to actually control sleep in a way to improve the clearance of beta
amyloid and help prevent amyloidosis that we think can lead to Alzheimer's
disease."
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2012/11/arsenic-in-your-food/index.htm
Arsenic in your food
Our findings show a real need for
federal standards for this toxin
Published: November
2012
Organic rice baby cereal, rice breakfast cereals,
brown rice, white rice—new tests by Consumer Reports have found that
those and other types of rice products on grocery shelves contain arsenic, many
at worrisome levels.
Arsenic not only is a potent human carcinogen but
also can set up children for other health problems in later life.
Following our January investigation, "Arsenic in Your Juice,"
which found arsenic in apple and grape juices, we recently tested more than 200
samples of a host of rice products. They included iconic labels and store
brands, organic products and conventional ones; some were aimed at the booming
gluten-free market.
The results of our tests were even more troubling in
some ways than our findings for juice. In virtually every product tested, we
found measurable amounts of total arsenic in its two forms. We found
significant levels of inorganic arsenic, which is a carcinogen, in almost every
product category, along with organic arsenic, which is less toxic but still of
concern. Moreover, the foods we checked are popular staples, eaten by adults
and children alike. See the chart summarizing
results of our tests for arsenic in rice or rice products.
Our analysis found varying levels of arsenic in more
than 60 rices and rice products.
Though rice isnÕt the only dietary source of
arsenic—some vegetables, fruits, and even water can harbor it—the
Environmental Protection Agency assumes there is actually no ÒsafeÓ level of
exposure to inorganic arsenic.
No federal limit exists for arsenic in most foods,
but the standard for drinking water is 10 parts per billion (ppb). Keep in
mind: That level is twice the 5 ppb that the EPA originally proposed and that
New Jersey actually established. Using the 5-ppb standard in our study, we
found that a single serving of some rices could give an average adult almost
one and a half times the inorganic arsenic he or she would get from a whole
dayÕs consumption of water, about 1 liter.
http://www.timeforkids.com/news/sleep-tight/54321
Sleep Tight!
More sleep helps children do better at school.
OCTOBER 22, 2012
By Alice Park
Is
sleep important for children? A new study says yes.
A new
study published this week in the journal Pediatrics shows that children
who do not get enough sleep have less control over emotions and are less
focused at school.
As a
whole, Americans do not get enough sleep. The National Sleep Foundation
recommends 10 to 11 hours of
shut-eye per night for children ages 5 to 12. A study from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention this year found that about 41 million American workers get less than
six hours of sleep per night. Now health experts worry that adults are passing
their poor sleeping habits down to their children.
Reut
Gruber is a psychologist and lead author of the new study. In the study, Gruber
and other experts either added or subtracted one hour of sleep for healthy
children ages 7 to 11. They observed the children over five nights. The goal
was to see if small changes in the amount of sleep could affect a childÕs
behavior.
ÒNobody became a genius, and nobody became crazy,Ó she said.
ÒBut the findings show that in children small changes can make a big
difference, and that is why this is meaningful.Ó
http://news.yahoo.com/bride-dies-motorcycle-crash-way-001500265.html
Bride Dies in Motorcycle Crash on Way to Reception
Minutes After Marrying New Husband
"After two months, they knew they wanted to be
together," the woman's daughter, Sarah Smillie, said.
"There wasn't a time that I had seen her happier. If
they were together, she was smiling," Smillie, 22, told IE.
"They went to do the procession and they wanted them
(Miles-Burnett and Burnett) to go first, but Jana waved everyone on because she
wanted to be the last one," Khole Smillie said. "They all got to the
reception and they saw ambulances and firetrucks going back."
It was during the procession that a deer ran onto
the road and into the newlyweds' lane, causing a crash that threw
Miles-Burnett, 40, to the ground.
"There were three or four motorcycles together and
William tried to swerve and did everything he could. It (the deer) had turned
around and darted right at the bike. There's some things you cannot
control," Khole Smillie said. "Deer were going crazy that night. It's
mating season and it's a rural road. Coming back, we saw 30 deer in a 20-minute
ride running across the road."
Still wearing her wedding gown, Miles-Burnett was rushed to
the hospital but could not be saved and was pronounced dead an hour later.
"At least she didn't suffer. Everybody else just suffers
the pain now," Khole Smillie said.
Her new husband suffered minor injuries in the crash.
"We've seen each other every day since then,"
Smillie said of her mother's husband, who in less than a day of being married,
became a widower. "He's holding up. He's like me. Every hour or so he
breaks down."
http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2015/07/21/study-irregular-sleeping-patterns-linked-to-cancer/
Study:
Irregular Sleeping Patterns Linked To Cancer
July 21, 2015 12:13 PM
TLANTA
(CBS Atlanta) —
Poor sleeping patterns could be a contributing factor to cancer, a new test on
mice suggests.
BBC News reports
the new research highlights concerns about the detrimental effect shift
work may have on an individualÕs
health.
Researchers
warn that though further testing on humans is needed, women with a family
history of breast cancer should avoid working shifts
that contribute to poor sleep
patterns. The study also found that the mice with poor sleeping patterns were 20 percent heavier,
despite consuming the same diet as the other mice.
Previous
studies in people have indicated that shift workers and flight attendants have
a higher risk of diseases like breast cancer.
Experts say
the apparent link could be attributed to several factors, including the
disruption of the bodyÕs internal rhythm, more commonly referred to as the
Òbody clock.Ó However, they warn that any link at all needs further research
and that the cancer development could be due to other factors such as social
class and activity level.
For the study, mice at risk of developing breast cancer had their body clock pushed back by 12 hours every week for a year. The mice would normally have tumors after 50 weeks, but the tumors appeared eight weeks earlier with regular disruption to their sleeping patterns.
Teenagers less likely to use alcohol and drugs, but self-harm
and eating disorders are on the rise
Exclusive: How the internet
generation take risks in other ways
Thursday 20 August 2015
Today's teenagers are less likely to get pregnant at a young age
and are turning away from drink, drugs and cigarettes – but are
increasingly engaging in self-harm, suffering from eating disorders and not getting enough sleep,
according to a government paper.
The findings, published by a group of BritainÕs most senior
civil servants, suggest that the pervasion of the internet and social media,
coupled with better parental monitoring and supervision, has prompted major
changes in the behaviour of the countryÕs youth.
At a meeting chaired by Sir Mark Walport, the GovernmentÕs Chief
Scientific Adviser, experts told the group that Òdigital immersionÓ had
resulted in a Òrapid and dramatic societal shiftÓ which was already having a
profound impact on young people.
While some said that the popularity of social media and computer
games had left children with Òless time and opportunity to participate in
traditional risk behavioursÓ such as underage drinking, others pointed out that
the anonymity of the internet had made obtaining Òlegal highsÓ and Òdesigner
drugsÓ much easier for them.
Although it acknowledged that there was still Òconsiderable
uncertaintyÓ about the impact of the digital world on teenagers, the paper said
there had been a clear rise in cyber-bullying and that todayÕs
children were now frequently exposed to Òhate content, self-harm and
pro-anorexiaÓ websites.
Perhaps surprisingly, the group said ÒsextingÓ – the sending and receiving of
sexually explicit text messages – was already declining among
young people, as was the underage use of social media. But some of the experts
raised concerns that the prevalence of online pornography could be having Òsignificant
psychological impactsÓ on children.
For many, the internet provided a valuable source of information
and support and could help them answer questions about mental or sexual health,
the paper said. But others struggled to control the time they spent online.
ÒFor some children and young people, internet usage approaches
levels where it could be classified as an addiction,Ó the paper said.
The discussion came in the wake of research commissioned by the
GovernmentÕs Òhorizon scanningÓ group, which analyses future opportunities and
threats and assesses the impact they might have on policies. Its work is overseen
by Sir Jeremy Heywood, the Cabinet Secretary.
The document said there was good evidence to suggest a Òslow and
steady declineÓ in drinking, drug use, smoking, crime, suicide and teenage
pregnancy among the countryÕs young people – but concluded there was Òno
space for complacencyÓ as different risks were continually emerging and
evolving.
A rise in self-harm, especially among teenage girls, was
identified as an Òarea of concernÓ by the experts, who pointed to recent
research suggesting that a third of 15-year-old girls had reported harming
themselves on purpose. ÒFigures for eating disorders and body image issues suggest
that these are also significant problems, and are likely to be associated with
poor mental health,Ó the paper added.
Many adolescents also suffered from a Òchronic lack of sleepÓ, while a decline in
exercise among both boys and girls was highlighted as a problem with Òlong-term
health implicationsÓ. The proportion of boys meeting guidelines for physical
activity had fallen from 28 per cent in 2008 to 21 per cent in 2012, the paper
said.
However, the paper also stressed that the current generation of
young people were not only displaying less risky behaviour than their
predecessors, but were also doing positive things for society Òthat often go
unrecognised in public debateÓ. About 80 per cent of 16- to 24-year-olds
volunteered in the past year – more than any other age group, it said.
Suzie Hayman, a trustee and spokeswoman for the parenting
charity Family Lives, said todayÕs teenagers could be described as Òthe
sensible generationÓ when it came to drink, drugs and alcohol. Part of the
explanation for the decline in these activities, she said, was that the
internet provided a constant source of entertainment.
ÒGetting drunk and smoking often happens when you are hanging
around on street corners with nothing to do. Nowadays you can just reach for a
tablet or a mobile phone. YouÕre never bored, youÕre constantly on social
media, looking at stuff, discovering stuff – often in safe environments,Ó
she said.
However, she added that self-harm, bullying and eating disorders
were Òa real worryÓ and that parents needed to make sure their children felt
loved. ÒWe still do seem to have a problem with young people not feeling happy,
not feeling supported – communication between parents and children in
this country is not as good as it is in others. It seems to be the British
style,Ó she said.
Lucie Russell, the director of media and campaigns at the
childrenÕs mental health charity YoungMinds, said the new teenage behaviour
highlighted by the paper was Òvery worryingÓ and that school and exam-related
stress, family breakdown and the internet all played their part.
ÒYoung people are online 24/7. It never lets up,Ó she said.
ÒThereÕs a constant need for reassurance. They live their lives in a public
domain and feel pressurised to present themselves as the perfect person, with
the perfect body.Ó
The Government has set aside £1.25bn to improve young peopleÕs
mental health services over the next five years. Alistair Burt, the community
and social care minister, has spoken of the need to Òtreat a broken mind with
the same urgency as a broken legÓ.
Earlier this month, NHS England distributed £30m of funding to
improve eating disorder services, with the aim of having 95 per cent of
patients seen within four weeks by 2020. The Department for Education is also
promoting the use of counselling in schools and better teaching about mental
health.
Beverley Jullien, the chief executive of the Mothers' Union
charity, which offers advice to parents, said children could be taught to be
ÒresilientÓ to the dangers of the online world without being Òwrapped in cotton
woolÓ – but that the pace of change was so rapid thatparents should
ensure they educated themselves, as well.
Ms Hayman also pointed out that for teenagers, engaging in risky or rebellious behaviour was perfectly normal and did not necessarily suggest a problem in their personal lives. ÒItÕs what being an adolescent is all about. This is the time in their lives when theyÕre trying to decide who they are – in making that stand, they often go through rites of passage which involve risky things,Ó she said. ÒWe need to recognise that. YouÕll never eliminate young people taking risks.Ó
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/07/25/breast-cancer-treatment-darkness_n_5620082.html
Total Darkness At Night 'Vital' To
Breast Cancer Therapy
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Huffington Post UK
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Posted: 25/07/2014 12:08 BST
Sleeping in complete darkness at night could be key to
successful breast cancer treatment,
a recent study has revealed.
According to findings, being exposed to light at night
makes breast cancer resistant to the widely used formonal therapy tamoxifen.
Such exposure shuts off night time production of the hormone melatonin, according to researchers at Tulane University in New Orleans, in the US.
Michael Douglas Blames His Cancer on Oral Sex
Experts say the
claim is probably correct, because tumors caused by HPV virus much more
responsive to treatment
By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, June
3 (HealthDay News) -- Hollywood star Michael Douglas says oral sex caused his recent bout with throat cancer.
"Without
wanting to get too specific, this particular cancer is caused by HPV, which actually comes about from
cunnilingus," Douglas, 68, told the British newspaper The Guardian.
He added that he has had real success beating back the tumor with chemotherapy and, "with this kind of cancer, 95 percent of the time it doesn't
come back."
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Douglas is
also a longtime smoker, and was at one time a heavy drinker -- both behaviors
are risk factors for throat cancer. But experts say it's not farfetched to
think oral sex may have been a contributing factor.
"This
is no surprise to anybody who studies infectious diseases," said Dr. Marc
Siegel, an associate professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, New
York City said. "There is a big increase in HPV-related cancers, and one
of the main ones, if not the main one, is throat cancer."
Douglas was
diagnosed with cancer in 2010 and underwent two months of
chemotherapy and radiation. He remains cancer-free, but has
checkups often to catch any recurrence, he told the paper.
Seigel said
most adults are at risk of contracting HPV, and 80 percent of people will test
positive for HPV infection within five years of becoming sexually active. The
virus is also thought to cause the vast majority of cervical cancers, which is
why U.S. health authorities have recommended that boys and girls get inoculated
with the HPV vaccine.
Another
expert agreed that HPV contracted through oral sex can trigger throat cancer.
"We are
living through an HPV epidemic," said Dr. Dennis Kraus, director of the
Center for Head and Neck Oncology at North Shore- LIJ Cancer Institute in Lake
Success, N.Y. "We used to think of throat and neck cancer as a disease of
smokers and drinkers," he said, but the demographics have changed and it's
increasingly become a sexually contracted disease.
The good
news is that there is an 80 percent treatment response rate for this type of
cancer, Siegel noted.
YosemiteÕs Tuolumne Meadows
Campground to Be Closed After 2 Squirrels Found Dead From Plague
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AM, AUGUST 14, 2015, BY MELISSA PAMER
Yellowstone park officials said park-goers should wash their hands thoroughly
before and after eating while camping instead of relying on hand sanitizer.
Since June 7, more than 200 workers and visitors to the
Yellowstone and Grand Teton parks have reported gastrointestinal illness, and some
have tested positive for norovirus.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the
norovirus is the most common cause of acute gastrointestinal illness, and can cause
symptoms of diarrhea, vomitting, fever and nausea. The virus infects some 21
million people each year.
Yellowstone spokesman Al Mash said most people contract
the virus while camping when they fail to properly store their food and wash
their hands with soap and water prior to eating.
"Don't rely on hand sanitizer. It's good for a while
if you don't have access to water," he said. "But sanitizer is a poor
second to washing your hands."
While it may be difficult to wash your hands while
camping, most sporting goods stores sell soap slivers and biodegradable soap
for use in the wildnerness, Mash added.