Folic Acid Improves Vascular Functions

Nowadays the vascular problems in the female runners is very common especially in those who have amenorrheic problems and for such people a recent research lead by sports medicine researcher Anne Hoch, D.O. at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and it has been found out that oral folic acid may provided quite much cure for such ladies.

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This study was actually published in the May 2010 issue of Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine. It has been found that those female athletes who performs excessive exercises in their daily routine and don’t take care of their healthy diet mostly have menstruation problems and it is also reported that such problems can bring high risks of heart attacks for such women.

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A new group of biologically active omega 3 fatty acids have the potential to cure the periodontal inflammations and restore the healthy gums, Boston University researchers said.

The new group known as “Resolvins” has two types which are made up EPA and DHA omega fatty acid. Both of these compounds control the triglyceride level in the blood and prevent the process of atherosclerosis in the body. DHA and EPA are already widely used to reduce the inflammation of Croh’s disease of rheumatoid arthritis. The use of these substances has already been established before the representation of the new findings of the International & American Association for Dental Research. …Click here to read more

According to a US Centers for Disease and Control Prevention report they have found traces of perchlorate in many infant milk formulas. Perchlorate is widely used for rocket fuel.

The traces of this component have also been found in drinking water in almost 28 territories and states and they are being reckoned as a legacy of those missile and rocket trials that were used in the Cold War.

The finding has been published in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology in the March issue, but it couldn’t come into public attention until a caution from an advocacy organization Environmental Working Group.

Dr Joshua G Shier is the first author of this CDC study, he and his team didn’t name the 15 brands that they used in their tests, but they report that two out of these 15 brands account for nearly 87% powdered infant formula in the US markets. …Click here to read more

ASPS, American Society of Plastic Surgeons released a report on 25th March, 2009, regarding the increase and decrease in cosmetic procedures among different ethnic groups living in USA. According to their statistics, ethnic cosmetic procedures increased by 11 % in the year 2008, where as such procedures among Hispanics increased by 18 %. A decrease by 2 % was recorded among Caucasians.

According to the detailed statistics, a total of 12 million cosmetic plastic surgeries were performed in the year 2008 in USA. Almost 1.3 million surgeries were undergone by Hispanics, comprising 10 % of the total number.

African American covered 8 %, with approximately 910,000 procedures. Cosmetic procedures undergone by Asian patients amounted to 7 %, with 866,000 surgeries.
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Results of a large scale study indicate a considerable link between inherited depression and brain cortex thinning that occurs in the hemisphere.

Dr. Myrna Weissman led that study which published in the online journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Dr. Bradley Peterson was the first author of that study who is director of MRI Research in Psychiatry department at Columbia University Medical Center.

Peterson, Weissman and colleagues noticed the people with higher risk of becoming the victim of depression had 28% thinner brain cortex than those who didn’t have any known risk for the disease.

According to the researchers these results were quite amazing for them” “This rate of brain thinning is equal to brain loss amount that could be seen in the people with schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease,” Peterson says.

“The amount of difference was so great that we couldn’t even believe it, so we checked it again and again to find out all the alternative explanations, but the same difference occurred again and again.”

Explaining about how thinner cortex has link to depression, Peterson says that this thinness seems to affect a person’s ability to pay proper attention and make sense of emotional and social responses from other people.

In their study, Peterson and colleague also tested the levels of inattention of the participants of the study