#New Culprit in Red Meat Linked with Heart disease The high amounts of saturated fat and cholesterol in red meat have long been blamed for increasing people's risk of heart disease.
But now new research points a finger at another culprit in meat that may be tied more closely to this leading killer.
and is also popular as a dietary supplement may also play a role in the development of heart disease.
and the development of heart disease said study researcher Dr. Stanley Hazen section head of preventive cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland Ohio.
and saturated fat that explains its association with heart disease. This study suggests carnitine may be a piece of this link he said.
The findings were published online today (April 7) in the journal Nature Medicine. A carnitine connection Two years ago Hazen and his research team discovered that microorganisms in the intestines can convert substances found in choline a common dietary fat to a by-product known as TMAO trimethylamine-N-oxide.
The findings showed that carnitine levels could quite strongly predict participant's risk of existing coronary artery disease as well as the risk of having a major cardiac event such as heart attack stroke
We saw that carnitine supplements doubled the rates of atherosclerosis in the mice Hazen said.
As for how carnitine in red meat may be linked with heart disease Hazen explained that chronic ingestion of carnitine fundamentally shifts the metabolism of cholesterol.
It's changing it in a way that will make you more prone to heart disease he said.
And taking the supplement could be influencing a person's long-term risk of heart disease he suggested.
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#New Earth Explorer Satellite to Map Global Forests The European space agency hopes to launch a new Earth Explorer satellite in 2020 that will map the extent and composition of the world s forests.
and drink at such watering holes Jacques wondered whether ancient man may have settled nearby as well. The team uncovered roughly 350 animal bones and 12500 flint tools or fragments as well as lots of evidence of burning.
what mere mortals already knew like say the fact that getting to the hospital quicker can save heart-attack victims
A study in the October 2009 issue of the journal Arthritis Care & Research found that nearly 64 percent of older women who reported foot pain regularly wore high heels pumps or sandals at some point in their lives.<
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</p>The findings were detailed in 2009 in the Journal of American College Health.</</p><p>Sure you may say you look for a good sense of humor
According to a study published in October in the journal Epidemiologic Reviews marijuana use increases the risk of car crashes.
People who took to the road within three hours of smoking pot as well as those who tested positive for the drug were more than twice as likely as other drivers to be<a href=http://www. myhealthnewsdaily. com/1771-smoking-pot-raises
>.And that risk increased for those who smoked more frequently and those showing a higher level of the drug in their urine.</
and also specifically from cancer or heart disease over a 10-year period compared with people who eat less of those meats.
The findings were detailed in a paper in the March 23 issue of the journal Archives of Internal medicine.</
</p><p>Think you're having a heart attack? Dial 911. Believe it or not paramedics really do save lives.</
</p><p>Research presented at the Acute Care Cardiac Congress in October 2012 found that only 29 percent of Turkish patients having heart attacks went to the hospital by ambulance
or driving one's own car was slower than an ambulance ride and delayed crucial treatment the study found.</
Exercise improves mental health as well as physical.</</p><p>A study published in the journal Clinical Psychological science in September 2012 found that both the improved body image that came with exercise
and the social interaction inherent in organized sports made teens less likely to suffer from mental problems such as depression anxiety or substance abuse.
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Canadian researchers reporting results that will be published in January 2011 in the journal Addiction said they ran 12 studies looking at the link between blood alcohol
and the likelihood of agreeing to<a href=http://www. myhealthnewsdaily. com/2003-drinking-alcohol-unsafe-sex. html>use a condom during sexual intercourse</a>.The more alcohol in a person'
s system (yes the drunker they were) the more likely they were to throw caution to the wind and ditch safe sex.
#Obsession: The Dark Side of Steve jobs'Triumphs At the turn of the millennium Think Different was acclaimed the widely advertising campaign for Apple Inc
and Apple's leader probably had known a little disorder that psychiatrists now refer to as obsessive-compulsive personality disorder or OCPD.
Is this a case of psychiatric overreach in which any human quirk is declared a dangerous pathology (especially
if Big Pharma can invent a pill for it)? Or did Jobs'undeniable success at Apple perhaps the most imaginative and successful company of the 21st century cost him his happiness his family and even his health?
Creative Genius: The World's Greatest Minds The National institutes of health (NIH) describes OCPD as a mental health condition in
which a person is preoccupied with rules orderliness and control. It often runs in families but scientists are unclear
whether genes environment or a combination of these factors are behind the disorder. OCPD or obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Though they're similar the contrast between OCPD and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) couldn't be starker:
People with OCD have thoughts unwanted that interfere with their functioning whereas people with OCPD are highly functioning individuals who are convinced that their way of thinking is absolutely correct if not superior to everyone else's. OCD in contrast to OCPD often paralyzes people Kendall told Livescience.
Someone with OCD may have trouble working at all because he might spend hours every day scrubbing his hands to make sure that they are perfectly clean.
The 10 Most Controversial Psychiatric Disorders Jobs Lindbergh and other high-fliers are the subject of Kendall's recent book America's Obsessives:
He would record every incident of gum-chewing Kendall said. 7 Personality Traits You Should Change Slugger Williams who championed cancer treatment on behalf of the Dana-Farber Cancer institute in Boston once admitted that he was horses**t to his own
There's some evidence that Jobs who was diagnosed never actually with OCPD (Kendall asserts that he's simply suggesting the diagnosis based on current criteria) also had an eating disorder that's frequently associated with OCPD.
He struggled on and off with anorexia a condition that is also associated with a history of trauma in childhood Kendall said.
The benefits of mental illness There's a large and growing body of research devoted to the link between successful high-achieving personalities and some degree of mental illness.
For instance a few personality traits of psychopaths may actually be positive in some circumstances according to researcher Scott Lilienfeld a psychologist at Emory University in Atlanta.
Fortunately obsessives aren't as dangerous as psychopaths they don't kill anyone but they can be said destructive Kendall.
Obsessionality is part of the way up on the psychopath continuum. And we need to realize that just
A 2012 report in the journal Medical Hypotheses presented the ADHD-OCPD theory of human behavior
which states that people with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder and OCPD were critical in the switch from a hunter-gatherer society to an agricultural society.
thus spread to other fields giving rise to merchants teachers doctors and other specialists. There are positions it seems in
In fact tech firms such as SAP are now making a concerted effort to hire workers who have Asperger syndrome
The chemical analysis of the ancient wine continues erhaps in enough detail for creative winemakers to one day recreate this ancient Canaanite brew.
Food insecurity plagues one-third of households two-thirds for female-headed households. People are reliant on the condition of their farmland and fisheries.
and intercropping improves soil health and moisture retention which combine to increase yields. No-take zones in fisheries
but stability is a strong indicator of soil health and hence potential productivity. Even more exciting is the impact of conservation agriculture on dietary diversity in regional households.
Well because dietary diversity is a strong indicator of many health outcomes such as poor diversity leading to micronutrient deficiency the key driver behind childhood stunting.
#One Source of Bird flu Virus Found Poultry markets in Shanghai are one likely place where people are contracting the new bird flu virus a new study from China suggests.
The H7n9 viruses in the samples were very genetically similar to the viruses that have sickened people in China suggesting that poultry markets are a source of infections the researchers said.
So far health officials know of 108 people who've fallen ill with the new strain of bird flu 22 of
which is that people can contract bird flu at poultry markets said Dr. Richard Webby a bird flu expert
and infectious disease researcher at St jude Children's Research Hospital who was involved not in the study.
Previously reports of infection with the H5n1 strain of bird flu were linked to poultry markets Webby said.
However the new study does not suggest that the new H7n9 bird flu virus originated in Shanghai poultry markets
or that the markets are the only source of infection said Dr. Andy Pavia chief of the University of Utah's Division of Pediatric Infectious diseases and chair of the influenza advisory committee at the Infectious disease Society of America.
It's not clear that markets are the source for the great majority of infections we just don t know Pavia said.
New flu viruses can arise when gene segments from different flu strains mix and match.
The new study and others suggest that H7n9 had three genetic parents that combined to make the new virus Pavia said.
It provides a rather unnatural environment where a lot of these different bird species that may have different flu viruses get together
Yanzhong Huang director of the Center for Global Health Studies at Seton Hall University in South Orange N. J. said that it's still not certain that the new virus originated in poultry.
To control the outbreak Chinese health officials need a way to eliminate the infected bird population
A diagnostic test for H7n9 would allow health officials to know where people are getting sick with the virus Pavia said.
Health officials will continue to remain vigilant and track the spread of the virus he said.
A poultry market Shanghai may be one source of H7n9 bird flu infections. This story was provided by Myhealthnewsdaily a sister site to Livescience.
He was given recently medication to stop his runaway growth which has caused Kosen considerable health problems. American Robert Wadlow (1918-1940) holds the title of tallest man ever:
Wadlow stood at 8 feet 11.1 inches (2. 72 m) tall. Tallest lightning: High above Earth's surface extreme ultraviolet radiation from the sun reacts with air molecules to produce gigantic jets of lightning up to 56 miles (90 kilometers) tall that shoot up to the edge of space.
and we will start chemical analysis soon she said. The German process uses a special conveying system to load de-stemmed grapes onto a belt that travels past a sorting module.
The findings contradict those of research published last September in the journal Annals of Internal medicine which reviewed more than 200 studies and found no difference between the vitamin contents of organic and conventional foods.
whether the nutritional differences between organic and conventionally grown foods actually translate into health benefits Lester said.
Recently the American Academy of Pediatrics said it's important for children to eat a diet that's high in fruits vegetables whole grains
The plant's response to this stress leads to increased production of certain compounds including phenols.
This slow release of nitrogen a nutrient the plant requires puts the plants under greater stress Lester said.
whether eating them instead of conventional tomatoes would provide more health benefits. This story was provided by Myhealthnewsdaily a sister site to Livescience.
which they would touch people inflicted with scrofula and supposedly cure them. Spawforth said that canceling these ceremonies was considered oescandalous.
He has written also articles on health politicsâ community events educationâ and amateur sports. His work has appeared in a wide varietyâ of publications.
and their size ranged from 4 inches (10 cm) long to 16 feet (5 meters) long according to a study released in 2009 in the Journal of Anatomy.
Scientist Snaps Shot of Colorful Urine From red to blue to violet all the colors of the rainbow appear regularly in urine tests conducted at hospital labs. The prismatic pee collection seen in this stunning photo took only a week
to assemble for medical laboratory scientists at Tacoma General Hospital in Tacoma Wash. Heather West the laboratory scientist who snapped the picture at the hospital said she
and her colleagues collected the urine colors to highlight their fascinating behind-the-scenes work.
but they play a critical role in patient health. West 26 who works the night shift said a love of science
and a wish to work in the medical field drew her to the career. We are impacting every patient that comes into the hospital in multiple ways she said.
While the chromatic colors of pee are amazing doctors are interested usually more in the contents of urine.
Only a few colors such as red or dark brown warn that something is wrong with a patient's health.
I wouldn't generally just monitor the color of someone's urine said Kirsten Greene an assistant professor of urology at the University of California San francisco
. But if it's red or bloody that's a really strong cue that there's infection or cancer and that's the one
I would worry about the most. Here are some of the reasons for the pee shades.
and is a definite health warning signal. As a urologist I'm always worried when people have red urine Greene said.
Bladder cancer infections and kidney stones can all cause bleeding that shows up in urine and all are worth a trip to the doctor.
More benignly eating a lot of beets can turn your pee pink. Orange Dark-colored urine also points to health problems.
Liver cancer can cause dark brown urine containing excess bilirubin a brownish pigment produced by the liver.
A drug called phenazopyridine (Pyridium) created the bright orange urine seen in West's photograph.
It's a painkiller given to people with urinary tract infections and converts pee into a Gatorade-like color.
Antibiotics often alter urine color to orange Green said. People who eat enough carrots to turn their skin orange can have orange pee too she added.
Yellow Many people have seen the effects of dehydration on pee a dark yellow-colored urine.
Without enough water a pigment called urochrome becomes more concentrated in urine. On the other hand in hospitals some patients on intravenous fluids are hydrated
so they produce nearly colorless urine West said. The cloudy yellow urine in West's picture was caused by an infection.
Related: How much Urine Can a Healthy Bladder Hold? Green Green urine usually flows from dilution of blue urine as in West's image.
Occasionally a urinary tract infection may trigger green pee. Blue The rarest of all on the pee rainbow blue urine often comes from chemicals
and drugs given to patients. The No. 1 offender is called a drug methylene blue used to treat carbon monoxide poisoning and as a dye during surgery.
It makes the blue and green urine seen in West's photograph. Methylene blue was also a malaria treatment during WORLD WAR II.
Other medications that make blue urine include Viagra indomethacin and propofol the anesthetic drug infamously linked with Michael jackson's death.
Genetic conditions that affect the breakdown of dietary nutrients can also cause blue urine. Even blue food dyes sometimes passes into pee.
Indigo and Violet In this photo the deep purple urine comes from a patient with kidney failure. The dark black one is something that you usually see in kidney failure West said.
Your kidneys should be filtering your blood and getting rid of your waste and when you damage the kidneys there's a lot more blood in the urine she said.
Another violet venue: Patients with catheters can develop a rare complication called purple urine bag syndrome linked to a urinary tract infection and highly alkaline urine.
A genetic condition called porphyria may also trigger deep purple pee. Email Becky Oskin or follow her@beckyoskin. Follow us@livescience Facebookâ & Google+.
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#People With Celiac disease Don't Have To Miss the Cookout (Op-Ed) Mary Kay Sharrett R. D. L. D. of the Celiac disease Clinic at Nationwide Children's Hospital helps patients with celiac disease.
She contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Americans often think of Labor day as the unofficial end to summer and beginning of the tailgating season.
and charcoal grills and while that usually means a good time at a potluck style cookout for people with health concerns like celiac disease that family gathering can be a challenge.
Families with children who are living with celiac disease are especially aware that this type of gathering can be problematic
which will allow for a fun stress-free holiday experience. See recipes below. If you are the one hosting the cookout it is especially important to ask your guests
if there are any food allergies you should know about and pay close attention to what those food allergies mean for your menu.
It is estimated out of every 133 Americans has celiac disease and while a gluten free diet is recommended only for people with celiac disease chances are you will come in contact with someone who needs to strictly avoid gluten.
People with celiac disease really need to read the labels on condiments especially. Marinades or sauces may contain wheat especially
if they contain soy sauce. Also watch out for marinades that are made with beer. Even crumbs from food containing gluten being left behind can be harmful for a child with celiac disease
if the crumbs mix with a gluten-free dish. In order to grill safely gluten-free make sure only plain meat
or vegetables cross-contamination with buns or marinades could be dangerous. I also suggest bringing a gluten-free bun with you to the cookout
And if squeeze bottles aren't being used try to be first in line to avoid contamination from knives that have touched bread containing gluten.
because the long-term effect of anyone with celiac disease being exposed to gluten is damage to the intestine.
First Case Detailed in New Report The case of a father and daughter in China who both became infected with H7n9 bird flu provides the strongest evidence yet that the virus can transmit from person to person experts say.
The father a 60-year-old living in the Jiangsu province of eastern China fell ill about five to six days after he visited a live poultry market in March according to a new report
that details the case today (Aug 6) in The british Medical Journal. The man's 32-year-old daughter who became ill about two weeks later did not visit poultry markets
but did spend several days caring for her sick father before he was admitted to the hospital.
Both patients became severely ill developing fevers and pneumonia and later died from the disease.
See 6 Things You Should Know About the New Bird flu Genetic testing revealed that the patients were infected with nearly identical strains of H7n9.
The most likely explanation for these cases is that the father became infected with H7n9 from a poultry market
and then he passed the virus directly to his daughter according to the researchers at thejiangsu Province Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.
The new report does not mean that H7n9 is getting closer to causing a pandemic in people James Rudge
and Richard Coke of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in Bangkok Thailand wrote in an editorial accompanying the report in the journal.
Limited human transmission of bird flu viruses has been seen in the past and is not surprising Rudge and Coke said.
The study was published today (July 26) in the journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Fungicides have been registered for use for many years
Illegal marijuana gardens hacked into public lands also expose wildlife to fertilizers and toxic rat poison other studies have shown.
Rare predator species such as spotted owls and fisher cats eat the poisoned mice and die. The marijuana cultivators make trail systems to go in
and put toxicants at every clearing said Mourad Gabriel a University of California Davis wildlife disease ecologist who studies the effects of rodenticides on rare species. A lot of predators will use any type of trail system
so you can imagine the potential risk to multiple different species. Catching frogs Scientists first noticed sharply declining frog populations in the Sierra nevada starting in the 1980s.
The problem is global. Amphibians everywhere are suffering steep population losses and strange deformities. Earlier studies by the USGS researchers found toxic pesticide concentrations in several frog species living in the national parks. In 2009 and 2010 the scientists resurveyed many of the same sites Smalling said.
Their species of choice was the bright-green Pacific chorus frog (also known as the treefrog. On spring nights males gather on the shores of ephemeral ponds and lakes to sing for mates.
The contaminants in the water and sediments were ridiculously low Smalling said. The frogs may store up small exposures over time
The heavyweight is habitat destruction and degradation followed by an infectious disease called chytridiomycosis. In the Sierras introducing trout into mountain lakes also hit frogs hard
because the fish gobbled up tadpoles and tiny frogs. Climate change is another factor. The complexity is very hard to deal with Shaffer said.
Toxic pot gardens Most pesticides in the Sierras come from the Central Valley. The pesticides travel to the mountains as aerosols tiny particles that waft into the atmosphere on warm rising air currents.
The cultivators spray pesticides and fertilizers and spread rat poison. Rodents that eat the poison live for two to seven days before keeling over giving predators plenty of time to capture their dazed prey.
UC Davis'Gabriel and his colleagues are seeing the effects of these chemicals on the fisher cat a carnivore being considered for Endangered Species Act listing.
The scientists found rat poison in 85 percent of fisher cat carcasses collected on public and tribal lands according to a study published in June in the journal Conservation Letters.
The animals are also passing the poison on to their kits when the babies nurse Gabriel said.
The UC Davis group is now testing barn owls which rely more heavily on rodents for food than fisher cats do.
and Gabriel said preliminary data indicates barn owls are snaring poison-laced mice. Email Becky Oskin or follow her@beckyoskin. Follow us@livescience Facebookâ & Google+.
A thick and growing coat of toxic algae appears each summer so vast that in 2011 it covered a sixth of its waters contributing to an expanding dead zone on its bottom reducing fish populations fouling beaches
#Poisons and Panaceas: Plants Tell History of Healing NEW YORK Modern medicine owes a great debt to botany.
Plants exploited by ancient apothecaries have given rise to more complex and effective cures and alkaloids isolated from natural herbs have found their way into the neat little pills people get from the pharmacy today.
In a nod to the world's 30000 herbs that belong to a storied history of healing botanists have gathered 500 medicinal plants for a living exhibition called Wild Medicine here at the New york Botanical garden.
Leafy inspiration A quarter of all prescription drugs today are based on plants or compounds discovered inside of them said botanist Michael Balick curator of the exhibit  during a press preview of the show.
See Photos of 7 Potent Plants in the Exhibition Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) beloved by gardeners for its drooping bell-shaped blooms may be one of the most famous examples.
The plant can be eaten deadly if but it was used historically as a remedy for a wide range of ails many
of which it couldn't actually treat (such as epilepsy). In the 18th century William Withering a British physician
and friend of Erasmus Darwin used infusions of foxglove with surprising success to treat dropsy a disease now known as edema that can cause swelling bad enough to rip open the skin.
More recently scientists have harnessed chemicals from the plant to create digitalis medications such as digoxin which is administered often to patients with congestive heart failure.
Rosy periwinkle too is toxic to eat but has been used to treat ailments from diabetes to constipation in traditional Indian and Chinese medicines.
Sometimes called Madagascar periwinkle it's adorned with pink flowers and is endangered in the wild. More than four decades ago scientists isolated vincristine and vinblastine from the plant and showed that these alkaloids could be used in chemotherapy treatments.
The discovery is credited often with dramatically boosting the survival rate of children with leukemia. What heals can be a hazard For foxglove rosy periwinkle
and other potent medicinal plants the line between poison and panacea is often thin. Opium poppy gave rise to morphine
which revolutionized pain treatment. But the plant is also the source of the highly addictive body-wasting drug heroin.
The active agent in curare a chemical known as tubocurarine was found to be useful as a muscle relaxer during surgeries and electroconvulsive therapy.
But hunters in the Amazon also extracted the chemical from the plant's woody vines to make paralyzing blow darts.
Balick who is the garden's vice president for botanical science knows all too well about the dangers of curare.
One night years ago Balick was up late going through some old materials that he had collected in the field
when he stuck himself with a curare dart from the Amazon. When he called his local poison control center
and explained his story the operator told him to call plant expert Michael Balick of the New york Botanical garden.
When he said that he was Michael Balick the operator told him to go to the hospital.
He said he was cleared of any possible toxic effects by the next day. Are herbs safe?
Medicinal herbs are used still widely in their leafy form with 4. 5 billion people worldwide who incorporate plants into their health regimen Balick said.
He lists among his favorite examples ginger to settle stomachs turmeric to cut inflammation and pot marigold to treat wounds of the skin.
Though there is evidence to support the effectiveness of many herbs these plants aren't regulated by the Food
and Drug Administration because the agency considers them food. Drug companies can't patent herbs and they aren't as rigorously tested as pharmaceuticals.
What's more two different batches of the same herb could vary widely in their potency because of the environment in
which they were grown making it difficult to exactly reproduce the plant's effects. 5 Foul Things That Are Good for you Balick doesn't administer care to people My patients are green he says
and he is emphatic that all medicines herbs and pills alike should be taken under the supervision of a physician.
That said the botanist does believe there is some unnecessary fear about herbal medicine. Like all remedies herbs must be taken in the larger context of a person's overall health.
And like prescription drugs herbs can sometimes have harmful interactions with other substances. Grapefruit juice might be the best-known example.
In addition to the powerful antioxidant Vitamin c the juice contains a chemical that can disable enzymes needed to break down medications in the digestive system.
This means that consuming grapefruit can spike the potency of a long list of drugs such as cholesterol-lowering statins.
Vanishing wisdom Many of the plants featured in Wild Medicine sit in a replica of Italy's Orto Botanico di Padova in Padua a UNESCO World Heritage site
and the oldest intact academic botanical garden established in 1545. In a garden like this Renaissance-era medical students would have studied the labels of the neatly laid plots
and learned how to identify plants. And when they didn't have access to the herbs themselves they would have hit the books.
He told one story of a traditional healer he met in Micronesia whose younger family members received training in Western medicine.
When the local clinic ran out of supplies during a dysentery epidemic the healer was dismayed that her professionally trained young relatives didn't know that the plant growing all around the health care facility was an effective traditional treatment for diarrhea.
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