Jim Drouillard professor of animal sciences and industry developed a technique that enriches ground beef with omega-3 fatty acids--fatty acids that have been shown to reduce heart disease cholesterol and high blood pressure.
and other omega-3 rich grains have fewer respiratory diseases. The cattle also have higher fertility rates which helps offset infertility among dairy cattle.
and reduce diabetes in cattle. Research showed that omega-3 levels dramatically increased in the cattle as more flaxseed was introduced into their diet.
and infectious diseases accounted for the larger number of deaths during the hot months. Elephants are vulnerable to heat stress
Published February 1 in the journal Archives of Osteoporosis these findings suggest that not all dairy products are equally beneficial in promoting bone strength.
and sodium) and whether individual dairy foods have a significant impact in reducing fractures. IFAR researchers based their findings on data collected from a food frequency questionnaire completed by 3212 participants from the Framingham Offspring study.
Research like this supports the idea that proper nutrition can help combat osteoporosis and fractures.
Osteoporosis is considered a major public health threat for an estimated 44 million Americans or half of those aged 50 and older.#¢
#¢Another 34 million Americans have low bone density putting them at increased risk for osteoporosis and fractures especially of the hip spine and wrist.
About one-quarter of those who suffer a hip fracture die within a year of the injury.#¢
#¢Osteoporosis-related fractures were estimated responsible for an $19 billion in health care costs in 2005 with that figure expected to increase to $25 billion by 2025.
M p h. This work was supported by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin diseases (AR#053205 and also AR/AG41398) and by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study (N01
Rabies continues to kill many thousands of people throughout the developing world every year and can also affect international travelers said Leonard Both M. Sc. a researcher involved in the work from the Hotung Molecular Immunology Unit at St george's University of London in the United kingdom. An untreated rabies infection is nearly 100 percent fatal
and is seen usually as a death sentence. Producing an inexpensive antibody in transgenic plants opens the prospect of adequate rabies prevention for low-income families in developing countries.
To make this advance Both and colleagues humanized the sequences for the antibody so people could tolerate it.
Although treatable by antibodies if caught in time rabies is said bad news Gerald Weissmann M d. Editor-In-chief of The FASEB Journal.
and biological control of plagues as their larvae feed on other insects that are damaging to crops
Roughly one in five infected people experience a fever headache body aches and in some cases a skin rash and swollen lymph glands.
One in 150 people can get a high fever headache neck stiffness disorientation and neurological problems.
Crowder working with fellow entomologist Jeb Owen other WSU colleagues and the State department of Health merged data from a variety of sources including West Nile infections in humans horses
These same habitats are also resulting in much higher rates of infection within mosquitoes themselves said Crowder.
or delay the onset of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The study published by Wiley in Annals of Neurology a journal of the American Neurological Association
According to the National Institutes of Neurological disorders and Stroke (NINDS) roughly 20000 to 30000 Americans have known ALS#lso as Lou gehrig s disease#nd another 5000 patients are diagnosed annually with the disease.
and waste away leading to paralysis.#oeals is a devastating degenerative disease that generally develops between the ages of 40 and 70
the National institutes of health (NIH)# ARP Diet and Health Study the Cancer Prevention Study II-Nutrition Cohort the Multiethnic Cohort the Health professionals Follow-up Study and the Nurses Health Study
For instance the fibers can be wound to coat complex shapes. Because the fibers change color under strain the technology could lend itself to smart sports textiles that change color in areas of muscle tension
and doughnuts is associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer and the effect appears to be slightly stronger with regard to more aggressive forms of the disease according to a study by investigators at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research center.
Corresponding author Janet L. Stanford Ph d. and colleagues Marni Stott-Miller Ph d. a postdoctoral research fellow and Marian Neuhouser Ph d. all of the Hutchinson Center
While previous studies have suggested that eating foods made with high-heat cooking methods such as grilled meats may increase the risk of prostate cancer this is the first study to examine the addition of deep frying to the equation.
Eating more than once a week may raise risk Specifically Stanford co-director of the Hutchinson Center's Program in Prostate Cancer Research
and/or doughnuts at least once a week were increased at an risk of prostate cancer as compared to men who said they ate such foods less than once a month.
or more of these foods at least weekly had increased an risk of prostate cancer that ranged from 30 to 37 percent.
Weekly consumption of these foods was associated also with a slightly greater risk of more aggressive prostate cancer.
The researchers controlled for factors such as age race family history of prostate cancer body-mass index
when calculating the association between eating deep-fried foods and prostate cancer risk. The link between prostate cancer and select deep-fried foods appeared to be limited to the highest level of consumption--defined in our study as more than once a week--which suggests that regular consumption of deep-fried foods confers particular risk for developing prostate
cancer Stanford said. Deep frying may trigger formation of carcinogens in food Possible mechanisms behind the increased cancer risk Stanford hypothesizes include the fact that
when oil is heated to temperatures suitable for deep frying potentially carcinogenic compounds can form in the fried food.
They include acrylamide (found in carbohydrate-rich foods such as French fries) heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (chemicals formed
For the study Stanford and colleagues analyzed data from two prior population-based case-control studies involving a total of 1549 men diagnosed with prostate cancer and 1492 age-matched
and risk of prostate cancer Stanford said. However deep-fried foods have previously been linked to cancers of the breast lung pancreas head and neck and esophagus.
Because deep-fried foods are eaten primarily outside the home it is possible that the link between these foods
and prostate cancer risk may be a sign of high consumption of fast foods in general the authors wrote citing the dramatic increase in fast-food restaurants and fast-food consumption in the U s. in the past several decades.
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and might even prevent cancer. But for the first time scientists have exposed extracts from numerous berries high in those pigments to human saliva to see just what kinds of health-promoting substances are likely to survive
Scientists say that these early findings will contribute to the further development of confectionaries gums and other delivery devices for the prevention and possibly the treatment of conditions such as periodontal disease and oral cancers.
Black raspberries in particular have been shown in numerous previous studies to have chemopreventive effects on tumors in the mouth esophagus and colon mostly in animal studies.
The extent of the pigment degradation in saliva was primarily a function of the chemical structure of a given anthocyanin said Failla also an investigator in Ohio State's Comprehensive Cancer Center and Food Innovation Center.
and bacterial contamination of these popular items made from the uncooked dried penis of a bull or steer.
All 26 treats were tested for bacterial contaminants. One (4 percent) of the sticks was contaminated with Clostridium difficile;
whether the calorie content and contamination rate found in this study is representative of all bully sticks or other types of pet treats according to the authors.
and cause heart disease while those rich in omega-3 and other polyunsaturated fatty acids may reduce the risk of heart disease studies have shown.
In another study they investigated how HLB infection affects juice quality in the same three varieties of orange with respect to cultivar maturity and processing methods.
Killian and fellow scientists from Rice and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center co-founded Nano3d Biosciences in 2009 after creating a technology that uses magnetism to levitate
and vegetable intake and risk of overall breast cancer but vegetable consumption is associated with a lower risk of estrogen receptor-negative (ER-)breast cancer according to a study published January 24 in the Journal of the National Cancer
The intake of fruits and vegetables has been hypothesized to lower breast cancer risk however the existing evidence is inconclusive.
There are many subtypes of breast cancer including ER -and ER positive (ER+)tumors and each may have distinct etiologies.
Since ER-tumors which have lower survival rates and are less dependent on estrogen levels than ER+tumors account for only 15-20%of breast cancers large pooled analyses are needed to determine the suspected link to lower ER-breast cancer risk and the consumption of fruits and vegetables.
In order to determine if there is a link between the lowered risk of ER-breast cancers and the intake of fruits and vegetables Seungyoun Jung Sc.
D. formerly from the Department of Nutrition Harvard School of Public health and currently at the Channing Division of Network Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital and colleagues analyzed data from 20 cohort studies of women
who were followed for a maximum of 11-20 years. They investigated the association of high compared to low intake of fruit
and vegetables and risk of developing breast cancer in each study and then combined the study-specific estimates to generate summary estimates for all studies combined.
and vegetable intake was linked statistically significantly to a lower risk of ER-breast cancer but not with risk of overall breast cancer or risk of ER+breast tumors.
These findings support the value of examining etiologic factors in relation to breast cancer characterized by hormone receptor status in large pooled analyses
because modest associations with less common breast cancer subtypes may have been missed in smaller studies the authors write.
In an accompanying editorial Cynthia A. Thomson Ph d. and Patricia A. Thompson Ph d. both of the University of Arizona Cancer Center write that the findings of the study support the emphasis on greater intake for vegetables
(and to a lesser extent fruit) to lower the risk of ER-breast cancer. However they also write that interpretation of these findings may also be challenged by the known effects of other potential confounders including the aggregation of health behaviors.
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When the researchers grew those plants they first identified problems in the roots then checked for abnormalities in the bundle sheath.
Some species--such as pinworms whipworms and tapeworms--cause diarrhea dehydration and weight loss in human hosts.
Others particularly mites and ticks can transmit diseases such as plague typhus or scabies. When the researchers compared their present-day maps with parasite distributions predicted for the future they found that lemur parasites could expand their range by as much as 60 percent.
By providing an alternative energy source the pigs are most likely going to be able to fight off infections more efficiently.
He said weanling pigs are more susceptible to pathogens and stress because they have to adjust to a new diet and a new environment.
The stress of weaning can lead to reduced feed intake less available energy and an increased risk of infection.
which the body converts to a close cousin of Vitamin a may lower the risk for the most common form of diabetes
The scientists used a big data approach to hunt down interactions between gene variants previously associated with increased risk for type-2 diabetes
and blood levels of substances previously implicated in type-2 diabetes risk. In people carrying a double dose of one such predisposing gene variant the researchers pinpointed a highly statistically significant inverse association of beta carotene blood levels with type-2 diabetes risk along with a suspiciously high positive association of gamma
tocopherol with risk for the disease. Type-2 diabetes affects about 15 percent of the world's population
and the numbers are increasing said Atul Butte MD Phd associate professor of systems medicine in pediatrics.
Moreover the fact that both beta carotene and gamma tocopherol interact with the same gene variant to influence diabetes risk
Indeed that protein is relatively abundant in insulin-producing islet cells of the pancreas where it aids the transport of zinc into those cells.
This in turn triggers the release of insulin whose adequate secretion by the pancreas and efficient uptake in muscle liver and fat tissue counters the dangerous buildup of glucose in the blood and in the long run the onset of type-2 diabetes.
The genomes of some 50 to 60 percent of the U s. population carry two copies of that very gene variant which previous studies have shown to confer a slightly increased risk of contracting type-2 diabetes.
This variant was one of 18 each found by other researchers to have a mild association with type-2 diabetes risk that the Butte team incorporated into its analysis. These gene/disease connections had been identified via so-called genome-wide association studies
so advanced statistical techniques must be employed to screen out frequency differences between the diseased and healthy groups that are at bottom the mere results of blind chance.
While plenty of genetic risk factors for type-2 diabetes have been found said Butte none of them taken alone
and not even all of them taken together comes close to accounting for the prevalence of type-2 diabetes.
or without high blood-glucose levels--a defining marker of type-2 diabetes--in pursuit of differences between the two groups'exposures to myriad environmental substances.
This enabled the researchers to perform a novel study pairing each of the 18 type-2-diabetes-implicated gene variants with each of the five suspect environmental substances to see how for individuals carrying a particular gene variant
None of the genetic factors studied in isolation had shown a particularly impressive impact on type-2 diabetes risk.
This vitamin was already known as being'good'with respect to type-2 diabetes so it was no surprise that we saw it too said Butte
or accelerating the onset of type-2 diabetes. It also may throw light on precisely how these substances affect the production or performance of the protein for which the implicated gene codes.
along with 83 percent of the colon cancer cells while normal lung cells were unharmed virtually. Taxol was lethal to the cancer cells too
Wusirika thinks the rice callus culture may be attacking cancer with the same sort of plant chemicals that make vegetables so healthy to eat.
We think that's what is killing the cancer. Next Wusirika would like to try the rice callus solution on prostate lung and breast cancer cells the most common types of cancer in the US.
We think it will work with all of them but we need to find out he said.
He also wants to determine which of the compounds released by the rice callus have cancer-killing properties
and how they work against tumor cells. Or he notes it's possible that the suite of biochemicals found in the callus solution work as a team to fight cancer.
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and feed on them decreasing the harm produced by these worms over the acorns. Therefore voles scattered
and waterborne illnesses because of the condition of cooking and eating facilities available to them according to a new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical center.
Food contamination during storage or preparation lack of appropriate kitchen facilities and undercooking can increase the risk of foodborne illnesses.
In the long term absence of safe food storage or cooking facilities can prevent consumption of healthy foods leading to elevated chronic disease risk.
Potential new treatments for deadly sleeping sicknesswhile its common name may make it sound almost whimsical sleeping sickness
or African trypanosomiasis is in reality a potentially fatal parasitic infection that has ravaged populations in Sub-saharan africa for decades
Few drugs have been developed to treat sleeping sickness since the 1940s and those still in use are highly toxic sometimes causing painful side effects and even death.
so if we can manipulate them we can stop the infection. The calcium receptor identified by the researchers serves as a kind of messenger within the parasite telling it
Now that we better understand this critical pathway we may begin thinking about new therapies for sleeping sickness.
Many previous global efforts to prevent transmission of sleeping sickness have focused on controlling or eradicating the tsetse fly
and pigs may fall victim to nagana the animal version of sleeping sickness which when translated from Zulu means depressed in spirit.
but animal sleeping sickness has made it very difficult for many people in this region to establish strong agriculture Docampo said.
Docampo and his colleagues are also confident that their discovery will have applications beyond the treatment of sleeping sickness.
which may lead to new therapies for uncontrollable bleeding and trauma. These are fundamental discoveries about cell life
15000 deaths from cardiovascular disease and 6000 more deaths from lower respiratory disease when compared to uninfected areas.
When emerald ash borer comes into a community city streets lined with ash trees become treeless.
and human mortality from cardiovascular and lower respiratory disease it did not prove a causal link.
because milk enriched with the mother's antibodies helps ward off infection and gastrointestinal problems. The meaning of privacy might differ for mothers and the hospital.
#New Antarctic geological timeline aids future sea-level predictionsradiocarbon dates of tiny fossilised marine animals found in Antarctica's seabed sediments offer new clues about the recent rapid
#Poultry vaccination responsible for dramatic fall in Salmonella infectionsmass poultry vaccination programmes introduced to combat Salmonella infections have led to a dramatic fall in the number of cases since the late 1990s according to a researcher at the University of Liverpool.
Salmonella are borne important food pathogens worldwide causing diarrhea vomiting nausea fever and abdominal pain. There are currently around 6 million cases of illness from Salmonella across the EU each year the majority
of which are linked to food items such as eggs chicken beef pork salad vegetables and dairy products. Between 1981 and 1991 the number of salmonella infections rose by 170%in the UK driven primarily by an epidemic of Salmonella enteritidis
which peaked in 1993. A raft of control measures were introduced into the poultry industry including movement restrictions compulsory slaughter
Sarah O'brien Professor of Epidemiology and Zoonoses from the University's Institute of Infection and Global Health attributes a dramatic fall in the number of Salmonella cases in humans to this mass vaccination programme in poultry.
We have seen a marked decline in the number of incidents of Salmonella infection shown by two significant studies conducted 10 years apart.
In addition the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of illness dropped from more than 18000 in 1993 to just 459 in 2010 (3). The nature of public health interventions often means that evaluating their impact is complex as they are implemented often simultaneously.
The research is published in Clinical Infectious diseases. Notes: 1. Tam CC Rodrigues LC Viviani L et al.
On earth forming veins like these requires water circulating in fractures. Researchers have used the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to examine sedimentary rocks in the area.
#Fast food diet linked to asthma and eczema severity in kids, large study findseating three or more weekly servings of fast food is linked to the severity of allergic asthma eczema
and rhinitis among children in the developed world indicates a large international study published online in the respiratory journal Thorax.
The findings prompt the authors to suggest that a fast food diet may be contributing to the rise in these conditions
All the participants were involved in the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC)
whether they had symptoms of asthma (wheeze); rhinoconjunctivitis (which produces a runny or blocked nose accompanied by itchy and watery eyes);
and eczema; and their weekly diet. Questions focused particularly on the severity of symptoms over the preceding 12 months--including frequency
but a fast food diet was associated still with symptoms across all centres--except for current eczema
--and poorer countries--except for current and severe asthma. And this difference might have to do with the fact that children have fewer options about their food choices suggest the authors.
Three or more weekly servings were linked to a 39%increased risk of severe asthma among teens and a 27%increased risk among children as well as to the severity of rhinitis and eczema overall.
On the other hand fruit seemed to be protective in both age groups across all centres for all three conditions among children--both current and severe--and for current and severe wheeze and rhinitis among the teens.
If the associations between fast foods and the symptom prevalence of asthma rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema is causal then the findings have major public health significance owing to the rising consumption of fast foods globally they conclude.
In one scenario an athlete was given heroic qualities such as working with ill children a commitment to the cause of cancer prevention dedicating his performance to his mother
You sort of squint your eyes and it takes a while and all of a sudden you get that moment--boom!
Vitamin d deficiency is a risk factor for a number of illnesses including asthma and allergies in children.
Severe deficiency can cause rickets a softening of bones. Yet dietary records of Canadian infants show that at 12 months they are receiving only 11 per cent of their recommended daily allowance of Vitamin d through food such as oily fish fortified dairy products and cereals.
as a result of the beetle epidemic said Lewis also a faculty member in CU-Boulder's ecology and evolutionary biology department.
and Gene Likens of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook N y. The severe pine beetle epidemic in Colorado
A November 2012 study by CU-Boulder doctoral student Teresa Chapman showed the 2001-02 drought greatly accelerated the development of the mountain pine beetle epidemic.
Using outpatient electronic medical records the researchers identified whether the participants developed cardiovascular disease diabetes mellitus hypertension (high blood pressure) and metabolic syndrome during the five-year period.
They found no relationship between dietary pattern and prevalence of cardiovascular disease diabetes metabolic syndrome or mortality in the participants;
however they did find an increased risk of hypertension in people who followed the sweets and dairy pattern.
#Strawberries, blueberries may cut heart attack risk in womenwomen who ate at least three servings of blueberries
and strawberries per week had fewer heart attacks. Blueberries and strawberries contain high levels of compounds that have cardiovascular benefits.
and strawberries per week may help women reduce their risk of a heart attack by as much as one-third researchers reported in Circulation:
During the study 405 heart attacks occurred. Women who ate the most blueberries and strawberries had a 32-percent reduction in their risk of heart attack compared to women who ate the berries once a month
or less--even in women who otherwise ate a diet rich in other fruits and vegetables.
We have shown that even at an early age eating more of these fruits may reduce risk of a heart attack later in life said Aedã n Cassidy Ph d. lead author
and head of the Department of Nutrition at Norwich Medical school of the University of East Anglia in Norwich United kingdom. The findings were independent of other risk factors such as age high blood pressure family history of heart attack
Plague outbreaks political conflicts and migration movements often matched periods of cooler temperatures. Moreover fluctuations in settlement activity appear to be linked to climate variability.
The Black death in the mid-14th century the Thirty years war between 1618-1648 and the Russian crusade of Napoleon in 1812 are three most prominent examples of climate-culture interactions.
#Amino acid studies may aid battle against citrus greening diseaseamino acids in orange juice might reveal secrets to the successful attack strategy of the plant pathogen that causes citrus greening disease also known as Huanglongbing or HLB.
With further research the profiles may prove to be a reliable rapid and early indicator of the presence of the HLB pathogen in an orchard according to Breksa.
For instance if the HLB pathogen were causing havoc with the trees'ability to create use
which suggests that the HLB pathogen may have interfered with the tree's conversion of phenylalanine to cinnamic acid.
Though 2004 had a sharper production decrease per capita beef consumption that year increased nearly 2 percent because of a sharp drop in beef exports largely attributed to the first case of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy also referred to as BSE in the United states. Beef consumption may drop more sharply in 2014 with a 5
SBV is discovered a recently pathogen of livestock such as cattle sheep and goats. The researchers have laid bare important ways by which this virus causes disease.
The full report about the study publishes on January 10 in the Open Access journal PLOS Pathogens.
From these cells the researchers recovered virus with identical infection properties to the natural SBV.
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