High fruit and vegetable consumption has been linked to decreased risk of developing diseases including certain cancers heart disease obesity and diabetes.
That spells potential disaster for the region's 58 million largely agrarian people who already suffer from high levels of chronic hunger and malnutrition.
With the financial rewards from illegal logging high and the odds of being caught low it's no surprise that illegal logging has reached epidemic proportions in the Russian Far east
and ips stem cells provide promising alternative ways to heal illnesses without raising people s temptations to engage in such attacks he said referring to the destruction of human embryos.
and the harm that can be brought about by technological choices. They are the students employers want to hire.
Conservation controversy Critics of de-extinction say reviving extinct animals would do more harm to conservation efforts than good.
Hurricanes canker disease (another bacterial infection of citrus fruits) hard freezes and the vagaries of the international orange market
This is like a really insidious cancer Carey told Livescience. It's a chronic process not a rapid growth.
or depressed before getting their periods classic signs of premenstrual syndrome or PMS may want to pay attention to the amount of iron in their diets according to a new study.
and do you harm? It s a reasonable question but the answer seems to be no.
Even if some sentences did survive your digestive system it is unlikely they would enter your cells or harm you in any way.
or any combination of different DNAS from different species could do us harm. To convince yourself that DNA is contained in food you can do a simple experiment at home.
since 1995 and there have been no reports of ill health effects. We are the big guinea pig
which some people are allergic. We have to consider things on a case-by-case basis and be vigilant about each new use of genetic engineering Smith said.
and pathogen outbreaks or allow an invasive species to move into an area that was previously inhospitable.
'FDA Sets New Limits People with celiac disease can now trust that foods labeled gluten-free are safe for them to eat the U s. Food
and will assure people with celiac disease that foods labeled'gluten-free'meet a clear standard established
People with the intestinal condition celiac disease have to avoid eating foods that contain gluten proteins that occur naturally in wheat rye and barley.
Eating cakes pasta and bread made with these grains'flours can be life threatening for people with celiac disease.
Celiac disease is a condition in which the body's defense system reacts to gluten by attacking the lining of the small intestine
The symptoms include pain diarrhea and weight loss. The new gluten limit is the lowest level that can be detected in foods using available tools
This is a tool that has been needed desperately Andrea Levario executive director of the American Celiac disease Alliance said.
if you have celiac disease The new rules are an addition to FDA requirements for other food labeled as free:
The good stuff Polyphenols decrease heart disease risk factors by lowering blood pressure and cholesterol reducing blood clotting
or reduce your chances for metabolic syndrome the name for a group of risk factors (high blood pressure cholesterol and glucose) that together increase the risk for heart disease America's No. 1 killer.
Fresh high-polyphenol olive oil affects the expression of those genes in a positive way reducing your risk for metabolic syndrome and heart disease.
Polyphenols also reduce cancer risk by lowering inflammation and cellular proliferation. They act as antioxidants reducing oxidation
They even reduce microbial activity and infections. Those biological benefits explain in part why the Mediterranean diet high in olive oil has been linked with superior health.
#Israel Escapes Locust Plague For Now MITZPE RAMON Israel A menacing swarm of locusts that entered southern Israel earlier this week has been largely smitten according to the Israeli government and local reports.
According to the Bible swarms of locusts were the eighth plague sent into ancient Egypt as a punishment for suppressing the Jews said Hendrik Bruins a researcher who studies the archaeology and environmental aspects of desert peoples at Israel's Ben-Gurion
But could the plague be a divine punishment this time around? This we cannot say Bruins told Livescience.
Because there have been so many plagues throughout history not every locust plague can be classified in that way he said laughing.
#It's Time To Worry About the New Chinese Bird flu: Op-Ed Jeff Nesbitâ was the director of public affairs for two prominent federal science agencies
It's time for the world's public health officials to pay very close attention to the new bird flu outbreak in China first detected in March.
To put it bluntly there are now some seriously dangerous developments occurring around the new disease outbreak in China that infectious disease specialists
 the first reported case of the new bird flu strain outside China; the fact that any potential vaccine tests in animals (not humans) may be up to six weeks out;
Bird-flu Update: Possible Cases of Human-to-Human Transmission Investigated The situation remains complex and difficult
When we look at influenza viruses this is an unusually dangerous virus for humans Keiji Fukuda the World health organization's assistant director-general for health security said Wednesday at a briefing.
Chinese officials nd public health officials around the world ad hoped that this potentially virulent and deadly bird flu strain (H7n9) could be contained inside China
days after returning to Taiwan according to Taiwan's Central Epidemic Command Center nd the fact that Chinese officials are publicly saying that at least some of the existing cases may have involved human-to-human transmission this new bird flu strain could spread nd fast.
New Bird flu Virus: 6 Things You Should Know None of this is good. Right now 18 percent of the cases in China have ended in deaths.
While this is still less deadly than the previous avian flu outbreak in China six years ago he H5n1 bird flu virus eventually killed more than 300 people after spreading from China to other countries in 2006 he death rate for this new Chinese bird flu
epidemic is more than triple the mortality rate of tuberculosis in China today. Despite widespread fears among public health officials that the earlier bird flu strain years ago might become a human-to-human pandemic that didn't occur.
Nearly all reported cases of the earlier bird flu strain while deadly seemed to jump from poultry to humans who were handling them or in contact with them.
For this reason despite dozens of outbreaks it was easier to contain the spread. But if this new bird flu strain does in fact become capable of human-to-human transmission
and it takes awhile for a suitable vaccine to be developed then international public health officials are going to start sweating.
One flu-virology expert John Oxford from Queen Mary University told Reuters this week that the emergence of this completely new strain of bird flu infections in humans was very very unsettling.
This new strain is in fact a mixture of three different types of bird flu variants and seems to have been quietly spreading in chickens without anyone knowing about it he said.
Public health officials in general have been worried about bird flu viruses for years. Research several years ago showed that the virus could be transmitted from an expectant mother to a fetus
New Rules on Mutant Bird flu Research Stir Debate What's more it could reignite fears about the possibility of deadly global pandemics.
A decade ago several well-known virologists and public-health experts warned in published papers that the world was at risk for pandemics that could kill tens of millions of people or even more without adequate infectious disease monitoring and medical research.
The 2006 Chinese bird flu outbreak came on the heels of those global pandemic warnings. The good news is that China is more transparent about disease epidemics now than it was a decade ago
and that the number of reported cases with the new bird-flu strain has jumped not dramatically so far.
And China learned a lot about how to limit the spread of bird flu after the last outbreaks simply by closing down poultry markets that appear to be likely starting points.
But the fact that the new H7n9 strain has moved now outside China nd that Chinese officials are taking a close look at human-to-human transmission possibilities hould send up more than a few red flags.
Just because the previous bird flu outbreak in China didn't spread quickly and prove as deadly as some had feared does not mean that this new outbreak will follow a similar course.
If the suspicions of human-to-human transmission potential is confirmed that alone makes the threat of a pandemic (as opposed to a series of local outbreaks that can be contained with efforts to close down poultry markets or the sale of infected birds) more likely.
In the case of a pandemic a vaccine would need to be developed and distributed quickly.
Drone Wars in America This article first appeared as It's Time To Worry About the New Chinese Bird flu in the column At the Edge by Jeff Nesbitâ on U s. News & World Report.
and a particularly harsh winter along with drought compounded the misery of the colonists. oeour men were destroyed with cruel diseases as swellings fluxes burning fevers
By this time John Smith had been forced to leave due to gunpowder injuries and the colony s new governor Thomas Gates had been shipwrecked on Bermuda along with essential supplies.
Heart disease stroke and high blood pressure killed more than 750000 Americans in 2011 the most recent year for data.
Today one in three Americans 36.9 percent have some form of heart disease and the American Heart Association (AHA) projects that some 116 million of us 40.5 percent will suffer from it by 2030.
The price tag for treatment is enough to give you a heart attack AHA predicts that over the next 20 years the cost of cardiovascular medical care will triple from $273 billion in 2010 to $818 billion in 2030.
If everyone got with the program UCS calculates the economic value of the 127000 lives saved from cardiovascular diseases every year at a whopping $11 trillion.
But three of the four AHA-endorsed diets the Mediterranean-style diet the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) Diet
and again to cover the skyrocketing cost of treating diet-related heart disease stroke and hypertension said Jeffrey O'hara an agricultural economist with UCS's Food and Environment Program and the author of the recent report.
Our federal food policy is literally making us sick and driving the economy further into debt.
and the availability of cigarettes and this legislation will help prevent another generation from the ill health
They could hold the key to solving the problem of bee colony collapse disorder a deadly syndrome that's wiping out native bee populations throughout North america and Europe.
I'm sure they'd recognize the harm that's being done. Whether or not a student or teacher is liked well it's clear that the person who gets the most votes
Lactose intolerance is different than milk allergy since the latter is related to the proteins in milk rather than lactose.
This results in abdominal cramps bloating diarrhea flatulence and nausea. The severity of symptoms largely depends on how quickly the lactase available in the digestive system is used up.
However the symptoms for lactose intolerance can overlap with other gastrointestinal problems such as irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn s disease. A hydrogen breath test is an objective noninvasive inexpensive and easy-to-perform test that can be used to confirm initial diagnosis. A properly administered breath test can help patients determine
whether they need to cut back on milk and dairy products according to research published in the World Journal of Gastroenterology  Treatments & Medications Over-the-counter pills or drops that contain lactase can be taken before meals to help alleviate
and they sort of change depending who you're talking to said Steve Elkins a documentary filmmaker whose quest for ruins in the Mosquitia region has spurred the latest round of Ciudad Blanca fever.
After years of participation in public discussions about agriculture I've developed something of an allergy to the catchphrase feed the world.
Likewise the recent Food and agriculture organization of the united nations (FAO) report on world agriculture and malnutrition The State of Food and Agriculture:
FAO would eradicate malnutrition by integrating agriculture into local and regional food systems from inputs
The full global burden of malnutrition would include 26 percent of the world's children
The more easily such embolisms form the more sensitive trees are to drought. Despite being enshrouded in mist all the time the trees
and potentially dryer elevations didn't form embolisms easily and so tended to be more drought-resistant than similar trees in other ecosystems.
#Making Maps In The Brain (ISNS)--Disorientation is often one of the first warnings of Alzheimer's disease.
And because of their location in the brain they are especially susceptible to the ravages of Alzheimer's.
In humans the entorhinal cortex is one of the first areas to degenerate in Alzheimer's disease.
Studies of brain changes in Alzheimer's disease in humans consistently show localized degeneration in the same parts of the entorhinal cortex where Buffalo found grid cells in monkeys.
World's Cutest Baby Wild Animals The calf also appeared to be experiencing manatee cold-stress syndrome a condition that can lead to death in extreme cases Reinert added.
and Swinnerton yer conjecture a question essentially about advanced calculus but with number theory implications that involves understanding elliptic curves
Scanning Mummies for Heart disease The second sample dated to between 1064 B c . and 948 B c. and consisted of meat from a calf found in the tomb of Isetemkheb D a sister and wife to a high priest in Thebes.
#MERS Virus Found in Camels Camels are carriers of the new Middle east respiratory syndrome (MERS) virus according to a new study.
As estimated 44 million Americans have osteoporosis a bone-thinning disease that is caused by low bone density and raises the risk of fractures especially of the hip spine and wrist.
These individuals are the adult children of the original participants in the Framingham Heart Study a long-running Massachusetts-based study designed to pinpoint the factors linked to the development of heart attack and stroke.
and women for 12 years the researchers found that 43 hip fractures had occurred. Because the number of hip fractures in the group was so small the researchers were unable to draw firm conclusions about dairy consumption
and hip fracture risk from their data and they suggest more research is needed. However the findings did show that a higher intake of cream was associated with lower bone mineral density in the hip but not in the spine.
Foods in this group included ice cream sour cream cream cheese and cream. Â Cream is definitely different from the rest of the dairy products said lead author Shivani Sahni an assistant scientist at the institute.
and compared their effects on bone health and hip fracture risk. The findings appear in the February issue of the journal Archives of Osteoporosis. A food company that makes yogurt sponsored the research.
The researchers also tracked a smaller subset of slightly more than 2700 adults who had filled out the dietary surveys
and nuts as a good way to avoid heart disease. In ancient Rome however diet varied based on social class and where a person lived.
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People who have called a condition celiac disease develop an immune reaction to gluten that damages the intestine
About 1 percent of the population has celiac disease. For most other people a gluten-free diet won't provide a benefit said Katherine Tallmadge a dietitian and the author of Diet Simple (Lifeline Press 2011.
if you have celiac disease. To be diagnosed with the disease people should see a gastroenterologist. Other people who may need to cut back on gluten are individuals who have a wheat allergy they need to avoid wheat
but not all grains and people with gluten sensitivity who may feel better when they eat less gluten Webmd says.
If you don't haveceliac disease a wheat allergy or a gluten sensitivity you're unlikely to benefit from a gluten-free diet.
People who have called a condition celiac disease develop an immune reaction to gluten that damages the intestine
About 1 percent of the population has celiac disease. For most other people a gluten-free diet won't provide a benefit said Katherine Tallmadge a dietitian and the author of Diet Simple (Lifeline Press 2011.
if you have celiac disease. To be diagnosed with the disease people should see a gastroenterologist. Other people who may need to cut back on gluten are individuals who have a wheat allergy they need to avoid wheat
but not all grains and people with gluten sensitivity who may feel better when they eat less gluten Webmd says.
If you don't haveceliac disease a wheat allergy or a gluten sensitivity you're unlikely to benefit from a gluten-free diet.
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#Mysterious Elk Deaths Plague New mexico Officials with the New mexico Department of Game and Fish are puzzling over the mysterious deaths of more than 100 elk apparently all within a 24-hour period in rural New mexico.
Tests have come back negative for anthrax a bacteria that exists naturally in the region and can kill large animals.
Another possibility is some sort of contamination of the well or water tanks but so far no toxins have been identified.
or diagnose illnesses she wrote. The stones'movement in the shaman's hands are taken as responses to questions.
The precise strain of the pathogen that caused the devastating outbreak which lasted from 1845 to 1852 had been unknown.
but by sequencing the genomes of preserved samples of the plant pathogen the researchers discovered that a different strain one that is new to science was the real culprit.
The results enabled the researchers to trace the evolution of the pathogen including where and when the HERB-1 and US-1 strains likely diverged.
When Europeans and Americans first came to Mexico in the 16th century the pathogen experienced increased genetic diversity
By the summer of 1845 the HERB-1 strain had arrived at European ports and the potato disease spread throughout Ireland and the United kingdom causing The irish potato famine.
which suggests that breeding techniques may affect the genetic makeup of plant pathogens. Perhaps this strain became extinct
What is for certain is that these findings will greatly help us to understand the dynamics of emerging pathogens.
The new study marks the first time scientists have decoded the genome of a plant pathogen and its host from dried herbarium samples.
#Nature Aids Science to Take on Bed bugs This Research in Action article was provided to Livescience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.
#New Bird flu: What the First 82 Cases Reveal Although health officials still haven't confirmed the species of animal that is the source of the H7n9 bird flu outbreak in China most people who fell ill had contact with birds or pigs according to a new report.
The report published online Wednesday (April 24) in the New england Journal of Medicine describes an investigation of the 82 people who were infected with the virus from the beginning of the outbreak (in February and March) through April 17.
So far health officials know of 108 people who've fallen ill with the new strain of bird flu 22 of
The researchers said they suspect the source of H7n9 infections to be poultry. This agrees with the result of a study published today
which points to poultry markets as the likely source of H7n9 bird flu infections. Other findings from the investigation of the 82 cases include:
but also to determine risk factors for becoming ill (some people may not get sick) the researchers said.
Aninvestigation of 82 people infected with the new bird flu virus shows most who fell ill had contact with birds or pigs.
#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 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.
what mere mortals already knew like say the fact that getting to the hospital quicker can save heart-attack victims
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and also specifically from cancer or heart disease over a 10-year period compared with people who eat less of those meats.
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which any human quirk is declared a dangerous pathology (especially if Big Pharma can invent a pill for it)?
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
He struggled on and off with anorexia a condition that is also associated with a history of trauma in childhood Kendall said.
In fact tech firms such as SAP are now making a concerted effort to hire workers who have Asperger syndrome
Food insecurity plagues one-third of households two-thirds for female-headed households. People are reliant on the condition of their farmland and fisheries.
#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
A poultry market Shanghai may be one source of H7n9 bird flu infections. This story was provided by Myhealthnewsdaily a sister site to Livescience.
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