Researchers tracked weight, blood pressure and other measures in 148 adults from November to January and recorded an average gain of 1.7 pounds, along with rises in body fat, blood pressure and heart rate. Exercise did not protect participants against the weight or body fat increases.
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How the Buteyko Breathing Method Can Improve Your Health and Fitness
Mercola describes the Buteyko method, which trains people out of overbreathing and mouth breathing to bring breathing volume toward normal. Teacher Patrick McKeown says Buteyko developed it while trying to treat his own blood pressure of 220/110 at age 26.
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Trends in Smoking Before, During, and After Pregnancy — Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, United States, 40 Sites, 2000–2010
A CDC surveillance summary of smoking before, during and after pregnancy, drawn from Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System data at 40 sites from 2000 to 2010. It notes prenatal smoking was behind 5-8 percent of preterm deliveries and 23-34 percent of SIDS deaths in 2002.
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Autism, Meditation and Stress: Webinar Explores How Transcendental Meditation Can Help Autistic Children and Teens (PR)
The David Lynch Foundation announced a free webinar on November 14 in which doctors and researchers discuss research and clinical use of Transcendental Meditation for children and teens with autism, co-sponsored by the Joey Lowenstein Foundation.
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Decorative Contact Lenses: Is Your Vision Worth It?
Decorative contact lenses are FDA-regulated medical devices, not cosmetics, and selling them without a prescription is illegal. An FDA optometrist warns that a poor fit or improper cleaning can cause corneal scratches, ulcers, pink eye, lost vision and blindness.
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New Trigger of Alzheimer’s Identified: Stress
Mercola reports on Argentine research, presented at the World Congress of Neurology in Vienna, suggesting stress may trigger the clinical onset of Alzheimer's disease, and argues diet and lifestyle choices, including avoiding gluten and casein and eating healthy fats, protect the brain.
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Exercise as Effective as Drugs in Disease Treatment
A BMJ review of more than 305 trials with 339,274 participants found exercise comparable to drugs for preventing heart disease, treating heart failure and preventing diabetes, and more effective than drugs after a stroke, often with fewer side effects and injuries.
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Healthy Lifestyle recommended by Linus Pauling Institute
The institute advises four servings of fruit and five of vegetables daily, fish twice a week, unsaturated fats and nuts, and whole grains in place of white flour and rice, while avoiding smoked, cured and charred foods. It also suggests a daily multivitamin, without iron for older women.
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Children’s Health Expert Panel: Cell Phones & Wi-Fi?Are Children, Fetuses and Fertility at Risk?
A panel convened by ElectromagneticHealth.org argued that radiofrequency radiation from cell phones, Wi-Fi routers, baby monitors, cordless phones and smart meters has biological effects even at non-thermal levels, and that children, fetuses and fertility are already being harmed.
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Extreme Endurance Exercise: If You Do This Type of Exercise, You Could Be Damaging Your Heart
Mercola argues that long cardio sessions such as marathon and triathlon training can harm the heart, and says no workout needs to run past 45 minutes, while still crediting regular cardio with better heart efficiency, detoxification, immunity and mood.
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Exercise Not Helpful for Weight Loss
US obesity rose over a decade even as physical activity increased, researchers reported in Population Health Metrics. Over nine years of survey data, each 1 percent rise in activity matched only a one-tenth of a percent drop in obesity; the authors conclude exercise alone is not enough.
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Weight loss may help fight breast cancer
An ASCO Educational Book report links obesity to higher postmenopausal breast cancer risk and worse prognosis, and suggests weight loss may help prevent the disease and help after diagnosis. Trials are testing metformin, which lowers insulin, as an adjuvant therapy.
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Tumors Grow Up to 3 Times Faster When You Deprive Yourself of This
Nearly 41 million US adults sleep six hours or less. One five-year study found women who slept poorly had 2.5 times greater increases in inflammation than men who did, and an observational study linked restless legs syndrome in men to a 40% higher risk of death from any cause.
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Grounding: The Potent Antioxidant That Few Know About... And It's Free
Mercola traces the barefoot running trend, noting the modern running shoe dates only to the 1970s while humans ran for millions of years without one. He says the research remains limited and largely anecdotal, but barefoot running may reduce sprains and chronic injuries.
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Sunscreen ingredient zinc oxide may cause skin cancer in some users
Skin fibroblasts exposed to zinc oxide nanoparticles died in large numbers and activated the tumor suppressor protein p53, signalling DNA damage. The authors suggest the sunscreen ingredient may raise skin cancer risk, particularly in people who lack normal p53 defenses.
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Exercise Could Hold Key to Successful Cancer and Mental Health Treatment
Mercola highlights research presented at the 2013 International Liver Congress in which mice running on a treadmill an hour a day, five days a week for 32 weeks developed liver cancer less often than sedentary mice, and argues exercise matters in treating depression too.
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Exercise Does Not Determine Children’s Body Weight
German researchers tracked 92 children aged 3 to 6 for about a week and found physical activity played no role in whether they were overweight, while socioeconomic status did. PCRM notes exercise carries other health benefits even so.
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New evidence: mobile phones may up brain cancer risk
A study in Antioxidants & Redox Signaling compared 20 people who had used mobile phones for a mean 12.5 years with deaf non-users. It found no direct link to brain cancer, but signs of oxidative stress in saliva, which the authors tie to cancer risk.
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