Mercola describes whole body vibrational training on platforms that move in three planes, saying research indicates it builds strength, flexibility and balance, helps ward off osteoporosis, and has reduced pain and fatigue in women with fibromyalgia.
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Breast Cancer News: Passive smoking can cause breast cancer
Among 79,990 women aged 50 to 79 in the Women's Health Initiative, never-smokers with intensive passive smoke exposure were almost 32 percent more likely to develop breast cancer, a British Medical Journal study found. Active smoking, especially when begun as a teenager, also raised risk.
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Double Standard: Women Must Typically Work Harder to Lose Weight
Mercola reviews why weight loss may come easier to men: more muscle, which burns three to five times more energy than fat, a resting metabolic rate up to 10 percent higher than a woman's of the same age and weight, and more visceral fat where women carry more subcutaneous fat.
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What Happens to Your Body If You Don’t Let It Sleep
Mercola sets out what going without sleep does: short-term damage to mood, memory, focus and driving, a burst of euphoria while the brain's decision-making regions largely shut down, and effects on immunity after as little as 29 hours comparable to physical stress or disease.
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Age at puberty linked to testicular cancer
A meta-analysis of 12 studies, published in the International Journal of Andrology, found boys who reached puberty later were about 15% less likely to develop testicular cancer. Known risk factors explain under 10% of cases; the piece suggests less meat and dairy may delay puberty.
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Aerobic exercise does not lower blood pressure in menopausal women with metabolic syndrome
Forty-four women with metabolic syndrome, split by menopausal and training status, took part in three months of aerobic training five times a week. It cut abdominal fat and blood glucose and raised VO2 max, but changed neither systolic nor diastolic blood pressure in any group.
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Overweight, obesity boosts invasive breast cancer risk
Pooling two breast cancer prevention trials, researchers found overweight premenopausal women at 59 percent and obese premenopausal women at 70 percent higher risk of invasive breast cancer than those with a BMI under 25. Among postmenopausal women the increase was not significant.
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Cigarette smoking, active or otherwise, boosts breast cancer risk
Among 79,990 women aged 50 to 79 followed about 10 years, former smokers were 9 percent and current smokers 16 percent more likely to develop invasive breast cancer than never-smokers. Among never-smokers, the heaviest passive smoke exposure carried 32 percent higher risk.
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Moderate physical exercise lowers breast cancer risk in diabetic women
A Diabetes Care study of 1,000 diabetes cases and 1,074 controls in Mexico found the link between type 2 diabetes and breast cancer weakened as moderate physical activity rose. Diabetic women who exercised least were nearly five times as likely to develop breast cancer as the most active.
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Moderate physical exercise lowers breast cancer risk in diabetic women
A Diabetes Care study of 1,000 diabetes cases and 1,074 controls tied type 2 diabetes to higher breast cancer risk, but found moderate exercise eased it: diabetic women who exercised least were nearly five times as likely to have breast cancer as the most active.
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Dr. Mercola Interviews Dr. Palevsky
Mercola's second interview with Dr. Lawrence Palevsky, a board-certified New York pediatrician who takes a conservative line on vaccines. Palevsky describes moving from emergency and neonatal intensive care toward holistic practice, with New York's 1991 newborn hepatitis B mandate a turning point.
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Physical Exercise cuts dementia risk
Drawing on the Swedish Twin Registry, researchers report in the Journals of Gerontology that people who exercised regularly at mid-life had 66 percent lower odds of dementia, and light exercisers such as gardeners and walkers 37 percent lower, than those who hardly exercised at all.
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The Cancer Treatment YOU Shouldn't Ignore... Even If Your Oncologist Does
A Mayo Clinic study found cancer patients counted ordinary daily activity as their exercise and heard nothing more specific than encouragement to stay active from their oncologists. Research cited here links exercise during and after treatment to lower risks of dying and of recurrence.
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Foundational Lifestyle Strategies to Maintain Healthy Blood Pressure
Mercola cites CDC figures that 36 million Americans have uncontrolled high blood pressure, 14 million of them unaware, and that 16 million taking medication still lack control. He argues diet, exercise and stress reduction normalize blood pressure in most people.
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Multiple sclerosis news: Breastfeeding lowers MS risk
A Multiple Sclerosis Journal case-control study of 245 MS patients and 296 controls found people who had been breastfed were 42% less likely to develop MS, in an apparently dose-responsive pattern: 13% lower risk at four months or less, 49% beyond four months.
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Male marijuana smokers at high risk for testicular cancer
Among 455 California men, those who smoked marijuana were twice as likely to be diagnosed with testicular germ cell tumours, the commonest testicular cancer in men 35 and under. An editor's note stresses that marijuana is not the only suspected cause.
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Radioactive particles in cigarette smoke cause lung cancer
UCLA researchers report in Nicotine & Tobacco Research that cigarette smoke carries radioactive polonium-210 and that the industry's own internal documents show it knew. Their exposure estimate matched the industry's: 120 to 138 lung cancer deaths a year per 1,000 regular smokers.
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Think Twice Before Saying "Yes" to Any of These 4 Body Treatments
Dr. Mercola raises concerns about miraDry, an FDA-approved device that uses 5800 MHz microwave energy to destroy 22,000 to 30,000 underarm sweat glands in two sessions, cutting sweat volume by an average 82% at about $3,000. Whether the body compensates is unknown.
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