Pennsylvania confirmed chronic wasting disease in a captive doe. Media reports say no evidence shows the deer disease reaches humans, but the CDC urges hunters to avoid tissues that harbor the agent, and a Journal of Virology study raises questions about milk from cows with mad cow disease.
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Yet Another Reason to Avoid Antidepressants -- New Studies Show They May Cause Heart Disease
Mercola gathers studies tying antidepressant use to thicker neck arteries in men, a 45 percent higher rate of fatal stroke among menopausal women on tricyclics and SSRIs, and an FDA safety alert warning that Celexa can disturb the heart's electrical activity.
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Eat 15g or Less of This Daily to Help Slim Your Waistline
Mercola's weight-management advice: avoid sugar, fructose and refined grains, eat more vegetables and healthy fats, and keep fructose under 25 grams a day, or under 15 if you are overweight or have a chronic condition. He also relays seven habits attributed to naturally thin people.
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Doctor Reverses MS in 9 Months by Eating These Foods
Dr. Terry Wahls describes reversing her multiple sclerosis on a Paleo-style diet of fresh raw foods chosen for nutrients said to support myelin and mitochondria, among them omega-3 fats, creatine, coenzyme Q10, B vitamins and iodine.
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Caloric restriction keeps the brain young - new study
Giovambattista Pani's team found that cutting calories activates a molecule called CREB1 in mice, which in turn switches on sirtuins and other genes tied to longevity, memory and learning. The researchers now hope to find drugs that activate CREB1 without restricting food.
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Folic acid supplements in early pregnancy may reduce the risk of severe language delay in children (PR)
Among nearly 39,000 Norwegian children, 204 had severe language delay at age 3. Mothers who took folic acid from four weeks before to eight weeks after conception reported a 0.4 percent prevalence, lower than among the roughly 9,000 children whose mothers took none.
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Drinking just 1 measure of spirits increases the risk of acute pancreatitis (PR)
Karolinska researchers followed 84,601 Swedes for a median of ten years and found each 4cl measure of spirits drunk on one occasion raised acute pancreatitis risk, reaching 52% at 20cl. Wine and beer showed no such effect, nor did average monthly alcohol consumption.
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What Should You Eat for PMS? Don't Ask Men
A comic riff on premenstrual syndrome, cataloguing the bingeing, insomnia, mood swings and clumsiness that come with it, and complaining that science studies OxyContin and Ecstasy but not a condition affecting half the world.
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How a Physician Cured Her Son's Autism...
Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, a neurologist whose own son was diagnosed autistic at three, describes Gut and Psychology Syndrome and her GAPS nutritional program. She says autism was about 1 in 10,000 when she graduated in 1984 and is now diagnosed in 1 child in 66 in parts of Britain.
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Can Vitamin D3 in Combination with This Spice Reverse Alzheimer's Disease Progression?
Researchers tested vitamin D3 with curcumin as immune stimulants to help clear amyloid-beta from the brain, reporting additive effects in one macrophage type and an effect from D3 alone in another. Mercola adds a theory that vitamin D deficiency contributed to Mozart's death.
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This Simple Drink Improved Stomach Acid in Just One Minute...
A study in Digestive Diseases and Sciences compared water, antacid, ranitidine and three proton pump inhibitors: water raised gastric pH above 4 within one minute and antacid within two, while most of the drugs took more than two hours but acted for longer.
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Green Tea helps fight Alzheimer's - new study
In cell tests, green tea's EGCG and a grape skin extract each cut amyloid-beta-triggered neurotoxicity by 40%, but only EGCG blocked amyloid fibril formation and aggregation, which the Adelaide researchers say is how it protects neural cells.
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Keeping Your Bones Healthy in the Summertime
A British Medical Journal study found people consuming the most calcium, up to almost 1,200 mg a day, had no reduction in fractures or osteoporosis. The piece recommends 15 to 30 minutes of sunlight for vitamin D and greens and beans, noting broccoli's calcium absorbs about twice as well as milk's.
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Copper folds protein into precursors of Parkinson's plaques (PR)
NC State physicists ran computer simulations to identify how copper binds to alpha-synuclein, the protein that makes up the fibrillar plaques seen in Parkinson's disease, and speeds its misfolding. The authors say the mechanism matters for studying progression and for future treatments.
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This Vitamin Can Radically Reduce Damage from Radioactivity from Fukushima
Mercola cites a paper in the International Journal of Low Radiation arguing calcitriol deserves serious consideration as a protective agent against sublethal radiation injury. He also notes the EPA found only very low and declining radiation levels in the US after Fukushima.
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Foods You Should Stop Eating if You Want to Age Gracefully
Drawing on a Discovery Health list, the piece credits nuts for antioxidant vitamin E, orange-red and leafy green vegetables for beta-carotene and vitamin A, and citrus for the vitamin C used to build collagen. Mercola adds that no cream substitutes for diet and lifestyle.
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"No Anorexia" Model Isabelle Caro Dies at 28
French model and actress Isabelle Caro, who had anorexia nervosa from age 13 and appeared in the No Anorexia ad campaign, died at 28 in Tokyo two weeks after being admitted with acute respiratory disease. The cause of death remains unknown.
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Celiac Disease Rising in Vulnerable Elderly Generation
Celiac diagnoses in the US have risen 500 percent in 60 years, and a University of Maryland study found incidence climbing as participants aged. A Finnish study likewise put prevalence in the elderly at 2.5 times that of the general population.
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