All Stories Tagged With: "disease"
How to Eliminate Toxins from Your Body, Home, and Office
Toxins are stressors on the body that, after heavy accumulation, are powerful inducers of disease. While you may be fully aware of this fact, you may be surprised to know what in your environment is actually characterized as a toxin or toxin-emitter. Whether it’s the ‘health’ products you’re using, or the ‘healthy’ food you’re eating, the volume of toxins amounting in your body could easily be generating disease.
Is Stress Destroying Your Immune System?
The serious impact of stress on the body should never be overlooked. Stress not only brings your overall happiness level down, but also plays a significant part in the development of illness and disease. Recent research shows how long-term stress can significantly compromise your immune system and increase your risk of contracting a cold. What’s more, the research helps to show what is widely known — that traumatic events in life often pave way for illness and disease.
Experts Reveal Unnecessary Cancer Treatments Accelerating Death
According to a recent study, conventional cancer treatments are on the rise, and some would argue the increase is without a reasonable cause. The study suggests that those with lower risk of cancer diagnoses and those expected not to live longer than 10 years (seniors from 80-90 years old) are more apt to receive treatment for cancer despite the fact that it would likely do them more harm than good.
How Flu Shots Could Make You Prone to Disease
In the winter months, it’s easier to become susceptible to various diseases, especially the flu. A lack of sun exposure prevents you from taking in adequate amounts of vitamin D, which has powerful disease prevention properties. With the onset of colder months, you may consider flu shots as one of many ways to boost your immune system and avoid contracting the seasonal flu. But you should know that flu shots actually make you prone to disease.
H5N1 Bird Flu Strikes China Following Bioterrorism Study Release Controversy
A Chinese man infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus died on Saturday, marking China’s first case of the disease in humans in 18 months. The news comes just days after the United States government frantically acted to block the full publishing of research that successfully mutated the H5N1 virus to be highly contagious. Killing around 60% of those infected, experts have consistently warned about the dangers of the bird flu virus and the potential bioterrism threat posed by the heavy mutation of the virus to be hyper-contagious.
Immune System Protects Against Flu, Not Vaccines
Preventing the flu may not come down to hand sanitizers and risky vaccinations. A new study has found that only half of all individuals affected with the flu virus actually get sick, highlighting the necessity of a powerful immune system that is able to respond to the flu virus appropriately.
Stress Linked to Aggressive Breast Cancer Development
Stress taxes your body’s biological functions in a number of ways, and a new study says that it may even play a role in the development of breast cancer. The autonomic nervous helps to regulate respiration, heart rate, and other integral bodily functions.
Diabetes Increases Dementia Risk
Due in part to poor nutrition and fitness habits, 105 million people in the United States now have diabetes or pre-diabetes, which a new study has linked to an increased risk of dementia. Dementia leads to loss of cognitive abilities.
Potatoes Found to Combat High Blood Pressure
Potatoes have been branded a fattening food type after recent studies have linked potato and french fry consumption to obesity, but a new study has shed light on the link between potato consumption and reduced blood pressure.
The Supplement that May Spark Your Heart Attack Risk by 30%
Calcium is an essential nutrient in your diet, but a recent study has found that those taking over 500mg of elemental calcium daily have a 30% increased risk of myocardial infarction.
First Person in U.S. Dies from Bat Rabies Bite
A new report details the life of a man who was bitten July 15, 2010 at home in Mexico. Disregarding medical care, the man eventually died in the U.S. while seeking work in Louisiana.
New Tick-borne Bacterium Infecting Humans Nationwide
A new tick-borne infectious disease known as Ehrlichiosis is infecting people across the United States, with doctors at the Mayo Clinic stating that this disease can cause feverish symptoms.
Childhood Trauma Influences Adult Disease Risk
Children who were traumatized early in life through abuse, lose of a parent, or other hardships are more likely to develop chronic diseases later in life according to a new international study.
Magnetic Field Exposure May Cause Asthma
Children whose mothers were in close contact with electromagnetic fields while pregnant could have an increased risk of developing asthma, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Scientists Announce a ‘Super Antibody’ Universal Flu Vaccine
Researchers from Britain and Sweden claim to have found a ‘super antibody’ called FI6 that can fight all types of influenza A viruses that cause disease in humans and animals. The scientists used a new method to identify an antibody in humans.
Lack of Vitamin D Linked to Muscle Injuries and Alzheimer’s
Over the past few years, researchers have come up with a mountain of evidence that vitamin D is extremely important to maintaining health and preventing and even treating a host of health problems. For example, studies have shown that too little vitamin D may trigger breast cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, brittle bones, heart attacks and more. And now there’s breaking news that scientists have discovered two more extraordinary benefits to getting enough vitamin D through sun exposure and supplements.
Lifestyle Changes Can Reduce Risk of Alzheimer’s
A new, theoretical analysis finds that about half of the risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease are potentially changeable, and that reducing them could substantially decrease the number of new cases of disease worldwide, according to a study to be presented Tuesday at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference. The study is the first known analysis that tries to quantify and compare how risk factors are associated with Alzheimer’s. It will be published Tuesday on the journal Lancet Neurology’s website after the conference presentation.
