Smartphone app helps fight obesity study
Posted by admin on May 12, 2013 | Leave a Comment
PARIS: Using a simple smartphone application to photograph one’s meals is a useful slimming aid for the overweight, according to an experiment reported on Sunday.
The app, designed by British doctors, aims at promoting “food memory” so that people recall what they have eaten and are encouraged not to snack on high-calorie treats.
The app has three parts:
– before eating food or drinking a beverage,...
Fish oils work versus heart attacks limited study
Posted by admin on May 08, 2013 | Leave a Comment
BOSTON: Eating fish is good for your heart, but taking fish oil capsules does not help people at high risk of heart problems who are already taking medicines to prevent them, a large study in Italy found.
The work makes clearer who does and does not benefit from taking supplements of omega-3 fatty acids, the good oils found in fish such as salmon, tuna and sardines.
Previous studies have suggested that fish oil capsules...
Basic disinfectant could halt bird flu spread study
Posted by admin on May 06, 2013 | Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON: Live poultry markets can act as hotbeds for H5N1 bird flu, but simple measures such as disinfecting trucks, equipment and market space could help stop the virus from spreading, researchers said Monday.
A team of French, British and Vietnamese researchers interviewed vendors at live bird markets in northern Vietnam and tracked how outbreaks could move as if via social network, even into remote areas.
Measures...
Secret to longer life may be in the brain study
Posted by admin on May 01, 2013 | Leave a Comment
PARIS: Scientists said Wednesday they had found a brain region that controls physical ageing, and could target it to manipulate the lifespan of lab mice.
The findings may be a step towards finding the holy grail of slowing human ageing, but have yet to be tested in human subjects.
The research, published in the journal Nature, implicates the hypothalamus — a brain region that regulates growth, reproduction and metabolism,...
Young obesity doubles death risk before 55 study
Posted by admin on Apr 29, 2013 | Leave a Comment
PARIS: Men who are obese in their early 20s are twice as likely as peers of average weight to die before reaching the age of 55, a study said Tuesday.
Writing in the journal BMJ Open, a team of researchers reported on a 33-year study of 6,500 Danish men who were 22 years old in 1955.
Of the group, 1.5 percent or 97 were obese when they registered — which means they had a weight-to-height ratio (body mass index or...
H7N9 bird flu Lancet study confirms poultry as source
Posted by admin on Apr 25, 2013 | Leave a Comment
PARIS: Chinese researchers reporting in The Lancet on Thursday confirmed poultry as a source of H7N9 flu among humans but said they found no evidence of person-to-person transmission.
A probe into four cases of human H7N9 influenza in China’s eastern Zhejiang province determined that all the patients had been exposed to poultry, either through their occupation or through visiting so-called wet poultry markets.
The...
Both parents equally good at recognising babys cry study
Posted by admin on Apr 16, 2013 | Leave a Comment
PARIS: French researchers on Tuesday dealt a blow to folklore that says mothers are better than fathers in recognising their baby’s cry.
The “maternal instinct” notion gained scientific backing more than three decades ago through two experiments, one of which found that women were nearly twice as accurate as men in identifying the cry of their offspring.
But the new study says men and women are equally...
Bald men may be at higher clogged artery risk study
Posted by admin on Apr 03, 2013 | Leave a Comment
PARIS: In a double blow, bald men may be at higher risk of coronary heart disease, said a study Wednesday, but only if the hair is lost at the crown.
Men who bald from the front appear to carry no significant added risk for the clogged artery disease that can cause heart attacks, said a report in the online journal BMJ Open.
Researchers from the University of Tokyo’s Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases...
Diabetes link to low sleep hormone levels study
Posted by admin on Apr 02, 2013 | Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON: A decrease in levels of the sleep hormone melatonin has been linked to an increased risk of adult onset diabetes, according to a study published Tuesday.
Research in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that 370 women with diabetes were compared with 370 women of the same race and age without the disease.
Researchers found participants with diabetes produced low levels of melatonin at night...
Eating fish linked to longer life US study
Posted by admin on Apr 02, 2013 | Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON: People age 65 and older who eat fish may live an average of two years longer than people who do not consume the omega-3 fatty acids found mainly in seafood, a US study suggested on Monday.
People with higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids also had an overall risk of dying that was 27 percent lower, and a risk of dying from heart disease that was 35 percent lower than counterparts who had lower blood levels,...
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