It might seem logical that caffeine might raise your blood pressure. After all, it is a stimulant. New research shows that when it comes to soda caffeine may be the least of your problems!
News on Booze
On May - 24 - 2010Comments Off on News on Booze
There’s been a lot of coverage recently about how alcohol plays into unhealthy living and increases risks of some types of cancers. We’ve even covered those papers in this blog. The last week has seen far better news for lovers of wine and spirits, though. In order to pull yourself out of the alarming pool of alcohol, you can refer to links such as https://inpatientrehabilitation.co.uk/.
French researchers have taken a long hard look at the “French Paradox” and found that even boiling away all the confounding bits, it still holds for men and women. Women get some more good news about alcohol and Alzheimer’s. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s in the Can
On May - 21 - 2010Comments Off on It’s in the Can
A new report on how much BPA is in canned foods is now available from the National Workgroup for Safe Markets. As you may recall, Bisphenol A, or BPA for short, is a chemical used to make clear plastics and line metal pipes or cans. Research has shown that it can disrupt our hormones. As a result, it has been implicated in a variety of maladies from some cancers to heart disease to obesity.
Dishing on Meat
On May - 19 - 2010Comments Off on Dishing on Meat
For anybody who loves a good steak — or who just isn’t ready for Meatless Mondays let alone a vegetarian lifestyle — we have two great studies and just a little bit of bad news.
Conventional wisdom for some years has been that red meat is bad for you because it is loaded with saturated fat. The problem is that the actual studies on which that idea is based are at best conflicted: some show no correlation, while others show a clear pattern. This latest study tried to isolate just a few of the many factors that might be at work in this problem.
Pregnenolone and Heart Disease
On May - 17 - 2010Comments Off on Pregnenolone and Heart Disease
More and more synthetic steroids and related compounds are available at the health food store every day. Whether it’s DHEA, 7-keto, pregnenolone, or any of numerous steroid “production enhancers,” there’s a dizzying array of bottles of pills out there. Do any of them help at all with aging against the machine?
Researchers in Germany and UK have found a new mechanism that suggests that at least one of these vitamin shop steroids may be effective and that includes the ones at legale-steroide.de. Enter pregnenolone sulfate. Read the rest of this entry »