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Height predisposes one to cancer (tall) and (short) heart disease, stroke, Alzheimers and Diabetes

Tall people: Cancer

A new study suggests that taller women have a heightened risk for cancer, the No. 2 killer of U.S. women.
The study, published today in the Journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, found that taller women were more likely to develop cancers of the breasts, ovaries, kidneys, thyroid, endometrium, colon and rectum. They also had an increased risk for multiple myeloma and melanoma.
The study adds to mounting evidence connecting height and cancer risk. A 2012 study published in the journal PLoS One found that for every 5-centimeter (2-inch) increase in height above the average 5 feet, 3 inches, the risk of ovarian cancer rose 7 percent. And a 2011 study published in The Lancet found that taller women had an increased risk of 10 different cancers, including breast and skin cancer.

Short people: Heart Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease and Stroke
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, killing 616,000 people per year, according to the CDC. And, unlike cancer, it seems to affect shorter people more than their taller counterparts.
A 2010 review of 52 studies involving more than 3 million men and women found shorter people have a 50 percent higher risk of having deadly heart disease than tall people.
“It would be interesting to explore the possibility that short stature is connected with the risk of [coronary heart disease] and [heart attack] through the effect of smaller coronary artery diameter, and that smaller coronary arteries may be occluded earlier in life under similar risk conditions,” the authors wrote in their report, published in the European Heart Journal.

Stroke

Like heart disease, serious strokes are also more common among shorter people.
An Israeli study of more than 10,000 men, 364 of whom died from stroke, linked each 5-centimeter (2-inch) decrease in height with a 13 percent increase in fatal stroke risk. Men who were in the shortest quartile had a 54 percent higher risk of fatal stroke than men in the tallest quartile, according to the 2002 study published in the journal Stroke.

Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia in older people, affecting 5.2 million Americans, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. The risk increases with age and a family history of Alzheimer’s, highlighting the disease’s genetic roots. And according to a 2007 study, the risk is also higher for shorter people.
The study, which compared 239 Alzheimer’s patients with 341 healthy controls, found men who were taller than 5 feet 10 inches had a 59 percent lower risk of developing the disease than men who were shorter than 5 feet 6 inches. The study was published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.

Both: Diabetes

“Height might represent a strong indicator of nutritional status, especially in a study such as ours, which included many subjects who had lived as persecuted minorities in their childhood,” the authors wrote. “It could also be associated with environmental conditions in childhood and adolescence.”
While Type 2 diabetes is linked to weight, Type 1 diabetes — also called juvenile diabetes — may be linked to height.
“Taller children generally seem to experience increased risk for development of diabetes mellitus type 1, except perhaps during infancy or early adolescence,” according to a 2002 study published in the journal Pediatrics.
The cause of type 1 diabetes is unknown, but it’s thought result from an autoimmune attack on the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. Although it can occur at any age, it’s usually diagnosed in children, teens or young adults.
There is debate surrounding the link between height and diabetes, however, as other studies have suggested children with diabetes are similar in stature or even shorter than their non-diabetic peers.

 

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Low well being cities prone to depression and heart attack

US well being index
Depression costing $23B in absenteeism in the US

One less obvious, but potentially fruitful strategy for employers to help improve the mental wellbeing among some employees with depression or depressive symptoms is engaging them through the fulfillment of certain critical psychological needs in the workplace. Engaged employees demonstrate an elevated willingness to participate in workplace wellbeing programs and boast elevated physical and emotional health when compared with those who are disengaged. Engaged employees also have a better mood during the workweek and do not experience increased stress from prolonged commute times.

Heart Attack
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans living in the nation’s metropolitan areas with the lowest wellbeing are about twice as likely to report having a heart attack than are residents living in the metros with the highest wellbeing. An average of 5.5% of Americans living in the 10 metro areas with the lowest wellbeing in the U.S. report having had a heart attack, compared with 2.8% of residents in the 10 metro areas with the highest levels of wellbeing.

These findings are based on an analysis of more than 230,000 interviews across 190 metropolitan areas conducted throughout 2012 with adults aged 18 and older, collected as part of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.

The metros with the highest Well-Being Index scores in 2012 include Lincoln, Neb.; Boulder, Colo.; and Provo-Orem, Utah. Those with the lowest Well-Being Index scores in 2012 include Charleston, W.Va.; Huntington-Ashland, W.Va.-Ky.-Ohio; and Mobile, Ala. Out of the approximately 3 million adult residents living in the 10 metro areas with the lowest wellbeing, about 161,000 have experienced a heart attack. If these cities experienced the same rate of heart attacks as what is found in the 10 metro areas with the highest wellbeing, nearly 80,000 fewer residents would be heart attack victims.

The metro areas this article references are based on the Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. In many cases, more than one city is included in the same MSA, and the same MSA can cross state borders. All reported MSAs encompass at least 300 completed surveys, and Gallup has weighted each of these MSA samples to ensure it is demographically representative of that MSA.

The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index score is an average of six sub-indexes, which individually examine life evaluation, emotional health, work environment, physical health, healthy behaviors, and access to basic necessities. The overall score and each of the six sub-index scores are calculated on a scale from 0 to 100, where a score of 100 represents the ideal.
To measure the heart attack rate, Gallup asks respondents: “Has a doctor or nurse ever told you that you have had a heart attack?” Nationally, about 4.0% of all adults in 2012 reported having ever experienced a heart attack.

Across Cities, Heart Attack Rates Rise as Wellbeing Declines
Sorting the 190 MSAs reported in 2012 into 10 evenly-sized groups based on their Well-Being Index scores reveals that their scores drop by an average of 0.8 points and their heart attack rates climb by an average of 0.22 percentage points in each successive group.
Thus, for every 100,000 adults in any given city, each spot lower on the list of 10 groups represents an estimated additional 220 residents who have experienced a heart attack. And, a city that has a Well-Being Index score that is 1.0 point lower than the next-closest score would expect an estimated 275 additional heart attack victims.

Implications
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about 715,000 Americans have a heart attack each year, about one-quarter of which are repeat incidences. More than 100,000 Americans die from a heart attack annually.

Many of the risk factors for heart attacks are also common characteristics found in metro areas with low wellbeing, including obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking, having diabetes, and excessive stress. For leaders of these cites, creating a culture of wellbeing to reduce the chances of heart disease and heart attack among residents of their communities is key. Building such a culture starts with greater awareness and dialogue around wellbeing, coupled with a combination of involvement by schools, businesses, and local government.

Schools and businesses can help reduce obesity and encourage healthy behaviors by eliminating sugary drinks and foods that are deep-fried or high in sugar, and replacing them with healthier alternatives accompanied by nutritional information. Businesses can give their employees an incentive to maintain a healthy weight by increasing contributions to medical spending accounts when these goals are met.
City governments can invest in widening and lengthening walking/biking paths to encourage pedestrian traffic to grocery stores, schools, and mass transit. They can also encourage restaurants to offer smaller portions and a wide selection of heart-healthy fare as well as promote grocery stores that make it easy for shoppers to find healthy, low-fat foods.

Above all, healthcare, business, education, and government leaders should discuss common goals and ways they can contribute toward improving the health and wellbeing of residents for the betterment of the entire community.
View and export complete wellbeing data by metro area using Gallup’s U.S. City Wellbeing Tracking interactive.

About the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index
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Australia and New Zealand are the fattest countries in the developed world by Anahad O’Connor

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Around the world, Australia may be known for its rugged outdoor lifestyles. But recent statistics suggest a different reality. Australia and its equally outdoorsy neighbor, New Zealand, are now two of the fattest countries in the developed world.

Obesity rates in the two countries have tripled in the last three decades, mirroring the sharp rise that occurred in the United States during roughly the same period. In Australia, at least 60 percent of adults and roughly a quarter of children are overweight or obese.
A United Nations report this month showed that Mexico and the United States, in that order, lead the developed world in obesity. But Australia and New Zealand were only slightly behind.

Populations in many developed nations are, not surprisingly, getting heavier. Industrialization often carries a cultural cost that includes more sedentary behaviors and the spread of sugary drinks and heavily processed foods. According to research by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, one out of two people in nearly half of all developed countries is overweight or obese.
But the prevalence of obesity appears to be increasing faster in Australia than in any other industrialized nation. While obesity rates have recently plateaued in America, for example, researchers say they expect to see the rise in Australia continue across all age groups for at least another decade.

The trend, Australian authorities say, is costing the country tens of billions of dollars a year in reduced productivity, disability and direct health complications. Like their counterparts in the United States, Australian health officials have been struggling to find ways to rein in the country’s rapidly expanding waistlines.

Mostly, they have turned to public outreach and education. The Australian government has poured money into national programs that teach schoolchildren to grow and prepare fresh foods and that encourage adults to “swap” things like elevators and chocolate cake for staircases and fruit. There have also been more drastic approaches. Several years ago, the government of the country’s most populous state, New South Wales, started paying for its morbidly obese citizens to have weight loss surgery.
Health proponents in Australia are also taking cues from some American public officials, like Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York. In January, three of Australia’s leading health organizations – including Diabetes Australia and the Heart Foundation – joined forces for the first time to launch a national campaign called “Rethink Sugary Drinks.”

The groups said that vending machines packed with junk food were becoming commonplace in schools and workplaces, and that adults and children were drinking soft drinks to excess. Studies show that half of all children in Australia drink at least one sugar-sweetened beverage daily. The head of Diabetes Australia, Greg Johnson, said it was time for a government tax on sugar-sweetened beverages.
The anti-sugar campaign is blitzing the airwaves with public service announcements, including a television commercial that shows a man eating 16 packets of sugar – the amount, the ad states, in a large soft drink. Americans might find the ad familiar: It was licensed from the New York City health department.

In Western Australia, the state government paid for a separate campaign that warns about the dangers of belly fat using graphic images. One television ad shows a man reaching for a slice of pizza, and then hesitating as he looks down at his waist and grabs a fold of his belly fat. A view from inside his abdomen flashes onto the screen, showing his intestines cloaked in bright layers of fat.
“When you eat more than you need to and aren’t as active as you should be, fat doesn’t just build up around your waist,” a narrator exclaims. “A toxic fat also builds up around your vital organs, releasing dangerous levels of chemicals that bring heart disease, diabetes and cancer closer.”
In a critique of the ads, Deborah Lupton, a sociologist at the University of Sydney, said they were designed to provoke shock and horror. She questioned whether the ads would be effective.

“The intention is clearly to invite the target audience – people who have a ‘grabbable gut,’ as the campaign’s print media ads put it – to envisage the insides of their bodies as diseased, poisoned and repulsively overrun with deposits of viscous fat,” she wrote. “It’s likely,” she added, “that many members of the target audience may simply avert their eyes because they find the images so repulsive.”
But as health authorities step up their attack on junk foods and sugar-laden drinks, some experts are debating whether such efforts are misguided. In 2011, two leading nutrition and diabetes experts in Australia created controversy when they published a study arguing that at the same time obesity rates soared, the consumption of refined sugar in Australia had appeared to fall substantially. The researchers called this phenomenon “the Australian Paradox,” and it suggested, they argued, that public health messages aimed at sugar intake might not do much to curtail obesity.
But another paper published this month by a group at the University of Western Australia argued that there is no paradox.

Australia is one of the leading exporters of raw sugar in the world, exporting more than 80 percent of its raw sugar to countries like South Korea, Indonesia and Malaysia. Production data alone makes it appear that the amount of sugar in the domestic supply has been decreasing. But in reality, the study found, a large amount of the raw sugar that Australia exports is processed elsewhere and then returned to the country in the form of packaged foods.

“Customs data on imports of processed foods show that over the last 20 years there has been rapid and still increasing growth in imports of processed foods, many with high sugar content,” the authors wrote. “Our conservative estimate suggests that at least one-sixth of the sugar in the domestic food supply is now imported into the country in this way.”

Critical illness, most feared than death, is one reason why some file for bankruptcy by Dan Mangan

These people fear the bill collector more than the Grim Reaper.
Among workers ages 40 and 50, nearly half fear the financial consequences of a critical illness-compared with just 29 percent who rate dying as their biggest concern, according to a new study.
That fear of a hit to the wallet being a bigger concern than dying is most pronounced among single workers, single women and single parents, according to the Sun Life Financial survey, “Well-Placed Fears: Workers’ Perceptions of a Critical Illness.”
For example, single women in that 40-50 age group who earn less than $50,000 are four times more concerned about the financial fallout of a critical illness than they are worried about being killed by it, the report found.

And most single parents and single women ages 22 to 39 in that income bracket are more worried about paying the bills from those illnesses than dying from them.
Despite those stark money-related fears, the overwhelming majority of American workers are going without insurance coverage that would specifically pay bills from a critical illness.
Thirty-six percent of the workers who responded to the survey believe they have critical illness coverage-but less than 5 percent of all workers are estimated to actually carry such coverage.
“Our findings suggest that benefits brokers and [human resources] decision-makers might especially want to consider offering critical illness and cancer insurance if their employee base contains a significant group of women, workers age 40 to 50 or singles,” said Bob Klein, senior vice president of Sun Life’s voluntary and multi-line divisions.

Klein’s singling out of cancer stemmed from another major finding of the survey, which polled more than 4,100 full-time workers and was conducted by Kelton Research.
Nearly half of all workers polled-48 percent-were most worried about falling victim to an invasive cancer. Heart attack was the top concern for 32 percent, and stroke for 15 percent.
Ironically, those diseases’ costs are inversely related to the degree that people worry about them. Stroke has an out-of-pocket average cost of $17,680, followed by heart attack with an average cost of $14,234, and cancer at $6,740, Sun Life Financial noted.
The study not only found that people were worried about the financial effect of a critical illness; they had actually felt such effects after falling victim.

Of the 285 survey respondents who had suffered a critical illness, two-thirds had to take special measures to cover related costs. A total of 28 percent tapped their retirement savings and other funds earmarked for future needs, 28 percent dipped into emergency funds and 21 percent borrowed money from family or friends. Twelve percent declared bankruptcy and 11 percent either sold their homes or had them foreclosed upon.
Klein said that the research “underscores that even if you have robust health coverage, a significant health condition such as cancer, heart attack or stroke can divert a significant chunk of money from your savings, or, in some cases, cost you your home.”

Klein also said that based on the study’s results, “we think many workers will want to explore ways to increase their financial security in case they experience a critical illness.”
John Hauserman, a certified financial planner, said his clients are “very fearful” of a critical illness putting a big dent in their wallets and putting them out of work for a long time.
“Once you’re having that conversation, you can see the alarm bells going off, but people don’t come in asking about it,” said Hauserman. “Consistently, probably 90 percent of the time, I’m the one who brings that up.”

Hauserman said he views critical illness insurance-which provides policy holders a flat amount of money to use if they fall victim to such an illness-“as more of a luxury than a risk management tool.”
He said he would advise someone who could afford to pay for such coverage to get it only after they buy insurance for “the stuff they’re most likely to face,” naming the top priorities as health insurance, life insurance, disability insurance and long-term care insurance.

A combination of those insurance plans could cover some, if not all of the extra costs associated with a critical illness. A critical illness policy would provide a flat sum of extra money available to a person suffering from a critical illness, and not be just a percentage of a person’s lost wages, such as disability insurance, a Sun Life Financial spokeswoman said.
Hauserman agreed that “most people are not carrying enough coverage” of all kinds to compensate them from financial effects of a critical illness.

He noted that in 20 years as a financial planner “the number of people who have come to me owning private disability insurance I can count on one hand.”

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Smoothie for losing weight, controlling sugar and preparing for fasting

In 16oz cup, add 1/3 of each of coconut water, manila mango, and kale (blend) and then add nutmeg, cinnamon and 1 scoop of plant-based protein powder. Finally, add 1 tsp of lemon and 2 tsp of maple syrup.

And stir with love. This can be your morning or evening meal replacement when in your losing weight regimen.

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People evolved to fight Cholera by Nathan Seppa

Some people in Bangladesh carry genetic alterations that seem to protect against cholera, a study shows. These changes apparently occurred over thousands of years as exposure to the disease exerted a form of natural selection on people in the Ganges River Delta.

Although cholera can cause lethal, dehydrating diarrhea, 60 to 90 percent of people infected with it experience few or no symptoms. That often happens when people have had prior exposure to the microbe that causes the disease, says Glenn Morris, an infectious disease physician at the University of Florida in Gainesville. But a portion of that protection may reflect underlying genetic differences in susceptibility to cholera, he says, and a possible biological mechanism for such safeguards.

Previous research had found a possible adaptation response to cholera in the Ganges Delta, which includes parts of Bangladesh. For reasons that are still unclear, people with type O blood are more susceptible to cholera than people in other blood groups. Perhaps not coincidentally, the Ganges Delta has the lowest occurrence of type O blood in the world, says Regina LaRocque, an infectious disease physician at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

But aside from blood type, LaRocque and others couldn’t explain why some families seem less susceptible to cholera than others. In the new study, she and her colleagues identified genetic variants in families from Dhaka, Bangladesh, that stood apart from variants in people from East Asia, West Africa or Europe.

The researchers then tested the DNA of 105 cholera patients in Dhaka and 167 people who shared households with them but who didn’t have the disease. When they looked closely at 28 of the highlighted genetic variants, there were five genes that differed between the people who were sick and those who weren’t, the researchers report in the July 3 Science Translational Medicine.

Some of the genes are implicated in inflammation, which runs amok in the intestines in response to the cholera toxin. But LaRocque says none of the genes make proteins that directly control inflammation. Rather, they are components that modulate or tweak that response, she says. That makes sense, she says, since entirely shutting down an immune response such as inflammation could leave a person vulnerable to other pathogens.

In a separate analysis, the scientists looked at patients who had severe cholera. This group was more likely than people impervious to cholera to have three other genetic variants, all of which are implicated in regulating fluid loss from the intestines.

Understanding the clues provided by these differences in immune responses to cholera might someday enable scientists to induce a kind of long-lasting protection that rivals what people garner after a bout with the disease itself, says study coauthor Elinor Karlsson, a Harvard geneticist and coauthor of the study. The need is great because the current cholera vaccine doesn’t provide long-lasting protection.

 

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Nitric Oxide for strong blood vessels’ cells , up with exercise, melons, cucumber, Vit C, E, amino acid – L-arginine, L-citrulline

Nitric Oxide (NO) is the master signaling molecule important for the heart and blood vessels.
• Helps cells get rid of waste products
• Regulates the muscle tone of blood vessels and having a major impact in controlling blood pressure
• Helps increased blood flow to muscles and organs as well as better cardiovascular and enhanced lung functions
• Stops blood platelets from forming clots, which helps prevent arterial blockages and heart attacks
• Transmits messages between nerve cells, a process known as neurotransmission
• Helps slow the accumulation of atherosclerotic plaque in the blood vessels which leads to heart attack and stroke
As a gas, it forms naturally in the endothelial cells that line blood vessels throughout the body. NO production is boosted by exercise and by taking Arginine and Citrulline along with antioxidants such as Vitamin E and Alpha Lipoic Acid. Nitric Oxide may prevent or reverse heart disease.
Nitric Oxide is the natural performance booster that strengthens your heart, lungs, and nerves, along with every cell in your body. It also allows you to prolong your exercise, and prolonged exercise increases NO levels in your body. It’s a virtuous cycle that can lead to improved athletic performance and better health. NO is a short-lived, gaseous molecule that is produced in your cells.
Once released into the bloodstream, it signals the body to perform certain functions such as vasodilation opening up the blood vessels and capillaries to increase blood flow and deliver oxygen and critical nutrients throughout your body at the time it needs them most. Do you ever wonder why people suffering from chest pain are often prescribed and instructed to take nitroglycerine? It’s because the body uses nitroglycerine to produce high levels of NO quickly by opening the coronary arteries and increasing the flow of blood to the heart. For the athlete seeking enhance performance, endurance and strength, as well as faster recovery, the availability of NO in the body is critically important.
As any endurance athlete can tell you, a triathlon or other long-distance event becomes a competition between body parts over demand for the blood supply. The skin wants the blood circulating to dissipate heat, but the muscles are screaming for the oxygen and nutrients that the blood carries. Meanwhile, the stomach needs blood to digest food and make those nutrients available in the first place. It’s not hard to see how ample NO, with its ability to increase circulation, would be critical to athletic performance.
It turns out that NO benefits nearly every cell and system in the body. NO is primarily manufactured in the endothelium, which is the layer of cells lining the interior surface of the blood vessels. The endothelial tissue, which separates the blood from the smooth muscles of the vessel walls, is extremely thin and fragile. It’s easy to see what occurs when such a vast, crucial network gets what it needs to function at its biological peak.
When your endothelium is well nourished, it produces NO at optimal levels. The NO then rapidly spreads through the cell membranes to the underlying muscle cells, causing the arteries to dilate and blood to flow unimpeded to the heart and other organs. Because NO functions on a localized basis, it is released by billions of cells throughout the body, enhancing overall functioning.
The longer NO circulates in the body, the greater benefit it provides to your cells, cardiovascular system, lungs, nervous system, and organs and the more optimal their functionality will be. The more efficiently each of your cells functions, the more you will be able to produce peak speed, strength, and endurance as part of your athletic endeavors. Also, the desirable effects of NO aren’t limited to athletes.
On the contrary, this molecule is quickly becoming regarded as a critical component of a pro-wellness lifestyle for all people, ranging from athletes to the sedentary. Some of the benefits of sufficient levels of NO include: Helping to increase cardiovascular capacity and circulation and enhancing oxygen and nutrient delivery to cells.
Our research strongly suggests that NO’s ability to combat this plaque helps produce healthy levels of cholesterol by working in concert with medications commonly prescribed for people with high cholesterol. NO also help the immune system fight bacterial infections, viruses, and parasites, and even decreases the growth of certain types of cancer. NO is crucial to to memory function, as the brain uses it to help neurons store and retrieve long-term memories and transmit information. As an anti-inflammatory agent, NO is being studied for its potential role in reducing the welling and discomfort of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Nitric oxide is a signaling molecule primarily produced by cells in the endothelium (inner lining) of blood vessels. A signaling molecule fits into docking sites (receptors) on cell walls and triggers biochemical reactions. Nitric oxide helps event heart disease and stroke by…
• Expanding blood vessels. Nitric oxide protects the blood vessels’ smooth muscle tissue from harmful constriction, and this allows blood to circulate with less force. Some doctors report that elevating nitric oxide in hypertensive patients can lower blood pressure by 10 to 60 points.
• Controlling platelet function. Platelets, cell-like structures in blood that can clump up together, may form blood-blocking clots, the main cause of heart attack and stroke. A vascular network that is enhanced by nitric oxide sheds platelets and inhibits dangerous clots.
• Reducing arterial plaque by 50%. Arterial plaque, which consists of fatty deposits in the coronary arteries, is the underlying cause of heart diseases. Nitric oxide is an antioxidant that inhibits the passage of monocytes, a type of immune cell, into the artery wall. This in turn reduces the underlying inflammation that promotes plaque.
• Lowering total cholesterol by 10% to 20%. That’s a modest decrease – but there’s some evidence that nitric oxide is even more effective when combined with the cholesterol lowering statins. Nitric oxide lowers cholesterol through its antioxidant activity. The preliminary research suggests that stimulating nitric oxide production in people who have elevated cholesterol makes it possible to lower their statin doses by at least 50%.
To Boost Nitric Oxide Levels
It is not yet known how much nitric oxide normally is present in the body of what levels are optimal. This gas is difficult to measure because it disappears almost instantly upon exposure to air. Research scientists can measure levels with electrodes inserted in blood vessels. Simpler tests are needed before doctors can measure nitric oxide as part of standard checkups.
Beginning in early adulthood, nitric oxide level gradually decline, probably due to damage to the endothelial cells caused by such factors as a high-fat diet and a sedentary lifestyle.
Nitric oxide can’t be taken in supplement form because it is a gas. However, patients can take other supplements that increase production of nitric oxide in the blood vessels.
• L-arginine, an amino acid found in meats, grains and fish, passes through the intestine into the blood. From the blood, it enters endothelial cells, where it is used to make nitric oxide. A Mayo Clinic study found that people taking L-arginine showed significant improvement in endothelial function and blood flow compared with those taking placebos. It is hard to get sufficient L- arginine from food, so supplements are recommended.
• L-citrulline. Supplemental arginine doesn’t enter cells readily unless it is combined with L- citrulline, another amino acid. Melons and cucumbers are rich sources of L-citrulline, but they don’t provide high enough levels to significantly increase nitric oxide levels.
• Daily multivitamin that includes vitamin E. Vitamin E helps reduce the assault of cell-damaging free radicals on the endothelial lining and may promote higher levels of nitric oxide. The amount of vitamin E that is in most multi-vitamin/mineral supplements is about 50 international units (IU), an effective dose.
• Vitamin C. Like vitamin E, vitamin C will reduce oxidation in the blood vessels and may cause an increase in nitric oxide. People who consume high levels in vitamin C experience a reduction in arterial plaque, which is associated with higher levels of nitric oxide. You can get your vitamin C from food, but I recommend supplements because they are so convenient an easy to take.
Diet and Exercise
In addition to take supplements, it is important to maintain a healthy lifestyle by watching what you eat and being active. Try to…
• Do aerobic exercise for at least 20 minutes three days a week. This simulates endothelial cells to continuously produce nitric oxide, even on days that you don’t exercise.
• Minimize intake of saturated fat. Saturated fat, found in such animal products as red meat, poultry, butter, and whole milk, contributes to the accumulation of arterial plaque and impairs nitric oxide production.
Better: Olive oil, fish and flaxseed. The fats found in these foods help protect the endothelium by elevating levels of beneficial HDL cholesterol and lowering the harmful LDL form.
• Eat More Fiber. The dietary fiber in grains, fruits and vegetables lowers blood pressure and LDL cholesterol and raises HDL, thereby protecting endothelial cells.
Bonus: Many of the foods that contain fiber also are rich in antioxidants, which inhibit the cell damage that lowers nitric oxide. Eat at least 25 grams (g) of fiber daily – and drink at least eight
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Excessive blood clotting

To understand what causes excessive blood clotting, it helps to understand the body’s normal blood clotting process.

Normally, blood clots form to seal small cuts or breaks on blood vessel walls and stop bleeding. After the bleeding has stopped and healing has occurred, the body breaks down and removes the clots.

Blood clotting is a complex process, but it mainly involves:
•The inner layer of cells lining the blood vessels. These cells play a major role in causing blood clots to form.
•Clotting factors. These proteins help create a network of fibrin—another type of protein. Fibrin acts like glue to hold blood clots together.
•Platelets (PLATE-lets). These small blood cell fragments can stick together to form clots.

Excessive blood clotting can occur if the body’s clotting process is altered or wrongly triggered. Blood clots can form in, or travel to, the arteries or veins in the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, and limbs. (Arteries and veins are the blood vessels that carry blood to your heart and body.)

Certain diseases and conditions, genetic mutations, medicines, and other factors can cause excessive blood clotting.

Diseases and Conditions

Many diseases and conditions can cause the blood to clot too much or prevent blood clots from dissolving properly. Certain diseases and conditions are more likely to cause clots to form in certain areas of the body.

Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome

This condition, also called APS, is an autoimmune disorder. If you have APS, your body makes antibodies (proteins) that attack phospholipids (fos-fo-LIP-ids)—a type of fat. Phospholipids are found in all living cells and cell membranes, including blood cells and the lining of blood vessels.

In APS, the antibodies trigger blood clots to form in the body’s arteries and veins. These blood clots can lead to many health problems, including frequent miscarriages.

APS is more common in women and people who have other autoimmune or rheumatic disorders, such as lupus. (“Rheumatic” refers to disorders that affect the joints, bones, or muscles.)

Bone Marrow Disorders

Some bone marrow disorders can cause your body to make too many blood cells that can lead to blood clots. Examples include polycythemia vera (POL-e-si-THE-me-ah VE-ra), or PV, and thrombocythemia (THROM-bo-si-THE-me-ah).

PV is a rare blood disease in which your body makes too many red blood cells. These extra red blood cells make your blood thicker than normal. This slows the flow of blood through your small blood vessels, which can cause blood clots to form.

Thrombocythemia is a condition in which your body makes too many platelets. The platelets can stick together to form blood clots.

Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation

Two rare, but serious conditions that can cause blood clots are thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (throm-BOT-ik throm-bo-cy-toe-PEE-nick PURR-purr-ah), or TTP, and disseminated intravascular coagulation (ko-ag-u-LA-shun), or DIC.

TTP causes blood clots to form in the body’s small blood vessels, including vessels in the brain, kidneys, and heart.

DIC is a rare complication of pregnancy, severe infections, or severe trauma. DIC causes tiny blood clots to form suddenly throughout the body.

Problems With Blood Clot Breakdown

After a blood clot has done its job, the body normally breaks down the fibrin that holds the clot together.

Several rare genetic and acquired conditions affect the fibrin network that holds blood clots together. Thus, the clots don’t break down properly, and they remain in the body longer than needed.

In one condition, for example, the body’s fibrin is abnormal and resists being broken down. In another condition, the body has a decreased amount of plasmin. This protein helps break down fibrin.

Excessive Blood Clotting That Mainly Affects the Heart and Brain

Any condition that damages the smooth inner surface of the blood vessels can trigger blood clotting. Many of these conditions are acquired. However, some genetic problems also can damage the inner surface of the blood vessels.

Certain diseases, conditions, or factors can trigger excessive blood clotting mainly in the arteries and veins of the heart and brain.

Atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis is a disease in which a waxy substance called plaque builds up inside your arteries. Over time, the plaque may rupture (break open). Platelets clump together to form blood clots at the site of the damage. Atherosclerosis is a major cause of damage to the blood vessel walls.

Vasculitis. Vasculitis (vas-kyu-LI-tis) is a disorder that causes the body’s blood vessels to become inflamed. Platelets may stick to areas where the blood vessels are damaged and form blood clots. Vasculitis also is a major cause of damage to the blood vessel walls.

Diabetes. Diabetes increases the risk of plaque buildup in the arteries, which can cause dangerous blood clots. Nearly 80 percent of people who have diabetes will eventually die of clot-related causes. Many of these deaths are related to complications with the heart and blood vessels.

Heart failure. Heart failure is a condition in which the heart is damaged or weakened. As a result, it can’t pump enough blood to meet the body’s needs. Heart failure slows blood flow, which can cause blood clots to form.

Atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation (A-tre-al fih-brih-LA-shun), or AF, is the most common type of arrhythmia (ah-RITH-me-ah). An arrhythmia is a problem with the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat. AF can cause blood to pool in the upper chambers of the heart. This can cause blood clots to form.

Overweight and obesity. Overweight and obesity refer to body weight that’s greater than what is considered healthy for a certain height. These conditions can lead to atherosclerosis, which increases the risk of blood clots.

Metabolic syndrome. Some research shows that people who have metabolic syndrome are at increased risk for excessive blood clotting. Metabolic syndrome is the name for a group of risk factors that increases your chance of having heart disease and other health problems.

Excessive Blood Clotting That Mainly Affects the Limbs

Blood clots can form in the veins deep in the limbs. This condition is called deep vein thrombosis (DVT). DVT usually affects the deep veins of the legs.

A blood clot in a deep vein can break off and travel through the bloodstream. If the clot travels to the lungs and blocks blood flow, the condition is called pulmonary embolism (PULL-mun-ary EM-bo-lizm), or PE.

Certain diseases, conditions, or factors can trigger excessive blood clotting mainly in the deep veins of the limbs. Examples include:
•Hospitalization for major surgery, a serious medical illness, trauma, or broken bones. If you’re not able to be active for long periods, blood flow in your veins slows down. As a result, blood clots may form in your legs.
•”Coach class.” This term refers to a situation in which you must stay in one position for a long time, such as in a car or plane. Staying in one position can slow blood flow and lead to blood clots in the legs.
•Cancer growth and cancer treatment.

Genetic Mutations

Genetic causes of excessive blood clotting most often are due to gene mutations (changes to a normal gene).

Common mutations include Factor V Leiden and Prothrombin G20210A mutations. Fairly rare genetic mutations include proteins C and S deficiencies and antithrombin III deficiency.

Medicines

Some medicines can disrupt the body’s normal blood clotting process. Medicines containing the female hormone estrogen are linked to an increased risk of blood clots. Examples of medicines that may contain estrogen include birth control pills and hormone therapy.

Heparin is a medicine commonly used to prevent blood clots. But, in some people, the medicine can cause blood clots and a low platelet count. This condition is called heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT).

HIT rarely occurs outside of a hospital because heparin usually is given in hospitals. In HIT, the body’s immune system attacks the heparin and a protein on the surface of the platelets. This attack prompts the platelets to start forming blood clots.

Other Factors That Can Alter the Blood Clotting Process

Many other factors also can alter the clotting process and lead to excessive blood clotting. Common examples include:
•Smoking. Smoking raises the risk of unwanted blood clots and makes it more likely that platelets will stick together. Smoking also damages the lining of the blood vessels, which can cause blood clots to form.
•Increased homocysteine levels. Homocysteine is an amino acid linked to a high risk of vascular disease. Increased levels of this substance may damage the inner lining of the arteries.
•Pregnancy. Women are more likely to develop blood clots when they’re pregnant. This is because they have more platelets and clotting factors in their blood during pregnancy. Also, during pregnancy, the uterus compresses the veins. This slows blood flow, which can lead to blood clots.
•HIV and HIV treatments. The risk of blood clots is highest in HIV patients who have infections, are taking certain medicines, have been hospitalized, or are older than 45.
•Dehydration. This is a condition in which your body doesn’t have enough fluids. This condition causes your blood vessels to narrow and your blood to thicken, which raises your risk for blood clots.
•Organ transplants and implanted devices, such as central venous catheters and dialysis shunts. Surgery or procedures done on blood vessels may injure the vessel walls. This can cause blood clots to form. Also, catheters and shunts have a man-made surface that may trigger blood clotting.

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/ebc/causes.html

Connie’s comments: Be alkaline, meat and unhealthy nutrition and lifestyle causes an acidic environment in our body and blood.

Stomach bug

What is gastroenteritis?

The stomach “bug” is usually a sickness caused by a virus which spreads from person to person or through food contamination. Symptoms usually appear 1 to 2 days after exposure. Symptoms are often mild and usually only last a day or two. You may experience some of the following symptoms:
Upset Stomach
Diarrhea
Vomiting
Fever
Headache
Abdominal cramps

Some tips to prevent getting a stomach bug:

Wash your hands.
Don’t share drinks.
Do not prepare food for people if you are sick.
Throw out refrigerated leftovers once a week to avoid eating spoiled food.
Clean surfaces well before preparing food on them.
Keep your meats separate from your vegetables when storing them.
Cook meat to 160F and maintain at 140F or higher.
Thaw meat in the refrigerator or microwave.
Refrigerate leftovers within two hours.
Don’t put cooked meat on the plate where raw meat was held.

What to do if you get a stomach “bug”:
Wait about 30-60 minutes after the last vomiting to try drinking fluids.
Sip small amounts of clear liquids frequently. Try ice chips, sips of water, flat ginger ale or 7-up, weak tea, diluted apple juice, Gatorade, clear soups, Jell-O.
Let your gastrointestinal tract settle by not eating for several hours. Then start with small amounts of bland, easy-to-digest food: cooked cereals, bread or bagel (no butter or margarine), toast with jelly, crackers, plain pasta, pretzels or bread sticks, fruits ( banana, apple, applesauce ), cooked potatoes, cooked vegetables, eggs, rice, chicken, turkey, baked fish.
Get plenty of rest.
Eat small amounts of bland food frequently for 2-3 days to prevent recurrence.
Avoid dairy products, greasy or spicy foods, raw vegetables, caffeine, and alcohol until recovery is complete.

Over-the-counter (OTC) medications:
Anti diarrheals Preparations of bismuth subsalicylate (e.g., Pepto-Bismol) or Loperamide (Immodium) can reduce the duration and severity of simple diarrhea. These medications should be avoided if you have a high fever or blood in the stools because they may make the illness worse.
Pain reliever/fever reducer Acetaminophen (Tylenol) can make you more comfortable. Ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) is not recommended as it can cause further stomach upset.

Complications: Your body needs fluids to function. Diarrhea and vomiting can cause dehydration. Symptoms of dehydration: excessive thirst, dry mouth, little urine or dark yellow urine, severe weakness, dizziness or lightheadedness. Mild dehydration can be treated by drinking liquids. Severe dehydration may require intravenous fluids.

Call us at 315-443-9005 for an appointment if you experience:
Stools containing blood or black stools
Temperature over 101.5 F for more than 24 hours
Prolonged vomiting
Signs of dehydration
Diarrhea that lasts more than 3 days

For more information:

http://www.digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/viralgastroenteritis/index.aspx

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/revb/gastro/faq.htm

Connie’s Comments: Observe proper hygiene. Moms breastfeed your babies, breastmilk coats the tummy lining for future protection. Goat’s milk provides stomach health. Aloe vera juice is very powerful drink tonic for the body esp the stomach lining. Do eat healthy food, fiber and alkaline to prevent ulcerations. Up Vit C intake. Protein food when drinking alcohol. Drink fluids. Start with digestive enzymes before a meal and do eat pineapple before or after a meat filled meal.
When you know you have eaten moldy food or bad food from a restaurant and cannot take the pain, apply warm compress on your stomach, lie down and eat only warm fluids including rice soup and chicken soup.

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