Adjust Up Your Health.
The inventorying of suspected benefits is long: It can soothe infants and adults alike, trigger memories, reduce pain, help sleep and make the heart beat faster or slower. "It," of course, is music. A growing body of probe has been making such suggestions for years. Just why music seems to have these effects, though, remains elusive.
There's a lot to learn, said Robert Zatorre, a professor at McGill University in Montreal, where he studies the keynote at the Montreal Neurological Institute. Music has been shown to assist with such things as pain and memory, he said, but "we don't recollect for sure that it does improve our (overall) health".
And though there are some indications that music can touch both the body and the mind, "whether it translates to health benefits is still being studied," Zatorre said. In one study, Zatorre and his colleagues found that multitude who rated music they listened to as pleasurable were more likely to surface emotional arousal than those who didn't like the music they were listening to. Those findings were published in October in PLoS One.
From the scientists' standpoint, he explained, "it's one aspect if people say, 'When I also harken to this music, I love it.' But it doesn't barrow what's happening with their body." Researchers need to prove that music not only has an effect, but that the effect translates to well-being benefits long-term, he said.
One question to be answered is whether emotions that are stirred up by music extraordinarily affect people physiologically, said Dr. Michael Miller, a professor of medicine and commander of the Center for Preventive Cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore.
For instance, Miller said he's found that listening to self-selected cheerful music can improve blood flow and possibly promote vascular health. So, if it calms someone and improves their blood flow, will that move to fewer heart attacks? "That's yet to be studied," he said.
Friday 26 December 2014
Monday 15 December 2014
Hairdressers Against AIDS
Hairdressers Against AIDS.
Could the inhibiting of HIV infection and AIDS be a comb, fuzz ball and blow-dry away? That's the idea behind an innovative new national outreach effort, Hairdressers Against AIDS, which got its fling Tuesday at the United Nations in New York City, up ahead of Dec 1, 2010, World AIDS Day. The initiative - described as "one of the largest HIV/AIDS mobilization campaigns in US history" - has tresses mind giant L'Oreal joining forces with nonprofits such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria (GBC). The object is to empower America's 500000-plus locks stylists to use the relationships they have with millions of clients for salon-based chats on the how, why and what of HIV.
So "Today there is no vaccine," distinguished GBC president and CEO John Tedstrom, speaking to 500 hairdressers who'd gathered at the UN for the launch. "There is no cure. We're getting there. But today there is only information. The more we talk, the more we educate, the more we stave off the plate of this epidemic," Tedstrom explained.
And "You'll dream of millions of people hearing about HIV from community that they know," he said. "They'll be hearing effective time-tested messages about HIV prevention, and they'll be able to embezzle those messages back to their personal relationships. And then whether it's a mom talking to her daughter or a girlfriend talking to her boyfriend, it doesn't matter. We'll be able to have an matured conversation about HIV and erotic health".
Using hair-care professionals to get health messages out to the masses isn't a novel idea. Recent studies have shown, for example, that swart men can be motivated by barbershop messages to improve their blood lean on or get educated about their risk for prostate cancer. And the US launch of Hairdressers Against AIDS is just the up-to-date extension of a global HIV awareness effort that's already in place in 30 countries throughout the world.
Could the inhibiting of HIV infection and AIDS be a comb, fuzz ball and blow-dry away? That's the idea behind an innovative new national outreach effort, Hairdressers Against AIDS, which got its fling Tuesday at the United Nations in New York City, up ahead of Dec 1, 2010, World AIDS Day. The initiative - described as "one of the largest HIV/AIDS mobilization campaigns in US history" - has tresses mind giant L'Oreal joining forces with nonprofits such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria (GBC). The object is to empower America's 500000-plus locks stylists to use the relationships they have with millions of clients for salon-based chats on the how, why and what of HIV.
So "Today there is no vaccine," distinguished GBC president and CEO John Tedstrom, speaking to 500 hairdressers who'd gathered at the UN for the launch. "There is no cure. We're getting there. But today there is only information. The more we talk, the more we educate, the more we stave off the plate of this epidemic," Tedstrom explained.
And "You'll dream of millions of people hearing about HIV from community that they know," he said. "They'll be hearing effective time-tested messages about HIV prevention, and they'll be able to embezzle those messages back to their personal relationships. And then whether it's a mom talking to her daughter or a girlfriend talking to her boyfriend, it doesn't matter. We'll be able to have an matured conversation about HIV and erotic health".
Using hair-care professionals to get health messages out to the masses isn't a novel idea. Recent studies have shown, for example, that swart men can be motivated by barbershop messages to improve their blood lean on or get educated about their risk for prostate cancer. And the US launch of Hairdressers Against AIDS is just the up-to-date extension of a global HIV awareness effort that's already in place in 30 countries throughout the world.
Sunday 14 December 2014
Overweight Has Become The Norm For American Women
Overweight Has Become The Norm For American Women.
Almost one-quarter of green women who are overweight in reality perceive themselves as being normal weight, while a sizable minority (16 percent) of women at conformist body weight actually fret that they're too fat, according to a young study. The study found these misperceptions to be often correlated with race: Black and Hispanic women were much more indubitably to play down their overweight status compared with whites, who were more apt to worry that they weighed too much, even when they didn't. Although the boning up looked mostly at low-income women attending public-health clinics in Texas, the findings do reflection other studies in different populations, including a recent Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll.
That appraisal found that 30 percent of adult Americans in the "overweight" class believed they were actually normal size, while 70 percent of those classified as tubby felt they were simply overweight. Among the heaviest group, the morbidly obese, 39 percent considered themselves fundamentally overweight. The problem, according to office lead author Mahbubur Rahman, is the "fattening of America," meaning that for some women, being overweight has become the norm.
And "If you go somewhere, you associate with all the overweight people that think they are normal even though they're overweight," said Rahman, who is helpmeet professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women's Health, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMBG). In fact, "they may even be overweight or normal-weight and consider they are totally small compared to others," added study senior writer Dr Abbey Berenson, director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women's Health at UTMBG.
The further findings are published in the December issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology. The bone up looked at more than 2200 women who had arrived at a public-health clinic for reproductive assistance, such as obtaining contraceptives. According to the burn the midnight oil authors, more than half of these reproductive-age women (20 to 39 years), who were the issue of this trial, were above a normal body mass index (BMI). An even higher proportion of black Americans (82 percent) and Mexican Americans (75 percent) were overweight or obese.
Almost one-quarter of green women who are overweight in reality perceive themselves as being normal weight, while a sizable minority (16 percent) of women at conformist body weight actually fret that they're too fat, according to a young study. The study found these misperceptions to be often correlated with race: Black and Hispanic women were much more indubitably to play down their overweight status compared with whites, who were more apt to worry that they weighed too much, even when they didn't. Although the boning up looked mostly at low-income women attending public-health clinics in Texas, the findings do reflection other studies in different populations, including a recent Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll.
That appraisal found that 30 percent of adult Americans in the "overweight" class believed they were actually normal size, while 70 percent of those classified as tubby felt they were simply overweight. Among the heaviest group, the morbidly obese, 39 percent considered themselves fundamentally overweight. The problem, according to office lead author Mahbubur Rahman, is the "fattening of America," meaning that for some women, being overweight has become the norm.
And "If you go somewhere, you associate with all the overweight people that think they are normal even though they're overweight," said Rahman, who is helpmeet professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women's Health, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMBG). In fact, "they may even be overweight or normal-weight and consider they are totally small compared to others," added study senior writer Dr Abbey Berenson, director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women's Health at UTMBG.
The further findings are published in the December issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology. The bone up looked at more than 2200 women who had arrived at a public-health clinic for reproductive assistance, such as obtaining contraceptives. According to the burn the midnight oil authors, more than half of these reproductive-age women (20 to 39 years), who were the issue of this trial, were above a normal body mass index (BMI). An even higher proportion of black Americans (82 percent) and Mexican Americans (75 percent) were overweight or obese.
Sunday 7 December 2014
Americans With Excess Weight Trust Doctors Too With Excess Weight More
Americans With Excess Weight Trust Doctors Too With Excess Weight More.
Overweight and chubby patients espouse getting advice on weight loss from doctors who are also overweight or obese, a novel study shows June 2013. "In general, heavier patients assign their doctors, but they more strongly trust dietary advice from overweight doctors," said cramming leader Sara Bleich, an associate professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore. The check out is published online in the June circulation of the journal Preventive Medicine.
Bleich and her team surveyed 600 overweight and abdominous patients in April 2012. Patients reported their height and weight, and described their primary mind doctor as normal weight, overweight or obese. About 69 percent of adult Americans are overweight or obese, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The patients - about half of whom were between 40 and 64 years preceding - rated the bulldoze of overall trust they had in their doctors on a mount of 0 to 10, with 10 being the highest. They also rated their trust in their doctors' diet advice on the same scale, and reported whether they felt judged by their practise medicine about their weight. Patients all reported a relatively high care level, regardless of their doctors' weight.
Normal-weight doctors averaged a score of 8,6, overweight 8,3 and pudgy 8,2. When it came to trusting diet advice, however, the doctors' weight repute mattered. Although 77 percent of those seeing a normal-weight doctor trusted the diet advice, 87 percent of those whereas an overweight doctor trusted the advice, as did 82 percent of those conjunctio in view of an obese doctor.
Patients, however, were more than twice as likely to feel judged about their weight issues when their drug was obese compared to normal weight: 32 percent of those who saw an obese doctor said they felt judged, while just 17 percent of those who gnome an overweight doctor and 14 percent of those since a normal-weight doctor felt judged. Bleich's findings follow a report published last month in which researchers found that portly patients often "doctor shop" because, they said, they were made to feel uncomfortable about their heaviness during office visits.
Overweight and chubby patients espouse getting advice on weight loss from doctors who are also overweight or obese, a novel study shows June 2013. "In general, heavier patients assign their doctors, but they more strongly trust dietary advice from overweight doctors," said cramming leader Sara Bleich, an associate professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore. The check out is published online in the June circulation of the journal Preventive Medicine.
Bleich and her team surveyed 600 overweight and abdominous patients in April 2012. Patients reported their height and weight, and described their primary mind doctor as normal weight, overweight or obese. About 69 percent of adult Americans are overweight or obese, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The patients - about half of whom were between 40 and 64 years preceding - rated the bulldoze of overall trust they had in their doctors on a mount of 0 to 10, with 10 being the highest. They also rated their trust in their doctors' diet advice on the same scale, and reported whether they felt judged by their practise medicine about their weight. Patients all reported a relatively high care level, regardless of their doctors' weight.
Normal-weight doctors averaged a score of 8,6, overweight 8,3 and pudgy 8,2. When it came to trusting diet advice, however, the doctors' weight repute mattered. Although 77 percent of those seeing a normal-weight doctor trusted the diet advice, 87 percent of those whereas an overweight doctor trusted the advice, as did 82 percent of those conjunctio in view of an obese doctor.
Patients, however, were more than twice as likely to feel judged about their weight issues when their drug was obese compared to normal weight: 32 percent of those who saw an obese doctor said they felt judged, while just 17 percent of those who gnome an overweight doctor and 14 percent of those since a normal-weight doctor felt judged. Bleich's findings follow a report published last month in which researchers found that portly patients often "doctor shop" because, they said, they were made to feel uncomfortable about their heaviness during office visits.
Friday 5 December 2014
Migraine May Increase The Risk Of Heart Attacks And Strokes
Migraine May Increase The Risk Of Heart Attacks And Strokes.
Women who let from migraines with visual crap called aura may face an increased imperil for heart attacks, strokes and blood clots, new studies find. Only enormous blood pressure was a more powerful predictor of cardiovascular trouble, the researchers said. There are things women with this genus of migraine can do to reduce that risk, they added: lower blood strength and cholesterol levels, avoid smoking, eat healthfully and exercise. "Other studies have found that this type of migraine has been associated with the risk of stroke, and may be associated with any cardiovascular disease," said lead designer Dr Tobias Kurth, from the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Bordeaux and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
So "We on migraine with aura is a quite conclusive contributor to major cardiovascular disease. It is one of the top two risk factors". Other studies have found the jeopardy for cardiovascular disease for people who suffer from migraines with aura is roughly two-ply that of people without the condition, Kurth noted. People who suffer from migraines with aura see flickering lights or other visual clobber just before the headache kicks in, he explained.
The findings are to be presented in March at the American Academy of Neurology annual meet in San Diego. For the study, Kurth's crew collected data on nearly 28000 women who took part in the Women's Health Study. Among these women, more than 1400 suffered from migraines with aura.
During 15 years of follow-up, more than 1000 women had a focus attack, accomplishment or died from cardiovascular causes, the researchers found. After height blood pressure, migraine with aura was the strongest predictor for having a heart spasm or stroke among these women. The risk was even more pronounced than that associated with diabetes, smoking, plumpness and a family history of heart disease, the investigators noted.
Whether controlling migraines reduces the hazard for heart disease isn't known, Kurth said. The study found a link between migraines with character and cardiovascular trouble, but it didn't prove cause-and-effect. Although women who have migraine with atmosphere seem to have this increased risk, it doesn't doom everyone who has migraines with aura to have a heart attack or stroke, Kurth noted.
Women who let from migraines with visual crap called aura may face an increased imperil for heart attacks, strokes and blood clots, new studies find. Only enormous blood pressure was a more powerful predictor of cardiovascular trouble, the researchers said. There are things women with this genus of migraine can do to reduce that risk, they added: lower blood strength and cholesterol levels, avoid smoking, eat healthfully and exercise. "Other studies have found that this type of migraine has been associated with the risk of stroke, and may be associated with any cardiovascular disease," said lead designer Dr Tobias Kurth, from the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Bordeaux and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
So "We on migraine with aura is a quite conclusive contributor to major cardiovascular disease. It is one of the top two risk factors". Other studies have found the jeopardy for cardiovascular disease for people who suffer from migraines with aura is roughly two-ply that of people without the condition, Kurth noted. People who suffer from migraines with aura see flickering lights or other visual clobber just before the headache kicks in, he explained.
The findings are to be presented in March at the American Academy of Neurology annual meet in San Diego. For the study, Kurth's crew collected data on nearly 28000 women who took part in the Women's Health Study. Among these women, more than 1400 suffered from migraines with aura.
During 15 years of follow-up, more than 1000 women had a focus attack, accomplishment or died from cardiovascular causes, the researchers found. After height blood pressure, migraine with aura was the strongest predictor for having a heart spasm or stroke among these women. The risk was even more pronounced than that associated with diabetes, smoking, plumpness and a family history of heart disease, the investigators noted.
Whether controlling migraines reduces the hazard for heart disease isn't known, Kurth said. The study found a link between migraines with character and cardiovascular trouble, but it didn't prove cause-and-effect. Although women who have migraine with atmosphere seem to have this increased risk, it doesn't doom everyone who has migraines with aura to have a heart attack or stroke, Kurth noted.
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