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Compounds in Non-Stick Cookware
May Be Associated With Elevated Cholesterol in
Children and Teens.
Children and teens with higher blood levels of chemicals used in the production
of non-stick cookware and waterproof fabrics appear more likely to have elevated
total and LDL cholesterol levels, according to a report in the September issue
of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives
journals.
Humans are exposed to the man-made compounds known as perfluoroalkyl acids —
including perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS) —
through drinking water, dust, food packaging, breast milk, cord blood, microwave
popcorn, air and occupational exposure, according to background information in
the article. Recent national survey results reported detection of PFOA and PFOS
in almost all samples of human serum. Perfluoroalkyl acids are used during the
manufacture of fluoropolymers, which give non-stick heat resistance to cookware
and breathable, waterproof properties to fabrics and upholstery. Science Daily:
Entire story
www.ScienceDaily.com/releases/2010/09/100906203040.htm .
Grapefruit compound could treat diabetes
Lower Cholesterol and produce Atkin’s
diet benefits without dieting
Big Pharma has been doggedly searching for drugs that target a group of nuclear
receptor proteins in the human body known by the long title of peroxisome
proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs, for short). The reason? PPARs regulate
the expression of genes that are involved in fat and carbohydrate metabolism,
among other functions -- so the theory is that if drugs could control PPARs, the
medications would treat diabetes, high cholesterol and even maybe obesity.
But it turns out there’s already a substance that could do all this. And it’s
not a side effect-laden chemical. It’s a compound in grapefruit - Bottom line:
there’s extremely sweet breaking news about a compound hidden in the...NaturalNews:
www.NaturalNews.com/029684_naringenin_grapefruit.html
SENSORY DEPRIVATION: a new study finds Nearly one in five U.S. adolescents has
measurable hearing damage.
The prevalence of hearing loss in teenagers rose by nearly one-third in recent
years compared with the rate in the 1980s and 1990s, a new study shows. The
findings come as a surprise to the study’s authors, who had expected overall
hearing to improve thanks to publicity about the risks of exposure to loud music
and the advent of childhood vaccines against meningitis and pneumonia that can
prevent many ear infections.
But in the August 18 Journal of the American Medical Association, the scientists
report that the portion of U.S. adolescents aged 12 to 19 with any hearing loss
rose from 14.9 percent during the 1988 to 1995 period to 19.5 percent in 2005
and 2006.
Researchers based the analysis on information gathered from nearly 3,000 kids in
the earlier time frame and more than 1,700 in the later sampling. The findings
suggest that as many as 6.5 million teens in the United States now have some
hearing loss. Written by Nathan Seppa —
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/62331/title/Teen_hearing_loss_rate_worsens .
Zinc helps prevent pneumonia in the elderly
A new report published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has found
that zinc plays a very important role in health maintenance. In a study of over
600 seniors from 33 different nursing homes in the Boston area, researchers
found that seniors with healthy blood levels of zinc are 50 percent less likely
to develop pneumonia than those with sub-par levels.
The study was a follow-up to a previous one which found that people given 200
international units (IU) of vitamin E every day for one year are 20 percent less
likely to develop upper respiratory infections, including common colds. But
after a follow-up, the trial also revealed that a majority of those same
participants had low levels of zinc in their blood...Natural News; written by
Ethan A. Huff http://www.naturalnews.com/z029528_zinc_pneumonia.html.
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