Sunday, December 30, 2007

Fish oil capsules pack same omega-3 punch as fish - Yahoo! News

Fish oil capsules pack same omega-3 punch as fish - Yahoo! News:
"Fish oil capsules and fatty fish do an equally good job of enriching the blood and other body tissues with healthy omega-3 fatty acids, new findings suggest.

But the findings can't be interpreted to mean that capsules and fish are equally good for the heart, Dr. William S. Harris, who was involved in the research, told Reuters Health."
I am surprised at the headline....I have to agree with Dr. Harris.

Studies show yoga has multiple benefits - Yahoo! News

Studies show yoga has multiple benefits - Yahoo! News:
"Yoga induces a feeling of well-being in healthy people, and can reverse the clinical and biochemical changes associated with metabolic syndrome, according to results of studies from Sweden and India. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of heart disease risk factors such as high blood pressure, obesity and high blood sugar."
And later in the same piece:
"In the second study, published online December 19 in BioMed Central Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Dr. Anette Kjellgren from the University of Karlstad, Sweden and colleagues evaluated the beneficial effects of yoga-like breathing exercises on healthy volunteers.....At the end of the study period, feelings of anxiety, stress and depression were significantly lower and levels of optimism significantly higher in the yoga group compared to the control group...probably due to an increase in antioxidants and lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol, they suggest."

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

High Meat Consumption Linked to Heightened Cancer Risk

High Meat Consumption Linked to Heightened Cancer Risk:
"Red and processed meats have been associated with an elevated risk with colorectal cancer. We investigated whether this association was also evident for cancers at other anatomic sites,' explained lead author Amanda Cross, an epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). 'This is the largest study to look at the effect of red and processed meat on multiple cancer sites, including rarer cancers, such as laryngeal and liver cancer.'"