Recently added articles from Healthy Years:
Winning the fight against obesity: research provides new insight into how obesity affects the brain and how it should be measured.(PREVENTION)
Dec 01, 2009 ... There's no doubt that obesity is a major health problem in America today. Statistics show that nearly one in every four Americans is obese. Generally, whether a person can be considered "overweight" or "obese" has depended on their body mass index (BMI). (Your BMI can be ...
Breast tenderness during hormone replacement therapy linked to elevated cancer risk.
Dec 01, 2009 ... Women who developed new-onset breast tenderness after starting estrogen plus progestin hormone replacement therapy (HRT) were at a significantly higher risk of developing breast cancer than women on the combination therapy who didn't experience such tenderness, according to a UCLA study ...
Vegetarian and vegan diets may affect bone health.(Clinical report)
Dec 01, 2009 ... The association between vegetarian diets and bone mineral density (BMD) is controversial because of conflicting findings from previous studies. A study published in the Oct. 1 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition aimed to estimate the effect of vegetarian diets on BMD. Nine ...
Statins may help protect against infections.
Dec 01, 2009 ... Emerging evidence suggests that statin use may reduce the risk of infections and infection-related complications. Researchers examined the association between statin use and the risk of infections and related outcomes and published their results in the Oct. 12 Archives of Internal ...
Visual impairment may affect fracture risk.
Dec 01, 2009 ... According to a study published in the October issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, visual impairment known as binocular visual field (BVF) loss is associated with hip, non-spine, and non-hip fractures in older women. More than 4,770 women were included in the study ....