Health News You Can Use
By Suzy Cohen, RPh on 02/05/2010
Dear Pharmacist,
Could you give us quick tips that can help improve health? Don’t get me wrong, I love your informative columns, I just wish you could talk about more topics in each column so I could find myself in them more frequently.
--T.D. Gainesville, Florida
Answer: Great idea, as a journalist, I get press releases about new studies every few minutes and there are always interesting topics. I’ll share some news that I’ve received in the last 3 weeks.
Here goes:
- Fish oils aren’t just for your heart. They reduce symptoms of psychosis and may prevent the onset of full-blown schizophrenia or psychosis in people with emotional disturbances according to a study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry. Omega 3 fatty acids nourish the brain, they are inexpensive and well-tolerated.
- Curcumin can reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and cancer. It works even better when taken with vitamin D3. Speaking of curcumin, it is known to lower blood sugar and prevent kidney damage associated with diabetes!
- Pomegranates may prevent breast cancer, especially the type that is estrogen-driven. They contain a compound called “ellagitannin” which gets broken down in the body to “urolithin B” and it acts like our “aromatase blocking” drugs (think tamoxifen, raloxifene).
- You won’t remain healthy for very long if you don’t get up and jog, go to spin class, Pilates or Zumba! Two well-designed studies now prove that excessive body weight increases a person’s risk for stroke, and nearly double the risk of developing cancer.
- Drinking “white tea” helps encourage weight loss!
- Green tea may reduce risk of lung cancer. People who do not drink green tea appear to have a 5-fold increased risk of lung cancer! In a related new study, pistachios were found to increase gamma tocopherol (vitamin e) and slash the risk of lung cancer, without causing any weight gain.
- Apples, more specifically, “apple pectin” was shown to increase the number of friendly bacteria (probiotics) in the gut. So they improve digestion.
I'm a graduate of the University of Florida and have been a licensed pharmacist for nearly 20 years. People call me “America’s Most Trusted Pharmacist” because I've spent the last 10 years writing a syndicated column on health which reaches millions of people each week.
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Comments
Anonymous
I hope you are watching this.
Sen. John McCain is introducing a horrific bill, the "Dietary Supplement Safety [sic] Act of 2010" (DSSA)
Anonymous
Leave it to some of our lawmakers and leaders with only a couple of NEURONS left to come up with ridiculous suggestions, hand-fed by Big Pharma to always attack natural remedies and cures, they always try to copy NATURE anyway, and if they manage to do it in a synthetic form, some of this compounds are harmful to our bodies, NOTE: Nature is very jealous and will not permit any copying, there are cures in NATURE for the worst of diseases and these group of people knows it, but there is no money in natural cures.
Anonymous
Maybe I've missed it, but has anyone written the pros/cons of fosamax for bone density? To date, studies report no new growth and more brittleness. What supplement should one take as an alternative?
Alice Wessendorf
Hi Anonymous #3,
Thanks for your comment!
HealthierTalk.com contributor Dr. Dach did post an article on fosamax that you might be interested in:
Fosamax Study Denies Link with Femur Fractures.
And perhaps some of our other community members have some input to share on your question about what supplements to take as an alternative? If so please post them here.
Thanks!
merged-planet
I have been following a lot of health news lately. No one seems to talk about the great benifits one can get from GOLDENSEAL in the powdered form espescially. When my oldest daughter kept having strep throat after..she would get it back about every 2 weeks. my wife and I said there has to be something we can do. So we went to he bible BACK TO EDEN, we read about strep and the word GOLDENSEAL kept coming up. So we looked it up. He said it was in almost every medicine, but not in a big enough amount to really work..
So the next time she got strep we didn't go to the dr. we folowed the instructions in the book and gave it to her.
She went from missing a week of school tomissing 3 days.
The next time she was back at school in two days. After awhile she just didn't get it anymore.
She would get very high fevers. so we read again. Acider vinegar bath brought her temp from 105 down to 101 in just moments. No one talks about that either.
If it is what THE MAN said it was how come no one ever talks about it. And you can buy it i the capsule forms and just open the up.
You can drink it, snort it, wash yur eyes w/it. cover burns w/it and get great results. Plus you can take it evry day as mentioned in THE BIBLE.
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