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Garlic reduces blood lipid levels, including total cholesterol and triglyceride

Garlic is widely used around the world for its pungent flavor as a fundamental component in many or most dishes of various regions, including eastern Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, northern Africa, southern Europe, and parts of South and Central America.

Many studies have shown garlic has [...]

Uncontrolled weight loss in type I diabetes mellitus could be caused by concurrent celiac disease

Type I diabetes is classified into an autoimmune disease where beta-cells in pancreatic islets are destroyed by autoantibody. Many different genes contribute to the onset of type I diabetes. Incidence varies from 8-17/100,000 in Northern Europe and the U.S., with a high of about 35/100,000 in Scandinavia, to a low of [...]

Fight against obesity in postmenopausal women with new drugs

Postmenopausal women have higher chance putting on weight within few years after menopause. New study in animal models might bring about a new treatment option for obese postmenopausal women.

The study was conducted in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the lead scientist Dr. Cameron found that a [...]

Vitamin E and Male Infertility

Recently, a group of researchers in China (Andrologia doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0272.2011.01252.x) found that increased level of oxidative stress damges sperm and could lead to male infertility.

Chinese scientists set up an in vitro sperm culture system to evaluate the effects of oxidative stress (leukocyte-activated endogenous reduction-oxidation system (ROS)) on the structure [...]

Infertility prevalence in Canada: 50,000 couples are infertile

Over the past 10 years, a significant proportion of child-bearing age couples are seeking assisted reproductive technologies in Canada, however, little is known about the overall prevalence of infertility in the population. Statistics Canada just published the results on the latest issue of “Hum. Reprod. (2012)” that over45,000~50,000 couples in [...]

Weight Loss Benefits Chronic Kidney Disease

Chronic kidney disease always presents as proteinuria (abnormal high level of protein in urine) first, and gradually proceeds toward the terminal stage where metabolic wastes can not be sufficiently eliminated and accumulate in the body and damage organs.

Obese patients present a much higher risk of developing hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular complications, [...]

Smoking lowers the age at natural menopause

In the recent issue of “Menopause” (Menopause: The Journal of The North American Menopause Society,Volume 19(2), 2012, p 126–132), a chinese researcher Dr. Sun reported heavy smokers undergo premature menopause at younger ages than nonsmokers do, through the analysis of a large body of other studies across the world.

Menopause refers [...]

Ten-week lifestyle intervention changes the outcomes of overweight adults

Excess weight has reached epidemic proportions globally, with more than 1 billion adults being either overweight or obese.

Overweight population are at high risk for a variety of health problems, including dyslipidemia (high cholesterol and/or triglyceride, high LDL, low HDL), insulin resistance and diabetes, and high blood pressure. Two or [...]

Pregnant or post partum housewife has poor oral health related quality of life

Oral health related quality of life in pregnant and post partum women in two social network domains; predominantly home-based and work-based networks. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2012 Jan 13;10(1):5 Authors: Lamarca GD, Leal … [...]

PCI With Drug-Eluting Stent and CABG: which is safer to treat Acute Myocardial Infarction?

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With Drug-Eluting Stent Implantation vs. Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting for Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease in Metabolic Syndrome Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction. Circ J. 2012 Jan 11;… [...]