Pols sour on ‘heinous’ brownies
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Public health advocates and some mayors are sounding the alarm over Lazy Cakes, a brownie adorned with a lackadaisical cartoon character and laced with a powerful sleep aid that has sold millions nationwide. “Children are attracted to brownies,” said Dr. Caroline Apovian, director of the Nutrition and Weight Management Center at Boston Medical Center. “I don’t think it’s appropriate to put herbal things that are actually drugs in brownies or food items that are attractive to children. I think that’s heinous.” One Lazy Cake, which is wrapped in plastic with a photo of a smiling cartoon brownie, contains 8 mg...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 01:17:55 AM
New study suggests tart cherry juice can be a natural solution for insomnia
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Researchers find red hot Super Fruit aids sleep in older adultsLANSING, Mich., July 12, 2010 – Drinking tart cherry juice daily could help reduce the severity of insomnia and time spent awake after going to sleep, according to a new study published in the Journal of Medicinal Food1. A team of University of Pennsylvania, University of Rochester and VA Center of Canandaigua researchers conducted a pilot study on the sleep habits of 15 older adults. The adults drank 8 ounces of tart cherry juice beverage (CheriBundi www.cheribundi.com) in the morning and evening for 2 weeks, and a comparable matched juice...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 01:17:55 AM
EATING MELATONIN-RICH CHERRIES ARE ‘‘NATURAL” WAY TO RESET YOUR BODY CLOCK WHEN CROSSING TIME ZONES
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EATING MELATONIN-RICH CHERRIES ARE ‘‘NATURAL” WAY TO RESET YOUR BODY CLOCK WHEN CROSSING TIME ZONES Research Reveals that Cherries Boost Your Body’s Melatonin Levels to Help Prevent Jet Lag After Long International Flights It takes mere seconds to reset our watch to a different time zone, but our body’s internal time clocks often take longer to sync up in our new locale. Experienced travelers often stash a bottle of melatonin supplements in their carryon bag to help adjust, but experts say there may be a more natural and tasty way to get melatonin: cherries. Recent studies have revealed that cherries...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 01:17:55 AM
Clock-gene variants linked to diabetes - Receptor for body-clock hormone connected to...
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Receptor for body-clock hormone connected to disease risk. Diabetes – genetically linked to the body's biological clock.Punchstock Fresh evidence suggests that melatonin, a hormone that regulates the body's biological clock, is associated with type 2 diabetes. Epidemiological studies have shown that shift workers have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. And patients with type 1 diabetes have sometimes reported higher blood-sugar levels after taking synthetic melatonin, which can be used to ease jet lag or as a sleep aid.Now, two separate studies by researchers based in Europe and the United States have found that variants of a gene...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 01:17:55 AM
Melatonin may save eyesight in inflammatory disease
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Buenos Aires, Argentina — Current research suggests that melatonin therapy may help treat uveitis, a common inflammatory eye disease. The related report by Sande et al., "Therapeutic Effect of Melatonin in Experimental Uveitis," appears in the December issue of The American Journal of Pathology. People with uveitis develop sudden redness and pain in their eyes, and their vision rapidly deteriorates. Untreated, uveitis can lead to permanent vision loss, accounting for an estimated 10-15% of cases of blindness in the US. Uveitis has a wide variety of causes, including eye injury, cancer, infection, and autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 01:17:55 AM
Graveyard Shift Work Linked to Cancer
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LONDON (AP) — Like UV rays and diesel exhaust fumes, working the graveyard shift will soon be listed as a "probable" cause of cancer. It is a surprising step validating a concept once considered wacky. And it is based on research that finds higher rates of breast and prostate cancer among women and men whose work day starts after dark. Next month, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the cancer arm of the World Health Organization, will add overnight shift work as a probable carcinogen. The higher cancer rates don't prove working overnight can cause cancer. There may...
Published on Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 01:17:55 AM
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