Sea Kelp To Battle Obesity
August 1, 2010 by The Medibolism Team
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Over weight, diet after diet, nothing seems to work, just maybe help is at hand in the form of seaweed yes that’s what I said seaweed. It appears biochemists out of Newcastle University have been adding a fibre found in sea kelp to bread in an effort to develop foods that help lose weight as you eat them. Using an artificial gut researchers tested more than 60 different fibres to see which ones were effective in stopping fat from being absorbed. it appears kelp... [Read more]
Dementia and Walnuts
July 15, 2010 by The Medibolism Team
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Back a couple of posts I wrote about the findings of a research team lead by Professor David Smith who wrote that 2 glasses of milk a day could help to protect against Alzheimer’s disease. Well it appears Alzheimer’s disease is in the news again. Scientists believe nuts may also help to combat the disease. An experiment with mice who had been bred to develop the disease were fed a diet with up to 9% of their diet being walnuts. It was noted that these particular... [Read more]
Mental Health Nightmare
July 1, 2010 by The Medibolism Team
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Well I could not think of a better website to display this piece of health news. It would appear that we are becoming a nation of morons, that is according to Professor Michael Crawford director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition… According to the Professor we need to address the increasing number of brain disorders and depression as we are staring down the mouth of a doomsday scenario. Professor Crawford was speaking at a London conference... [Read more]
Dark Chocolate and Hypertension Update
February 13, 2010 by The Medibolism Team
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Well back in June 2009 I posted about the benefits eating dark chocolate given to those who suffered from high blood pressure. In the post I wrote of how I had tried eating the chocolate to see if the claim was true. It turned out to be just that (true) it did actually lower my slightly raised blood pressure and has continued to do so. Well, it is now February 2010 almost eight months later and sadly it appears the dark chocolate has stopped working, either that or... [Read more]
Ageing Linked To Appearance
December 16, 2009 by The Medibolism Team
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If you are a Daily Mirror fan then you may have read in December a report on long life penned by Emily Cook the Daily Mirror Health Correspondent. Well how about this headline as a pick-me-up ‘Ageing linked to appearance’ so, if you are among that certain number of people that hate their bodies for one reason or another I guess a headline like that would only make you feel worse about yourself. A study based on 387 twin pairs led by Professor Kaare Christensen... [Read more]
Coffee and Prostate Cancer
December 11, 2009 by The Medibolism Team
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If there is one thing I have learned about writing various health subjects, when I have dried up, I can depend upon Emily Cook the Daily Mirror Health Correspondent coming up with yet again, another very interesting piece of health news. Her story (Daily Mirror 08/12/09) is wrapped around the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. It appears those clever researchers have added another plus to drinking coffee, this time its to the benefit of us men. Over the... [Read more]
Milk and Alzheimer’s
December 2, 2009 by The Medibolism Team
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Want to stave off dementia? Just drink just two glasses of milk daily! For a new study has suggested that milk can help protect against memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease in old age. An international team led by Oxford University, has found that milk is actually one of the best sources of the key vitamin B12. B12 is said to reduce the neurological damage to the brain which can lead to forms of dementia. Moreover, the study has revealed that elderly patients with... [Read more]
Behavioural Therapy (Local Health News)
December 2, 2009 by The Medibolism Team
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As far as mental health issues go there is a new team on the block in South Shields, South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear. The South Tyneside Primary Care Trust (PCT) are taken part in a new Government-funded initiative with an aim to Improving Access to Psychological Therapies. There is six psychology experts on hand to treat individuals based on the principles of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and the programme has also been approved by the National Institute for Clinical... [Read more]
