Effects of Hysterectomy(surgical removal of uterus) on women's health...»

Women experience a loss of physical
sexual sensation as a result of
hysterectomy. A woman's vagina is
shortened, scarred and dislocated
by hysterectomy. Hysterectomy's
damage is life-long. Among its
most common consequences, in
addition to operative injuries are:
heart disease, osteoporosis, bone,
joint and muscle pain and
immobility, loss of sexual desire,
arousal, sensation, painful
intercourse, vaginal damage,
displacement of bladder, bowel, and
other pelvic organs, urinary tract
infections, frequency, incontinence,
chronic constipation and digestive
disorders, profound fatigue,
chronic exhaustion, altered body
odor, loss of short-term memory,
blunting of emotions, personality
changes, despondency, irritability,
anger, reclusiveness and suicidal
thinking.
No drugs or other treatments can
replace ovarian or uterine hormones
or functions. The loss is permanent.
The medical term for the removal
of the ovaries is castration. 76% of
women are castrated at the same
time of the hysterectomy.
The uterus and ovaries function
throughout life in women who have
not been hysterectomized or
castrated.
Twice as many women in their 20's
and 30's are hysterectomized as
women in their 50's and 60's.
98% of women HERS has referred
to board-certified gynecologists
after being told they needed
hysterectomies, discovered that, in
fact, they did not need
hysterectomies.
Gynecologists, hospitals and drug
companies make more than 8 billio
dollars a year from the business of
hysterectomy and castration. (Facts
About Hysterectomy--HERS
Foundation)

How To Lose Weight Fast...»

Losing weight is a simple
mathematical formula: You need to
burn more calories than you eat.
Experts generally recommend
creating a deficit of 500 calories
per day through a combination of
eating fewer calories and increasing
physical activity. Over the course of
a week, this should yield a loss of
about 1-2 pounds of fat.
If you want to lose weight faster,
you'll need to eat less and exercise
more. Bottom line: 1,050 to 1,200
calories and one hour of exercise a
day (but be sure not to dip below
this calorie level for safety's sake).
On this type of plan, you can expect
to lose 3-5 pounds the first week, or
more if you weigh over 250 pounds.
"Dieters who follow the plan can lose
2 pounds from diet and 1 pound
from exercise each week, and even
more if they have more to lose,
because the more fat you have to
lose, the faster it comes off," says
Dansinger.
You may lose even more weight
initially if you limit salt and
starches.
"When you reduce sodium and cut
starches, you reduce fluids and
fluid retention, which can result in
up to 5 pounds of fluid loss when
you get started," explains Dansinger.

Turmeric, a natural born cancer killer...

Researchers at
UCLA's
Jonsson
Comprehensive
Cancer Centre have
found that
curcumin, the main
component in the
spice
turmeric,
suppresses a cell-
signalling pathway
in human saliva that
drives the growth of
head and neck
cancer.
The inhibition of the cell signalling
pathway was also correlated with
reduced expression of a number of
pro-inflammatory cytokines, or
signalling molecules, in the saliva
that promote cancer growth, said Dr.
Marilene Wang, senior author of the
study and a Jonsson Cancer Centre
researcher.
"This study shows that curcumin can
work in the mouths of patients with
head and neck malignancies and
reduce activities that promote
cancer growth," Wang said.
"And it not only affected the
cancer by inhibiting a critical cell signalling pathway, it also affected
the saliva itself by reducing pro-
inflammatory cytokines within the
saliva,"she added.
The study was published September
15 in Clinical Cancer Research, a
peer-reviewed journal of the
American Association of Cancer
Research .

Indian Herbs Can Fight Oral Cancer

A new research has
investigated the
potency of Indian
wild plants against
bacterial and fungal
infections in the
mouths of oral
cancer patients.
Researchers from
Rohtak, India, tested
extracts from several plants used in
traditional or folk medicine against
microbials found in the mouths of
oral cancer patients.
Of the 40 patients involved in the
study, 35 had compromised immune
systems with severely reduced
neutrophil counts. Eight of the
plants tested were able to
significantly affect the growth of
organisms collected by oral swab,
and pure cultures of bacteria and
fungi grown in the lab. This included
wild asparagus, desert date, false
daisy, curry tree,
caster oil plant
and
fenugreek.
"Natural medicines are increasingly
important in treating disease and
traditional knowledge provides a
starting point in the search for
plant-based medicines. Importantly
we found that the extraction process
had a huge effect on both the
specificity and efficacy of the
plant extracts against microbes,"
said Dr Jaya Parkash Yadav.
"Nevertheless several of the plants
tested were broad spectrum antibiotics able to combat bacteria
including E. coli, S. aureus and the
fungi Candida and Aspergillus. Both
desert date and caster oil plant were
especially able to target bacteria,
such as Pseudomonas
aeruginosa,
which are known to be difficult to
treat with conventional antibiotics,"
Yadav added.
"Although the plants tested had a
lower potency than conventional antibiotics they offer hope against
resistant species. These results are a
starting point for further testing in
the lab and clinic," added Yadav.
The study has been published by
BioMed Central's open access
journal Annals of Clinical
Microbiology and Antimicrobials.

Walnut season... Eat them to Beat breast cancer...»

They are hard to crack, but walnuts
have a handful of medicinal values
from curing headache and
preventing baldness to having some
influence on fertility.
Now, a new research has found that
eating a modest amount of walnuts
as a regular part of the diet might
reduce a woman's chance of
developing breast cancer.
The researchers at the Marshall
University found that a daily dose
of walnuts - equal to 2 ounces a day
in humans - reduces the growth of
breast cancer tumors in mice.
Lead researcher Elaine Hardman,
Ph.D., of Marshall's Joan C. Edwards
School of Medicine, and colleagues
studied the mice from the mother,
through conception and throughout
life. They then compared mice given
walnuts to those fed a regular diet.
They found that the group whose
diet included walnut at both stages
developed breast cancer at less than
half the rate of the group with the
typical diet.
In addition, the number of tumors
and their sizes were significantly
smaller.
"These reductions are particularly
important when you consider that
the mice were genetically
programmed to develop cancer at a
high rate," Hardman said.
"We were able to reduce the risk for
cancer even in the presence of a
preexisting genetic mutation," she
added.
Using genetic analysis, they
researchers found that the walnut-
containing diet changed the activity
of multiple genes that are relevant
to breast cancer in both mice and
humans.
Walnuts are rich in omega-3 fatty
acids, antioxidants and phytosterols
that may all reduce the risk of the
disease.
"The results of this study indicate
that increased consumption of
walnut could be part of a healthy
diet and reduce risk for cancer in
future generations," she said.
The study was funded by grants
from the American Institute for
Cancer Research and the California
Walnut Commission.
The study appears in the journal
Nutrition and Cancer .

Tomatoes prevents vascular diseases...»

Scientists in Japan
have discovered
that tomatoes
contain a nutrient,
which could tackle
the onset of
vascular diseases.
The research has
revealed that an
extracted compound,
9-oxo-
octadecadienoic, has anti-
dyslipidemic affects.
The team led by Dr Teruo Kawada,
from Kyoto University, Japan,
focused their research on extracts,
which tackle dyslipidemia, a
condition that is caused by an
abnormal amount of lipids, such as
cholesterol or fat, in the blood
stream.
"Dyslipidemia itself usually causes
no symptoms," said Kawada,
"however; it can lead to
symptomatic vascular diseases, such
as arteriosclerosis and cirrhosis. In
order to prevent these diseases it is
important to prevent an increased
build up of lipids."
Tomato is already known to contain
many compounds beneficial to
health. In this study the team
analyzed 9-oxo-octadecadienoic
acid, to test its potential anti-
dyslipidemia properties.
The compound was found to enhance
fatty acid oxidation and contributed
to the regulation of hepatic lipid
metabolism. These findings suggest
that 9-oxo-octadecadienoic acid has
anti- dyslipidemia affects and can
therefore help prevent vascular
diseases.
"Finding a compound which helps the
prevention of obesity-related
chronic diseases in foodstuffs is a
great advantage to tackling these
diseases", concluded Kawada. "It
means that the tomato allows people
to easily manage the onset of
dyslipidemia through their daily
diet."
The study has been published in the
journal Molecular Nutrition and Food
Research .

Breakfast is generally
considered as the most
important meal of the
day. At breakfast time,
most of us put some
calories in our body
and we are preparing
to
start the most active
part of our day.
But the
always-famous combination of
breakfast cereals with
fruit juice and toast has now become a taboo with the
nutritional inventions. With the 'low-
carb, low-glycemic index' food choices,
cereals as wheat flakes are
preferred
over cornflakes, white bread is
substituted by whole wheat bread with
low-cal butter, and fruit juices by
whole fruits.
So what happens to our
all-timefavourite breakfast?
Well, it may just have to get little
healthy. The logical
answer for the consumption of a couple of glasses of
fruit juice is that fruits are healthy,
therefore fruit juices are healthy. But
the logic doesn't apply to nutrition.
Even with no sugar added, zero
preservatives, unstrained fruit juice
would have the same amount of sugar
as a cola beverage, because fruit is full
of
sugar!
The sugar is from fructose that's
naturally present in fruit; if it's '10
per cent juice', most of the sugar is in
the form of high-fructose corn syrup.
When a fruit juice is 'without added
sugar', it means
sucrose or table sugar
is not added. But the sugar of the fruit
obviously
remains. Sugar in 340 ml of
fruit juice (no added sugar) is
equivalent to calories in 340 ml (one
can) of
Coca-Cola.
All the above basically tells us that no
matter which juice you choose, they all
have more calories than the same
amount of Coke. It tells us that juice -
100 per cent juice, no sugar added -
contains about the same amount of
sugar (or even more - 50 per cent more
for grape juice) as the same volume of
Coke. It tells us that, freshly-squeezed
fruit juice without straining, is no
different in ca