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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Healthy & Delicious Pumpkin Oatmeal

Celebrate the fall bounty by dressing up your morning bowl of oats with some pumpkin and tasty spices! This pumpkin oatmeal recipe is easy, filling, and 100 percent belly-warming!

Pumpkin is pretty much the quintessential fall vegetable, isn’t it? We’re carving those suckers for Jack-o-lanterns, baking them up into pies, and even cooking them into our soups. Not only do pumpkins just plain taste like fall, but pumpkin and other winter squash are extremely healthy.

Health Benefits of Pumpkin

Pumpkin – like most winter squash – is low in calories, high in fiber, and rich in beta carotene. Pumpkin also contains a lesser-known carotenoid which might help prevent lung cancer.

The carotenoids in pumpkins protect your health in all sorts of ways, like:

preventing certain types of cancer
preventing premature aging
preventing cardiovascular disease

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Getting enough dietary fiber also may help stave off cardiovascular disease, so pumpkin packs a double punch for heart health! Pumpkin is also rich in vitamin C and magnesium, which is great for your bones. In fact, your body needs these vitamins to better absorb calcium, so combining pumpkin with calcium-rich oats makes for a powerful bone-boosting breakfast.

Pumpkin’s anti-inflammatory properties benefit your joints, and it’s also been shown to stimulate kidney function. The L-tryptophan in pumpkin flesh even helps fight depression!

Those pumpkin seeds are little healthy dynamos, too. You can add a handful of roasted pumpkin seeds to the oatmeal recipe on the next page for even more healthy pumpkin power!

Ready to start your day with a little pumpkin boost? Get the pumpkin oatmeal recipe on the next page!

Image Credit: Pumpkin photo via Thinkstock

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Friday, October 19, 2012

New Research Determines the Cancer Risk

Researchers at the University of Southampton are trying to develop a method for predicting the risk of cancer

Currently, only five percent of the budget for health and medical research in the UK is spent on disease prevention

Researchers at the University of Southampton are trying to develop a method for predicting the cancer.
The research team, led by Professor Paul Little, will collect and analyze clinical data and blood samples from 20 000 patients with lung or colon cancer. The aim of the study was to identify the most frequently occurring symptoms and markers, which later could serve as a diagnostic criterion.
The scientists will also conduct genetic testing to determine how informative they can be and how much information, outside of the clinically available, may be revealed only from the genetic testing.
The ultimate goal of the five-year study is to improve the diagnosis of these diseases. Currently in the UK GPs have to refer the emergency cases to a specialist within two weeks, but the non-urgent – up to 62 days. Experience has shown that in many cases it takes more time and often patients have to visit their GP doctor more than once, in order to be referred to a specialist.
According to Professor Little the targeting of cancer patients and their referring from the GPs to the oncologist must happen faster. But at the same time the system of the health care should not be overloadied by people with low cancer risk, who will be subjected to unnecessary diagnostic and its side effects. Waiting for the results also may be too strained and painful, so this step should also be fully shortened.
Currently, only five percent of the budget for health and medical research in the UK is spent on disease prevention. For many diseases, particularly such as the various cancers, the earlier identified and diagnosed the disease is, the better the prognosis and final outcome for the patient.
This prospective study builds on previous research that was seeking predictive symptoms based on retrospective data.

Source : dailyhealtharticles[dot]com

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Gallup Asks Americans if They’re Vegan for the First Time

In a July 2012 Gallup poll, Americans were questioned about whether or not their diets included animal and dairy products, and 2 percent of the population responded that they were vegan. This amounts to about 6 million people in the U.S. alone, an impressive number for the diet’s relatively recent prominence.

As reported by the Wall Street Journal, the poll also asked if respondents were vegetarian, and 5 percent (or 15 million) reported positively. This figure is down 1 percent from 2001, however, overall the number of people reporting themselves as vegetarian has remained steady over the past 13 years.

More surprising, perhaps, than the overall numbers of vegetarians or vegans was the self-reported demographics of those choosing a meatless diet. Stereotypes of typical vegetarians seem to have little basis in fact, as nearly all segments of the population reported similar percentages.

Slightly more women (7 percent) than men (3 percent) said they were vegetarian, while vegetarian individuals were more likely to be unmarried (8 percent) than married (3 percent).

Instances of vegetarianism were very similar whether a person considered themselves politically conservative, moderate, or liberal. This was also the case regardless of what level of education they’d completed. Additionally, older Americans were more likely to be vegetarian than younger adults, although the percentages were close.

More than 1,000 Americans were polled by telephone in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. In a larger 2008 study conducted by Vegetarian Times and carried out by the Harris Interactive Service Bureau, 3 percent of the population said they followed vegetarian diets. Of those, 0.5 percent considered themselves vegan.

Do these figures mean more people are choosing a diet free of animal products? Perhaps, although polls always have margins of error. More than anything, the questions about the kind of people choosing vegetarianism show us that there is not a characteristic type of person choosing a meatless diet, but people from all walks of life have embraced it.

By Sarah Shultz for Diets In Review | photo via istock