Sugar is not necessary, besides being harmful to health. Unfortunately it has created an unhealthy culture of sugar, so that today very few children or none, have any idea of the flavor of the grain in its natural form, including fruit, preferring to jam. Often if a child is given a choice between a natural orange juice and soda artificial, 95% prefer the latter.

It is estimated that sugar accounts for 25% of daily calories we consume, but contain no nutritional value, is considered a source of empty calories.

The amount of sugar that is added today to the products, mainly for use on children, is awesome and is addictive and the false belief that things have to be sweet.

The human being you need in your nutrition are carbohydrates which get the glucose required by the body. The more comprehensive are the carbohydrates that are consumed, the better. (more…)

Although there is no biological reason why more men die from cancer, it is believed that the reluctance of males to adopt a healthier lifestyle and visit the doctor, is widening the gap in cancer deaths among men and women .

According to a report by British experts in the cancers that affect both sexes, men are 60% more likely to develop disease and 70% higher risk of dying from it.

In research conducted by the British charity Cancer Research UK, the differences could be explained, considering that women take better care of their health. (more…)

Hypotonia or poor muscle tone, is a syndrome with characteristics of different diseases. In all cases the main symptoms are: the decrease or lack of movement, muscle weakness and decreased muscle tone.

There are two types of hypotonia:

• Paralytic reduced or lack of forward movement and is due to a problem in the Central Nervous System.

• No paralytic: characterized by decreased muscle tone without affecting motility.

It is difficult to establish the diagnosis and origin of the disease, which is often neurological in origin. May originate in the central nervous system or peripheral nervous system.

Symptoms may show hypotonia at birth or in general in very young children. Cases can be mild or progressive, leading to cause disability. (more…)

New research published in the journal Nature Medicine ‘has proved possible to multiply in the lab, before injecting, so that the transplant will work.

As in the traditional bone marrow transplant, stem cells from a compatible donor umbilical cord are used to regenerate the bone marrow of patients with leukemia and other haematological malignancies. First, chemotherapy ‘clean’ all malignant cells and, subsequently, the umbilical blood of the donor is responsible for ‘repopulate’ again.

The problem is that when stem cells are injected are not enough, take too long to generate new blood cells (clean of cancer). This leaves the patient several weeks with a bone marrow ‘medium gas’ (aplastic), and susceptible to infection, rejection or even death. (more…)

A study published in the medical journal Gut by a group of scientists Netherlands, reveals that alcohol raises the risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, a tumor located in the upper esophagus.

The report also claims that smokers also have an increased risk of cancer of the esophagus and stomach, much higher. A study for 16 years over 120,000 people between 55 and 70 years confirms that smoking increases the likelihood of gastric cancer and esophageal cancer.

The risk varies between 60% and 263% among cigarette smokers compared to nonsmokers. Alcohol also affects, to a lesser extent, the study said.

People who drank the equivalent of about two or three glasses of wine a day were five times more likely to develop tumors than abstainers.

A person who has multiple family members with pancreatic cancer is six times more likely to develop the disease. The study shows that this risk is even higher, nine times the general population, if a family member developed cancer before age 50.

The cancer that starts in youth is a feature of many familial cancer syndromes but do not know if the family members of patients with familial pancreatic cancer at an early age had a higher risk than those of patients who later suffered his life. (more…)

Explains I-Hsin Lin, head of the study, “Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality in Taiwan. The tea, especially green tea, has received much attention because tea polyphenols are strong antioxidants and Tea preparations have shown an inhibitory activity against tumorigenesis. ”

Previous studies on green tea have not been taken into account by the shortcomings of the epidemiological model and its inherent biases.

The researchers enrolled 170 patients with lung cancer and 340 healthy patients as controls. The researchers administered questionnaires to obtain demographic characteristics, smoking habits, consumption of green tea, fruit and vegetable consumption, cooking practices and family history of lung cancer.

The authors also performed a genotyping-like growth factors and insulin polymorphisms in IGF1, IGF2 and IGFBP3, which has been associated with cancer risk. (more…)

The data are published in the online edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. ” However, these biomarkers become greatly elevated only in the year prior to diagnosis. Researchers do not know yet what stage the cancer is found at the time of the increase of the marker.

The molecules CA125, HE4, mesothelin, B7-H4, the decoy receptor 3 and espondina-2 have been identified as potential biomarkers of ovarian cancer but until now had not evaluated their behavior in the period before diagnosis, with the exception CA125.

The researchers analyzed the serum samples stored test Carotene and Retinol Efficacy of assessing the effects of beta-carotene and retinol on lung cancer incidence among individuals at high risk for the disease. The researchers identified 34 patients who were diagnosed with ovarian cancer and those with serum for the test and 70 control subjects even. (more…)

Specifically, these researchers have discovered ten natural compounds of this fruit can block aromatase, an enzyme that converts androgen into estrogen and play a “key role” in this type of tumor, explained Shiuan Chen, author of the research .

Despite this finding, Chen said that the compounds would not be a replacement for drugs, aromatase inhibitors (AIs), such as’ Aromasin ‘Pfizer’ Femara ‘Novartis’ or’ Arimidex ‘, AstraZeneca, since the compounds pomegranate “are not as powerful as real drugs.”

The interest of this research “is probably more on prevention than on the therapeutic purpose,” added Chen.

Other researchers not connected with the study explained to the magazine that publishes the results are encouraging and suggest that further studies will be necessary to animals and humans to confirm the findings.

“It is not clear that these levels can be achieved in animals or humans because (compounds) are not well absorbed into the blood when they come through the diet,” said Gary Stoner, Ohio State University.

Previous studies have shown that pomegranate juice is rich in antioxidants (vitamins and other substances) that would help prevent conditions such as cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s.

It was known that the light worsens the pain of migraines, but so far that it was not right. Now, as published by the online edition of the journal Nature Neuroscience, researchers from Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston deaconesses (United States) have a possible explanation.

The work shows an unknown connection between the light-sensitive cells in the eyes and certain nerve cells of the brain that are crucial for the perception of migraine pain.

Led by Rami Burstein, the researchers found that many blind people who suffer migraine also avoid light. However, blind patients who had completely lost an eye or the optic nerve connecting the eye to the brain did not flee from light. Therefore, it seemed that the exacerbation of migraine pain caused by light involves the detection of light by the eye, most likely through a special class of neurons in the retina that are sensitive to light and contribute to the regulation of daily rhythms, but it is not known if they contribute to the vision.

To test this hypothesis, the scientists studied rats in which sought a direct connection from the retina to the brain areas of pain. The researchers found that retinal axons, among which are some neurons designed to be sensitive to light, indeed sent links to a group of nerve cells in the area of the brain called the thalamus that are known to receive and transmit pain signals associated with migraine. This connection could explain how light aggravates the pain of migraine, the authors conclude.