June
2008
HEALTH CENTRAL DAILY PODCAST 26th JUNE
The American Medical Association (AMA), the nation’s largest physician organization, voted today at its Annual Meeting to adopt the following new public health policy…………………………..AMA voted to support efforts to ban the sale of tobacco products and/or byproducts in retail outlets housing store-based health clinics. A new analysis of a subgroup of participants in the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) hormone therapy clinical trials suggests that healthy, postmenopausal women whose blood cholesterol levels are normal or lower are not at increased, short-term risk for heart attack when taking hormone therapy.
The researchers from Auckland University in New Zealand, suggest that daughters experience puberty earlier if their mothers have a high fat diet while pregnant.
For people with diabetes, indulging in cocoa could be a way to improve their health naturally — and deliciously. The reason? Flavanols, plant compounds found in cocoa (as well as in tea, red wine, and certain fruits and vegetables), help blood vessels to function better and could help prevent cardiovascular disease, according to new research published in the June 3 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC).
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