July
2008
HEALTH CENTRAL TUESDAY 2ND JULY
Low levels of good cholesterol could signal dementia
The Anglo-French team made the discovery following a study of 3,673 British civil servants working in London, they were part of a larger study of over 10,000 people taking part in a long term health investigation, which commenced in 1985.
You are not what you eat…..you are what your mother ate!
The researchers say women who ‘pig’ out on junk food while pregnant may be condemning their offspring to a plethora of health problems later in life.
Researchers at the Royal Veterinary College in London carried out a study involving rats and found that those that ate a diet rich in fat, sugar and salt while pregnant were more likely to give birth to offspring that liked to over-eat and loved junk food when compared to the offspring of rats given regular feed.
People With Low Vitamin D Live Shorter Lives
Researchers in Austria and Germany found that people who have low levels of vitamin D are more likely to have a shorter life span than people who do not. Further trials would be needed to find out if insufficient vitamin D actually causes early death, said the researchers, since their study was not designed to establish cause, but they were cautiously optimistic about a causal link.
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