Plastics Chemical Linked to Disease in Adults
Bisphenol
A or BPA, a chemical found in plastics, has been linked to some of the
most deadly and rapidly increasing medical conditions in American
adults.
New Drug Shows Exenatide-Like Promise in Type 2 Treatment
An experimental exenatide (Byetta)-like drug
called liraglutide has shown the ability to enhance insulin and
glucagon production and suppress appetite in type 2 patients, according
to a report in the British medical journal The Lancet.
Liraglutide
is a manmade analog of the hormone GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1),
which stimulates the growth of insulin-producing beta cells in the
pancreas and insulin secretion.
Fructose Sets Stage for Sudden, Rapid Weight Gain
Eating
too much fructose can induce leptin resistance, a condition that can
easily lead to becoming overweight when combined with a high-fat,
high-calorie diet, according to a new study with rats.
Although
previous studies have shown that being leptin resistant can lead to
rapid weight gain on a high-fat, high-caloric diet, this is the first
study to show that leptin resistance can develop as a result of high
fructose consumption. The study also showed for the first time that
leptin resistance can develop silently, that is, with little indication
that it is happening.
Steroid Use Doubles Risk of Violence
Young men who use anabolic steroids are twice as likely to engage in
violence than those who do not use the muscle-building drugs, U.S.
researchers said on Wednesday. …more
Doctors Say There Is a Link Between Oral Sex and Throat Cancer
Teresa
Dillon was surprised to learn four years ago that what she deemed as an
average sore throat actually was stage 2 cancer on her tonsil. “People
think the face of oral cancer is a 70-year-old man who’s been chewing
tobacco and drinking whiskey all his life,” she said. “But the face of
oral cancer now is — it’s me, a young woman, healthy, nonsmoking, fit.”
But
what really shocked the waitress and then 38-year-old was that the
human papillomavirus may have caused her illness, a illness that is
often sexually transmitted. “It was a virus that caused my tumor, the
HPV virus, which just knocked me over,” Dillon said.
The HPV Cancer Connection …more
More Americans Have High Blood Pressure
The
number of Americans with high blood pressure is on the rise thanks in
large part to growing rates of obesity, researchers said on Tuesday.But
increasing numbers of those with high blood pressure, also called
hypertension, are getting the condition treated, researchers from the
U.S. government’s National Institutes of Health wrote in the journal
Hypertension.
High blood pressure can lead to stroke, heart attack,
heart failure or kidney failure. It is sometimes called the “silent
killer” because it has no symptoms, and many people have it for years
without knowing it.Data spanning six years through 2004 showed that 29
percent of U.S. adults had high blood pressure, compared to 24 percent
in the six-year period ending in 1994, the researchers said.….more