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Hormone Defined
A chemical messenger you body makes to tell your organs what to do.
It regulates many bodily functions. Hormones regulate many activities, including your growth, blood pressure, heart rate, glucose levels and sexual characteristics. Hormones are formed in endocrine organs and transported by body fluids to activate other specifically receptive organs.
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Food label terminology: What's "natural" mean, really?
Published August 21, 2008, 1:33 pm, Newsday
NATURAL, ALL-NATURAL
Bone Growth Protein Also Promotes 'Good' Fat
Published August 21, 2008, 12:36 pm, MedicineNet.com
Title: Bone Growth Protein Also Promotes 'Good' Fat Category: Health News Created: 8/21/2008 2:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 8/21/2008
Study links diabetes in black women to sugary drinks
Published August 21, 2008, 11:38 am, Lansing State Journal
Sylvia Johnson, 70, is an active, retired Detroit school teacher who rides her exercise bike and uses an abdominal machine to strengthen her bones and muscles. She eats well, too, having cereal and fruit for breakfast and sometimes fish in the afternoon. But Johnson has one bad habit that researchers at Boston University now have linked to diabetes in black women. "I'm a Pepsi addict. I don't ...
Bone Growth Protein Also Promotes 'Good' Fat
Published August 21, 2008, 10:56 am, WKRN Nashville
A protein that induces bone growth also helps promote development of "good" brown fat that helps burn calories and plays a role in fighting obesity.
Fad Diets Don't Provide Weight Loss Success
Published August 21, 2008, 9:23 am, Brigham Young NewsNet
BYU nutrition professor Diana McGuire exposed several myths surrounding fad diets and weight loss in an Education Week class on Wednesday called Finding Fat: Facts, Fads, and Fallacies.
Obese Senior Citizens Don"™t Increase Death Risk but Become Ticking Bomb for Disability
Published August 21, 2008, 8:55 am, Senior Journal
Aug. 21, 2008 – Being obese as a senior citizen may not increase your risk of death above that of thinner seniors, but it is a major contributor to increased disability in later life, which is creating a ticking time bomb for health services in developed countries, according to new research.
In Brooklyn, Every Palate Is an Island
Published August 21, 2008, 8:41 am, New York Times
At Culpepper’s, the Barbadian cou-cou and flying fish fillets are plentiful.
Killer carbs -- Monash scientist finds the key to overeating as we age
Published August 21, 2008, 8:37 am, PhysOrg
A Monash University scientist has discovered key appetite control cells in the human brain degenerate over time, causing increased hunger and potentially weight-gain as we grow older.
Study links diabetes in black women to sugary drinks
Published August 21, 2008, 7:54 am, WZZM 13 Grand Rapids
Study links diabetes in black women to sugary drinks
Decade of decadence
Published August 21, 2008, 3:09 am, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Around Kelly Kirkpatrick’s 40th birthday, she started to make regular visits to Rudae’s School of Beauty Culture in Fort Wayne. She got her hair cut, got highlights and started to wear it straight. And she loves to get manicures. Photo caption: Jacque Howard, right, and daughter Jaslin Barksdale, top right, get their nails done. Photo by Samuel Hoffman | The Journal Gazette
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Thu Aug 21
- Lilly to Pay $300 Million For Dairy-Hormone Business - WSJ.com
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Wed Aug 20
- Healthy Alternatives to Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
- Hormone Well Products - Natural Progesterone Cream, B Complex, Cal Mag, Adrenal Boost
- Official Web Site of John R. Lee, M.D.
- Increasing fertility: It is a stunning revelation that something could be wrong and that is what is causing you to have problems getting pregnant. Many men and women find themselves struggling with this thought when in fact they have spent months or longer trying to conceive. Could something be wrong? Although there are a number of reasons that there could be nothing wrong, most people are looking to find a reason, a solution and the hope that they need to become pregnant.
Wed Aug 13
- Craig Roberts - Major histocompatibi lity complex (MHC): Major histocompatibi lity complex (MHC) genes are associated with mate and social preferences in mice, humans and other vertebrates. It is best known in mice, where urinary odour carries the cues used in social decision-makin g. I have used congenic mouse strains to examine the relative importance of cues of genetic dissimilarity based on MHC and cues of ?good genes?, showing that these traits are inter-dependen t in influencing mate preferences. In humans, I am interested in how MHC genes are implicated in producing characteristic phenotypes, and the extent to which these influence mate choice decisions.
- UCP2 mediates ghrelin/'s action on NPY/AgRP neurons by lowering free radicals : Abstract : Nature: Ghrelin initiates robust changes in hypothalamic mitochondrial respiration in mice that are dependent on uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2). The activation is critical for ghrelin-induce d mitochondrial proliferation and electric activation of NPY/AgRP neurons, for ghrelin-trigge red synaptic plasticity of pro-opiomelano cortin-express ing neurons, and for ghrelin-induce d food intake. Supplementary Fig 9 is schematics.
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