Walnuts Get A Calorie Cut
If you enjoy nuts but have been concerned about calories, you can allow yourself a few more walnuts without feeling guilty - they don’t contain as many calories as we once believed. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have found that a 1-ounce serving of the nuts actuallyprovides 39 fewer calories than listed on the USDA Nutrient Database. That’s a 21 percent reduction. The old count was based on a 19th century calculation that’s been found wanting. Determining the true count involved recruiting 18 healthy adults randomly assigned to a 3-week controlled diet without walnuts, and then ...
Source: Dr. Weil's Daily Health Tips - September 28, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dr. Weil Tags: calories walnuts Source Type: blogs
Longer Breast Cancer Survival With Stress Management
Breast cancer patients who incorporate stress management therapies early in their treatment could live longer and experience prolonged intervals free of disease before recurrence. These findings come from a study of cognitive-behavioral stress management at the University of Miami. Researchers therereported that learning stress-management skills helped reduce distress in the women participants. The study protocol also showed reduced inflammatory signaling in circulating cells during treatment and afterward. During 10 weekly group sessions, the women in the study were taught stress reduction techniques including muscle rela...
Source: Dr. Weil's Daily Health Tips - September 26, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dr. Weil Tags: Science and Supplement News breast cancer management stress Source Type: blogs
Garden Therapy For Breast Cancer Patients
We know that“ecotherapy” - also known asnature therapy or green therapy - can help improve an individual’s ability to cope with distress by boosting mood, confidence and self-esteem. A small study from Wales now suggests that this type of therapy can provide benefits even when it takes a simple form, such as growing a garden indoors in a bowl. Seven women participants were provided a bowl, compost and three“starter” plants by researchers from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. The investigators devised the“garden bowl” as a way for breast cancer patients to interact with ...
Source: Dr. Weil's Daily Health Tips - September 25, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dr. Weil Tags: Science and Supplement News breast cancer gardening Source Type: blogs
Negative Thoughts And Alzheimer ’s Risk
People who regard the prospect of aging negatively are more likely to develop brain changes linked toAlzheimer’s disease than those who have a more positive outlook. On the plus side, changing those downbeat views may help reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s. The findings that views of aging can influence Alzheimer’s come from a Yale study that looked at healthy individuals enrolled in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. The researchers elicited the participants’ views on aging and followed up years later with MRIs - and in some cases brain autopsies - to see if a person’s outlook on aging c...
Source: Dr. Weil's Daily Health Tips - September 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dr. Weil Tags: Science and Supplement News alzheimer's alzheimer's prevention negative thoughts Source Type: blogs
Transitioning From Summer To Autumn (Recipe)
The autumn equinox has been a big event in many cultures throughout the millennia, marking the time when days shorten and nights lengthen. The Dr. Weil staff likes to celebrate by setting positive resolutions and integrating seasonal produce into their dishes to prepare for the transition. We recommend thisAutumn Ingredients Salad as the perfect recipe to integrate fall's vibrant flavors. (Source: Dr. Weil's Daily Health Tips)
Source: Dr. Weil's Daily Health Tips - September 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dr. Weil Tags: autumn equinox ssalad recipe Source Type: blogs
Water v. Diet Soda For Weight Loss
Replacingdiet soda withplain water might help you lose more weight, especially if you’re already on a diet. Researchers at the University of Nottingham in the UK recruited 89 overweight and obese women ages 27 to 40 who usually drank diet sodas at lunch and asked half of them to switch to water. The others were instructed to continue drinking diet sodas after lunch five times a week for the 24-week duration of the study. Of the 89 women who initially enrolled, 62 completed the study. Those who switched their lunchtime drink to water lost about 8.8 kilograms (19.4 pounds), compared to 7.6 kilograms (16.8 pounds) for t...
Source: Dr. Weil's Daily Health Tips - September 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dr. Weil Tags: Science and Supplement News diet sodas water weight loss Source Type: blogs
Why Not Sleep Late On Weekends?
If you often sleep in on weekends, you may be increasing your risk ofheart disease and diabetes. In fact, a study from the University of Pittsburgh suggests that the greaterthe difference between the time you usually get up on weekdays and how late you sleep on weekends the greater the risk. Researchers tracked 447 men and women ages 30 to 54 and determined that those who slept later on weekends had lower HDL (“good”) cholesterol, higher triglycerides, higher insulin resistance and higher body mass index than those who kept consistent sleep schedules throughout the week. The link between sleeping habits and the...
Source: Dr. Weil's Daily Health Tips - September 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dr. Weil Tags: Science and Supplement News diabetes heart disease sleep sleeping Source Type: blogs
Strength Training For Tension Headaches
If you have recurrent tension headaches, the problem may be weakness in your neck and shoulder muscles and the solution might be training tostrengthen those muscles. Tension headaches typically feel like a tight band is wrapped around the head, unlike migraines, which are usually one-sided and frequently more painful. Researchers in Denmark recruited 60 adults who experienced tension headaches on eight or more days out of 30 and compared them to 30 healthy people. They found that neck and shoulder muscles were up to 26 percent weaker in people with regular tension headaches, when measured against those who didn’t hav...
Source: Dr. Weil's Daily Health Tips - September 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dr. Weil Source Type: blogs
Coffee And Diabetes Risk
Drinking 1.5 cups or more of coffee daily seems to lower the risk of developingtype 2 diabetes according to newly published research from Greece. This isn’t the first study to link coffee consumption to a reduced risk of diabetes, and its findings don’t add up to proof that coffee really was responsible for the lower risk seen. But the researchers at Harokopio University in Athens reported that higher coffee consumption was associated with lower levels of an inflammatory marker called serum amyloid, an observation thatmight explain the link between coffee and diabetes. More than 1,400 men and women age 18 and o...
Source: Dr. Weil's Daily Health Tips - September 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dr. Weil Tags: Science and Supplement News coffee diabetes Source Type: blogs
Does Cancer Protect Against Alzheimer's?
I recently was told that people who have cancer don't get Alzheimer's disease. Can you tell me if this is true and if so, what it is about cancer that would account for this? (Source: Dr. Weil Q and A)
Source: Dr. Weil Q and A - August 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Why Palpitations?
Can you tell me whether the omega 3 fatty acids DHA and EPA can worsen palpitations in some people? I have palpitations, and I am not sure if I should take omega 3 supplements. (Source: Dr. Weil Q and A)
Source: Dr. Weil Q and A - August 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Best Oil For High Temperature Cooking?
I can't find expeller-pressed organic canola oil in my local supermarket. I see that you use grapeseed oil in some of your recipes in your most recent book Fast Food, Good Food. Is grapeseed oil better than canola oil for higher temperature cooking? (Source: Dr. Weil Q and A)
Source: Dr. Weil Q and A - August 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Do Pesticides Cause ALS?
I've heard that exposure to pesticides causes ALS. Can you tell me what pesticides are involved, how they're used and, whether or not it is possible to avoid them? (Source: Dr. Weil Q and A)
Source: Dr. Weil Q and A - August 9, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Calcium Score Danger?
I recently had some medical tests and had a high calcium score. Can you tell me what that means and what I need to do to lower the score? (Source: Dr. Weil Q and A)
Source: Dr. Weil Q and A - August 8, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Botox for Migraines?
I suffer from migraines and considered treatment with Botox a few years ago but was discouraged after I was told it wouldn't help for very long. Now I hear it works better. True? (Source: Dr. Weil Q and A)
Source: Dr. Weil Q and A - August 5, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
