Does Smoking Rob You Of Your Facial Charm?

Good and healthy skin is one thing that everyone wants to have. Skin originates from within. The food that we eat gets broken into simpler substances and nutrients. These nutrients and oxygen get mix with blood and are transported to all our body parts through thousands of bloodstreams. Larger

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Muscle and Fitness Magazine: Are There Really Truth on It?

The Muscle and Fitness Magazine, the contents here has never failed to fascinate its readers. For this reason, many are purchasing it, wishing they might also get the same body shapes of the personalities featured inside of it.

But how credible are the contents of these magazines really?

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Handling the Pain

When you ask smokers the cause for their smoking, their instant reply will be to de-stress. Suppose your three-year-old toddler is crying for a toy. How would you react? You will give him the toy, leave him, or give him some drugs to keep him calm. Similarly, your child is anxious about the

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Can you imagine disease away?

As Oscar winner David Seidler Krebs, he his disease disappear are presented and it did. He was said history HIGHLIGHTSSeidler, 73, who won only an Academy Award, bubble CancerHe had refused chemo, extensive surgery, believes visualization beat DiseaseNo helped show large scale studies visualization can diseases, ex-medical journal-editor SaysRELATED TOPICSCancerHealth and FitnessHeart attacks (CNN)-now deal, probably know, David Seidler, who on Sunday won an Academy Award for best original screenplay for "Speech of the King", was a stutterer as King George VI, whose fight against the speech disorder is depicted in the movie. What you might not know is that Seidler, 73, suffered from cancer, just like the King. But in contrast to his Majesty, Seidler of cancer survived, and he says he has because he used the same vivid imagination he employs his award-winning script writing. Seidler says that he visualized his cancer away. "I know it sounds weird Southern California and woo-woo," he admits, when he describes the visualization techniques that he used when his bladder cancer was diagnosed almost six years. "But this is what happened." Seidler says, when he found out his cancer returned, he had visualized a 'beautiful, clean healthy bubble"for two weeks, and the cancer disappeared. He was cancer free for more than five years. If you can imagine way cancer or any other disease, was for many years hotly disputed. A camp of the doctors will tell you that they have seen patients and a number of studies supports the mind-body connection. Other doctors, just as respected, tells you the concept is absurd, and there is no single study to prove that it really works. Seidler is not concerned about studies. He says all that he is white, that worked for him, visualization. "Slime and salty tears" "When I was diagnosed first in 2005, I was quite excited, of course," says Seidler in a telephone interview from his home in Malibu, California. "After three to four days knew to produce an amount of mucus and salty tears I longer Kummer was bad for the autoimmune system and the autoimmune system was the only one buddy I had in the fight against cancer." Seidler said that of when he decided to sit down and write the screenplay for "the King's speech," which was simmering for many years in his brain had. "I thought if I throw me into the creative process, I sit can not feel sorry for me," he says. After consultation with California urologist Dr. Dino DeConcini, decided Seidler, have chemotherapy or whole or in part his bladder removed, common treatments for bladder cancer. Instead he opted for surgery, to remove only the cancer, and he took additions meant his immune system to improve. He says "For years, if I went down the stairs I rattled like a few maracas, I had so many pills in me". Despite his efforts, the cancer came back within months. Seidler was forced, his decision, no chemotherapy or bladder operation have to reconsider. Determine parent factors "a nice, creamy unblemished bubble", such as his doctor two weeks later booked a date for the surgery, Seidler with his soon to be ex-wife commiserated, and it a comment by you, that gave him the idea was to try his cancer disappear to visualize. "she said: ' well, what happens if in two weeks in go and there is no cancer?'" "he remembers."I thought to myself this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. "This woman in total denial." But later, reflecting on their comments, Seidler, she thought maybe may at etwas-- perhaps it would be possible that his cancer to just disappear while he waited for surgery that. To find out that he lose, had nothing for the next two weeks he presented a clean bubble. "I spent hours visualizing a nice, creamy unblemished bubble lining, then I for the operation and a week later the doctor went me called and his voice was very strange," recalls Seidler. "" He said: "I dont know how to explain, but there is no cancer are." He says the doctor so confounded he was sent, and all confirmed that they were cancer tissue from the biopsy preoperative in four different labs. Seidler says that the doctor does not explain how it happened. But Seidler. He says he believes the additions and visualizations were behind which his doctor called "spontaneous remission"-plus a change in his way of thinking. He stopped feeling sorry for himself because of his pending divorce his cancer. He recalls "I very stricken was mourning". "30 Years ago it was a marriage, and in my grief, I could say that I was getting sicker." "I decided, only my head around change." "The spirit has the power to heal" while Seidler says he knows his unorthodox techniques of recovery "woo-woo" sound to some ears, they sound like"Science" Dr. Christiane Northrup, a best-selling author, is written in detail about the body mind connection,. "This does not sound woo-woo to me", she says. "The spirit has the power to heal." You move "by fear and abject terror in action," says changed his body Seidler chemistry. "Fear increased cortisol and adrenaline in the body, which reduce immunity in the course of time," she says. The two stress hormones cause cellular inflammation, which is the way that cancer begins, says Northrup high level. The hormones reduce measures, such as Seidler finally did. "Hope is actually a biochemical reaction in the body", she says. Dr. Bernie Siegel, says the author of "Love, medicine & miracles," it's the same kind and an athlete uses visualization way to improve performance. "If an athlete visualizes success, their bodies really success experienced." If you think something, your body really feels as it happens, "says Siegel, clinical Assistant Professor of surgery at the Yale medical school." But Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of medicine, gets the mind-body connection a "new religion", promotes the false hope. "It is something so biologically implausible that your attitude, one to cure disease", says Angell, senior lecturer in social medicine at Harvard Medical School. "There is a tremendous arrogance to imagine, that your mind is so powerful." She tells stories like Seidler's are only dass-- only stories and not prove, that connection is the mind-body real. Some other part of the patient treatment plan probably declared victory against the disease, or in other cases is the success of temporary and part of the natural course of the disease. For example, she says that bladder cancer are often back. "They beat you down, and it comes back and beat you down, and it comes back", she says. "If"

6 Things about food

50 in New York City plays with your mind and palate. History HIGHLIGHTSWe as things developed, which are not specific areas on the tongue, which only bitter, salt, sweet play, etc. are bad for UsThere.Pregnant women can transfer settings for certain flavors, the FetusFlavor setting in breast MilkRELATED TOPICSFamilyDiet and NutritionIron ChefHealth and FitnessMonell Chemical Senses Center (CNN)-can come it looks like a small "everything bagel" and lox. But bite into it and your entertainment, there is an ice-cream. If you close your eyes and let the flavors in go down, it is the same flavors, seed covered bagel with cream cheese and smoked salmon remind of your favorite. "There is a sense of humor, important," said Wylie Dufresne, Chef and owner of wd

A doctor is facing his worst fear

Doctor saves woman life after AccidentSTORY HIGHLIGHTSHusband has to insert a breathing tube through Mrs throat without drugs to HomeOne of the biggest fears for medical professionals: to save a person's life, you need to know Alison and Tim Delgado are both a medical resident in CincinnatiRELATED TOPICSAneurysmBrain InjuriesBrain and nerve HealthEmergency MedicineInjuries and trauma Cincinnati (CNN)-as he his wife limp body cradled in his arms, Tim Delgado himself said, "You have to do this." The fate of Alison, wife, best friend and medical school classmate, depended on. Usually steady hands trembled as he held her pale face, constant and fumbled with the tools that could save their lives. DOE eyes rolled at the back of her head. Through tears, he said, "I'm babe sorry." Then, he stabbed his neck. Alison's eyes shot open. She chuckled pain and weak claws on the tracheotomy tube that pierced the neck. It was November 21, 2010, and only a few minutes previously had the newlyweds in bed rose. Only six months married and concentrated on her career, not the couple even time wedding photography setting for their new home to pick out had. Now all that - and more-would be put on hold. You were always ready to sleep, if an aneurysm in the Alison's ruptured brain, triggering a violent seizure of power. Without an airline to help it could breathe on her own vomit suffocated and died have. For Tim, second year medical resident, jamming a pipe in his wife of neck without drugs "the most difficult was that that I've ever had to do." What Tim Delgado experienced that night as one of the greatest fears of the people in the field of medical-, that one day series, are the life must save a mistress ' see unbelievable, it was the second time, Alison's life of Tim--contingent, and to this day he wanted his cool to keep. A bad first date for Alison, the night of their seizure is a blur. You don't remember the tracheotomy tube - and it's probably better this way. Alison combines her arm with her husband on the pair couch at her home in Cincinnati. On the wall above them, framed photographs Chronicle of the Delgados Adventures: the New Mexico mountains they climbed together, road trips to Wyoming, family celebrations.

Children get lab-grown organs

The urethra is a narrow tube, which provides the bubble with the genitals, a conduit, usher waste out of the body. History of HIGHLIGHTSScientists reported successful reconstruction of Urethras in 5 young patients with own CellsThe challenge with traditional urethra replacement is the creation of a viable tube, which is grafts not CollapseThe engineering ImplantedRegenerative appeared medicine harnesses body which were ability to heal normal about three months after it, ItselfRELATED TOPIC Wake Forest UniversityBiotechnologyHealth and fitness (dpa) - engineering institutions begins with something fehlt-- a phantom organ of the body of a patient gives incredible discomfort, dysfunction, or pain. It ends with a Star Trek-esque feat of engineering through the replacement missing organs culled with cells from a patient's body. In a small pilot study, Monday in the Lancet reconstruction of Urethras in five young patients published reported scientists successfully, with their own cells. "We could create own fabric patients that actually belongs there," said Dr. Anthony Atala, author of the study and Director of the Institute for regenerative medicine at Forest University School of medicine wake lead. "If the tissue is to be available, we will do hopefully better by the patient." Patients had their engineered Urethras implanted from March 2004 to July 2007 the Federico Gomez children's Hospital in Mexico City. Their Urethras to several years follow-up function. The urethra is a narrow tube, which provides the bubble with the genitals, a conduit, usher waste out of the body. If that - sometimes natively or as a result of the disease, pelvic fractures or other trauma-damaged is you usually according to Atala replaced with tissue from the lining of a patient cheeks harvested or grafted skin from another part of the body, use. "Unfortunately for the narrow structures in the body (like Urethras), they are kind of complex, because they tend to reduce," Atala said, adding that conventional urethra replacement more than half beats the time fail. "Each institution has its own challenges." The challenge with traditional urethra replacement creates a viable tube, one that is not easily reduced. And this is where engineering Urethras can provide some benefit. The first step for the construction of a new urethra is a very small piece of the patients of own tissue (about half as large as a stamp) take out of the bubble. Cells are from the biopsiert website, allows multiply, scraped that muscle cells from urethra cells separated. It is in the next steps in the process, which sound like science fiction. If there is a sufficient number of cells, scientists "Seed" seven - so as a new lawn seed würde-- perform on a grid, the core techniques is shaped like a urethra. The inside of the network is coated with urethral cells, whereas outside muscle cells. "It is as cake bake a layer, but it does one level at a time," said Atala. The sown structure is in an incubator for about two weeks, in a "" placed the cooking process, the Atala says how cell growth occurs within the body simulated. Then, the newly developed urethra is ready to be implanted in the patients. "During the operation, we go in the area that was damaged, clean, scar tissue and plug - in a new, engineered urethra," said Atala. "It sounds simple, but it is a fairly complex surgical procedures." "This is a narrow structure and it must fit just right." According to the study which was carried out engineering grafts normal implanted approximately three months after they were. Patients of Urethras retained worked normally within a few weeks after the operation and the function for up to six years. "This is an exciting study that shows that a viable option for complex urethral tissue engineering can be repairs," said David A. Vorp, Professor of Bioengineering and heart thoracic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh, who was not involved in this study. "It shows that the patient's own cells can be used, is the possibility of rejection to eliminate." VORP added that biopsies will carry their own risks such as infection and other complications, and the study in a larger study group needs to be replicated. Although the current study had registered only a few patients, Vorp said it is "an important step in the direction of important new means for urethral repair." Atala admits that there are some years before engineering institutions becomes the norm, and that it is not yet clear whether this same technology in adults will work. He said that in addition to the patients with urethra dysfunction, patients with other complex small vessels, the Probleme--could such as blood vessels, which one day will benefit from this technology after heart bypass surgery to reduzieren--. "There is a huge population with small vessel disease where the ships reduce and close to keep," said Atala. "The most important concept here is a narrow tubularized, complex structure that doesn't collapse in the long term." Atala and colleagues reported similar success in seven spina bifida patients to replace its dysfunctional bubbles in 2006. Scientists at Wake Forest have successfully developed more than 30 tissues and organs, including miniature liver, heart-valve-pressure even institutions such as human skin and kidney-in the laboratory. Scientists such as Atala regenerative medicine say a new frontier where medicine is the doctors cure, rather than merely treatment of diseases with the body's natural ability to heal itself could see. Autologous cell - or cells that taxes of a patient's body - can be transplanted organs without rejection. Still, all this is many years away. Most of these emerging technologies are not yet ready for widespread implantation, and the cost of the regenerative medicine at this early stage is often much higher than the conventional methods. "An interesting challenge with many of these technologies and regenerative medicine, you must, go slowly", Atala said. "The key is too slow going and have long-term follow up." "Keep patient safety first."

Complex migraines: this is you?

23 Million Americans suffer from some form of unusual migraines a ne, the complex could be described. History of HIGHLIGHTSNational Headache Foundation says that 23 million Americans suffer unusual migraine expert says that complex migraines are neurological event of the HeadacheComplicated survived the migraine with a number of other serious ConditionsRELATED TOPICSMigrainesBrain and nerves, health (CNN)-Barbara A. Mosgrave of Annandale go hand in hand können(Virginia), remember not the first time, it happened. It is still a blur. But she thinks that the episodes began 50 years ago. At least that's when she told someone her, she spoke gibberish in mind. "My friends would look at me and say 'What you're talking about?'" At 71 know to expect Mosgrave to the unexpected. As she was a teenager, that the you has suffered from severe migraines. "The kind that cause you to go in a dark room, and the door to close;"the pain is bad, she said. But she knew they control how and why they happened. Still, when it came to her speech, the different was. "I had no idea that I was babbling," she says. But when told sometimes, that it has no sense began her, she began to questions why their words and phrases from all were wrong? At the beginning of all Mosgrave thought they might be with mini strokes but if she attended many neurologists the same told her: it was a form of headache classified as suffering from a complex migraines. Do you live with complex migraines? Share their Council "which is different from the common migraine complex migraine is that this neurological event survived the headache itself," says Dr. Marc Schlosberg, neurologist in Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C., and Mosgrave the doctor. According to the National Foundation headache 23 million Americans suffer from some form of unusual migraines a ne, the complex could be described. These headaches are more common in women and can occur at any age. Although it various forms of complex migraines a ne, all blood vessels over distances, occur when is the blood flow to the brain or trigeminal nerve, found in the brain and is responsible for the sensation of the face, is irritated.

How the human penis lost his spikes

Scientists are trying that are the reasons, why humans and chimpanzees have key differences. History of HIGHLIGHTSHumans a change in the genome is missing that penis spine, sensory WhiskersSome, scientists suspect "turn on", that the absence of spines encouraged BondingChimpanzees pair and both mice penis spikes and sensory whiskers (CNN) – have you read the headline, and it probably giggling. Go ahead. Refer to your system. Then inhale deeply and consider how evolution a few specific parts of the body concerned, and why. Some are humans and chimpanzees parts more than 97% of the DNA, but it fairly obvious differences in appearance, behavior and intellect. Scientists are now more than ever, learn what makes us uniquely human. We know that people have bigger brains and within the brain, a larger angular gyrus, a region associated with abstract concepts. Also male chimpanzees have smaller penises than people, and their penises have thorns. Not like Porcupine needles or something, but small top projections on the surface, basically the organ make the bumpy. A biologist at Stanford University wanted to continue to investigate why humans and chimpanzees have such differences Bejerano Gill, school of medicine and colleagues. Analyzes the genomes of humans and closely with primates and more than 500 regulatory regions-sequences in the genome responsible for the control of generations, the chimpanzees and other mammals, but not discovered people. In other words, they make a list of the DNA which has disappeared from the human genome during millions of years of evolution. Results from their study will be published in the journal nature. Think of it as light bulbs and their switches, where the light bulbs are gene and the switch are these controlling DNA sequences. If it can not onion, the switch does not turn on the light. Now think of, it is a PEAR and enable five switches at different times in different places. If the switch way take one, works the bulb in the four other contexts, but not in the fifth. This study deals with two specific switches. Bejerano and colleagues took the switch information from a chimpanzee genome and in the main "connected to" to a reporter gene, a gene, whose Auswirkungen scientists can track how an organism develops. You injected egg to see the reporter gene in a mouse, what would do the switch.

7 Tons of beef recalled on E. coli fears

According to a press release it announced no reports of illnesses consumers eat bound that potentially contaminated products. History HIGHLIGHT Creek PANTONE of farms has 14,158 pounds ground beef, reminds the USDA SaidThe meat, processed on 22 February, it went to dealers in 10 StatesFrom, it can newly packaged and sold under various brands NamesThe company has no reports of disease of beef, the USDA says (CNN)-A Kansas company has recalled more than 14,000 pounds of ground beef due to possible E. coli contamination, federal authorities have announced. The recalled meat in large packages sold and distributed in many countries, beef comes farms premium from Creek was from Arkansas City, Kansas. Some 14,158 pounds beef, are in a handful of varieties, the memory, the US Department of agriculture food safety and inspection service Tuesday, said in a press release. A "Third" Inspektor--not Creek ringtone companies or the USDA-determined the presence of E. coli 0157: H7, according to the Federal Agency for. The USDA classified the recall as a "class 1" having determined "This is a health hazard situation where it a fair chance, which cause severe, the use of the product follow harmful to health or death." Bound to consumers eating potentially contaminated products that press release said the company received no reports of illnesses. Creek was holdings zurückgerufen products include: 40-pound cases of "Beef finely 81 / 19 grind" with 10-pound "Chub" subpackages, 40-pound cases of "beef chuck fine grind 81 / 19" with 10-pound "Chub" subpackages, 40-pound cases of "Beef cream roast finely grind 91 / 9" with 10-pound "Chub" in packaging, 40-Pound cases of "Beef finely 90 / 10 natural grind" with 5 pounds "Chub" subpackages, and 60 pounds cases of "Beef finely 93 / 7 ground." All branded "EST. 27" inside the USDA inspection mark that recalled products were the 22 processed then companies in Arizona, California, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington for "Processing and/or distribution." sent to The beef final destinations are unclear, as she may be repackaged in smaller packages for sale to individual consumers and were sold under other brand names. Each protocol, the food safety and inspection service has routinely "recall effectiveness checks" to ensure that companies correctly warn customers via the callback are and that the products are no longer available for customers, the Agency said in its press release. On your website, which has no reference to the recent recall Creek PANTONE offers businesses, that it many of the nation top grocers a ft and black Angus beef "provides restaurants with quality products". In addition to sold in North America, are exported its products in Europe, Latin America and Asia. Creek clays is property of Sun Capital Partners, a large U.S. private investment firm, which says it has more than 170,000 employees and the combined sales greater than $40 billion. It has a large portfolio of companies, including Big 10 tires, Boston market, Bruegger's, friendly's, Hanna Anderson and the limited. E. coli can cause that bloody diarrhea, dehydration and in severe cases, kidney failure. Infants, seniors and people with weak immune systems are most vulnerable to the infection.

Short sleepers function on four hours

Sleep deprivation is problematic for people, but a few people with a genetic mutation on less sleep manage to thrive. History HIGHLIGHTS "Natural short sleeper" have a genetic mutation that allows them to function on less SleepScientists 20-30 persons with identified people say possible sleep MutationsSome, they sleep well work to just five hours and not feeling, TiredRELATED TOPICSBrain, and nerve HealthGeneticsSleeping and sleep disorders (CNN)-for most of us, Setting the clock forward in the spring is a sad occasion, a sign that we an hour losing sleep. Daylight saving time begins Sunday at 2 am in most of the USA-with the exception of Hawaii and Arizona. But for some genetically blessed people, a loss of one hour sleep is not a problem. In fact, the featured seven or eight hours that is standard sleep less than. You feel at 4 am have this "short sleeper" course updated and ready to be into - a mutation on a gene known as hDEC2, which regulates their sleep wake rhythm. They can say this mutation researchers on less sleep function. There were supposed short thresholds such as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, actor James Franco and domestic personality Martha Stewart. It is unknown whether they were able to avoid sleep by Genetics or spirit. Amy Avery has not heard of this short sleep disorders or tested. While it is unclear whether she has the genetic mutation, Avery lives of only four to five hours sleep. As an adult, she has always asleep at 1:30 am or 2 am starts their day at 6 o'clock Avery or one hour earlier than it has a training. You fill up with coffee or other caffeinated beverages. "I so long have done," she said. "I fully function." I yawn, not during the day. "I'm not tired."