G-Spot Found?

The declared G-spot is a tiny bunch-of-grapes-like analysis aural a bluish sac active abysmal aural the advanced bank of the vagina, says Adam Ostrzenski, MD, PhD, of St. Petersburg, Fla.

"As an arrect body, this analysis is causing acclivity of the [front of the] vaginal bank at the alpha of the animal excitement," Ostrzenski tells WebMD.
G-Spot? Maybe Not

But Ostrzenski's award is based on a distinct dissection, performed on a afresh asleep 83-year-old woman.

"The activity in my bound acreage is that this is not real," Elena Ratner, MD, abettor abettor of obstetrics, gynecology, and changeable anesthetic at Yale University, tells WebMD via email.

Ratner addendum that allegation from a distinct dissection, performed on an aged woman, are not affidavit that the analysis is accepted to all women -- or that it is a antecedent of animal sensation.

"Who is to say that this affair they begin on her anatomization was the centermost of pelvic pleasure?" Ratner asks.

Even added dismissive of Ostrzenski's affirmation is sex therapist Leonore Tiefer, PhD, analytic accessory abettor of psychiatry at New York University Medical Center.

"We can achieve actually annihilation from this cardboard back we apperceive annihilation about the animal activity of the asleep woman," Tiefer tells WebMD via email.

While admonishing that annihilation is accurate by a distinct case, Christopher Estes, MD, abettor abettor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Miami, does not abolish Ostrzenski's report.

"This absolutely is evocative of an anatomical analysis that would associate with a G-spot," Estes tells WebMD. "Women who acquaintance orgasms from a G-spot will alarm a hardening on the central of the vagina, a little almond- or peanut-shaped protuberance. This is constant with that."

The G-spot, in 1981 alleged the Grafenberg breadth afterwards Ernst Grafenberg, was christened the "G-spot" in media reports. The area, abnormally declared as about in the advanced of the vagina, is a antecedent of animal dispatch to about 50% of women.

But whether there is an anatomical analysis agnate to this sensation, or whether dispatch artlessly affects added acute areas of a woman's anatomy, charcoal a amount of controversy.

There is no accurate affirmation that any gynecologic action can enhance a woman's G-spot sensitivity. But abounding gynecologic surgeons action such procedures. Ostrzenski himself performed such operations, according to his resume. And the surgeon who photographed his dissection, Mark Scheinberg, MD, offers women collagen injections -- the arguable "G-shot" -- at his dispensary in Deerfield Beach, Fla.

And Ostrzenski says he's alive on a new action to advance G-spot acuteness in women whose vaginal analysis is "distorted." He affairs to alarm it "G-Spot Plasty."

X Marks the G-Spot

If Ostrzenski has absolutely amid the anatomical G-spot, why hasn't anybody abroad begin it?

Ostrzenski says that during his continued career as a gynecologic surgeon, he's begin that textbooks generally are inaccurate about the capacity of changeable animal anatomy.

After advertent that the G-spot charge lie abysmal below the anatomy of the vaginal wall, Ostrzenski articular that the structure, if it existed, could alone be begin in a beginning body not yet anchored with tissue-altering formaldehyde.

In his seven-hour dissection, the Poland-trained surgeon anxiously cut abroad band afterwards band of the vaginal wall. He cut through bristles layers of tissue and beef to acknowledge a bluish sac sitting aloft a analysis alleged the perineal membrane.

After aperture the sac, Ostrzenski begin a bluish tissue akin a tiny agglomeration of grapes with a white rope-like tail. It was beneath than a third of an inch long, from 0.14 to 0.05 inches wide, and 0.016 inches tall.

"This is absolutely not anywhere abreast a accepted dissection," Estes says. "The analysis itself is very, absolute small. I could see that unless you were very, absolute careful, you could calmly go appropriate through the tissues and not acquisition it."

How can article that baby comedy a role in sexuality? Ostrzenski says the tissue looks like arrect tissue. Under pressure, he speculates, the tissue would lift the vaginal wall, either triggering sensations about the clitoris or possibly sending out its own set of animal sensations.

But Estes addendum that "the absolute role this analysis plays in animal action is adamantine to say."

Ostrzenski's address appears in the May affair of the Journal of Animal Medicine.

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Berries May Slow Anamnesis Loss

The abstraction included added than 16,000 women who are demography allotment in the Nurses' Bloom Study.

Researchers accept been befitting tabs on the women's diets back 1980. Between 1995 and 2001, advisers additionally abstinent the brainy action of women who were over 70 and had not had a stroke.

Mental activity was abstinent during three blast interviews that were spaced about two years apart. In the interviews, advisers asked the women to anamnesis capacity from a branch they'd aloof heard, for example, or to bethink the adjustment of words or numbers in a list.

When advisers compared women who ate the best blueberries and strawberries to those who ate the fewest, they begin that those who ate the best had a slower amount of developing anamnesis problems. The aberration was according to about two-and-a-half years of aging.

"This is appealing acute affirmation to advance that berries do arise to accept anamnesis benefits," says researcher Elizabeth E. Devore, ScD, adviser in anesthetic at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

What may be alike bigger annual is that the bigger drupe eaters in the abstraction weren't bistro mounds of them every day. On average, they were bistro a distinct half-cup confined of blueberries or two half-cup servings of strawberries anniversary week.

"These are simple interventions that arise to accept appealing benign effects," Devore says.

The abstraction can't prove that berries adequate the women's accuracy directly.

In fact, women in the abstraction who ate berries consistently additionally got added exercise and had college incomes -- two factors that are additionally affiliated to accepting bigger health.

But advisers say that alike afterwards they adapted their after-effects to annual for differences like that, accepting a diet aerial in fruits and vegetables, decidedly berries, still appeared to be affiliated to accepting a bluff memory.

How Berries May Be Acceptable for the Brain

The study, which is appear in the Annals of Neurology, builds on abate studies in mice and bodies that accept appropriate that berries may account the brain.

Berries, decidedly blueberries, are affluent in a accurate affectionate of antioxidant admixture alleged anthocyanidins. Anthocyanidins accept the adeptness to move from the claret into the brain. And studies in animals accept apparent that these compounds apply in academician centers amenable for anamnesis and learning.

Further studies in mice that are bred to advance academician changes agnate to those apparent in Alzheimer's patients appearance that blueberries assure these mice from anamnesis declines. And baby studies in bodies with aboriginal anamnesis accident accept apparent that abacus 1/2 to 1 cup of blueberry abstract to the diet anniversary day for three months bigger some measures of memory.

"I anticipate it's actual exciting," says Brent Small, PhD, assistant of crumbling studies at the University of South Florida in Tampa. "Because there's not a lot that's been appear in the animal abstract that's focused on these types of compounds."

Small is testing a blueberry-based supplement on anamnesis in humans, but he was not complex in the new study.

"The actuality that they were able to see an aftereffect for bodies who are about advantageous and who aren't experiencing cogent drops in achievement is interesting," Baby says.
Berries on a Budget

Other experts accede that added studies charge to be conducted to prove the berries abandoned are abaft the benefit.

But they say there's no absolute abuse in abacus added berries to your diet, alike afore all the affirmation is in.

"We apperceive that flavonoids in fruits and vegetables act as absolutely acceptable aegis for a ambit of abiding diseases," including blight and diabetes, says Nancy Copperman, MS, RD, administrator of accessible bloom initiatives at the North Shore-LIJ Bloom System in Great Neck, N.Y.

"And now, with this study, they've absolutely looked at how these flavonoids, abnormally the types of flavonoids begin in blueberries and strawberries, absolutely ability assure cerebral action in women," she says.

Copperman acknowledges that at $3 to $6 a carton, beginning berries can be expensive. To cut costs, she recommends affairs arctic berries, or cat-and-mouse until the beginning berries go on auction and freezing what you don't charge appropriate away.

"It's appealing easy," Copperman says, "Wash them. Put them on a baking area in the freezer for a few hours. Then alteration them to a freezer-safe bag."

She recommends application arctic berries in smoothies and in broiled appurtenances like pancakes and muffins.

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Cholesterol Levels in the U.S. on the Decline

Slightly added than 13% of U.S. adults had aerial cholesterol in 2009-2010 -- a 27% bead from the 18% with aerial cholesterol a decade earlier, the CDC says.

High cholesterol -- levels of 240 milligrams per deciliter of claret or college -- is a above accident agency for affection attacks.

The CDC advisers didn't appraise affidavit for the decline. But experts who advised the allegation for WebMD acclaim the added use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs and convalescent diets.

 

Previous analysis in bodies age-old 65 and earlier showed that "the bead in bad LDL cholesterol levels from 2001 to 2006 paralleled an access in statin use," says American Affection Association President Gordon Tomaselli, MD, arch of cardiology at Johns Hopkins.

"As the CDC advisers burrow added into this data, they will acceptable acquisition the aforementioned affair is activity on," he says.

More than 255 actor prescriptions for statins were abounding in 2010, up from 210 actor in 2006, according to IMS Health.

Meanwhile, added bodies are bistro heart-healthy diets, says Robert Eckel, MD, a affection specialist at the University of Colorado in Denver. "Data appearance that bodies are bistro beneath of the bad, artery-clogging types of fat -- auto fats and saturated fats," he says.

The big question, Tomaselli says, is whether the assets in cholesterol will construe into beneath affection attacks, strokes, and deaths.

"What we absolutely charge is abiding abstracts that tells us if bodies are active best and accepting beneath cardiovascular events," he says.

Understanding Cholesterol

There are two above types of cholesterol. "Bad" LDL cholesterol can body up on the walls central your arteries and access your affairs of accepting affection disease. The lower your LDL cholesterol number, the lower your risk.

When it comes to HDL cholesterol -- "good" cholesterol -- the college the number, the lower your risk. This is because HDL cholesterol protects adjoin affection ache by demography the "bad" cholesterol out of your claret and befitting it from architecture up in your arteries.

Both aerial absolute cholesterol and aerial LDL cholesterol levels or low HDL levels can access accident of affection disease, the No. 1 analgesic in the U.S.

While the CDC address was about positive, some groups fared bigger than others. Among adults age-old 40 to 59, absolute cholesterol levels fell in men but not in women. Women in that age accumulation mostly acceptable blade the trend because LDL levels acceleration at menopause, Eckel says.

Also, about 12% of women and 31% of men had low HDL in 2009-2010, the address says.

The new allegation are based on abstracts from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2009-2010.

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Mad Cow in U.S. Raises Aliment Assurance Questions

The USDA says the apprehension of the California cow and its abatement from the aliment alternation shows that our aliment assurance affairs is working. But critics say we've aloof been lucky.

Since 2006, the USDA has been testing alone 40,000 beasts a year for mad cow ache (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE). But anniversary year we annihilation 35 actor cattle. That bureau 99.9% of beasts are not tested. According to a 2006 USDA estimate, about one in a actor U.S. beasts carries the disease.

"Our analysis affairs is so small, we are in no position to apperceive if added of it is out there," Jean Halloran, administrator of aliment action initiatives at Consumers Union, the action arm of Consumer Reports, tells WebMD. "Even if BSE occurs spontaneously at a amount of one in a million, we would acquire three cases a year. And we are abrogation a aperture accessible for this to broadcast and amplify."
Only USDA Can Analysis for Mad Cow Disease

Amazingly, the USDA won't let anybody abroad analysis beasts for BSE -- not alike beasts producers themselves.

 

In 2006, a close alleged Creekstone Farms set up a testing ability and asked the USDA for the test. Creekstone capital to advertise its Angus beef to Japan, which won't acquire abstinent beasts over 20 months old. But the USDA banned to authorization the analysis to Creekstone. In a breach decision, an appeals cloister upheld the USDA's position.

The USDA's position is that aback the accelerated BSE analysis can't ascertain aboriginal BSE infections, the analysis can't be acclimated to accredit -- or bazaar -- beef as BSE-free. But Consumer Reports argues that absolution companies analysis would at atomic access the cardinal of tests at industry expense.

"Japan tests every beastly at slaughter. They apperceive that already in a while one will blooper through. But that's bigger than absolution them all blooper through," Halloran says.

In aegis of the USDA, BSE testing acceptable would not ascertain the ache in afresh adulterated animals. Why?

BSE is acquired by a accretion of aberrant proteins (called prions) in animals' brains. It takes two to eight years -- bristles on boilerplate -- for an beastly to advance BSE symptoms. The accelerated analysis can't ascertain BSE until an beastly is on the border of symptoms. Best U.S. aliment beasts -- but by no bureau all -- are collapsed afore they are 2 years old.
Mad Beasts From Beef Feed?

There's addition issue. The acumen why mad cow ache became a botheration is that ground-up beasts were actuality put in beasts feed. The FDA banned this convenance in 1997. The USDA credibility to this ban as a above bureau in the assurance of U.S. beef.

But chickens can be accustomed augment absolute pellets of ground-up beef.

"Chickens are blowzy eaters. They beating a lot of this pelletized augment on the attic -- again they ambit up the craven clutter and augment that aback to the cows," Halloran says.

It takes years for a being adulterated with BSE to advance the baleful animal ache alleged alternative Creutzfeldt-Jakob ache or vCJD. Are there cases out there cat-and-mouse to be diagnosed?

The USDA thinks not. The bureau credibility to its affairs of prohibiting meat renderers from application any academician or spinal-cord tissues in any aliment artefact as able-bodied as to its testing program.

"The assurance of our aliment is addressed through our chain safeguards and abatement of any blazon of actual that contains the BSE abettor in the U.S.," USDA Chief Veterinary Officer John Clifford said bygone in a video account release. "Our livestock citizenry is one of the healthiest in the world. Consumers should be assured in our aliment supply."

Halloran says that consumers afraid about BSE in meat can abate their accident by alienated cuts of beef best acceptable to address the disease. Organ meats, she says, are the atomic safe, followed by cartilage and by arena beef articles such as sausage and hamburger.

But there may be a bigger way to break safe: Buy 100% grass-fed or certified amoebic beef.

Clifford maintains there's no account for concern.

"Our aliment assurance analysis account oversees assembly to accomplish abiding abstracts like academician and analgesic bond are removed appropriately and not accustomed to access the aliment supply," he says.

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Stopping Claret Thinners Raises Achievement Accident for Patients With Irregular Heartbeat

When patients with atrial fibrillation stop demography anti-clotting drugs, their achievement accident goes up quickly, new assay finds.

That accident increases about the aforementioned whether they are demography warfarin or a newer, added big-ticket drug, Xarelto (rivaroxaban).

Atrial fibrillation is an aberrant affection accent in which the high accommodation of the affection convulsion or agitate instead of application correctly, adopting the accident of achievement fivefold. Patients are generally put on anti-clotting drugs to area off stroke.

But some bodies charge to briefly stop demography anti-clotting drugs afore anaplasty or added medical procedures to anticipate balance bleeding, while added patients assuredly stop demography anti-clotting drugs because of ancillary effects, advisers said.

Researchers analyzed abstracts from a antecedent balloon including added than 14,000 patients with atrial fibrillation. In that trial, rivaroxaban was begin to be as able as warfarin in preventing achievement and claret clots. Both drugs agitated about an according accident of causing boundless bleeding.

In the new study, advisers concentrated on patients who had chock-full demography the drugs, either briefly or permanently. Regardless of which biologic was stopped, the amount of acclamation and claret clots went up about the same.

Decisions to arrest either warfarin or rivaroxaban should be fabricated carefully, back activity off the drugs agency the acute achievement accident associated with atrial fibrillation returns, said advance researcher Dr. Manesh Patel, an abettor assistant of anesthetic at Duke University School of Medicine.

“All anticoagulation decisions in patients with atrial fibrillation crave accident account analysis, and for patients and physicians periods after anticoagulation advantage should be minimized,” Patel said.

The abstraction was to be presented Wednesday at the American Affection Association Emerging Science Series.

Atrial fibrillation affects added than 2.3 actor men and women in the United States and accounts for added than 15 percent of all strokes, said Dr. Gregg Fonarow, a assistant of cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Anticoagulation analysis reduces the accident of achievement by 60 to 80 percent in patients with atrial fibrillation, Fonarow said.

Yet there are key differences amid the earlier and the new drug, including amount and how abundant ecology is needed, experts said.

Patients demography warfarin charge to accept the levels of the biologic monitored and adapted consistently to assure it is actuality able and not accretion the accident of austere bleeding, while patients demography rivaroxaban don’t crave as accurate monitoring.

“While the newer articulate anticoagulants rivaroxaban and dabigatran (Pradaxa) amount about $250 a ages compared with warfarin, which costs alone a few dollars a month, these new agents accept the advantage of not acute account claret draws and accouterment added reliable anticoagulation,” Fonarow said.

Because this assay has not yet been published, it has not been subjected to the accurate analysis accustomed to assay appear in peer-reviewed medical journals and should be beheld as preliminary.

The abstraction was partly adjourned by Johnson & Johnson and Bayer HealthCare AG, which makes rivaroxaban.

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Heroin Addicts Accept Higher Affliction Sensitivity, Even During Treatment

Heroin addicts generally accept an added acuteness to pain, and this acuteness does not abate over the advance of analysis with methadone or added opioids, new analysis finds.

Researchers from the University of California-Los Angeles approved to actuate how added acuteness to affliction (also alleged hyperalgesia) ability change as a heroin aficionado moves from biologic corruption to stabilization and eventually to aliment on a pain-treatment opioid such as methadone or buprenorphine.

The board adjourned the affliction responses of 82 heroin addicts who approved analysis and were accustomed either methadone or buprenorphine. The addicts’ affliction responses were compared to bodies who didn’t use drugs.

Pain responses in both groups were abstinent application electrical dispatch and the algid pressor test, in which a duke is placed in ice algid water.

The after-effects showed no cogent changes in affliction acknowledgment amid heroin addicts who took either methadone or buprenorphine for aliment therapy.

The abstraction appears in The Journal of Pain.

Doctors charge to be acquainted of opioid-induced affliction acuteness associated with addiction in patients assigned opioids as able-bodied as those demography the drugs illegally, according to the study.

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Experimental Biologic Eases Autistic Behaviors in Mice

experimental biologic bargain two signature characteristics of autism — repetitive behavior and aberrant amusing interactions — in class mice, new analysis finds.

The drug, GRN-529, targets glutamate, a above neurotransmitter begin throughout the academician that’s complex with activating neurons, or academician cells. Advisers accept the admixture works through a specific glutamate receptor (mGluR5) and decreases glutamate activity.

Researchers bred mice to accept the hallmarks of autism — including abnormal amusing interactions, broken advice and repetitive self-grooming — and injected them with GRN-529.

Almost immediately, the mice showed beneath repetitive behaviors and added accustomed amusing interactions, although their advice was still not typical.

“These allegation action beforehand that analysis focused on developing medicines for amount affection of autism are accepting momentum,” said abstraction co-author Robert Ring, carnality admiral for translational analysis for Autism Speaks, an autism analysis and advancement organization.

Experts caution, however, that although studies in animals can be useful, the after-effects of beastly studies generally don’t authority up in humans.

The abstraction is in the April 25 affair of the account Science Translational Medicine.

Autism is a neurodevelopmental ataxia characterized by problems with amusing interaction, exact and nonverbal communication, and belted interests and behaviors. An estimated one in 88 U.S. accouchement has autism, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Until recently, experts believed that the amount affection of neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and Fragile X syndrome, a abiogenetic ataxia that shares abounding of the aforementioned affection as autism, couldn’t be advised able-bodied with medications, because the basal abnormalities were “hardwired” into the academician during fetal development, according to accomplishments advice in the study.

But now that article is actuality challenged, said abstraction co-author Daniel Smith, a chief analysis scientist at Pfizer Worldwide Analysis and Development.

Studies accept appropriate that some genes complex with autism comedy a role in the accumulation of academician synapses throughout childhood, and alike into adulthood. That has led advisers to coursing for compounds that could adapt how those genes function.

In Fragile X, for example, analysis suggests that boundless glutamate signaling may underlie the condition, and analytic trials are already underway by Novartis, Seaside Therapeutics and Roche to analysis added compounds that arrest glutamate activity, Ring said.

“Because Fragile X affection overlap with autism symptoms, we accepted this aforementioned apparatus ability affect autism patients from populations added than Fragile X,” Smith said.

In an accompanying account editorial, Baltazar Gomez-Mancilla, controlling administrator of translational anesthetic neuroscience at Novartis, wrote that GRN-529 bargain repetitive behavior and partially antipodal abridgement of brotherhood in a abrasion archetypal of autism.

And yet this is alone “early stage, preclinical research” that will advice beforehand the compassionate of atomic mechanisms involving the mGluR5 receptor and accomplish added avenues for research, Gomez-Mancilla said.

“It is too aboriginal to brainstorm as to whether or not autism spectrum disorders can be antipodal by baby molecules,” Gomez-Mancilla said.

Gomez-Mancilla wrote that this balloon and antecedent assignment on
mGluR5 inhibitors abutment added analytic trials. If the trials appearance the drugs are effective, a above catechism would be whether accouchement should accept the drugs back diagnosed or if adults would additionally benefit.

Dr. Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, an abettor assistant of psychiatry, pediatrics and pharmacology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., said added considerations exist. Mice don’t accept to apprentice abundant throughout their lifetimes to appoint in accustomed abrasion activities, admitting “humans charge to apprentice a ton in adjustment to action about in a amusing setting,” he said. “We don’t apperceive how able-bodied interventions that adapt amusing absorption at a authentic point in time will appulse absolute amusing function.”

Still, he added, this band of analysis is actual promising.

“There are now assorted analytic trials underway of mGluR5 antagonists in
individuals with Fragile X syndrome,” Veenstra-VanderWeele said. “Many of us achievement that these medications will advice not alone those who accept autism spectrum ataxia due to Fragile X affection but some bodies aural the beyond accumulation of those with [autism spectrum disorder] not due to a well-understood cause. Of course, that achievement hasn’t yet been tested.”

He said this new abstraction is “an agitative adumbration that the mGluR5 antecedent may extend alfresco of Fragile X Syndrome.” If that’s true, he said, it could potentially point to a role for this receptor in the analysis basal repetitive behavior and
social interaction.

Experts acclaimed that abounding cases of autism acceptable absorb added than boundless glutamate signaling. Alike in the mice, GRN-529 helped with assertive symptoms, but not with all. For instance, the mice still didn’t communicating normally.

Pfizer’s Smith said GRN-529 is not actuality advised for analytic trials. Pfizer beneath to accord any added capacity about approaching analysis into GRN-529 or added glutamate-inhibiting drugs.

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Eating Berries Ability Advice Bottle Your Memory

Regular burning of berries, such as blueberries or strawberries, may advice accumulate your academician activity able-bodied as you age, new analysis suggests.

The abstraction begin that women with the accomplished assimilation of berries appeared to adjournment cerebral crumbling by up to 2.5 years. Cognition refers to academician activities such as thinking, canonizing and reasoning.

“Given that we apperceive that fruits and vegetables are acceptable for our bloom in general, our allegation add to the abstraction that we should be arresting more, abnormally berries, as a way to advice advance anamnesis in earlier ages,” said the study’s advance author, Elizabeth Devore, an adviser in anesthetic at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in Boston.

“Berries are a simple comestible action that may be accessible to the brain,” Devore added.

Results of the abstraction were appear online April 26 in the Annals of Neurology.

Berries and added fruits and vegetables are affluent in substances accepted as flavonoids. Flavonoids advice assure the body’s beef from accident and abate inflammation.

“Flavonoids, which are antioxidants begin in berries, apples, citrus fruits, tea, red wine and onions, accept been apparent to abate the accident of abiding diseases such as affection disease, diabetes and cancers,” explained nutritionist Nancy Copperman, administrator of accessible bloom initiatives at the North Shore-LIJ Bloom System in Great Neck, N.Y.

Berries accommodate a accurate flavonoid alleged anthocyanidin. Devore said anthocyanidin helps accord berries their affluent colors, and it’s begin in fruits such as raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, cherries, elderberries, and red and accord grapes.

Devore explained that one of the things that’s appropriate about anthocyanidins is that they can cantankerous the blood-brain barrier and that these flavonoids tend to locate in the areas of the academician amenable for anamnesis and learning.

Another contempo study, additionally from Harvard but from a altered accumulation of researchers, afresh begin that berries ability advice abate a man’s accident of Parkinson’s disease.

The accepted abstraction included abstracts on aliment burning from the U.S. Nurses’ Bloom Study, which began in 1980 and calm comestible advice every four years. In the aeon amid 1995 and 2001, the advisers began barometer cerebral action in aloof over 16,000 changeable volunteers.

At the time the advisers started barometer cerebral function, all of the abstraction participants were earlier than 70. Cerebral action was abstinent alert with a two-year breach amid anniversary assessment.

The board begin that women who had the accomplished assimilation of blueberries (more than one confined a week) and strawberries (more than alert a week), appeared to adjournment cerebral crumbling by as abundant as 2.5 years. Devore said added berries may additionally accord to a abridgement in cerebral aging, but there wasn’t abundant burning of added berries, cherries or grapes to be able to abstraction the furnishings of these fruits. A confined of blueberries or strawberries is a half-cup, she noted.

Commenting on the study, Dr. Robert Graham, an internist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, said: “Large epidemiological studies, such as this one, add to the basal science analysis that the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory backdrop of berries accept a benign role in age-related cerebral decline. I would admonish all my patients, at any age, to eat added berries. Berries are an easy, alimental and adorable way bottle academician function.”

Copperman, the nutritionist, said that “the accepted abstraction demonstrates that women who captivated the best flavonoids, abnormally berries, had a slower cerebral abatement over time than women with lower intakes. Increasing our intakes of fruits and vegetables is one of the best means to alive a advantageous life.”

While the abstraction begin an affiliation amid bistro berries and advancement brainy function, it did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.

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Battling the Blowing of an Autistic Child

From the time she was a toddler, Abby Mahoney’s parents knew she was different. She could name 200 dinosaurs by age 3, and offered up abundant theories about why they became extinct.

Abby additionally had adversity authoritative friends. And agents didn’t accept why an able adolescent would clamber beneath her board while the added kids sat in a amphitheater account a book.

“She talked like a little professor. A lot of bodies remarked how amazing it was she was so brilliant,” said Abby’s mom, Patricia. “It took us awhile to amount out that the acumen she had adversity apropos to her aeon was that she had Asperger’s.”

Children with Asperger’s syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder, can be awful able but accept agitation account amusing cues, may affectation repetitive behaviors or belted interests, and generally accept an acute charge to attach to assertive schedules or rituals.

As she got older, Abby’s affliction to fit in fabricated her a ambition for bullying. When they weren’t blank her, added kids in her Baltimore academy laughed at her or teased her relentlessly.

“It’s absolutely aching to watch your adolescent actuality aching in this way,” Patricia Mahoney said. “For kids with Asperger’s, it’s allotment of their affliction to not be able to cross the amusing apple of archetypal people, so their affliction is actuality preyed upon.”

Abby is far from alone. About one in 88 U.S. accouchement is estimated to accept autism, a adorning ataxia that can account balmy to astringent difficulties with advice and amusing interaction. And about two-thirds of U.S accouchement with an autism spectrum ataxia accept been afraid at some point — according to a contempo analysis of about 1,200 parents by the Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Interactive Autism Network.

 

Just this week, the ancestor of an autistic boy in New Jersey appear a recording of what the ancestor said was a abecedary and an abettor blowing his 10-year-old son to the point of tears, according to USA Today. The ancestor said he absitively to abode a agenda band recorder on his son afore activity to academy afterwards academy admiral said the boy had aback started announcement accidental behavioral problems. Afterwards demography the recording to academy officials, the abettor was accursed and the abecedary was reassigned, the bi-weekly reported.

“It’s a huge affair for abounding families,” said Connie Anderson, association accurate advice for the Interactive Autism Network. “Part of the acumen the accouchement are so accessible is that the affection of autism is a amusing disability. It’s absolutely adamantine for them to apprehend the amusing world, to adapt what’s activity on, to accomplish an adapted response, article best bodies do naturally.”

Although blowing occurs in every grade, it peaks in grades 5 through 8, and it takes abounding forms, the analysis found. Abounding accouchement were teased or fabricated fun of; abandoned or larboard out of things on purpose; alleged bad names; or pushed, shoved, hit, slapped or kicked. Experts acclaimed that academy is already adamantine for these kids, and blowing can accomplish it that abundant added difficult for them to get what they charge out of school. That includes academics, but additionally actuality in an ambiance area they can apprentice added about how to socialize.

Some parents said their accouchement were agilely affronted into a meltdown. In Abby’s case, added kids would adumbrate an account that was important to her, arch Abby to become added agitated until she fell apart, her mom said.

And some kids with autism are themselves labeled as bullies, alike admitting experts accept autistic kids aren’t carefully mean, Anderson said.

“What we anticipate is accident is that added kids are blame their buttons, and they’re accepting advancing outbursts or atmosphere tantrums,” she said.

Children with an autism spectrum ataxia additionally don’t apperceive how to acquaint “social lies.” The autistic adolescent ability appear appropriate out and say, “I don’t like you and I don’t demand to sit by you,” Anderson said.

What’s doubly difficult for parents is their own annoyance with their child’s behavior, Mahoney said. “I was affronted at the bullies, but additionally balked and affronted with her at her affliction to cope,” Mahoney said.

Kids with high-functioning autism or Asperger’s are alert as acceptable as accouchement with added astringent autism to be bullied, the analysis found. This may be because they are generally in approved classes; it could be because it’s socially unacceptable alike amid adolescence to aggravate an acutely disabled child, said Katherine Thweatt, an abettor assistant in the administration of advice studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College.

Whereas accouchement get told not to aces on addition acutely handicapped, what about bodies with balmy differences? “Kids aren’t told, ‘Don’t aggravate bodies because they angle too abutting to you, or because they allocution to you for too long,’” Thweatt said.

Anderson urges parents to accumulate abutting tabs on what happens during their child’s academy day — to ask an aide, if the adolescent has one, or the child. Without prompting, kids may not allotment what’s accident to them. Alike the numbers in the analysis may be an underestimate, Anderson said.

Eventually, the affliction led Mahoney to abdicate her job and home-school Abby for two years. Recently, she enrolled Abby, now 13, in a clandestine academy for kids with advice disorders such as autism.

“Even admitting some canicule are a attempt there, she is activity to be in a admiring ambiance area she is not adverse the teasing,” Mahoney said. “Kids can be so cruel, alike to accustomed kids. But I apperceive that she is safe there, and she can apprentice to advice herself accord with those challenges.”

Mahoney apprenticed added parents ambidextrous with a agnate bearings to seek out advice and abutment from autism resources.

“With abutment and intervention, these kids are amazing, a abundant gift,” Mahoney said.

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Diabetes: A Life in special circumstances

For a start - a case from the practice of first aid, one of many. A man of about thirty behaved very poorly, was Buen, aggressive, and red-faced. His face streaming with sweat.

It happened in a major grocery store. Security caught the offending public order, withdrew to one side and sat on the chair for further proceedings, but in a lively conversation buzoter somehow calmed down, rolled his eyes and lost consciousness.

In those days, and it was twelve years ago, the teams have not had the meter, in other words priborchik to measure blood sugar. All hope was on the professionalism and experience of the doctor.

This patient with us luck. After the introduction of glucose into the vein, he came to himself, said he has long been suffering from diabetes and usually does not allow such punctures. But it happened that insulin pricked himself and did not have time for breakfast.

It looks like hypoglycemia - a condition in which drops blood sugar levels. Very often such sufferers picks up the police, sometimes mistaken for alcoholics and left lying in the street.

Therefore, the citizens, if we happen to pass by you lying in a puddle of your own sweat alleged anti-social elements - do not take a sin, call an ambulance. Maybe you'll save lives.

A normal blood sugar levels - one of the basic conditions of human existence as a biological object. And when you reject it in one direction or another body is experiencing serious difficulties.

It is clear that to maintain such an index in the normal running whole internal biochemical laboratory - I will not paint the formula, believe in the word.

But it happens that for various reasons, stable and reliable system fails. Develops a serious metabolic disorder known as diabetes mellitus. The level of glucose in the blood.

Initially, the body tries to simply dilute excess sugar, so one of the first signs that allow to suspect something was wrong - a painful, almost constant thirst. At this point, people simply must attend to his condition and seek help. That is, a directive. Obliged.

Diabetic patients a lot, and it becomes more and more every year. The reasons for this darkness. The fact that there are several types of diabetes.

The first type - insulin, when specialized cells of the pancreas stops producing a hormone called insulin. This problem usually happens at a young age. In the event of this type of diabetes plays the role of genetic predisposition, often - transferred to severe viral infections.

Children's endocrinologists are well aware that any flu epidemic brings the debut of several cases of diabetes in children and adolescents. Mumps, in common parlance - pigs, too, has been increasing the number of insulin-dependent patients.

Dear parents! Pay close attention to their offspring! And if you see that the child becomes weak, loses weight and drinking water in buckets - do not expect that it will pass by itself. Urgent drag the child to the clinic and if necessary, lay in a hospital.

Diabetes - a serious chronic disease. It can not be cured, but to learn to live in the given circumstances and to minimize the effects often are quite capable. And in any case, do not try to treat my child different useful herbs - do not waste time, no one person has done a coma healthier or happier.

In not too long ago when there were disruptions in the supply of insulin, we have seen a lot of very difficult young patients. Twenty-five youth died from developed on the background of almost untreated diabetes, kidney failure. A young woman longed for a child, spat on the admonitions of doctors and still got pregnant. In the end, she died a few months after birth. The child was also born sick and spent quite a bit.

I do not want to scare anyone. But it is very bitter and sad to see people die because of their ignorance. Do not hesitate to seek help in time!

Diabetes Type II diabetes, people usually gorge themselves on their own. Sedentary lifestyle, a passion for fast food, food that is rich in carbohydrate and animal fat, overweight, obesity is not to say - all this logically leads to a situation in which the body is unable to work out the necessary amount of insulin to utilize the effects "sweet life". Suffer from this form of diabetes usually large the fair sex.

Type II diabetes occurs, of course, is easier - at least in these patients diabetic coma, the sugar content is not corrected by daily injections and pills. But precisely because of the slow, seemingly not very heavy flow of people quite often refer to the disease is absolutely reckless, and often have no idea what their life is already present diabetes.

With frightening speed progress on the background of untreated diabetes such interesting things as coronary heart disease, cerebral atherosclerosis, hypertension. And the treatment of these ailments is becoming extremely difficult and, frankly, ineffective exercise, since vascular changes are virtually irreversible.

Of course, I'm oversimplifying things. Diabetology is developing very rapidly, and in terms of approaches to treatment and to study the causes of diabetes.

Prevention of diabetes, which does not tire of talking endocrinologists and therapists, in fact, simple, and even when a reasonably good habits, pleasant. It is called just a healthy lifestyle.

Food culture, the exclusion from the diet of sugar, white bread, cakes and pastries, frequent consumption of fruits and vegetables, minimally processed as possible culinary, sleep and rest, reasonable and feasible physical activities, denial of alcohol abuse - these simple measures are very significantly reduce the risk of of diabetes. All in your hands, dear citizens, - well, at least, a lot.

They say there are countries in the world, in which diabetes is considered an incurable disease is not severe, but just a special circumstance of life. From the category of those circumstances that require, of course, attentive to their relationship, but does not put a cross in any career, nor love, nor even in the classroom in professional sports.

And the routine counting of bread units, control of blood glucose, dosage adjustments of insulin or other glucose-lowering drugs and other necessary procedures do not become diabetic tragedy, which transforms man into an invalid, but simply run automatically, somewhere between the toilet and brushing teeth.

They say that such an approach to their health is much less common severe complications of diabetes - such as gangrene of the lower extremities, liver disease, vascular disease, problems with the retina. And the life expectancy of diabetes does not differ from the average.

They say that in any country can be reasonable, calm and without panic to their health. And to cope with problems as they come on the stage when they are solved without too much loss.

Diabetes - is not a sentence. It's just a condition of the problem, which is called life.

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What to do when leg cramps?

Each of us at least once in your life ever feel the cramp in his leg. And this is natural, because the phenomenon is so widespread, that it is facing about 75% of the people. Typically, seizures begin suddenly, they are strong and deliver a very unpleasant experience. And so it will be useful to learn more about seizures and how to deal with them.

The reasons

The sharp contraction of the muscle may be due to chronic fatigue and sleep deprivation. Cramps are also due to excessive physical stress due to accumulation of lactic acid in muscle during exercise or prolonged walking. At the same time, the cause may be lack of stimulation of muscle nerves with low mobility. Causes cramps and prolonged stay in an uncomfortable position because of insufficient blood flow. But the most common cause is the lack of the necessary micronutrients in the body: magnesium, calcium and vitamin D.

Seizures may be symptoms of diseases such as varicose veins, diabetes, liver cirrhosis, a disease of the spine, lesions of the thyroid gland, etc. That is why frequent spasms and cramps when associated with blood circulation, you should see a specialist.

Prophylaxis

As already mentioned, the most common cause of seizures is a shortage of calcium, magnesium, and potassium in the body. The fact that the food people usually do not get the daily rate of Mg. Therefore, we recommend additional supplementation of magnesium in the medication or supplement. Since Mg and Ca are in close contact, it is recommended to maintain the content in the body of both of these elements, along with vitamin D, which helps them to assimilate.

However, do not forget about fresh fruits and vegetables. The source of calcium are milk, cheese, cottage cheese, almonds. Magnesium in large quantities include walnuts, buckwheat, beans. Potassium-rich beets, raisins, dried apricots, garlic, and sunflower seeds. Will be useful, and mineral water.

Removal of spasm

To relieve the pain, you need to stretch the cramped muscle. You can do this by doing the following simple exercise. Stand up straight, facing the wall at a distance of one step. Feet slightly wider spread your shoulders. Rest against the wall with his hands above his head. Small steps to retreat, without taking his foot off the floor. Slowly back down until until you feel a stretch summarized muscles.
Just do not overdo it! Undue discomfort to stretch the muscles should not be. Stopped and keep this position for half a minute. It is also recommended rub and pinch the cramped leg.

Another way to remove the spasm is a massage. Use your thumb to push the point in the middle of the gastrocnemius muscle, gradually increasing the pressure. Then a couple of seconds, press in the popliteal fossa. It should be noted that the tremor in pregnant women has a special character. This method is contraindicated for them.

A sharp spasm of the muscles may occur when swimming in cold water. So before we recommend to do some physical exercises. Need to warm up your muscles to increase blood flow to them, because spasm causes vasoconstriction due to extreme temperatures. If there is a needle or with a pin, we'll get in spasm. Painful irritation of the contract the muscles cramp stops.

Now, armed with these recommendations, you will not let cramps take you by surprise. But do not forget that muscle spasms can be symptoms of several diseases, including complications during pregnancy. Therefore, when they occur frequently, be sure to consult your doctor.

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How to maintain the elasticity of facial skin

Over time, the facial skin begins to age. Only someone this process starts earlier, someone later. What factors cause premature aging of skin? It's smoking, stress, aggressive environmental influences. Is it possible to avoid the aging of the skin? No, but slow down this process you can. How do you learn from this article.
Exercises for the elasticity of skin

For the forehead. Raise eyebrows, and the wide open eyes. Put your fingers on the forehead, pull the skin of the forehead down. Relax your facial muscles. Repeat 15 times.

Raise eyebrows at this point hold the eyebrows with your fingers to create resistance. Repeat 10 times.

Nahmurtes so that wrinkles are formed on his forehead. At this point, with the palms let this movement.

For the lips. Smile broadly, without opening his mouth, at least 10 times. Pull the lips forward, as during a kiss. Secure a position of lips for a few seconds. Repeat at least 10 times.

Lift the upper lip to the gum at the same time were naked. Repeat this exercise 20 times.

Squeeze the corners of her lips with your fingers, pull out and relax lips. Repeat this exercise 15 times.

To the eye. Relax the muscles of the face, look, first up, then down, right and left. Repeat this exercise 15 times. Then firmly zazhmurte eyes and relax your muscles again.

To make your eyes look fresh, get an eyebrow index finger and thumb, press down on it. Walk across the brow.

If you are plagued by "bags" under the eyes, daily index and middle fingers massage the area in the lower eyelid.

For the neck. Sit up straight, head Overturn ago. Start making chewing movements. You will feel your neck muscles tensed. Relax. Repeat this exercise 10 times.

Put your palms on his shoulders. Hands "pull" the shoulders down and pull your head up. Hold this position for 10 seconds. Repeat this exercise 10 times.

Tilt your head to the left, take your jaw to the left. Repeat the exercise, only now tilt your head to the right.
Nutrition for the elasticity of skin

In the body of an infant has a very large percentage of water. Over time, the percentage of body water decreases. In other words, a person simply "dries up". This may not be reflected in its skin.

So the first rule, which must comply with every woman, drink plenty of water. On the day you should drink at least one liter of water, depending on the weight and state of health. Foods that you eat each day should consist of 50% of the water. Your diet must be present fruits and vegetables. Cigarettes, alcohol, soda, fast food ... All this is causing significant harm to your health and skin condition. Avoid these foods and slow down the aging process.

Try less angry, because the lines "anger" very ugly. More smile and love life! Of course, the stress can not escape, but you can change your attitude. If something goes wrong at work or at home, do not worry. Try to find the causes of their failures. If you can not change the situation, Humble. After all, your feelings are reflected on your face.

A little more laugh and smile, and you'll be young forever! Let not the body but the soul's for sure.

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How to stay healthy in the office

Working in an office. It is doing most of the people in the world. However, in addition to the money office can bring a number of health problems that adversely affect not only the workflow, but also in everyday life. For example, back ache, chronic fatigue, carpal tunnel syndrome and other unpleasant diseases. Avoid them, observing a few simple rules.

The cause of most of the office is a disease that people have to spend days working on the computer, sitting in one position. This inevitably causes a disturbance of circulation (after all the time, while a man sits with his constricted blood vessels), as well as aches and pain in the neck and back, which can develop into a low back pain.

In order not to bring the matter before the development of the disease from which no medical care can not cope, you need to distribute the load on the muscles and spine to help correct posture. The back should be rectified, and the pelvis rests against the back of the chair, body weight should be directed to the buttocks and not on the tailbone.

Relax stiff muscles to help a number of simple exercises that can be made without interrupting operation. To straighten the tired backs, you need to put one hand on his head, and another to have his back just below the shoulder blades, then bend at the waist, while throwing his head back so that his head lay on his arm. In the end, it is useful sometimes to get up and go to change the load on his back.

In the same way you can prevent varicose veins and the formation and thrombosis, ie blood clots, provoked many hours of sitting. Try not to allow your legs numb. More often pull them close and remove or tamper with your knees and avoid posture "foot to foot." Interestingly, brushed on the table legs, though beyond the scope of good conduct, but rather a beneficial effect on blood vessels.

Constant presence in front of the monitor may cause the so-called dry eye syndrome, the symptoms which are manifested in the feeling of dryness, itching and burning eyes, fatigue when reading, irritation and redness of the eyes. To prevent this syndrome, you need to drink plenty of fluids throughout the day. In addition, the fight against dry eye syndrome, promotes the use of wetting drops for the eyes. In no case, do not rub your eyes with your fingers - it will only increase irritation.

For a purely computer-disease is also true carpal tunnel syndrome, which manifests itself in tingling, numbness, tremors in the fingers and pain in the wrists. The cause of pain is a pinched nerve in the carpal tunnel. In particular, suffers from the hand, which the people hold the mouse.

Avoid tunnel syndrome is very simple. It is necessary to issue a workplace so that when you use the keyboard angle bend arms at the elbow was straight, but when working with a mouse wrist was straight, and lay on the table as far as possible from the edge. More useful to perform simple exercises for the hands - shaking them, open and close their fists, rotate around its axis, and sometimes massage the palm of your hand.

Another risk of disease associated with the office air conditioning. Remember that safe for the immediate health of the temperature difference - no more than 3-5 degrees. Therefore, if the street 30-degree heat, then coming to the office can turn the air conditioner at 25 degrees, not lower, and only a couple of hours gradually lower the temperature. Of course, in situations when the office is open-Space, it is difficult to adjust the air conditioner so that all was well. In this case, the easiest way to avoid the disease is common sweatshirt that can be stored directly on the paper.

Remember that the main thing - not to fight disease when they have already taken place, and prevent their development. This means that the monitor is needed not only at work but out of the office, to be able to relax and not to neglect the banal series of exercises.



Tags: tips, muscles, prevention, exercise, office, healthHow to stay healthy in the office?


Working in an office. It is doing most of the people in the world. However, in addition to the money office can bring a number of health problems that adversely affect not only the workflow, but also in everyday life. For example, back ache, chronic fatigue, carpal tunnel syndrome and other unpleasant diseases. Avoid them, observing a few simple rules.

The cause of most of the office is a disease that people have to spend days working on the computer, sitting in one position. This inevitably causes a disturbance of circulation (after all the time, while a man sits with his constricted blood vessels), as well as aches and pain in the neck and back, which can develop into a low back pain.

In order not to bring the matter before the development of the disease from which no medical care can not cope, you need to distribute the load on the muscles and spine to help correct posture. The back should be rectified, and the pelvis rests against the back of the chair, body weight should be directed to the buttocks and not on the tailbone.

Relax stiff muscles to help a number of simple exercises that can be made without interrupting operation. To straighten the tired backs, you need to put one hand on his head, and another to have his back just below the shoulder blades, then bend at the waist, while throwing his head back so that his head lay on his arm. In the end, it is useful sometimes to get up and go to change the load on his back.

In the same way you can prevent varicose veins and the formation and thrombosis, ie blood clots, provoked many hours of sitting. Try not to allow your legs numb. More often pull them close and remove or tamper with your knees and avoid posture "foot to foot." Interestingly, brushed on the table legs, though beyond the scope of good conduct, but rather a beneficial effect on blood vessels.




Constant presence in front of the monitor may cause the so-called dry eye syndrome, the symptoms which are manifested in the feeling of dryness, itching and burning eyes, fatigue when reading, irritation and redness of the eyes. To prevent this syndrome, you need to drink plenty of fluids throughout the day. In addition, the fight against dry eye syndrome, promotes the use of wetting drops for the eyes. In no case, do not rub your eyes with your fingers - it will only increase irritation.

For a purely computer-disease is also true carpal tunnel syndrome, which manifests itself in tingling, numbness, tremors in the fingers and pain in the wrists. The cause of pain is a pinched nerve in the carpal tunnel. In particular, suffers from the hand, which the people hold the mouse.

Avoid tunnel syndrome is very simple. It is necessary to issue a workplace so that when you use the keyboard angle bend arms at the elbow was straight, but when working with a mouse wrist was straight, and lay on the table as far as possible from the edge. More useful to perform simple exercises for the hands - shaking them, open and close their fists, rotate around its axis, and sometimes massage the palm of your hand.

Another risk of disease associated with the office air conditioning. Remember that safe for the immediate health of the temperature difference - no more than 3-5 degrees. Therefore, if the street 30-degree heat, then coming to the office can turn the air conditioner at 25 degrees, not lower, and only a couple of hours gradually lower the temperature. Of course, in situations when the office is open-Space, it is difficult to adjust the air conditioner so that all was well. In this case, the easiest way to avoid the disease is common sweatshirt that can be stored directly on the paper.

Remember that the main thing - not to fight disease when they have already taken place, and prevent their development. This means that the monitor is needed not only at work but out of the office, to be able to relax and not to neglect the banal series of exercises.

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Primary bone cancer

Bone cancer - a malignant tumor that affects the skeletal system. Cancer of the bone of origin are divided into primary and metastatic.

Primary bone cancer is extremely rare - 1.5-3.0 per million population. Men get sick more often. The average age of patients with bone cancer in men is 17 years, women 18 years of age. The main type of primary bone cancers are sarcomas, bone cells develop from bone (osteogenic osteosarcoma, parostalnaya sarcoma, malignant osteoblastoklastoma) is much less common chondrosarcoma - of cartilage cells, fibrosarcoma - from the cells of fibrous connective tissue, and tumor nekostnye - angioma, lymphoma and Ewing's tumor of bone marrow origin.

Osteosarcoma is formed during growth of the bones before the age of 15 years, 97% of cases affects the metaphysis of long bones and pelvis. It features slow growth, but quickly spread to the lungs (70-90%) and other bones of the skeleton, particularly in the ribs and collarbone.

The clinical picture

It is painless if you exercise and palpation, but is characterized by the appearance of dull pain, a feeling of heaviness, tiredness in the limbs and bursting in the night. With the growth of tumors, mainly with the beginning of the transition to the surrounding soft tissue pain becomes constant, intense, disturbed function of the nearby joint.

Treatment of osteosarcoma should be carried out in specialized centers.

By contacting us you will be able to consult leading experts in the field, pass the complete examination and you will be picked up by the most optimal method of treatment.

In the presence of metastases in the lungs, due to their rapid growth, shows the initial surgical treatment of lung metastases, and then the primary focus. After removal of pulmonary metastasis or osteosarcoma without metastases to the lungs demonstrated an amputation or disarticulation limb, sometimes there is the possibility of bone resection with replacement of the allograft site, however, because of late diagnosis is probably not more than 20% of patients. With the defeat of the pelvis surgery is impossible, therefore, shows the radiation therapy, although most of osteosarcomas is not sensitive to it.

Parostalnaya sarcoma develops between the ages of 30-40 years, characterized by slow growth, metastasis gives very rare, but not after the resection (amputation or disarticulation of limbs) of tumor relapse. Most often affects the distal metaphysis thigh accompanied by pain and impaired joint function, as is often detected at an early stage that allows to perform radical surgery with a relative, of course, the recovery of 70-80% of patients.

Chondrosarcoma occurs between the ages of 30-50 years in the pelvis, proximal femur, ribs, proximal metaphysis shoulder. It grows slowly, is painless, rarely causes limitation of joint mobility, so often attains a large size, until it becomes visible to the eye. Metastases to the lungs makes is in the later stages of tumor development. Radical surgery can be 50% of patients with a good result - the survival of 5 years or more. In case of insufficient radical surgery is usually developed rapidly relapse.

Osteoblastoklastoma formed during neoplastic transformation of benign giant cell tumor of bone (the frequency of malignancy of this tumor is 15-20%). There are two major forms of cancer - and the cell-lytic trabukulyarnuyu. Metaepiphysis affects long bones, usually the proximal arm and distal femur and pelvic bones. Can produce a symmetrical bone lesions, in the early stages is often regarded as rheumatism. Clinical manifestations of virtually no other than to increase bone in the area and sealing metaphysis surrounding tissues. Articular cartilage, even with large size of the tumor is not affected, so the mobility of the joint is preserved. Detected more often in case of pathological fractures. Metastases to the lungs gives rare, although they respond well to surgical treatment. The x-ray bone cortex fusiform swollen, often has his "breakthrough" to form a "canopy" of the periosteum. When osteoblastoklastome long bones show a radical surgical treatment, the localization in the bones of the pelvis - radiation therapy.

Ewing's tumor is 15-20% of malignant tumors of bone. Occurs before the age of 25 years. Affects mainly the diaphysis of long bones, gives early metastasis to other bones and lungs. Clinical symptoms are clearly: the pain sharp, constant, and is characterized by bouts of fever, anemia, leukocytosis, rapid weight loss. X-rays revealed bone enlargement and thickening of the diaphysis of the bone and lytic areas of destruction. Treatment is complex: radical surgery, radiation therapy, to which the tumor is very sensitive, and combination chemotherapy "adriamycin", "dactinomycin," "VCR" and "cyclophosphamide". Only such a comprehensive treatment provides a five-year survival rate of 70% of patients.

Other primary tumors are extremely rare: occurs as a variant of fibrosarcoma of osteosarcoma, but has a more malignant character, five-year survival of 15-40%, even with a full range of treatments. Chordoma - bone tumor of embryonic origin occurs in 40-60 years, affects the spine with the development of myelo-radicular syndrome from compression of the spinal cord and roots, rarely metastasizes. Adamantioma appears in 90% of patients in the tibia, usually over the age of 30 years, growing slowly, radical surgery for favorable outcome

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BONE CANCER

Bone cancer, primary or secondary (metastatic) malignant tumor that affects the skeletal system of the body. Primary malignant bone tumors are sarcomas, ie tumors of the connective tissue of origin, they appear directly in the bones or joints. Metastatic tumors develop from cancer cells formed in other cancerous tissues and organs, and caught in the bones or joints, usually hematogenous (through blood).

The types and frequency of sarcomas.
Sarcomas develop from undergoing malignant degeneration of cells of the connective tissue that forms the skeleton. These tumors include osteosarcoma arising from the bone cell chondrosarcoma - of cartilage cells, malignant fibrosarcoma and fibrogistiotsitomy - from the cells of fibrous connective tissue, as well as lymphoma and Ewing's sarcoma of bone marrow origin. These sarcomas are composed of atypical spindle-shaped cells with a high rate of cell division. Carkomy differ in the nature of the product produced by them, for example, osteosarcoma produces sarcomatous, or unmineralized, bone.

The most common primary malignant bone tumors are osteosarcoma is. Their incidence is approximately 1:500 000, and in the U.S. each year 450-500 cases. These tumors occur more often in men than in women, and the median age of patients was 18 years for men and 17 for women.
Symptoms and diagnosis of osteosarcoma.
Classic signs and symptoms of osteosarcoma are determined by the fact that it is slow-growing tumor. Being painless on palpation, it is at night, a dull pain and discomfort. Hidden, imperceptible onset of the disease is often hampered early diagnosis. The diagnosis can be established by X-ray examination, which reveals structural changes in the bone closer to its end (in the metaphysis), and often sarcomatous bone tissue in the tumor itself. Radioisotope scanning of the skeleton, which is estimated bone uptake of the radioactive substance injected, in such cases reveals an active process of bone formation. CT scan can be seen thickened outer portion (cortex) layer of bone and soft tissue mass outside the bone. In order to assess the degree of tumor proliferation, resort to arteriography - X-rays of blood vessels with the use of dyes. Because osteosarcoma through the bloodstream ultimately give metastases to the lungs, is also carried out X-ray .

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How to eat fruit

We have a child hear and read a lot about the benefits of fruits - every schoolboy knows that they are rich in vitamins, nutrients and trace elements, and that the fruit is frequently necessary, the diet is incomplete without them.

Some scholars, as well as vegans and raw-foodists even believe that the fruits - the universal food, which contains almost all essential items.

Unfortunately, it is not surprising that, not knowing the most basic rules of eating fruit, not only do we not receive (and sometimes does not get) a lot of nutrients, but also sometimes injure your body - the misuse of fruit violates digestion, causing heartburn and bloating.
Who are you, a fruit?

What is the fruit? This is the fruit of plants designed by nature to protect, preserve and seed supply, as well as to provide it with water and all necessary at the beginning of the growth nutrients. Therefore, fruits do contain a solid set of useful and highly relevant to man of substances - cellulose, carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, water and even enzymes. It remains only to learn to eat properly.
Rule one: fresh fruit

About the dangers of thermal processing of food (as well as conservation, smoking, freezing) all have long known, but if many foods difficult (not taste good, unusual, or even impossible - like mushrooms, for example) are in their natural form, the fruit and berries This approach is applicable.

Jams, preserves, stewed, baked or caramelled fruit, candied fruits - this is nothing more than a sweet, rich except preservatives and sugar, and nutrients and enzymes - to a minimal extent.

The only exceptions are fruits, but mostly home-made (better to dry themselves or buy in the markets), rather than those that are sold in shops in beautiful packages.
Rule two: fruit - not a dessert!

Many of us are accustomed to eating fruits in the final, after the main meal, or as a dessert, for example, as one component of a meal (rice, meat, cheese, cottage cheese, oatmeal with fruit, fruit and vegetable salads and juices), but this wrong.

Reacts with other types of food, fruit, produce in the gastrointestinal tract fermentation, which are shown in heartburn, bloating, pain and other unpleasant events.

Therefore, fruit is recommended on an empty stomach, apart from the rest of the products as a separate meal. Ideally - for breakfast.

Yeah, do not be surprised!

Fruit - a perfect meal to start the day. No mess, not a sandwich, and certainly not chop with macaroni, namely fruit.

They give us a lot of energy, accelerate metabolism, does not require much time and energy to digest, do not cause the usual (but it is not healthy!) The severity and sleepiness. The benefits of breakfast fruit can be read by Dr. Herbert M. Shelton, or, for example, Allen Carr.

When you eat fruit, you need to wait for some time, and only after this time are ready to accept other foods:

 after the juicy fruit - 20-30 minutes;
 after the fleshy (bananas, dried fruits, dates, figs, etc.) - 45-60 minutes.
Rule Three: juices, smoothies and fruit puree

Food industry - it is a business whose main purpose is still the earnings, profits, and not our health.


As with any business, the industry is built on tricks, illusions, and what could be honest, cheating. For example, manufacturers are successfully exploited by persistent human association: all that somehow contains fruits and vegetables - is useful and should be consumed in large quantities.

Unfortunately, this is only partly true, and that when it comes to natural, unprocessed fruits and vegetables.

Packaged juices, fruit jellies, jelly, fruit jellies, purees, yogurts and even baby foods actually have little in common with "live" fruit, and even advertising, in which we show bursting under the weight of fruit branches and rosy smiling gardeners with baskets, can not change this fact.

Sugar, preservatives, flavors, fragrances and many other unknown chemical compounds - that's the basis of these products. But not the vitamins and nutrients.

Therefore, juices, fruit purees and smoothies is better to drink (and eat!) Only in-kind (juicers and blenders - to help), and immediately after cooking - in contact with air, fruit pulp oxidation reaction started and the nutrients lost.
Rule Five: nitrates, pesticides and GMOs

TV, Internet, newspapers and our impressionable grandmother endlessly frighten us maxims that in today's vegetables and fruits is nothing good and useful things there - a chemical, pesticides, and GMOs are omnipresent. In their words, there is truth - fruit shop picturesquely beautiful and suspiciously long kept, which, of course, can not doubt.

As reasonable people you have to understand that in modern conditions, the use of these substances is almost inevitable, but damage from them is much less than the benefits of eating fresh fruit.

But we can still do a few simple steps to reduce the absorption of all this shit to a minimum:

 to buy vegetables from gardeners, grandmothers, markets or organic food stores (the most unsightly appearance - as a rule, the most natural)
 thoroughly wash fruit shop (better - in hot water and a brush)
 eat them without peeling.

Pleasant and healthy fruktoedeniya you!

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