Archive for July, 2008
Saturday, June 14–Irregular menstrual cycles and premenstrual signs in women have links with delayed phase syndrome (DSPS), a new report suggests.
When the inside clock of the body naturally gets out of sync with existing time, DSPS begins to occur and it becomes a norm to stay without sleep up late night and having problem waking early on. As outer factors like time zone change, noise, light are not reasons behind outer clock to desynchronize, these are not similar conditions such as jet lag.
The new findings suggest that irregular menstrual cycles in women with delayed sleep phase syndrome have been reported twice as many than in the women without DSPS. And the occurrences increase to three times it the women with DSPS are not using birth control. Read the rest of this entry
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C: A set of North Carolina broods stunned their parents by slanting the scales and becoming the biggest twins ever in history. Sean William Maynard and Abigail Rose Maynard weighed up at a joint 23 pounds and 1 ounce at the time of delivery this week, a North Carolina hospital declared on Friday.
Freda Springs the spokeswoman for Forsyth Medical Center elucidated the twin was delivered two minutes at a distance by Caesarean section on Tuesdayat the center’s Sara Lee Center for Women’s Health in Winston-Salem.
The boy weighed 10 pounds14 ounces, while the girl 12 pounds 3 ounces. Springs is saying that both babies are in outstanding health conditions after their birth to parents Joey and Erin Maynard of Winston-Salem.
Meanwhile, the gynecologists said right after the delivery of new infants, it is quite unbelievable and surprising to feel the twins tipped scales at 23 pounds building up a new record and breaking up all kinds of ex-records about heavier twin delivery.
A metabolic disorder, which is described by changed levels of glucose tolerance and defective carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, is known as diabetes mellitus. Diabetes mellitus is linked with many complications that result from hyperglycemia stimulated inflammation.
The risks of last-stage renal disease, stroke and myocardial infraction, retinopathy, increased risk of infection, debilitating neuropathies and poor wound healing are greatly increased because of diabetes related vascular changes. It has been suggested by the many studies of diabetic complications that development of inflammatory response is intervened in great part of the cells by polymorphounuclear leukocytes, Read the rest of this entry
BEIJING : Obesity became a huge concern in China with above than a quarter of the teen population plump as people take in more red meat and dairy products to their diet casuing solemn health tribulations, a new study finds.
The researchers found many causes of extreme level of obesity in China including lack of exercise, butter, chese, pizza, spicy, oily meals, excess use of sweets, icecream, rice, heavy quantity of bread, hereditary factor and wide use of Macdonald diets, etc.
The investigation showed that more and more people are involving into various types of diseases just because of obesity like high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, kidney problem, depression, Hypo manic obsession, etc.
Meanwhile, the study author Barry Popkin, a professor of Nutrition at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina expressed in a statement, “ Obesity is creating immensily bad impact not only in the population of China but also all the developing world”.
According to the researchers of the U.S. and U.K., the reward centers in the mother’s brain get light up while seeing her baby smile; similarly, as it has been observed in experiments on drug addicts. The researchers are expectant that the findings will give more insight to understand the mom-baby bond.
The study has been published online in the journal Pediatrics‘s Ist July issue and it is the work of the researchers at University college London and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), Houston.
Dr Lane Starthearn who is a research associate at BCM College’s Human Neuroimaging laboratory stated:
“For child development, there is a critical relationship between mothers and infants.” Read the rest of this entry
