Fresh evidence that fatty food is bad for our health has come to light: mice fed a lard-based diet over a long period got worse at fighting bacteria in the blood, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy.
The mice fed the lard-based diet derived 60 per cent of their total calories from fat.
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Comments OffNew research from Queen Mary, University of London and Harvard Medical School has revealed precisely why taking fish oils can help with conditions like rheumatoid arthritis.
In a paper published in Nature today*, researchers describe how the body converts an ingredient found in fish oils into another chemical called Resolvin D2 and how this chemical reduces the inflammation that leads to a variety of diseases.
The research also suggests that Resolvin D2 could be the basis for a new treatment for diseases including sepsis, stroke and arthritis.
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Posted in Diet and Exercise Tags: Anti Inflammatory Drugs, Arthritis, Arthritis Research Campaign, D2, Exact Chemical Structure, Fish Oils, Harvard Medical School, Immune System, Immunopharmacology, Inflammation, National Institutes Of Health, Natural Defences, Queen Mary University, Queen Mary University Of London, Resea, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Sepsis, Types Of Arthritis, University Of London, Wellcome Trust Comments OffWhen discussing white tea vs green tea, it is important to realize that they both come from the same plant, the tea plant Camellia sinensis.
Posted in Diet and Exercise Tags: Antioxidant, Antioxidants, Arts Sciences, Black Tea, Department Of Biology, Dyson College, Green Tea, Healing Properties, Immune System, Leaf Buds, Microbiologist, Old Wives, Orange Juice, Pace University, Plant Camellia Sinensis, Tea Leaf, Tea Leaves, Tea Plant, Vitro, White Tea Extract Comments OffScientists are exploring the possibility that drugs that affect the immune system might one day serve as potent weapons to fight the flu, even the swine flu that’s currently circulating around the globe.
The concept has worked with a group of lab mice that were treated with the rheumatoid arthritis drug abatacept (Orencia) after being given a lethal dose of influenza A virus, researchers report.
The mice were also loaded up with “memory” T-cells — white blood cells that were programmed to react to this strain of flu.
Eighty percent of the treated mice lived, compared to only 50 percent of those left untreated, said Donna Farber, senior author of a paper published in the June 1 issue of The Journal of Immunology.
Posted in Health Tips Tags: Abatacept, Arthritis, Flu, Immune System, Influenza, Influenza A Virus, Initial Infection, Journal Of Immunology, Lab Mice, Lethal Dose, Orencia, Potent Weapons, Regularity, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis Drug, Swine Flu, T Cells, Virus Researchers, White Blood Cells, White Cells Comments OffAtaxia-telangiectasia (AT) (Boder-Sedgwick syndrome or Louis-Bar syndrome) is a rare, neurodegenerative, inherited disease which affects many parts of the body and causes severe disability.
Posted in Diseases Tags: Ataxia Telangiectasia, Blood Vessels, Cerebellar Ataxia, Cerebellum, Clinical Features, Clinical Findings, Diagnostic Symptoms, Differential Diagnosis, Hallmarks, Immune System, Mutation, Nbs, Neurodegenerative, Poor Coordination, Rare Condition, Refsum Disease, Respiratory Disorders, Sedgwick, Toddler Stage, Typical Findings Comments OffIt seems that with each passing year more and more people are getting sick, more illnesses are coming about and more people are being affected by chronic disease.
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