Weight Status in Young Adults

Aged between 18 and 25 are overweight and obese journal Obesity, according to a study published on the Internet for young adults, overweight and more likely to have best friends and share a romantic overweight than their peers of normal weight friends and family felt comfortable. Also, trying to lose weight reported having social relationships with overweight and obese adolescents had no intention of losing weight.
Because this is an important issue? Forty percent of young adults 18-25 is considered overweight or obese young adults experience the highest rate of pounds a year - usually a £ 2 - every age group. Previous research on the behavior of the continuous social influence health, especially young people who have demonstrated a strong effect, while not the study of social ties among young adults examined whether the effect of weight status and intentions of the weight loss.
Editorial writer Tricia Leahey, PhD, Miriam Hospital Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center and researcher at the same time, fewer young adults are more likely to participate in behavioral interventions for weight loss, when they do, he says, tend adults to lose weight, less than before. "For us, this population, and participation in the treatment of obesity and effective prevention programs can help develop this age group at high risk, the factors that influence the determination of the status and weight control weight," he said.
288 young adults aged between 18 and 25, including the study, 137 (body mass index of 25 or more) are considered overweight or obese, while 151 people, was a normal weight. Most participants were women and the Caucasus. All participants and their weight and dimensions of perception of social norms for obesity and obesity-related behaviors (best friends, romantic partners, friends, casual, family and friends / classmates included) are overweight, the survey is was conducted to determine the number of social contacts.
Overweight and obese participants in the study a supplementary question, to lose weight, encourage them to lose weight, social relations, such as how often people close to them or to lose weight and perceived social norms (trying to determine which part of their social contacts have been completed overweight) to lose weight if I were to confirm and intentions for the next three months to lose weight.
The study is also trying to lose weight were more likely to want to give them greater weight in overweight and obese young adults has shown that social contacts. encouragement and approval of social relations, the account of this combination of social norms, such as weight loss, researchers say.

Adrenaline Receptor

Position - a position held Xaperones ™ adrenaline receptors, requires a lock. Xaperone ™, as the adrenaline receptor binding, researchers can determine the structure of the techniques of X-ray crystallography. The results were published in the journal Nature.

Perspectives of Medicine

The former is not only a scientific breakthrough, a recently developed technique offers hope to the prospects of medicine. button adrenaline inhibitors and beta blockers are widely used in asthma medications, such as Target. The second is used in medicine for heart disease in the world.

But the statement is not limited to the disease of asthma or heart problems. 30% of all drugs sold in pharmacies of the same receptors on or off. With a recently developed technique, the receiver and to determine the validity of new medicines or better is a necessary first step is the development, which could be described now.

switches in the body as a receiver

Adrenaline is a hormone released under stress. Messenger, and the heart beat faster as an immediate source of energy used in our sweat suddenly cause for which the sugar molecule released. These reactions are the result of the fact that a particular key (also known as beta2-adrenergic receptor) binds to adrenaline. The key steps in the membrane surrounding the cells. When the receptors of adrenaline, a single cell of the body in preparation for the rest of the fight or flight reactions to stress, as you know.

It is not possible to determine the structure of the traditional methods of these switches. Swaying motion and position of constant change, even when the signal molecule, such as the absence of adrenaline. As the ice cream at Stanford University, Jan Steyaert, and colleagues, the researchers were able to position "to" Enable adrenaline. To this end, to make this transition gives a key to the locked position and switch to another leads to halt Xaperone ™ is used. This structure has been determined using X-ray crystallography, the "frozen" in place.

Antibiotics Best Treatment for Ear Infections in Toddlers, Study Finds

Many American children with otitis media infections treated with antibiotics. But for children with mild symptoms, clinical guidelines for the U.S. usually reserves the right antibiotic to children without symptoms, watchful waiting recommend that you develop over time. In contrast. Responding to concerns about antibiotics, doctors in many European countries in almost all cases of middle ear infections in children waiting to be aware to follow a strategy Conflicting results in previous studies comparing the two strategies, and definition of middle ear infections because of differences between the studies, the authors of the study has to say.

These results appear in the January issue of 13 New England Journal of Medicine.

NEJM study, researchers randomly amoxicillin-clavulanate or placebo for 10 days with strict criteria for diagnosis of acute otitis media, with an age of 291 children between 6 and 23 months is set. It is those in the treatment group compared with the placebo group of these children and found that a substantial reduction in the severity and duration of symptoms. The study's authors, these results side effects of antibiotics and the potential emergence of antimicrobial resistance must be balanced against concerns about the attention.

Energy Drinks

An energy drink mixed with vodka, for example - to - have no effect on the caffeine, but the addition of alcohol was found at Brown University Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Boston University Center for Public Health was a new study led by researchers to increase the performance of a test drive or to improve reaction time, sustained attention or .

"Caution and quick, accurate decisions that require ongoing activities in relation to the safe conduct, in addition to caffeine, alcohol can be said that very little or no protective benefit," published in the journal Addiction in the February issue of research, he said.

"The results of this study, these [caffeinated alcoholic drinks] cable safety regulators need to think about energy drink Cab advertising should be controlled in relation to the promotion of hope, to suggest the media and public education relating to safety and warning labels."

study, particularly energy drinks mixed with alcohol, the test took place in the growing period, the island government, became a professor of health sciences community BUSPH Jonathan. Denmark has banned the sale of energy drinks, energy drinks and alcohol mixing the governments of Canada and Sweden gave the warning.

In 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration expressed concern about the lack of data pertaining to the security may be issued a statement, the survey results, this kind of relationship with risky behaviors among college students showed that consumption of such drinks.

Ada and the authors and do not have the energy drink companies in the clear, "non-traditional youth-oriented marketing strategy" drinks such as "attention, endurance will improve the performance claims must be mixed with alcohol containing products promote weight loss, I remember, and entertainment, as they decrease alcohol fatigue performance dekremant ".

This new study, the research team randomly divided into four groups, 30 to 129 participants, ages 21 assigned to: a group of the finished beer with caffeine, no caffeine, and ending with a second beer, a caffeinated non-alcoholic beer, and a third that ended the fourth non-alcoholic caffeine, beer ended without. slightly higher than 0.8 grams per cent, for each of the legal level to drive the effect of - 0.12 grams of alcohol per cent of people get from the average blood alcohol level.

Thirty minutes after drinking, participants were tested on a driving simulator and / reaction time test, on sustained attention.

Waistlines and Hearts

European Heart Journal online January 12, a large multi-ethnic population study published a representative, and lifestyle when you first sit down and heart disease at rest a link to see a total spend, such as diabetes and atherosclerosis, metabolic diseases as the role of (blocked arteries) a variety of indicators of risk can play a swelling.

O ("I practice for a long time motionless on time with moderate - even to strengthen, people spent cardio metabolism - such as waist circumference and inflammation, function, low HDL levels every A good indicator is linked to poor ") cholesterol and C reactive protein (inflammation is an important point), and triglycerides (blood fat), high level.

However, this study too long people sit down, rest more during this, a small waist and C reactive protein level found for less.

Are some differences that race and nationality. Most important, only non-Hispanic whites in a long time just highlight the negative effects on waist circumference, but that Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic black out a difference is to be useful.

Dr Genevieve Healy, Population Health, Labour Party, led by Queensland, Australia, a research assistant in the School of the University, said:. "Normally, the time limit, the live, blood fat and insulin resistance markers in time for holiday most clinically significant results to be the most important difference was observed for the number of waist circumference. Top 25 people in the end is as high 25 percent, compared to average almost a% 4.1cm frame has a smaller waist. "

Dr. Healy and 2003 and 2006 U. S. between colleagues. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey of 4757 people 20 years or more participation data gathered. Participants in a small device volume and intensity of walking or running activity monitor, an accelerometer to wear the meeting. Worn for seven days of hip right now, on waking and researchers settled population and break information. Waist circumference, blood pressure, cholesterol level and C reactive protein was measured carefully and when he (triglyceride fasting glucose, plasma insulin levels and was estimated sub-sample of participants attended a morning examination. study participants scientists, medical history and lifestyle (smoking, alcohol, diet) differences between socio-demographic data contains.

1.8 hours a day minimum dwelling time, more than 21.2 hours per day, seven days rest and completed within a minimum amount of 99, 1258.

He concluded: "The long-term social and technological innovations that have increased in are when I sit, and most important move during the day and long periods and then settled down to regular sitting To avoid a major health message that further evidence may help to cut away where causal than regular participation in exercise at steady state will not endanger life time is recommended to be .. This is, at least, contribute to daily energy use and overall level can help prevent weight increase .. "

Measles Virus, a Weapon Against Cancer

This magic world is still more than 10 million infections and measles, measles, measles vaccine is developed that can help eliminate the causes 150,000 deaths is due in part. But he also has another source: scientists, "Re-targeted" attack only cancer cells and, therefore, believe that the new change in measles virus, and a powerful cancer treatment.
Measles virus transformation of cells into a weapon against cancer one step closer to reality Now a new discovery process have been dreaming about. Rochester, Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic in Galveston University of Texas Medical Branch, a group of researchers, including scientists, to connect and measles virus infected cells gave detailed information used by the complex molecular mechanism.
Measles virus genetic material in a spherical shell around the main actors in the form of two proteins. Receptor molecules on the cell's outer membrane is connected to a host of vegetable proteins and viruses to infect cells, the cell membrane and fusion of viral envelope protein binding to another. Study published in the current issue of Nature Structural Biology and Molecular Biology, the flexibility inherent in a cell fusion protein binding showed that the pre-condition for the start of the process.
"The attack our Mayo Clinic employees, Roberto Cattaneo, a certain cancer cells, measles virus, routing, and for the general purpose as possible, both he and his team like to know about the mechanisms of measles virus infection, no," said UTMB professor Werner Braun author of the study. "We have to help them better target their experimental studies and our theoretical predictions with numerical methods, have long-term cooperation with your own group."
UTMB Health Research Numan Oezguer use computer models to predict the molecular interaction sites of protein attachment to the head of mobility and interaction, and change the suggested specific mutation. Cattaneo led - - Mayo Clinic group, the results of these experiments, the cell entry of the rotational movement of the measles virus is connected to the heads showed protein binding.
Mayo Clinic to get an accurate picture of the mechanism of a dynamic group of measles virus mutation, head-binding protein mobility, and then the mutant virus to infect cells in the test to determine the possibility of any kind created. "Dr. Cattaneo experiments burying two parts of protein were found to have an enormous impact on the movement of infectious diseases do," said Brown. "Simply put, we believe that as a lever - this kind of movement in order to produce the cell attachment protein receptors for the right move, and the fusion protein causes and leads to infectivity."
Other authors of paper Cattaneo, Chanakha Navaratnarajah, Levi Rupp, Lee Kai and the Mayo Clinic has Leonard Vincent. Mayo Clinic Cancer Center and the National Institutes of Health supported this research.

The Pain of Diabetes: Peripheral Neuropathy

If you have diabetes, you already know about. or destroy - and why you eat when your blood sugar levels, there can send a big to eat. better or worse "diabetic diet" to go together like salt and pepper seasoning.

better food for a couple of motivation should be that if you - if you do not have to do? - Think about it: with diabetes, the neuropathic pain at high risk or loss, have a diabetic neuropathy. What works and what an active life, can be a problem walking a little tingling or numbness of the legs can begin. Diabetic neuropathy can cause damage to your digestive system sexual response, and it's hard to feel normal for the body - as a sign of decreased blood sugar or heart attack.

Fortunately recommends nerve pain that the American Diabetes Association helped a balanced diet is different from the standard diet, Dace L. ditch, MD, endocrinologist and director of the Diabetes Care Center, Washington University Medical Center in Seattle said. much attention to the control of blood sugar, he said. "Of course, dietary changes, of course we want to help if you can."

Good blood sugar control can protect your health nervous - and perhaps even prevent, diabetic neuropathy, said the National Diabetes Information Coordination Center (INDEX). You can always doctor, but more meals per day. If you have diabetes diet drugs regardless of what may be permanent - and giant - to bite for you, will affect the health and well-being.
Tip 1 Eat a balanced diet

Why? When you return to school, I learned that a good location is the old food pyramid? Carbohydrates (starch), fruit, vegetables, dairy products, meat, poultry, fish and healthy fats: A balanced diet contains a variety of foodstuffs. the target level of balanced nutrition, weight control, and the sugar helps neuropathy, reduced the risk of complications such as heart disease and stroke.

Purpose. From all contain traces of food, please visit the new food and sugar to a diet with all the major food groups.

How? You try to weight and diet in the form of a loose male or female, for you will depend on how active. American Diabetes Association to develop in these general rules, but a specific plan, the doctor check the offers:

    * The main diet of the different food groups between the food and beverage choose.
    * Food and drinks are an ideal body weight with the management of the natural balance of calories.
    * Choose fiber-rich-quick-quick fruit, vegetables and whole grains.
    Eating 2 cups of fruit and vegetables per day 2 1 / 2 cups (if you eat 2,000 calories)
    * If you eat all the grain to ensure that at least half.
    * Saturated fats and trans fats, adding lean meats and poultry and dairy products, fat-free or low-fat reduction.
    * Change the easy-and polyunsaturated fatty acids to saturated and trans fats (fish, nuts and vegetable oils).
    * Choose low sugar or calorie-free and prepared food and beverages.
    Eating less than 2300 mg of sodium per day.
    for women and men more than 1 * 2 drinks alcohol drinking in the blood.
    * On the next day for adults and children, individuals of at least 30 minutes for 60 minutes.