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Simply being called ‘fat’ makes young girls more likely to become obese

By Guest PostMay 12, 2014Culture, Healthanimal diet, daniel romero, entstehen, falten, fat, groenlands eisschild, obese, silvia pineda munoz, stress, ucla

Trying to be thin is like trying to be tall, say UCLA psychologists

Girls who are told by a parent, sibling, friend, classmate or teacher that they are too fat at age 10 are more likely to be obese at age 19, a new study by UCLA psychologists shows.

The study looked at 1,213 African-American girls and 1,166 white girls living in Northern California, Cincinnati and Washington, D.C., 58 percent of whom had been told they were too fat at age 10. All the girls had their height and weight measured at the beginning of the study and again after nine years. (more…)

Monitoring surgical quality

By Guest PostMay 10, 2014Healthelective surgery, health care, health care variables, surgical monitoring, surgical quality, surgical side effects, surgical success

Distinguished statistician discusses probability and statistics in health care

William H. Woodall, a distinguished professor and statistician at Virginia Tech, spoke to a large audience on “Monitoring and Improving Surgical Quality” at the fourth annual W.L. Gore Lecture Series in Management Science last week on the University of Delaware’s Laird Campus. (more…)

Wir gähnen (auch), um das Gehirn zu kühlen

By Guest PostMay 6, 2014Healthclint belinsky, co2 fertilization, greening on earth, hypothese, manufacturing cycle, philippe ciais, ranga myneni, sonnenkoenig ludwig, stop outbreaks, suny, universitaet wien, usa

Warum gähnen wir? Wir neigen zum Gähnen bevor wir schlafen gehen oder nach dem Aufwachen, wenn wir uns langweilen oder uns die Inspiration fehlt. Wir gähnen in Erwartung wichtiger Ereignisse und unter Stress. Was haben diese Dinge gemeinsam? WissenschafterInnen der Universität Wien und der Nova Southeastern University und des SUNY College in Oneonta, USA, weisen auf die Verbindung zur Thermoregulierung, insbesondere zur Kühlung des Gehirns hin. Die Ergebnisse ihrer Untersuchungen wurden im Fachmagazin “Physiology & Behaviour” publiziert.

Es ist die allgemeine Annahme, dass Gähnen die Sauerstoffzufuhr erhöht. Allerdings konnten frühere Untersuchungen einen Zusammenhang zwischen Gähnen und erhöhtem Sauerstoffgehalt im Blut nicht bestätigen. Neuere Ergebnisse eines ForscherInnenteams rund um den Psychologen Andrew Gallup vom SUNY College in Oneonta, USA, zeigen vielmehr, dass Gähnen das Gehirn kühlt. (more…)

Breakthrough therapy allows four paraplegic men to voluntarily move their legs

By Guest PostMay 6, 2014Healtharash salardini, christiane zarfl, christopher, energie aus biomuell, energy range, henry, kosmetikprodukten, mikroplastik, optimistic, physiology, polyethylen, polystyren, precise measurement, reactor antineutrino anomaly, saskia rehse, spinal cords, ucla, wasserfloh

Video: (first segment) Kent Stephenson does voluntary training with stimulation; (second segment) Stephenson training with ankle weighted; (third segment) Rob Summers tosses a medicine ball. (more…)

Does a junk food diet make you lazy? UCLA psychology study offers answer

By Guest PostMay 5, 2014Healthaaron blaisdell, animal cognition, bernd blasius, cognition, hanno seebens, human evolution, jung youn lee, obesity, plant communications, ucla psychology, weier cui, zahoor salmi

Being overweight makes people tired and sedentary — not the other way around

A new UCLA psychology study provides evidence that being overweight makes people tired and sedentary — not the other way around.

Life scientists led by UCLA’s Aaron Blaisdell placed 32 female rats on one of two diets for six months. The first, a standard rat’s diet, consisted of relatively unprocessed foods like ground corn and fish meal. The ingredients in the second were highly processed, of lower quality and included substantially more sugar — a proxy for a junk food diet. (more…)

Saison der Eichenprozessionsspinner beginnt

By Guest PostMay 4, 2014Healthbiologische schaedlingsbekaempfung, brennhaare der eichenprozessionsspinner, eichenprozessionsspinner bekaempfung, eichenprozessionsspinner in berlin, gesundheitsrisiken durch eichenprozessionsspinner

UBA empfiehlt so wenig Schädlingsbekämpfungsmittel wie möglich

In mehreren Bundesländern beginnt jetzt die Bekämpfung des Eichenprozessionsspinners, zum Beispiel in Berlin und Brandenburg. Die Raupen dieses Schmetterlings bilden Brennhaare aus, die bei Menschen Gesundheitsbeschwerden auslösen können. Bevor die Raupen diese Haare ausbilden, werden sie chemisch oder biologisch bekämpft – in der Regel Ende April bis Anfang Mai. Thomas Holzmann, Vizepräsident des Umweltbundesamtes: „Wir plädieren dafür, den Einsatz von chemischen und biologischen Mitteln gegen Eichenprozessionsspinner genau abzuwägen. Diese Bekämpfung wirkt nicht nur auf den Schädling, sondern tötet unbeabsichtigt auch andere Lebewesen. Zuerst sollte geprüft werden, wo und ob der Befall toleriert werden kann. Vom Menschen wenig genutzte Gebiete können vorrübergehend abgesperrt werden. Sind nur einzelne Bäume befallen, können die Eichenprozessionsspinner gezielt abgesaugt werden. Erst wenn diese Maßnahmen nicht ausreichen, sollte eine chemische oder biologische Bekämpfung stattfinden.“ Dabei müssen die vorgeschriebenen Abstände zu Gewässern beachtet werden. Eine Anwendung in Naturschutzgebieten ist verboten. (more…)

Mystery of 1918 Pandemic Flu Virus Solved by UA Researchers

By Guest PostMay 3, 2014Healthflu strain, great flu pandemic, influenza pandemics, pandemic flu virus, pandemic virus

University of Arizona researcher Michael Worobey and his team have discovered that the key to understanding influenza pandemics may lie in flu exposure during childhood

Just as the world was recovering from the devastation of World War I, another killer swept across the globe. A deadly flu virus attacked more than one-third of the world’s population, and within months had killed more than 50 million people – three times as many as the war – and had done it more quickly than any other illness in recorded history. (more…)

Potassium in brain could be key to fighting Huntington’s disease

By Guest PostApril 26, 2014Healthastrocytes, brain tissue, culture wars, guido buenstorf, huntingtons disease, mark smith, meinung in millisekunden, neurons, rebound effekt, role, secular faith, sparsame technik, stephan bruns, ucla researchers

Researchers were able to improve walking and prolong survival in a mouse model by tweaking potassium levels

By boosting the ability of a specific type of cell to absorb potassium in the brain, UCLA researchers were able to improve walking and prolong survival in a mouse model of Huntington’s disease.

Their findings, published March 30 in the online edition of the journal Nature Neuroscience, could point to new drug targets for treating the devastating disease, which strikes one in every 20,000 Americans. (more…)

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