Avoid These Foods in Diabetes

Diabetes is such as disease, where what foods you eat and what foods you avoid can make a lot of difference in the outcome (control of blood sugar) of the disease. The main aim of management of diabetes is to control blood sugar level within normal limit and prevent complications from developing (which can be done only by keeping blood sugar under control). As eating right food and wrong food can make a lot of difference, it is more important to know what foods to avoid in diabetes than what foods to eat in diabetes.

Candy:

High sugar foods such as candy (sugar syrup, fructose syrup) lack nutritional qualities and contain only high calories in the form of simple carbohydrates. As it contains only carbohydrates and calories, it can increase blood sugar rapidly and also it can increase bodyweight, both of which have detrimental effects and can complicate diabetes. If you are fond of sugar and sweets, try to consume sweet foods with high quality complex carbohydrates such as fresh fruits. In diabetes eating fresh fruits such as apple, orange, berries, berries etc. is good, because these fruits contain lots of fibers (along with vitamins and minerals and other nutrients) and do not allow rapid digestion and absorption of complex carbohydrates and as a result do not cause rapid rise in blood sugar. Avoid candy and related foods, if you are diabetic for better control of blood sugar.

Fast foods:

French fries, potato chips and other fried foods should be avoided (potato has high glycemic index). They contain large amount of easily digestible carbohydrates which can cause tremendous rise in blood sugar rapidly. Fried foods are soaked in oil which is store house of calories and increase body weight as well along with increasing blood sugar. Obesity can complicate diabetes.

Bacon:

It contain high amount of saturated fats. Eating bacon may not cause rise in blood sugar but the saturated fats it contain can damage heart and cardiovascular system, raise cholesterol level and diabetics are already at high risk of cardiovascular diseases. To keep your heart healthy in diabetes, avoid bacon and other similar meat products.

Pancake, syrup and pastries:

These are loaded with simple carbohydrates (easy to digest and absorb) and cause tremendous rise in blood sugar very fast. Other than high calories (in the form of simple carbohydrates), these contain little else nutrients. These are made of refined flour, white flour, and sugar. Avoid these products and remain healthy and control blood sugar. These products should be avoided by normal healthy individuals too and not only by diabetics.

Raisins:

Although raisins and other dry fruits are better than candy/cookies, they should be avoided in diabetes. Because during process of drying (dehydration) the carbohydrate in raisins gets concentrated and when consumed can liberate high quantity of carbohydrate and raise blood sugar rapidly. The best alternative for raisins is fresh fruits.

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  • Doctors Sift Through Patients' Genomes To Solve Medical Mysteries

    Sara Terry and her son, Christian, in Spring, Texas. After sequencing Christian's genome, doctors were able to diagnose him with a Noonan-like syndrome.Eric Kayne for NPR

    Sara Terry and her son, Christian, in Spring, Texas. After sequencing Christian's genome, doctors were able to diagnose him with a Noonan-like syndrome.

    Sara Terry's first clue that something was wrong with her son, Christian, came just three weeks after he was born.

    "We went to check on him, just like any parents go and check on their kids just to make sure they're breathing," says Terry, 34, of Spring, Texas. "And we found him in his crib, and he wasn't breathing. He was blue."

    She and her husband were horrified. They rushed Christian to the hospital and learned he had several medical problems.

    That terrifying night was the beginning of a long, frustrating odyssey. For the next six years, Sara Terry and her husband went from doctor to doctor trying to figure out what was behind Christian's strange constellation of problems: developmental delay, low muscle tone, sleep apnea and a heart murmur, among others.

    The Terrys got every test every specialist could think of, but no one could answer the big question: What's wrong with Christian?

     

    "With a child who goes undiagnosed, you don't know how to treat it, and you don't know maybe what their life expectancy is, or what you can expect from this child," Terry says. "Or how you could push them, or what you can do with them. So it can be very difficult. And you don't know if you're doing everything you can for them."

    The Terrys finally ended up at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. A doctor there told them about something they'd never heard of: whole genome sequencing, which can test for every genetic syndrome that's known.

    The Terrys agreed, and sent off their son's sample for testing â€" and waited.

    Until recently, genetic tests only scanned small parts of someone's DNA, such as the parts carrying genes that can cause Huntington's or Alzheimer's or breast cancer.

    Whole genome sequencing spells out the entire genetic code â€" all 3 billion letters.

    "For those of us in the field, it is sort of a holy grail," says Arthur Beaudet, who chairs Baylor's genetics department. "We now have the ability to get very complete genetic information about individuals and interpret in the context of whatever problems they may have."

    It wasn't all that long ago that it took hundreds of scientists years, and billions of dollars, to do this on just one genome.

    But now, a few lab techs using high-speed sequencers can unravel anyone's DNA for just thousands of dollars, in weeks.

    "To me, it's a spectacular advance," Beaudet says. "It changes everything, in the sense that we really begin to understand at an individual patient level exactly which gene is altered, and we can begin to think about ways to intervene."

    So far, doctors are using sequencing mostly on two kinds of patients. The first are patients like Christian, with mysterious illnesses no one can seem to sort out.

    "Any patient who has one of these rare diseases will tell you about the misery and the agony of this process, which is going from doctor to doctor, undergoing test after test after test, and getting equivocal answers to what's wrong with them or their child," says Leslie Biesecker of the National Human Genome Research Institute.

    "This process can take months or years of a patient's life," says Biesecker. "And sometimes at the end of that odyssey you still don't have an answer. And it's a miserable process for patients to go through."

    The second big group of patients getting sequenced includes cancer patients like Jamie Zweig. He's been fighting esophageal cancer for more than two years. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic sequenced his cancer to see if they could target treatment at the precise genetic mutations that caused his tumors.

    They discovered that his cancer was vulnerable to a drug normally used to treat breast cancer.

    "I feel much more on the track of beating this disease than being subject to the disease," Zweig says.

    This is all very new, but it's becoming more and more common.

    "Physicians now want to use sequence in the same way that they had used X-rays, MRI and CAT scan," says Jonathan Rothberg of Ion Torrent, which makes high-speed sequencers. "They want to use it as a normal part of the practice of treating cancer patients."

    But there are lots of issues that need to be worked out before whole genome sequencing starts being used a lot, many experts say.

    "We'll have to worry when you're sequencing a kid with an unknown syndrome and also checking the parents to see what he inherited from which of his parents," says Hank Greely, a bioethicist at Stanford University.

    "That can be really medically useful, but we have to worry about: How accurate is the sequencing? How good is our interpretation? And how well are we conveying an accurate message to the patients?"

    It's far from clear how often it will yield truly definitive, useful information. The danger is scary, but vague results will send patients down long, frightening dead ends filled with lots of tests and useless treatments that themselves could be dangerous and expensive.

    Another fear: What if doctors stumble across something they weren't even looking for? After all, when a child is sequenced, it reveals a lot about their parents' genes, too.

    So another question is: Should we even be looking for other stuff?

    "A huge question in front of the genetics community right now is: If you do sequencing for one purpose, what is your obligation to look and to report on findings elsewhere in the genome?" says Robert Green, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

    While the experts try to sort all that out, whole genome sequencing is helping to save lives, and providing more patients with answers they've been seeking â€" often for years.

    Terry remembers the day doctors called to tell her the results of sequencing Christian.

    "I was just kind of speechless. And I just kind of sat there for a little while thinking, 'Am I dreaming? Like, did I really just get a phone call?' We were just so happy to have a diagnosis and to know that they'd found what we had been searching for all these years," Terry says.

    Doctors discovered Christian has something rare called a Noonan syndrome-like condition. Christian is now 6 years old. There's no miracle drug that will cure him.

    But his mother says the diagnosis helps in lots of ways. Doctors know they can safely give him shots to help him grow better. The Terrys know he won't suddenly develop a fatal complication. And they now know that it's not something that's likely to affect any kids they might have in the future.

    "This has made such a huge difference in our lives," she says. "I can't even tell you. We are just so relieved."

    This is the third story in the "$1,000 Genome" series. Our online survey will close after the final story in the series airs on Oct. 5.

    Avoid These Foods in Diabetes

    Diabetes is such as disease, where what foods you eat and what foods you avoid can make a lot of difference in the outcome (control of blood sugar) of the disease. The main aim of management of diabetes is to control blood sugar level within normal limit and prevent complications from developing (which can be done only by keeping blood sugar under control). As eating right food and wrong food can make a lot of difference, it is more important to know what foods to avoid in diabetes than what foods to eat in diabetes.

    Candy:

    High sugar foods such as candy (sugar syrup, fructose syrup) lack nutritional qualities and contain only high calories in the form of simple carbohydrates. As it contains only carbohydrates and calories, it can increase blood sugar rapidly and also it can increase bodyweight, both of which have detrimental effects and can complicate diabetes. If you are fond of sugar and sweets, try to consume sweet foods with high quality complex carbohydrates such as fresh fruits. In diabetes eating fresh fruits such as apple, orange, berries, berries etc. is good, because these fruits contain lots of fibers (along with vitamins and minerals and other nutrients) and do not allow rapid digestion and absorption of complex carbohydrates and as a result do not cause rapid rise in blood sugar. Avoid candy and related foods, if you are diabetic for better control of blood sugar.

    Fast foods:

    French fries, potato chips and other fried foods should be avoided (potato has high glycemic index). They contain large amount of easily digestible carbohydrates which can cause tremendous rise in blood sugar rapidly. Fried foods are soaked in oil which is store house of calories and increase body weight as well along with increasing blood sugar. Obesity can complicate diabetes.

    Bacon:

    It contain high amount of saturated fats. Eating bacon may not cause rise in blood sugar but the saturated fats it contain can damage heart and cardiovascular system, raise cholesterol level and diabetics are already at high risk of cardiovascular diseases. To keep your heart healthy in diabetes, avoid bacon and other similar meat products.

    Pancake, syrup and pastries:

    These are loaded with simple carbohydrates (easy to digest and absorb) and cause tremendous rise in blood sugar very fast. Other than high calories (in the form of simple carbohydrates), these contain little else nutrients. These are made of refined flour, white flour, and sugar. Avoid these products and remain healthy and control blood sugar. These products should be avoided by normal healthy individuals too and not only by diabetics.

    Raisins:

    Although raisins and other dry fruits are better than candy/cookies, they should be avoided in diabetes. Because during process of drying (dehydration) the carbohydrate in raisins gets concentrated and when consumed can liberate high quantity of carbohydrate and raise blood sugar rapidly. The best alternative for raisins is fresh fruits.

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  • Government Officials Retire Chimpanzees From Research

    Federally funded chimps at the New Iberia Research Center in Louisiana will retire to either a lab in Texas or a chimp sanctuary in Louisiana.Courtesy of the Humane Society of the United States

    Federally funded chimps at the New Iberia Research Center in Louisiana will retire to either a lab in Texas or a chimp sanctuary in Louisiana.

    One hundred ten chimpanzees will retire from biomedical research, the National Institutes of Health announced today. The move comes as some groups are pushing for a ban on all medical chimp research.

    The NIH has been reviewing its chimp research since December. That's when a report from the Institute of Medicine said that there was almost no scientific need for doing biomedical research on chimps.

    According to the report, about 1,000 chimps are available for research in the U.S. â€" roughly half are owned by the government. Now, the NIH says its chimps at the New Iberia Research Center in Louisiana will be moving. And starting next August, the facility won't receive any more NIH funds.

    "This is a significant step in winding down NIH's investment in chimpanzee research based on the way science has evolved and our great sensitivity to the special nature of these remarkable animals, our closest relatives," NIH Director Francis Collins told The Washington Post.

     

    Aaron Martin, communications director at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, which maintains NIRC, says that the facility will continue to house roughly 240 privately owned chimps.

    Ten chimps will go to a federally supported sanctuary called Chimp Haven, which will then be at or near full occupancy. The others will go to Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio, which has the facilities to care for them â€" but the chimps will not be used for biomedical studies.

    Animal advocacy groups are pleased, to say the least.

    "NIH's announcement is a significant step forward in our goal toward ending invasive experiments on chimpanzees and facilitating the move of the current population of chimps in laboratories to reputable sanctuaries," said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, in a statement. The HSUS and similar groups are pushing a bill currently before Congress that would gradually phase out invasive chimp research altogether.

    Natural Ways to Keep Your Breath Fresh and Your Teeth Healthy

    Maintaining fresh breath is an important part of overall good hygiene. Sometimes a person can have bad breath without even realizing it. Therefore, finding natural ways to ensure that your breath smells fresh and your teeth remain healthy can be a smart precaution. Everyone knows that flossing and brushing their teeth is the first step to good oral health. Many people do not realize, however, that flossing and brushing alone is often not enough to maintain fresh-smelling breath. Rinsing with mouthwash often merely masks the problem. Fortunately, there are other ways to produce fresh smelling breath naturally. If your doctor has ruled out any serious health problems that can cause bad breath, then using natural remedies could be the perfect solution.

    One of the easiest ways to make sure that you have fresh breath is simply to brush your tongue. The bacteria and germs that cause bad breath love to cling to your tongue. This can give you less than a pleasant smell when smiling or speaking. Simply taking the time to brush your tongue after your other oral care can have a significant impact on your bad breath problem.

    Chewing on parsley can help freshen your breath. Parsley contains natural chlorophyll that will help to prevent bad breath in the first place. Mint leaves can also be chewed, or you can make them into tea. Mint also contains chlorophyll and has a distinctive, pleasant odor that can help your mouth feel as good as it smells. It is often found as a garnish on many restaurant dishes, so make sure you take advantage of this natural breath freshener when you dine out. Lemons are also helpful for taming bad breath; they, too, are frequently used as garnishes in drinks and on entree dishes.

    If you are a smoker, the solution to your bad breath is simple: quit. Extremely bad breath is just one item on a long list of unpleasant consequences of smoking. Eating garlic, especially in large amounts, can also be a common cause of bad breath. Garlic, unlike smoking, is very beneficial to your health, however, so finding a way to naturally deal with garlic breath is a good idea. Some studies have shown that the fat content in milk can help neutralize garlic. Chewing on coffee beans and then spitting them out has proven beneficial also. If you love garlic, you may also find that chewing on anise, fennel or drops of pure peppermint oil can all help with your offensive breath.

    A common root cause of bad breath is having a dry mouth. Many people sleep with their mouths open, drying their mouths out and aggravating terrible morning breath. Some medications also cause dry mouth. Drinking plenty of water and chewing sugarless gum can help with this problem. Chewing small pieces of lemon can also help by stimulating saliva production.

    Keeping your breath always fresh naturally is completely possible using these simple tips, especially when they are combined with good oral hygiene. After using them, you can be confident that every time you speak or smile, your breath will be pleasant.

    Author Bio:
    Guest post contributed by Robert Anders, on behalf of RockCenter Orthodontists. Robert is an experienced dental technician and in his spare time he enjoys passing on helpful dental tips.

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  • Teachers' Expectations Can Influence How Students Perform

    Teachers interact differently with students expected to succeed. But they can be trained to change those classroom behaviors.Enlarge iStockphoto

    Teachers interact differently with students expected to succeed. But they can be trained to change those classroom behaviors.

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    Teachers interact differently with students expected to succeed. But they can be trained to change those classroom behaviors.

    In my Morning Edition story today, I look at expectations â€" specifically, how teacher expectations can affect the performance of the children they teach.

    The first psychologist to systematically study this was a Harvard professor named Robert Rosenthal, who in 1964, did a wonderful experiment at an elementary school south of San Francisco.

    The idea was to figure out what would happen if teachers were told that certain kids in their class were destined to succeed, and so Rosenthal took a normal I.Q. test and dressed it up as a different test.

    "It was a standardized I.Q. Test," he says, "Flanagan's Test of General Ability, but the cover we put on it, we had printed on every test booklet, said 'Harvard Test of Inflected Acquisition.'"

    Rosenthal told the teachers that this very special test from Harvard had the very special ability to predict which kids were about to be very special â€" that is, which kids were about to experience a dramatic growth in their I.Q.

    After the kids took the test, he then chose from every class several children totally at random. There was nothing at all to distinguish these kids from the other kids, but he told their teachers that the test predicted the kids were on the verge of an intense intellectual bloom.

    As he followed the children over the next two years, Rosenthal discovered that the teachers' expectations of these kids really did affect the students. "If teachers had been led to expect greater gains in I.Q., then increasingly, those kids gained more I.Q.," he says.

    But just how do expectations influence I.Q.?

     

    As Rosenthal did more research, he found that expectations effect teachers' moment-to-moment interactions with the children they teach in a thousand almost invisible ways. Teachers give the students that they expect to succeed more time to answer questions, more specific feedback, and more approval: They consistently touch, nod and smile at those kids more.

    Researcher Robert Pianta offered these suggestions for teachers who want to change their behavior toward problem students:

  • Watch how each student interacts. How do they prefer to engage? What do they seem to like to do? Observe so you can understand all they are capable of.
  • Listen. Try to understand what motivates them, what their goals are and how they view you, their classmates and the activities you assign them.
  • Engage. Talk with students about their individual interests. Don't offer advice or opinions â€" just listen.
  • Experiment: Change how you react to challenging behaviors. Rather than responding quickly in the moment, take a breath. Realize that their behavior might just be a way of reaching out to you.
  • Meet: Each week, spend time with students outside of your role as "teacher." Let the students choose a game or other nonacademic activity they'd like to do with you. Your job is to NOT teach but watch, listen, and narrate what you see, focusing on students' interests and what they do well. This type of activity is really important for students with whom you often feel in conflict or who you avoid.
  • Reach out: Know what your students like to do outside of school. Make it a project for them to tell you about it using some medium in which they feel comfortable: music, video, writing, etc. Find both individual and group time for them to share this with you. Watch and listen to how skilled, motivated and interested they can be. Now think about school through their eyes.
  • Reflect: Think back on your own best and worst teachers, bosses or supervisors. List five words for each that describe how you felt in your interactions with them. How did the best and the worst make you feel? What specifically did they do or say that made you feel that way? Now think about how your students would describe you. Jot down how they might describe you and why. How do your expectations or beliefs shape how they look at you? Are there parallels in your beliefs and their responses to you?
  • "It's not magic, it's not mental telepathy," Rosenthal says. "It's very likely these thousands of different ways of treating people in small ways every day."

    So since expectations can change the performance of kids, how do we get teachers to have the right expectations? Is it possible to change bad expectations? That was the question that brought me to the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, where I met Robert Pianta.

    Pianta, dean of the Curry School, has studied teachers for years, and one of the first things he told me when we sat down together was that it is truly hard for teachers to control their expectations.

    "It's really tough for anybody to police their own beliefs," he said. "But think about being in a classroom with 25 kids! The demands on their thinking are so great!"

    Still, people have tried. The traditional way, Pianta says, has been to sit teachers down and try to change their expectations through talking to them.

    "For the most part, we've tried to convince them that the beliefs they have are wrong," he says. "And we've done most of that convincing using information."

    But Pianta has a different idea of how to go about changing teachers' expectations. He says it's not effective to try to change their thoughts; the key is to train teachers in an entirely new set of behaviors.

    For years, Pianta and his colleagues at the Curry School have been collecting videotapes of teachers teaching. By analyzing these videos in minute ways, they've developed a good idea of which teaching behaviors are most effective. They can also see, Pianta tells me, how teacher expectations affect both their behaviors and classroom dynamics.

    Pianta gives one very specific example: the belief that boys are disruptive and need to be managed.

    "Say I'm a teacher and I ask a question in class, and a boy jumps up, sort of vociferously ... 'I know the answer! I know the answer! I know the answer!" Pianta says.

    "If I believe boys are disruptive and my job is control the classroom, then I'm going to respond with, 'Johnny! You're out of line here! We need you to sit down right now.'"

    This, Pianta says, will likely make the boy frustrated and emotionally disengaged. He will then be likely to escalate his behavior, which will simply confirm the teacher's beliefs about him, and the teacher and kid are stuck in an unproductive loop.

    But if the teacher doesn't carry those beliefs into the classroom, then the teacher is unlikely to see that behavior as threatening.

    Instead it's, "'Johnny, tell me more about what you think is going on ... But also, I want you to sit down quietly now as you tell that to me,'" Pianta says.

    "Those two responses," he says, "are dictated almost entirely by two different interpretations of the same behavior that are driven by two different sets of beliefs."

    To see if teachers' beliefs would be changed by giving them a new set of teaching behaviors, Pianta and his colleagues recently did a study.

    They took a group of teachers, assessed their beliefs about children, then gave a portion of them a standard pedagogy course, which included information about appropriate beliefs and expectations. Another portion got intense behavioral training, which taught them a whole new set of skills based on those appropriate beliefs and expectations.

    For this training, the teachers videotaped their classes over a period of months and worked with personal coaches who watched those videos, then gave them recommendations about different behaviors to try.

    After that intensive training, Pianta and his colleagues analyzed the beliefs of the teachers again. What he found was that the beliefs of the trained teachers had shifted way more than the beliefs of teachers given a standard informational course.

    This is why Pianta thinks that to change beliefs, the best thing to do is change behaviors.

    "It's far more powerful to work from the outside in than the inside out if you want to change expectations," he says.

    In other words, if you want to change a mind, simply talking to it might not be enough.

    Seven Worst Foods to Avoid in Diabetes

    If you have diabetes, you must have faced lots of confusion misinformation regarding your diet/food. Many individuals (mostly your friends and relatives and non medical persons) must have given you advice about what foods you should eat and what foods you should avoid. Unfortunately most of your friends and relatives advices are based on hearsay and not based on scientific logic, which can make your head spin.

    Diabetes is such as disease where food plays a major role in effective management and without understanding and managing your food intake (type and quantity) it is very difficult to control blood sugar and diabetes. Taking drugs (oral hypoglycemic drugs and insulin) is not enough for effective management of diabetes, diet also need to be managed carefully for better control of diabetes and to live normal life without any complications, that diabetes can bring, if blood sugar is not controlled.

    Surely it is important to know what to eat if you are diabetic, but it is more important to know what foods to avoid. Here are some common foods you should avoid in diabetes for better management of diabetes and blood sugar.

    1. French fries:

    Although French fry is a vegetable, it is fried and soaked in oil (Trans-fat rich) and you should avoid this load of carbohydrate if you are diabetic. If you are thinking of french-fries for snacks try instead some carrots, cucumber or other vegetable salad.

    2. Donuts:

    This is made of high carbohydrate and filled with oil and an unhealthy food for not only diabetics but for a normal healthy individual too. The fiber content in donuts is also minimal and do not add much other than calorie and increase blood sugar for diabetics, so avoid it fully.

    3. White rice:

    White rice is full of carbohydrate and has very little nutritional value. Eating white rice only adds calories and takes your blood sugar level towards up and up. If you are from a region where rice is the staple diet, select brown rice instead and add more vegetables to your diet.

    4. Candy:

    You must avoid this guy, if you are diabetic like criminals avoid police. This guy has nothing but sugar and sugar with no other nutritional content. Eating this can only rise your blood sugar with may be difficult to control with drugs.

    5. Sweetened soda:

    Soda is fortified with high fructose corn syrup and a no no for diabetics, which not only increase blood sugar level, but has many other deleterious health effects such as potassium depletion, kidney stones, weight gain, tooth decay, hypertension etc. Even diet soda is not good for diabetics.

    6. Pasta:

    This guy adds very little for you of value other than calories and rise in blood sugar. Eating pasta will give you only calorie and you may end up getting constipation, as it has very little fiber in it.

    7. Bottled fruit juice:

    This you must avoid if you are diabetic. Because it is sweetened with fructose and may cause tremendous rise in blood sugar, because you may take too much, this may be due to advice by your doctor/dietician to take fresh fruit. Take fresh fruits grown in your locality and avoid bottled fruit juice, which may have very little actual fruit in it, as they are mostly flavored with artificial flavor.

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  • X-Ray Tests May Heighten Cancer Risk In Susceptible Women

    Mammograms may pose a particular risk to women with genetic mutations that predispose them to breast cancer.Bill Branson/National Cancer Institute

    Mammograms may pose a particular risk to women with genetic mutations that predispose them to breast cancer.

    Researchers report that women with genetic mutations that put them at dramatically increased risk of developing breast cancer may also face a heightened risk from radiation used during medical screening and diagnosis.

    The imaging tools that help doctors identify disease, injury or damage to the body have long been known to carry some risk of cancer, in large part because ionizing radiation can damage the genetic material in the body.

    If the body is unable to repair that DNA damage, and if cells are changed permanently, they may go on to produce abnormal cells when they divide. When that occurs, these cells may become cancerous.

     

    Scientists had postulated that women with the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genetic mutations might be especially vulnerable as these genes are involved in the repair of DNA breaks, which can be caused by radiation from X-rays or CT scans.

    In the study, published in the latest BMJ, researchers from the Netherlands Cancer Institute looked at 1,993 women over the age of 18. All of them carried the BRCA1/2 mutation. The women came from the Netherlands, France and the U.K. Their health status was monitored between 2006 and 2009.

    The women were asked when, how often and at what age they had either a chest X-ray or mammogram. Of the 1,993 women, 43 percent were diagnosed with breast cancer. Those who had diagnostic screening using radiation to the chest between ages 20-29 experienced a 43 percent increased risk of breast cancer. Those who had such screenings at a younger age, before 20, increased their risk even more, by 62 percent.

    The authors conclude that "exposure to diagnostic radiation before age 30 is associated with an increased breast cancer risk in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers" and recommend that if a girl or young woman needs diagnostic evaluation via X-ray or CT scan for any reason (concern about heart defects, pneumonia or organ damage, for example) they should receive an MRI, which does not use radiation.

    At the same time, the study found no apparent link to breast cancer among women who got mammograms after age 30. This is somewhat reassuring as most health experts recommend women who carry these mutations don't begin regular screening until the age of 30.

    "There's no question this is a large increase in risk," said Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society.

    He added that the findings are cautionary and should "give physicians and patients pause when considering a non essential X-ray or CAT scan." If the study findings "get people to stop for just a moment to think about what they are doing and why, then it's a good thing," he said. In some cases, he added, other alternatives will work out fine â€" like a good, old-fashioned physical exam.

    Seven Worst Foods to Avoid in Diabetes

    If you have diabetes, you must have faced lots of confusion misinformation regarding your diet/food. Many individuals (mostly your friends and relatives and non medical persons) must have given you advice about what foods you should eat and what foods you should avoid. Unfortunately most of your friends and relatives advices are based on hearsay and not based on scientific logic, which can make your head spin.

    Diabetes is such as disease where food plays a major role in effective management and without understanding and managing your food intake (type and quantity) it is very difficult to control blood sugar and diabetes. Taking drugs (oral hypoglycemic drugs and insulin) is not enough for effective management of diabetes, diet also need to be managed carefully for better control of diabetes and to live normal life without any complications, that diabetes can bring, if blood sugar is not controlled.

    Surely it is important to know what to eat if you are diabetic, but it is more important to know what foods to avoid. Here are some common foods you should avoid in diabetes for better management of diabetes and blood sugar.

    1. French fries:

    Although French fry is a vegetable, it is fried and soaked in oil (Trans-fat rich) and you should avoid this load of carbohydrate if you are diabetic. If you are thinking of french-fries for snacks try instead some carrots, cucumber or other vegetable salad.

    2. Donuts:

    This is made of high carbohydrate and filled with oil and an unhealthy food for not only diabetics but for a normal healthy individual too. The fiber content in donuts is also minimal and do not add much other than calorie and increase blood sugar for diabetics, so avoid it fully.

    3. White rice:

    White rice is full of carbohydrate and has very little nutritional value. Eating white rice only adds calories and takes your blood sugar level towards up and up. If you are from a region where rice is the staple diet, select brown rice instead and add more vegetables to your diet.

    4. Candy:

    You must avoid this guy, if you are diabetic like criminals avoid police. This guy has nothing but sugar and sugar with no other nutritional content. Eating this can only rise your blood sugar with may be difficult to control with drugs.

    5. Sweetened soda:

    Soda is fortified with high fructose corn syrup and a no no for diabetics, which not only increase blood sugar level, but has many other deleterious health effects such as potassium depletion, kidney stones, weight gain, tooth decay, hypertension etc. Even diet soda is not good for diabetics.

    6. Pasta:

    This guy adds very little for you of value other than calories and rise in blood sugar. Eating pasta will give you only calorie and you may end up getting constipation, as it has very little fiber in it.

    7. Bottled fruit juice:

    This you must avoid if you are diabetic. Because it is sweetened with fructose and may cause tremendous rise in blood sugar, because you may take too much, this may be due to advice by your doctor/dietician to take fresh fruit. Take fresh fruits grown in your locality and avoid bottled fruit juice, which may have very little actual fruit in it, as they are mostly flavored with artificial flavor.

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  • Romney And Abortion: Another Shift In The Works?

    Mitt Romney proclaimed himself a strong supporter of abortion rights in state campaigns in 1994 and in 2002. Now, he says he opposes almost all abortions.Enlarge Evan Vucci/AP

    Mitt Romney proclaimed himself a strong supporter of abortion rights in state campaigns in 1994 and in 2002. Now, he says he opposes almost all abortions.

    Evan Vucci/AP

    Mitt Romney proclaimed himself a strong supporter of abortion rights in state campaigns in 1994 and in 2002. Now, he says he opposes almost all abortions.

    Is Mitt Romney shifting his abortion position again?

    It's fairly well-known that Romney proclaimed himself in favor of abortion rights when he ran for office in Massachusetts, then reversed himself before launching his presidential bid. But recently, the GOP nominee seems to be softening his opposition somewhat. Or is he?

    Romney proclaimed himself a strong supporter of abortion rights both in 1994, when he ran unsuccessfully for Senate against incumbent Democrat Edward Kennedy, and in 2002, when he defeated Democrat Shannon O'Brien to become governor.

    "I will preserve and protect a woman's right to choose," he said in a 2002 debate with O'Brien. "And I do take exception to Shannon characterizing my view as being any different than hers in this regard; The Boston Globe recently reported there's not a paper's width worth of difference between our two positions in this regard."

    But that changed halfway though Romney's term as governor. He says his conversion came after he talked to a Harvard scientist about embryonic stem cells. Now, he says his position is to oppose almost all abortions.

    "My own view is that I oppose abortion except for cases of rape, incest, and where the life of the mother is threatened," he told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt Aug. 24.

    But that's slightly different from what he told CBS that same week.

    "My position has been clear throughout the campaign," he said. "I'm in favor of abortion being legal in the case of rape and incest, and health and life of the mother."

    So in that interview, Romney added one more exception â€" for the woman's health.

     

    The Romney campaign won't say the candidate misspoke, but a spokeswoman does say he doesn't support an exception to protect the health of the pregnant woman. That's because other abortion opponents, including GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, insist it creates too large a loophole, since health often encompasses mental health, too.

    "The health exception is a loophole wide enough to drive a Mack truck through it," said Ryan on the House floor during a debate in 2000 on a bill to ban the procedure some call "partial birth" abortion. "The health exception would render this ban virtually meaningless."

    Beth Shipp, political director for the abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America, says she's stunned by those who oppose exceptions for health reasons.

    "They actually think that somehow women make up health problems like diabetes, or kidney failure, or breast cancer," she said, "or any of the myriad of other health concerns that women in this country face when they become pregnant."

    But even without a health exception, the question remains: Does Romney really support abortions for victims of rape? The question has become more relevant in light of the recent controversy surrounding Missouri Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin. He suggested that victims of "legitimate rape" couldn't get pregnant, and later apologized.

    But for all of Romney's efforts to try to distance himself from Akin, when he was governor of Massachusetts, Romney vetoed a bill that would have required that rape victims be provided not abortions, but morning-after pills in the emergency room.

    "It's very important to remember that emergency contraception is birth control," says Shipp of NARAL. "It's not RU-486, which people refer to as the abortion pill."

    Although some very ardent opponents say the morning-after pill can technically cause a very early abortion by preventing the implantation of a fertilized egg, medical experts insist that's not how it works. Yet Romney said it could "terminate life after conception" in a Boston Globe column explaining his veto.

    The Republican platform calls for protecting life from conception. It doesn't allow any exceptions, including those for rape, incest or the life of the woman. Shipp says if that's Romney's position, then fine. But voters will see through it if he tries to go back and forth.

    "They pay attention. They learn about the issues," she said. "And every time that Mitt Romney tries to reinvent himself, they say, 'But wait a minute, I remember you said ...' They do their homework; they understand the responsibility that comes with voting for the highest office in the land."

    Last week, Romney's oldest sister Jane told reporters at the convention that her brother wasn't going to ban abortion if he becomes president. "It's not his focus," she told a National Journal reporter.

    But comments like that, clearly aimed at closing the candidate's sizable gender gap, could come as a rude surprise to social conservatives Romney's worked hard to woo for the past seven years.

    Seven Worst Foods to Avoid in Diabetes

    If you have diabetes, you must have faced lots of confusion misinformation regarding your diet/food. Many individuals (mostly your friends and relatives and non medical persons) must have given you advice about what foods you should eat and what foods you should avoid. Unfortunately most of your friends and relatives advices are based on hearsay and not based on scientific logic, which can make your head spin.

    Diabetes is such as disease where food plays a major role in effective management and without understanding and managing your food intake (type and quantity) it is very difficult to control blood sugar and diabetes. Taking drugs (oral hypoglycemic drugs and insulin) is not enough for effective management of diabetes, diet also need to be managed carefully for better control of diabetes and to live normal life without any complications, that diabetes can bring, if blood sugar is not controlled.

    Surely it is important to know what to eat if you are diabetic, but it is more important to know what foods to avoid. Here are some common foods you should avoid in diabetes for better management of diabetes and blood sugar.

    1. French fries:

    Although French fry is a vegetable, it is fried and soaked in oil (Trans-fat rich) and you should avoid this load of carbohydrate if you are diabetic. If you are thinking of french-fries for snacks try instead some carrots, cucumber or other vegetable salad.

    2. Donuts:

    This is made of high carbohydrate and filled with oil and an unhealthy food for not only diabetics but for a normal healthy individual too. The fiber content in donuts is also minimal and do not add much other than calorie and increase blood sugar for diabetics, so avoid it fully.

    3. White rice:

    White rice is full of carbohydrate and has very little nutritional value. Eating white rice only adds calories and takes your blood sugar level towards up and up. If you are from a region where rice is the staple diet, select brown rice instead and add more vegetables to your diet.

    4. Candy:

    You must avoid this guy, if you are diabetic like criminals avoid police. This guy has nothing but sugar and sugar with no other nutritional content. Eating this can only rise your blood sugar with may be difficult to control with drugs.

    5. Sweetened soda:

    Soda is fortified with high fructose corn syrup and a no no for diabetics, which not only increase blood sugar level, but has many other deleterious health effects such as potassium depletion, kidney stones, weight gain, tooth decay, hypertension etc. Even diet soda is not good for diabetics.

    6. Pasta:

    This guy adds very little for you of value other than calories and rise in blood sugar. Eating pasta will give you only calorie and you may end up getting constipation, as it has very little fiber in it.

    7. Bottled fruit juice:

    This you must avoid if you are diabetic. Because it is sweetened with fructose and may cause tremendous rise in blood sugar, because you may take too much, this may be due to advice by your doctor/dietician to take fresh fruit. Take fresh fruits grown in your locality and avoid bottled fruit juice, which may have very little actual fruit in it, as they are mostly flavored with artificial flavor.

    check for diabetes superfoods here.

    Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.net

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  • Thalidomide Maker Apologizes After More Than 50 Years

    A sculpture by the artist Bonifatius Stirnberg memorializes the victims of thalidomide, a drug that caused thousands of birth defects. A translation of the German text below the chairs: "In memory of the dead and the survivors of the thalidomide catastrophe."Jens Schlueter/DAPD via AP

    A sculpture by the artist Bonifatius Stirnberg memorializes the victims of thalidomide, a drug that caused thousands of birth defects. A translation of the German text below the chairs: "In memory of the dead and the survivors of the thalidomide catastrophe."

    You've probably heard of thalidomide, the infamous sedative that ended up causing birth defects in the children of mothers who took it.

    Back in the late 1950s, the drug was sold in 46 countries, though not the U.S., and was particularly popular in then-West Germany, the U.K. and Australia. But in 1961, the drug was taken off the market after the link to birth defects emerged.

    By then, though, thousands of children had been born with deformities. There was a long trial in Germany, where Gruenenthal, the drug's maker, is based, that resulted in the establishment of a foundation to compensate victims. But victims have said the compensation wasn't enough and faulted the company for not apologizing.

    Today, more than a half-century later, Gruenenthal for the first time said it was sorry. The occasion was the dedication of a memorial to the victims in Stolberg, Germany, near the company's headquarters. The sculpture features a girl with malformed feet and no arms.

    Gruenenthal CEO Harald F. Stock, according to a translation of his prepared speech, put it this way:

    "On behalf of Gruenenthal with its shareholders and all employees, I would like to take the opportunity at this moment of remembrance today to express our sincere regrets about the consequences of Thalidomide and our deep sympathy for all those affected, their mothers and their families. We see both the physical hardship and the emotional stress that the affected, their families and particularly their mothers, had to suffer because of Thalidomide and still have to endure day by day."

    Later, he added:

    "We also apologize for the fact that we have not found the way to you from person to person for almost 50 years. Instead, we have been silent and we are very sorry for that."

    Even the memorial has sparked controversy. The idea for it came from Johannes Igel, a city clerk, and it drew support from the community of thalidomide survivors. Then, the city stipulated that Gruenenthal be involved, and the company agreed to help pay for it. That upset some survivors.

    "We have chosen to support your cause, Mr. Igel, which is also the cause of many affected people," Stock said. He closed: "We wish that the Thalidomide tragedy had never happened. It is an important part of our thinking and acting â€" today as in the future."

    Over the years, thalidomide was rehabilitated, and the drug has seen use as a treatment for leprosy and multiple myeloma. But it remains off limits for pregnant women.

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