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Always Seeing the Same Doctor Lowers Early Death Risk (Study)

June 29, 2018 By Grant Hamersma Leave a Comment

patient and doctor shaking hands

patient and doctor shaking hands

According to a new study which was recently published,  it seems that seeing to same doctor years after years might not only offer you more courage and the peace of seeing a familiar face. In fact, it may just help save your life. A team of scientists from the United Kingdom wanted to see whether or not always going to the same doctor affected people’s health in any way. So, they analyzed the results of 22 different studies from nine countries that have completely different health systems.

It seems that 18 of these studies reached the conclusion that people who always saw the same doctor had a significantly lower risk of dying early than those who changed their doctor more frequently. It’s worth noting that the studies used different way to study continuity, hence why a clear estimate of how decreased of mortality is cannot be done. A separate study, conducted on diabetes patients in Taiwan, found a similar result. Those with a low continuity were almost two times more likely to die early than those with a high continuity.

Seeing the same doctor over the years might save your life

However, why is this difference so big? And why does it matter so much which doctor you’re seeing, as long as you are seeing one? Well, the authors have tried to explain the link between a high continuity and lower death rates. It may be because people with lower incomes are forced to go from doctor to doctor, as opposed to those with higher incomes.

Also, previous studies have shown that people who always see the same doctor have a high level of trust and therefore are more likely to follow their advice. They also take more frequent immunisations and have fewer hospital admission throughout the course of their life.

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New Footage Offers Rare Glimpse at Franklin D. Roosevelt Walking

June 29, 2018 By Grant Hamersma Leave a Comment

Franklin D. Roosevelt with his wife

Franklin D. Roosevelt with his wife

Former United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt contracted polio and became a paraplegic when he was only 39-years old. But in order to not appear weak in front of his people, he designed his own walking method that was meant to hide his incapacities. He was wearing leg braces, was walking with a cane and usually, his son or a bodyguard was helping him. This way, he could move short distances without the need of a wheelchair. However, the 32nd President was still slightly embarrassed that the people might see him as a weak and vulnerable.

Because of this, he asked the press to not photograph him as he was walking, entering or exiting his car. Moreover, the Secret Service had the task of stopping people from taking pictures of the President. According to a 1946 White House photography corps survey, if someone was caught photographing Roosevelt, they had their cameras emptied, the films exposed to sunlight or even their plates destroyed. This is why a recently-discovered video footage taken during the 1935 White House Easter Egg Roll is so shocking an unexpected. It shows president Roosevelt actually walking.

Rare footage of FDR walking was recently discovered

According to reports, a Nevada rancher named Frederick Hill took the silent film while he attended the event with his wife and two children. According to experts, most likely, the Secret Service did not notice him using the camera. If they had, this 16mm film wouldn’t have existed now.

The footage shows Roosevelt being helped by his personal bodyguard, Gus Gennerich. He is helping the President walk around and always stands behind him for support. Even if the portion that shows him walking is only 30-seconds long, it’s enough to prove how ambitious he was to not let the people see his weakness. Despite this problem, Roosevelt looks as if he was the happiest man, without a care in the world.

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What Happens When You Work Out

June 28, 2018 By Grant Hamersma Leave a Comment

people who work out

people who work out

A lot of people wish for nothing else than to burn some fat so that they can look good in their bathing suits this summer at the beach. However, it’s interesting that not a lot of people know what burning fat actually means. It’s important to be aware of the fact that fat cells exist to store energy, in the first place. So, when you eat high-calorie foods, your body will increase the number of fat cells which need to store that extra energy from the food. Moreover, if you exaggerate, the body will even start storing fat cells on the muscles or on organs.

Historically and evolutionary speaking, storing fat was something that helped humans. In ancient times, the energy was stored in fatty acids. So, when there was no food around or when predators were chasing humans, these acids were released into the bloodstream and used as fuel for the organs and muscles. It helped us survive. People who were more inclined to store fat were more likely to survive a lot of time without food. The problem is that nowadays, food is everywhere, and nobody runs from predators anymore. The result? Obesity.

Burning fat and what it actually means

According to official numbers, over one-third of United States’ adult population is obese. There is a chain reaction that comes from this, including the production of abnormal levels of hormones. These slow down the metabolism, increase inflammation and make people more vulnerable to various diseases. So, when someone decides to burn fat, the organism does two things.

It uses the energy that is already stored in those fat cells for new activity. Then, it stops putting away so much energy for storage. So, in time, the body will extract the energy it needs from food and won’t store it first. As the body readjusts, you will start losing weight and become an overall healthier person.

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Irish Giant Skeleton Could Be Buried at Sea

June 27, 2018 By Grant Hamersma Leave a Comment

Hunterian Museum, where the skeleton of the Irish Giant is kept

Hunterian Museum, where the skeleton of the Irish Giant is kept

The Hunterian Museum in the United Kingdom houses over 3,500 bizarre and unusual anatomical specimens which 18th-century surgeon John Hunter gathered in his lifetime. One of the most valuable pieces of this collection is the impressive, 235-year old skeleton of Charles Byrne, also nicknamed the Irish Giant. Its story is very interesting because apparently, Byrne did not want to have his earthly remains exposed in a museum. In fact, he specifically instructed his friends to bury him at sea when he died. Unfortunately, that never happened. But it may happen soon.

According to some reports, the museum’s board of trustees has promised to meet and discuss the fate of the bones, so many years after Byrne’s passing. As for the giant himself, his story is fascinating and very sad. He was born in 1761 in the region that is now Northern Ireland. Unfortunately, he suffered from acromegalic gigantism, the same condition that also affected Andre the Giant. It caused abnormal growth and by the age of 22, he suffered a tuberculosis flare up which heavily affected his health. During his teenage years, Byrne became a celebrity thanks to his enormous size. He was going on tours and getting money from the people who wanted to see him.

 The Irish Giant’s remains might be buried at sea, as he wanted

At the time, John Hunter was one of the most famous surgeons in England. So, when Byrne’s health began to fail, he said that he would pay to own the giant’s corpse after he died, for scientific reasons. In fact, a lot of people wanted Byrne’s corpse to study it. And even if his friends tried to carry out his final wish, they were tricked by Hunter who paid the undertaker to replace the corpse in the casket with stones.

He then boiled the corpse, finally getting his wish granted. He now had the skeleton of the Irish Giant. A few years later, he revealed that he had them. In 1799, the Royal College of Surgeons bought Hunter’s entire collection of anatomical specimens. Now, after so many years, the remains of the Irish Giant might finally find their eternal rest, at sea.

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Painted Tile Might be Leonardo Da Vinci’s Earliest Work

June 27, 2018 By Grant Hamersma Leave a Comment

part of a Leonardo Da Vinci painting

part of a Leonardo Da Vinci painting

Last week, at a press conference in Rome, Italy, some scholars unveiled a small painted tile portraying a curly-haired, rosy-cheeked Archangel Gabriel. But the two experts, art historian Ernesto Solari and handwriting expert Ivana Rosa Bonfantino, revealed something else, which may be of crucial importance. It seems that they actually discovered a small signature positioned along the figure’s jawline. The signature read “Da Vinci Lionardo”. This prompted the two experts to believe that the painted tile might actually be Da Vinci’s earliest known work.

The tile is actually a “majolica”, which is a style of pottery that was very popular in the 15th century Italy. The painting belongs to the Fenices, a family of aristocrats from Ravello. According to Solari, the descendants of this family stumbled upon the tile when cleaning the house. However, they had no idea about its incredible origins. Luckily for them, they realized quickly that what they found was of greater importance than every other thing in their house. Three years have passed since then, and the two scholars spent them analyzing the painted tile. It seems that infrared analysis revealed a creation date of 1471, written near the signature. Further dating revealed that indeed, the painting was done in the 15th century.
Leonardo Da Vinci’s possible first creation

Last Wednesday press conference in #Rome by prof. #ErnestoSolari in which he revails that an 8 inch tile featuring a figure styled as the Archangel Gabriel is the earliest known work by #LeonardodaVinci and that the figure is #Leonardo himself at age 18 #artnews #art #renaissance pic.twitter.com/96IPRYnfXn

— Alain Chivilò (@AlainChivilo) June 25, 2018

According to Bonfantino, the way in which the year 1471 was written was similar to the one on other famous Da Vinci paintings, with the “1” a lot shorter than the other numbers. She says that everything seems to indicate towards a young Leonardo Da Vinci writing that number.

What’s even more interesting is that the signature was done in mirror writing, one of Da Vinci’s favorite techniques. Moreover, near it, experts also found two other numbers: 52 and 72. The first number might refer to his birth year, 1452. The other two, 7 and 2, correspond to the letters G and B in the alphabet, clearly alluding to the painting’s subject, Archangel Gabriel.

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Flight Attendants, More Likely to Develop Some Types of Cancer (Study)

June 26, 2018 By Grant Hamersma Leave a Comment

female flight attendant

female flight attendant

People may think that a flight attendant’s life is all glamorous and only based on travelling around the world. In fact, people should know that there are a lot of health dangers that go hand in hand with being a flight attendant, and we are not talking about disrespectful passengers. According to a new study, which the journal Environmental Health recently published, flight attendants are at a higher risk of developing certain types of cancer in comparison with the general population.

In fact, experts have long thought that they get more melanoma and breast cancer than the other people. This new study, while agreeing with this idea, also found a higher prevalence of other types of cancer: gastrointestinal, thyroid, cervical, non-melanoma skin cancer, and uterine cancer. According to study co-author Irina Mordukhovich, what also surprised them was a higher risk of breast cancer in female flight attendants who already had two or three children. This is shocking because usually, the more children a woman has, the lesser the risk of breast cancer is. A cause may be the disruption of their circadian rhythm, especially when flying internationally.

Flight attendants have a higher risk of certain types of cancer

It’s worth noting that 80% of the flight attendants that took part in the study were women, which is normal. This is a highly feminized occupation. However, the study does not say why exactly flight attendants tend to develop certain types of cancer more than other people. But the team of researchers have some ideas.

Flight attendants are often more exposed to pesticides, jet fuel, fire retardants, and other chemicals which may contribute to this risk. Cosmic ionizing radiation and prolonged exposure to it is also a cancer cause which the World Health Organization has recognized. However, more research is surely needed to establish clearly that this is indeed the case.

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Body-Positive Movement Likely Contributes to Obesity Crisis (Study)

June 25, 2018 By Grant Hamersma Leave a Comment

overweight person

overweight person

The recent body-positive movement has helped a lot of people have a better relationship with their own body. Men and women of all sizes have been encouraged to believe in themselves more and to respect themselves and their bodies because everyone is beautiful. However, as empowering as this movement might be, a new study, which the journal Obesity recently published, claims that while this movement might feed the soul, it may endanger the body. These movements might prevent overweight or even obese adults from perceiving the risk that they are exposing themselves to.

Such behaviors might not only false images but promote an unhealthy lifestyle. In order to reach this conclusion, the team of researchers conducted a survey among 23,000 British overweight or obese adults. They compared their perception about their weight as opposed to the harsh reality. About 60% of men were likely to underestimate their weight. Only 30% of women did that. The fight against this plus-size stigma has not helped anyone improve their health. It seems that people who underestimated their weight were 85% less likely to do something about it in comparison to those who acknowledged their real weight.

Body-positive movements might promote unhealthy habits

It’s even more interesting that people of lower levels of income and education were more likely to underestimate their weight. Minority groups were also in this situation. As a result, they were more likely to ignore their problem and not lose weight. According to lead author Raya Muttarak, these differences only reflect the socioeconomic indicators of obesity.

And if people think that this body image problem is a gendered one, they are wrong. It affects both men and women and it’s usually because of how brands like to make their advertising campaigns. For example, the average American woman wears a size 16. However, most of the models in clothing campaigns wear double-zero and zero.

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Herpes Virus Might Be Linked to Alzheimer’s (Study)

June 22, 2018 By Grant Hamersma Leave a Comment

Alzheimer's symptoms

Alzheimer's symptoms

Doctors have yet to figure out what exactly causes the dreaded Alzheimer’s Disease. However, they may be one stop closer in determining a key player in its development: a very common virus. According to a study, which the journal Neuron recently published, there is strong evidence that suggests that two strains of the human herpes virus, more precisely 6A and 7, may play a big role in this condition that rubs people of their memory and not only. According to official reports, in the United States, someone develops Alzheimer’s every 65 seconds.

By midcentury, people are expected t develop this condition every 33 seconds. By that time, the costs of care might run into trillions of dollars. This is mostly why experts are trying so hard to understand this disease and find out what precisely causes it. They’re hope is to find either a cure or at least a treatment that is a lot more effective. In the top ten United States causes of death, Alzheimer’s is the only one that doesn’t have a significant treatment. So, in order to reach this conclusion, the authors of the study compared the brains of 622 people affected by the disease with those of 322 healthy people. What they found shocked them.

The herpes virus might play a part in Alzheimer’s

According to the study, the brains of the people with Alzheimer’s had herpes virus levels that were twice in comparison with the brains of the healthy people. It’s interesting that for years, experts have suspected common viruses to play a big part in the development of this condition. There is an important theory according to which, Alzheimer’s gets triggered in the brain as a response to injury from a virus. Nobody knows for sure whether or not these theories are true. However, they were surprised by the results and will continue to make efforts to find out more about this condition.

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Coffee Might Be Good for Your Heart, But with a Limit (Study)

June 22, 2018 By Grant Hamersma Leave a Comment

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cup of coffee

According to a new study which the journal PLOS Biology recently published, it seems that four cups of coffee a day, for adults, might be one of the best things you can do to help your heart. A team of German researchers think that they have finally discovered how caffeine works its magic on our heart. Also, how much coffee do we really need to drink each day to maintain its health. In order to reach this conclusion, the team analyzed caffeinated lab mice and dosed human tissues with caffeine.

The idea is that just a little bit of caffeine might improve how the cells inside the blood vessels work. Basically, it makes the proteins inside adult cells behave like much younger ones. According to Joachim Altschmied, one of the lead authors of the study, four to five cups of espresso might offer the best improvement of the cells that it’s necessary for a good heart health. It’s worth noting that for years, experts have noticed that people who drink coffee have less health issues and are less likely to die early.

Four cups of coffee a day keep your heart healthy

Apart from this, studies have shown that coffee has a lot of heath benefits. Among those are a lower risk of Alzheimer’s, dementia, liver disease and even some types of cancer. Coffee it’s also amazing for reducing the symptoms of depression. Moreover, drinking three to four cups a day means reducing your risk of dying from cardiovascular disease by 19%.

Experts hope that this new study will change the common belief according to which people with heart issues shouldn’t consume coffee. For people who are prediabetic or obese, three to five shots of espresso each day might reduce the risk of heart attacks. If you don’t like coffee, green tea is an almost as good alternative, with the same benefits.

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Parkinson’s Drugs Can Make People Gamblers or Sex Addicts

June 21, 2018 By Grant Hamersma Leave a Comment

Parkinson's in the brain

Parkinson's in the brain

According to a team of French researchers, common drugs which a lot of Parkinson’s Disease patients are taking might these people into compulsive gamblers, shoppers or sex addicts. It seems that there might be a problem with the dopamine agonists and controlling some irresistible needs. Binge eating might also be a possible compulsive effect of these common drugs. According to experts, over half of the people taking them to deal with this disease might one day become victims of impulse control disorders.

About one million people in the United States are living with Parkinson’s Disease. In the United Kingdom, there are 127,000 patients. In the people with this progressive neurological disorder, dopamine gets gradually reduced. This is the chemical in the brain that is responsible with movement. Treatments for the disease include dopamine agonists, which activate the dopamine receptors, and levodopa, which converts to this chemical in the brain. In order to come up with this result, the team of French researchers followed 411 Parkinson’s Disease patients over the course of three years. The team quizzed them about certain behaviors like compulsive shopping or binge eating. There was a very big difference between the people who had taken the drugs and those who had not.

Common Parkinson’s Disease drugs might have unusual side effects

From the group who had never taken the drugs, 12% of people struggled with these impulsive control disorders and what they brought. By comparison, in the other group, 52% of people struggled with them. There are two drugs called pramipexole and ropinirole who pose the highest risk of developing these compulsive disorders and symptoms.

Of those with compulsive disorders, the team followed 30 who stopped taking the drugs. The symptoms gradually stopped. Moreover, about half of the people stopped having problems altogether after one year. The conclusion here is that these disorders are a lot more common than we think and should be treated seriously.

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