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Eating a healthy diet can help cut the chances of developing cataracts - which in some cases can lead to blindness.
Press Association - Published on 15 June 2010
A study has found that reducing the levels of fatty food and salt consumed significantly protected women from the lens-clouding eye disease that is the world's primary cause of eye-sight deterioration. US researchers handed out a survey to almost 2,000 women aged 50 to 79 and examined their eating habits, giving them a Healthy Eating Index score based on the results.
Participants with higher scores consumed less than the guideline levels for fat, saturated fat, cholesterol and salt-derived sodium. They also ate vegetables, fruits, grains, milk and protein-rich meat, beans, fish or eggs at recommended or higher levels. Women with the top 20% of healthy eating scores were found to have a 37% lower risk of developing cataracts than those in the bottom fifth of the table.
Although diet was the biggest risk factor, smoking and obesity were also linked to the disease, as was having brown eyes, being short-sighted, and high blood pressure. The researchers, led by Dr Julie Mares from the University of Wisconsin, wrote in the journal Archives of Ophthalmology: "Lifestyle improvements that include healthy diets, smoking cessation, and avoiding obesity may substantively lower the need for and economic burden of cataract surgery."
Cataracts are caused when cloudy patches appear in the lens of the eye making vision blurred or misty. In the UK, more than half of people over the age of 65 are believed to have some cataract development in one or both eyes.Dementia sufferer to row 22 miles in bid to raise £50,000 for charity
A Dementia sufferer in Wiltshire is planning to row 22 miles to raise funds for the Alzheimer's Research Trust (ART).
Jamie Graham, 62, is hoping to raise £50,000 for the ART charity and a Swindon based Dementia support group called the Forget-me-not-Centre. His plan is to row all the way from Eton to Henley with a veteran crew of oarsmen. The team will set off on July 2nd. Jamie used to be an IT executive before being diagnosed with Dementia, since then he has lost the ability to read and write but has kept active.
Jamie said: "I've been a keen oarsman since my school days and, thankfully, it's an activity I can still take part in and use positively to raise much needed money for dementia research". He continued: "Since my diagnosis I've been saddened to find that investment into this dreadful disease has been woefully neglected and I want to help the ART in its efforts to fund more research projects".
ART's community fundraising manager Miranda Mays said: "This is an amazing effort and we can't thank Jamie enough for his determination to help us beat dementia. The money raised will make a real difference, bringing us ever nearer to finding new preventions, treatments and an eventual cure through the world-class research we fund".
Anyone wishing to sponsor Jamie can do so at www.forgetmenotrow.com.
The life of women with advanced lung cancer could be extended by the drug Tarceva, experts have said.
Press Association Published on 08 June 2010
The one-a-day pill is most effective in women and it is also used to treat pancreatic cancer. Tarceva was used as a first-line treatment for patients who were too ill to receive chemotherapy. Currently in the UK the drug is only licensed as a second-line treatment after chemotherapy. Only 7% of lung cancer sufferers in the UK survive more than five years.
In the study, presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference in Chicago, 15% of women given Tarceva were alive and had no progression of their cancer 12 months after taking the drug. This compared with only 5% of women taking a placebo.
The trial involved 670 men and women with advanced non-small cell lung cancer, of whom more than half were over the age of 77.According to Cancer Research UK, which ran the trial, almost half of the 39,750 lung cancer patients in the UK fall into the category of being too ill for chemotherapy. Tarceva (also known as erlotinib) works by interfering with how cancer cells multiply.
Switching white rice for brown could significantly reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a study has shown.By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor Telegraph Online
Published: 15 Jun 2010
Eating two or more servings of brown rice per week was linked with an 11 percent reduced risk of developing type 2 diabetes when compared with those eating almost none researchers at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston found that while eating white rice increased a person's risk of type 2 diabetes, brown rice had the opposite effect and reduced the likelihood of them developing the condition.
They found that replacing 50 grams of white rice with the same amount of brown reduced the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by around 16 per cent. When they looked at white rice alone, they found people who ate five or more portions of white rice a week increased their risk of diabetes by almost a fifth - 17 per cent - compared with those who ate little white rice.
White rice starts life as brown rice before it is refined and milled to remove the outer husk which contains minerals, vitamins and fibre. This means white rice is processed by the body much faster and causes a surge in blood sugar levels whereas brown rice and other whole grains are digested much slower, releasing energy more slowly and keeping blood sugar levels more stable...more
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