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Ritalin For 6 Year-Olds? Giving Kids With ADHD Medication At A Younger Age May Help Their Math Scores

Experts are suggesting putting kids with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder on drugs early in order to improve their academic performance, especially in math. How early? Some say as it could benefit kids as young as six. According to research published in a recent issue of Pediatrics, giving younger kids with ADHD stimulant medications can improve their grades and test scores. A study of 12,000 students out of Iceland concluded that getting kids with ADHD started on drugs like ...

Health: Small Changes – Big Results (Part 2)

In Part 1 of this article, we introduced new research showing that small amounts of exercise, even 15 minutes a day or accumulating an hour of jogging over an entire week brought incredible results in health benefits and longevity.  We continue in Part 2 with how to put into action and exercise and activity program that can take advantage of this and also fit into our daily lives. Practical Solutions The two key words to always keep in mind are: prioritize and organize. Use your time ...

Health: Small Changes - Big Results (Part 1)

In the utopian dream world of the fitness professional, everyone sets aside an hour or more a day for a complete workout, including aerobic, resistance and flexibility training. But in today’s society, we all know that’s not likely to happen. And now we know that there can be tremendous benefit from doing less that that hour. I was amazed to see a very extensive study that came out only a few weeks ago showing that a mere one hour of jogging per week could add as much as 6 years to one ...

Predisposed? Work Around Your Genes

Genes-a word that can be used to define our genetic makeup or a convenient excuse? They can give us a predisposition for heart disease, cancer, or a shorter or longer life. I often hear from my clients; “I would love to do your weight loss program, but it is a waste of time. These are the Genes that G-d gave me there is nothing I can do about it.” We have all used or heard the standard reasons for not exercising and eating right—“It takes too much time”, “I can’t afford they gym ...

Strike Up The Band?

In all of my years as a personal trainer and my involvement in the weight loss industry, I think that the single most frequently asked question today isn’t “What piece of exercise equipment should I buy”?...and this was definitely THE question for many years. But lately, it is much more the question, “What do you think of getting the band for weight loss?” The overweight/obesity epidemic is out of hand. The situation has now reached a point that the harm to the public health, which ...

Obesity Epidemic Spiralling Out Of Control

A new forecast on America's obesity crisis has health experts fearing a dramatic jump in health care costs if nothing is done to bring the epidemic under control. The new projection, released Monday, warns that 42% of Americans may end up obese by 2030, and 11% could be severely obese, adding billions of dollars to health care costs. "If nothing is done (about obesity), it's going to hinder efforts for health care cost containment," says Justin Trogdon, a research economist with RTI ...

More on the Risk Factors

Some time ago, I wrote an article on the top risk factors for heart disease (almost all risk factors for heart disease apply to other areas of health as well). That article was based on research that was current at that time. Everything in that piece is still relevant. However, some fascinating new research has come out over the past year which now attributes a much higher importance to one risk factor in particular in comparison to all the others, and that is something called low ...

Shock Claim: Sugar Is As Addictive As Cocaine & Causes Cancer

Dr. Robert Lustig thinks America needs to go to rehab for sugar addiction. According to brain scans, sugar is as addictive as cocaine, the California-based endocrinologist told CBS News’ “60 Minutes.” It causes a euphoric effect that triggers dopamine, the chemical that controls pleasure in the brain. The average America eats a third of a pound of sugar every day — 130 pounds a year. Lustig says his research proves that the sweet stuff causes heart disease and cancer, as ...

Experimental Cholesterol Drug Results Called 'Game Changing'

A new, experimental cholesterol-fighting drug is creating quite a buzz among researchers and other experts, prompting some to use words such as "dramatic," "breakthrough" and "game changing," to describe early-stage clinical trial results. If these initial results pan out in larger trials, the drug could prove to be more effective than statins, the widely prescribed drugs which have been very successful in lowering levels of LDL - or bad cholesterol. Researchers have known for some time ...

Go for the Whole Grains

Why in the world would someone take whole wheat grain, crack the grain, pulverize it with rollers, and separate the endosperm from the dark, fibrous bran and the wheat embryo? Why would they take out important nutrients, vitamins, unsaturated fats, fiber and magnesium? And if intact grains are so healthy, why did we stop eating them and shift to highly refined grains? Especially when study after study has shown the ill effects of white, refined grains on our health? White flour was a novelty ...

Health: Get More Sleep

It wasn’t long ago that the standard advice for good health was: eat right, exercise and don’t smoke. However today, health care professionals are adding another very important element to that list—get enough sleep. In today’s world of one big global economy, more and more people are working jobs that require second and third shifts; they are working out of their time zone. Many watch late-night television or use the Internet till the wee hours. Worries and daily problems keep us ...

Colonoscopy Proven To Reduce Cancer Deaths

Millions of people have endured a colonoscopy, believing the dreaded exam may help keep them from dying of colon cancer. For the first time, a major study offers clear evidence that it does. Removing precancerous growths spotted during the test can cut the risk of dying from colon cancer in half, the study suggests. Doctors have long assumed a benefit, but until now research hasn’t shown that removing polyps would improve survival - the key measure of any cancer screening’s ...

Health: Diets Don’t Work-What does?

If you have looked at the New York Times best seller list lately, you will notice that most of the books sitting right near the top are diet books. These books talk about anything from telling people to eat only protein, cutting all sugar, eating fruit only in the morning, and staying in certain zones. Over the years, we’ve seen grapefruit diets, cabbage soup diets, diets written by doctors and diets written by Hollywood stars. All of these diets have one thing in common, they just don’t ...

FDA Warns Of Counterfeit Cancer Drug

A counterfeit version of the anti-cancer drug Avastin may have been purchased and used in a number of medical facilities in the United States, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned Wednesday. The FDA sent letters to 19 medical practices known to have purchased unapproved cancer medications, according to the agency. The counterfeit version of Avastin lacks the medicine's key ingredient, bevacizumab. Roche, the pharmaceutical company that manufactures Avastin, conducted laboratory ...

Health: Not Motivate? Do it Anyway!

A common excuse that people give for not eating right and exercising is that they are “just not motivated”. What exactly is motivation? According to the dictionary, motivation means to “provide with an incentive, impel or stimulate to action—to give a reason.” Realistically how motivated are we during the course of an average day to do any task? We wake up to an alarm, run to school or work to be on time, do dishes and laundry, fix the car, go to the dentist and clean up after our ...

Risk Of Blood Clots On Planes Goes Up For Passengers In Window Seats

Sitting in economy class on a long flight doesn’t put you at higher risk of blood clots. But sitting next to the window might. That’s the finding of a new study on deep-vein thrombosis — clots that form in leg veins and can kill if they travel to the lungs. The condition has been dubbed “economy class syndrome” based on the theory that the lack of leg room in the back of a plane might be a factor. But researchers from the American College of Chest Physicians said whether ...

Health: Too Good to be True

If it’s too good to be true, it’s too good to be true.” One area where this always seems to apply, is in the area of weight loss. We are inundated daily with advertisements encouraging us to buy all kinds of devices, powders, books, DVDs and creams. For $9.99 you can have a flat stomach, look great, look 20 years younger, and find eternal happiness. The proof is in the dramatic “before” and “after” pictures. Americans spends a whopping 40 billion dollars each year on weight loss ...