January 3, 2010 – 7:29 pm
The Washington Post
January 28, 2009
MONDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) — Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first- or second-highest labeled ingredient, according to two new U.S. studies.
HFCS has replaced sugar as the sweetener in many beverages and foods such as breads, cereals, breakfast bars, lunch meats, yogurts, soups and condiments. On average, Americans consume about 12 teaspoons per day of HFCS, but teens and other high consumers can take in 80 percent more HFCS than average.
December 2, 2009 – 8:07 pm
The Scientist.com
By Christian Weyer
…I was drawn to endocrinology because I was intrigued by the complexity and elegance with which hormonal signaling systems govern whole-body metabolism and many other vital functions. Most hormones have multiple actions that are well coordinated, and naturally integrated with other hormonal systems. It is, in many respects, the equivalent of individual musicians playing together in a philharmonic orchestra producing the most melodic, beautiful symphonies.
November 9, 2009 – 7:36 pm
Hindustan Times
November 9, 2009
Over 100,000 types of cancers are caused by obesity, according to an American study.
Excess body fat makes a person vulnerable to cancer by increasing the amount of hormones like estrogen circulating in the body and disrupting how the body processes insulin, which is linked to higher risk of cancer. It also triggers low-grade inflammation in the body, which is increasingly being found to play a role in cancer.
By Leslie Carol Botha
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Posted in Adolescent Boys, Adolescent Girls, Estrogen, Hormone Imbalance, Hormones, Men, Mothers & Daughters, Puberty, Teens, Weight, Wellness, Women's Health
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Examiner.com
By Jennifer Gunter
SF Sexual Health Examiner
July 6, 2009
There are more than 40,000 new cases of endometrial cancer every year in the United States and more than 7,500 women die annually from this disease. The majority of endometrial cancers are the result of an imbalance between the two major female reproductive hormones: estrogen and progesterone. Estrogen stimulates the endometrium (the lining of the uterus) to grow and progesterone keeps that growth in check. Too much estrogen and/ or too little progesterone and the unruly endometrium can turn cancerous.
Examiner.com
By Jennifer Gunter
SF Health Examiner
July 6, 2009 2:12 am
There are more than 40,000 new cases of endometrial cancer every year in the United States and more than 7,500 women die annually from this disease. The majority of endometrial cancers are the result of an imbalance between the two major female reproductive hormones: estrogen and progesterone. Estrogen stimulates the endometrium (the lining of the uterus) to grow and progesterone keeps that growth in check. Too much estrogen and/ or too little progesterone and the unruly endometrium can turn cancerous.
Miller-McCune.com
May 5, 2009
By: Tom Jacobs
Fifteen- to 18-year-old females generally gain weight during weak economic periods, according to a report just published in the journal Social Science and Medicine. Researcher Jeremy Arkes of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., found the opposite is true for young men in that age range: They tend to gain weight when the economy is strong.
April 28, 2009 – 12:50 pm
Most experts believe that the obesity epidemic may have something to do with earlier puberty in girls, Aksglaede noted, but she and her colleagues found no difference in the prevalence of overweight and obesity between the 1991 and 2006 groups. There also were no differences in levels of several reproductive hormones between the two groups, although the 8- to 10-year-olds tested in 2006 actually had lower estrogen levels than girls of the same age tested in 1991.
Melatonin is the sleep inducing hormone, but it does so much more. The whole day and night rhythm has it’s importance for the proper functioning and recovering of our body systems, and a regular sleep and wake cycle is more important than we used to believe.
By Leslie Carol Botha
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Posted in Aging, AutoImmune Disease, Breast Health, Cancer, Depression, HPV, Hormones, Insomnia, Menopause, Mothers & Daughters, Natural Cycles, Science, Wellness
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Crossfitnewton Blog
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Data from the Women’s Health Initiative Observational Study show that higher than normal insulin levels are an independent risk factor for breast cancer.
Study investigators, led by Dr. Marc J. Gunter at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, examined the association between breast cancer and blood [...]
Our Stolen Future
While Bisphenol A was first synthesized in 1891, the first evidence of its estrogenicity came from experiments in the 1930’s feeding BPA to ovariectomised rats (Dodds and Lawson 1936, 1938).
Another compound invented during that era, diethylstilbestrol, turned out to be more powerful as an estrogen, so bisphenol A was shelved… until polymer [...]
By Leslie Carol Botha
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Posted in Bioidentical Hormones, Birth Control Pills/BCP's, Breast Health, Cancer, Estrogen, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Men, Natural Progesterone, Science, Weight, Women's Health
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