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Sunday, November 24, 2013

Nut eaters lived longer and stayed slimmer

My Paper, Monday, November 22, 2013, Page A36, Active
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Source Website: http://mypaper.sg/active/nut-eaters-lived-longer-and-stayed-slimmer-20131122
By AP, mypaper, Published on Nov 22, 2013


BENEFICIAL: Researchers don't know why nuts may boost health. It could be that their unsaturated fatty acids, minerals and other nutrients lower cholesterol and reduce other problems, as earlier studies seemed to show.
PHOTO: BENEFICIAL: Researchers don't know why nuts may boost health. It could be that their unsaturated fatty acids, minerals and other nutrients lower cholesterol and reduce other problems, as earlier studies seemed to show.
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DALLAS - REGULAR nut eaters were less likely to die of cancer or heart disease - in fact, they were less likely to die of any cause - during a 30-year Harvard study.

Nuts have long been called heart-healthy, and the study is the largest on whether eating them affects mortality.

Researchers tracked 119,000 men and women and found that those who ate nuts roughly every day were 20 per cent less likely to die during the study period than those who never ate nuts.

The risk of dying of heart disease dropped 29 per cent and the risk of dying of cancer fell 11 per cent among those who had nuts seven or more times a week, compared with people who never ate them.

Even among those who did not eat nuts every day, eating nuts lowered the death risk in direct proportion to consumption.

The benefits were derived from eating peanuts as well as from pistachios, almonds, walnuts and other tree nuts. The researchers did not look at how the nuts were prepared.

A bonus: Nut eaters stayed slimmer.


Nut eaters stayed slimmer
PHOTO: Nut eaters stayed slimmer
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"There's a general perception that if you eat more nuts, you're going to get fat. Our results showed the opposite," said Dr Ying Bao of Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

She led the study, published in yesterday's New England Journal Of Medicine.

Researchers don't know why nuts may boost health. It could be that their unsaturated fatty acids, minerals and other nutrients lower cholesterol and inflammation, and reduce other problems, as earlier studies seemed to show.

Observational studies like this one can't prove cause and effect, they only suggest a connection.


There's a general perception that if you eat more nuts, you're going to get fat. Our results showed the opposite.
PHOTO: "There's a general perception that if you eat more nuts, you're going to get fat. Our results showed the opposite," said Dr Ying Bao of Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Defination: Excess body weight (defined as a Body Mass Index of 25 or above) and Obesity (BMI of 30 or above).
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Research on diets is especially tough, because it can be difficult to single out the effects of any one food.

Dr Robert Eckel, a University of Colorado cardiologist and former president of the American Heart Association, said that people who eat more nuts may eat them on salads, for example, and some of the benefit may come from the leafy greens.

Dr Ralph Sacco, a University of Miami neurologist who is also a former heart-association president, agreed.

"Sometimes when you eat nuts, you eat less of something else, like potato chips", so the benefit may come from avoiding an unhealthy food, he said.


Fatty acids found in nuts, seeds and leafy greens have been shown to be helpful in the long-term for some with rheumatoid arthritis
PHOTO: Fatty acids found in nuts, seeds and leafy greens have been shown to be helpful in the long-term for some with rheumatoid arthritis
The “good” polyunsaturated fatty acids in them helps reduce inflammation.
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Many previous studies tie nut consumption to lower risks of heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer and other maladies.

Dr Penny Kris-Etherton, a Pennsylvania State University nutrition scientist, said: "We're seeing benefits of nut consumption on cardiovascular disease as well as body weight and diabetes.

"We don't know exactly what it is about nuts that boosts health or which ones are best. I tell people to eat mixed nuts."
By AP, mypaper, Published on Nov 22, 2013


Sometimes when you eat nuts, you eat less of something else, like potato chips, so the benefit may come from avoiding an unhealthy food.
PHOTO: Sometimes when you eat nuts, you eat less of something else, like potato chips, so the benefit may come from avoiding an unhealthy food.
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我的字典: Wǒ de zì diǎn

Mortality: 死亡率 sǐ wáng lǜ
Walmuts: 核桃 hé tao
Inflammation: 炎症 yán zhèng
Potato chips: 薯片 shǔ piàn



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Thursday, November 14, 2013

Cholesterol treatment gets a makeover

My Paper, Thursday, November 14, 2013, Page A19, My Executive
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Source Website: http://mypaper.sg/my-executive/cholesterol-treatment-gets-makeover-20131114
By Reuters, mypaper, Published on Nov 14, 2013


NEW US guidelines on heart healt are likely to be followed by cardiologists and primary-care physicians, as well as influence insurance coverage. It emphasis on specific targets for lowering
PHOTO: NEW US guidelines on heart healt are likely to be followed by cardiologists and primary-care physicians, as well as influence insurance coverage. It emphasis on specific targets for lowering "bad" LDL cholesterol levels and more intensive treatment with cholesterol-lowering statin drugs.
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WASHINGTON - NEW US guidelines on heart health that were a decade in the making recommend stronger measures for patients at particularly high risk of heart attack or stroke, including more aggressive therapy with drugs that lower cholesterol or even weight-loss surgery.

The guidelines issued by two leading United States medical organisations on Tuesday are likely to be followed by cardiologists and primary-care physicians, as well as influence insurance coverage.

The guidelines dropped an emphasis on specific targets for lowering "bad" LDL cholesterol levels and suggest that individual patient risk of developing heart disease rather than an LDL number should be used to determine the need for more intensive treatment with cholesterol-lowering statin drugs.


Emphasis is on specific targets for lowering 'bad' LDL cholesterol levels and suggest individual patient risk of developing heart disease rather than an LDL number.
PHOTO: Emphasis is on specific targets for lowering "bad" LDL cholesterol levels and suggest individual patient risk of developing heart disease rather than an LDL number.
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There had been an expectation that the new guidelines would set a lower LDL target for heart patients.

"This guideline represents a departure from previous guidelines because it doesn't focus on specific target levels of LDL, or bad cholesterol, although the definition of optimal LDL cholesterol has not changed," Dr Neil Stone, lead author of the cholesterol report, said in a statement.

The long-awaited guidelines announced by the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association came in the form of four reports: one on managing blood cholesterol; one on managing overweight and obese patients; one for assessing cardiovascular risk in adults; and one on heart-disease prevention through healthy lifestyle.

They still emphasise a healthy diet and exercise as keys to avoiding the No. 1 killer in the country.

The cholesterol-management guidelines, if followed in practice, could lead to more extensive use of high-potency statins, such as AstraZeneca's Crestor, and higher doses of Pfizer's Lipitor, now available as generic atorvastatin.

They could also lead to reduced use of lower-dose generic statins and perhaps far less use of non-statin cholesterol medicines, such as Merck's Zetia and AbbVie's Tricor, which the report said lacked evidence of reducing heart attacks and death.

Merck has a large study under way of its Vytorin combination cholesterol treatment that should definitively prove whether use of Zetia prevents heart attacks and strokes.

"Non-statins didn't provide enough risk prevention," said Dr Stone. He noted that there has been "over-treatment with drugs not proven to add incremental benefit".

The four groups deemed most likely to benefit from higher-intensity statin treatment were: Patients with known heart disease; those with an LDL level of 190 or higher; patients with type 2 diabetes between the ages of 40 and 75; those between 40 and 75 deemed to have a 10-year risk of developing heart disease of 7.5 per cent or higher, based on new risk-assessment formulas.


Body Mass Index, a measure of ideal weight in relation to height, is used to identify patients at high risk of developing heart disease.
PHOTO: Body Mass Index, a measure of ideal weight in relation to height, is used to identify patients at high risk of developing heart disease.
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The guidelines still use Body Mass Index, a measure of ideal weight in relation to height, to identify patients at high risk of developing heart disease.

Another recommendation for reducing heart risk said there should be a focus on achieving sustained weight loss of 5 per cent to 10 per cent within the first six months.

The healthy-living clinical-practice guidelines for lowering heart-disease risk called for 40 minutes of moderate- to vigorous-intensity aerobic exercise three to four times a week.

They also recommend a diet in which levels of saturated fat, trans fat and sodium are below what is currently consumed by the average American.

Not surprisingly, the report recommends a diet that emphasises fruit, vegetables, whole grains, fish and nuts while limiting red meat, sweets and sugar-sweetened beverages.
By Reuters, mypaper, Published on Nov 14, 2013


List of healthy foods which can prove good for the heart.

PHOTO: List of healthy foods which can prove good for the heart.
Fruit, green vegetables, oats, soy protein, whole grains, olive oil, apples, tomatoes, red wine, almonds, fish (Omega 3 and 6 fatty acids) and nuts (monounsaturated fats).
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Monday, June 6, 2011

Fitness, nuts

Today on sunday, Sunday June 12, 2011, Page 8, Column
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Source Website: http://www.todayonline.com/Hotnews/EDC110612-0000009/Fitness,-nuts
By Phin Wong, todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg, Updated 11:18 AM Jun 12, 2011



PHOTO: As noble as my intentions are to get in shape, I never seem to be able to actually get down to doing it.
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I’ve spent a lifetime thinking about getting into shape. I think I’ve almost decided.The last time I stepped into a gym was when I made a wrong turn while looking for the little boys' room.

This was about five years ago, and I had been sent on an assignment to a new health food cafe to subject myself to a spread of ghastly things like falafel, shredded wheat and wholegrain wraps. A rabbit would have nibbled on its own leg to add a little flavour to that meal.



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The cafe was located within a fitness facility, presumably to add to its torture capabilities, which is how - after several flavourless, zero-calorie, vitamin water "cocktails" - I found myself face to face with a humourless bench press machine when I was looking for a urinal.

"Excuse me," I said politely to a half-man-half-rhinoceros hybrid with a neck the size of my thigh, "which way to the washroom?"

He pointed across the room, flexing the impressive muscles in his index finger. "Are you a member here?" he asked, blocking the sun with his deltoids (deltoid muscle is the muscle forming the rounded contour of the shoulder).

"No, I'm just eating here," I said. "I don't work out."

"I can tell," he laughed, before returning to the task of lifting the equivalent of two refrigerators over his head.



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I had just been insulted by someone wearing ridiculously short shorts. But I let it slide seeing as I wanted to live.

My brushes with fitness have always been fleeting. As in they usually last for about as long as a frozen daiquiri (a classic rum and lime drink) in hell.

When I was about 10 years old, I decided with much absolution that I was done being a fatty. I was going to start running religiously and the weight was going to just fall off, revealing my true Dolph Lundgren form that had been hidden away to gasps and rapturous applause. I went outside, fastened the Velcro straps of my sneakers and sprinted off into my gorgeous future, channelling Lindsay Wagner with every bionic step.



PHOTO: American model Lindsay Wagner hot photoshoot.She would look even more hotter in strapless bras.
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I got about as far as three HDB blocks. Then I took a bus to the nearest 7-Eleven and ate a Slurpee Sundae.

Why didn't anyone tell me running was hard?

In my mid-20s, I was determined to swim my way to attractiveness. I dove in, swam two laps, then went home and threw up from over-exertion. On the upside, I did feel lighter after that.

Then there was the time someone I was seeing persuaded me to hit the gym and get a tan, presumably so I would be less hideous to look at.



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I actually did spend considerable time in the gym, although it was mainly spent reading the instructions on the side of the equipment, trying to figure out what on earth I was looking at, and whether I was expected to push, pull, stretch or be dispensed a cup of coffee.

I even laid out in the sun in an attempt to get some colour. That adventure ended with third-degree burns to my belly button. Love, it turns out, isn't just a many splendid thing - it's also an act of arson.

I decided to end the relationship before I got wounded in a freak jazzercise accident. ("And that's how he lost two spirit fingers, the poor dear.")

Exercise and me simply do not go together - we're like plaid and animal prints. But when I stare at my torso of tofu wobbling furiously away in the mirror as I brush my teeth every night, I think back to that 10-year-old kid who imagined a glorious life that could be lived shirtless.



PHOTO: Cameron Takes on a Fitness Training Exercise Program
Before the Charlie’s Angels star could start filming the movie, she had to undergo some extensive exercise programs. She admits that at the end of the day, her fitness training exercise program was so intense she thought she would die! Since then, she has sought the help of celebrity fitness trainer Teddy Bass to keep her in shape.
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My friends dreamt of becoming neurosurgeons and race-car drivers. I just wanted to not jiggle when I skipped, skipped, skipped to my Lou ("Skip to My Lou" is a popular children's song). That wasn't so much to ask for, was it?

But, as noble as my intentions are to get in shape, I never seem to be able to actually get down to doing it. It's a constant case of the spirit being willing but the flesh being in a bar.

I'm now in my 30s and have yet to be introduced to my abs. I don't want to be 40 and have to be introduced to my feet. So I figure I have two options moving ahead: A) Give the dream of owning a set of biceps one more go, or B) Accept a future of buying stretchy pants made with Lycra.



PHOTO: Stress Makes Me Fat
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It's almost enough to make a grown man want to channel Lindsay Wagner all over again. They still sell Slurpee Sundaes, right?

By Phin Wong, todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg, Updated 11:18 AM Jun 12, 2011
The writer is the features editor at Today.



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