It shouldn’t be too surprising that your mother’s diet might influence your health, but what your grandmother ate can do that, too? That’s the conclusion reached by David Martin of the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute in California [1]. Using mice, Martin and his colleagues showed that when genetically identical Read more…
University of Florida researchers reported that morbid obesity in toddlers, defined as weighing 150 percent of normal weight, is associated with lower IQs, cognitive delays, and lesions that appear similar to those found in Alzheimer’s disease. The morbidly obese toddlers had IQs of 78, although their normal-weighted siblings had IQs Read more…
As an admitting clerk at the UCLA Emergency Room (my college job), one of the saddest cases I witnessed was the death of a young child with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The young parents had left their baby with the grandparents for the first time to take a weekend off Read more…
The latest recommendation from a student looks at differences between males and females with anorexia. Not only are eating disorders much more frequent in females than males, but males seem to recover more readily than females. Spain recently banned the use of ultra-skinny models for fashion runway shows, hoping that Read more…
An alert student pointed out a study by researchers at the Scripps Institute in La Jolla, CA, which found that THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, did a better job at inhibiting amyloid aggregation than other drugs that had already been approved for treating Alzheimer’s disease. This approach will not “cure” Read more…