Brandon may have trouble speaking, but he’s very expressive. Ask the 16-year-old from St. Marys Home for Disabled Children if he likes going to summer camp, and his eyes immediately shoot upward to indicate “yes.” Then he grins. A $10,000 donation from the We Promise Foundation is helping Brandon and other children from St. Marys go to camp this summer. To laugh, splash around in a pool, go fishing, play games and make new friends. The foundation presented the gift to the children of St. Marys during their field trip to the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center in Virginia Beach at 12:15 p.m. on Thursday, June 30. Children like Brandon just want to be like other kids their age, and one thing that enables them to do that is attend camp, said Robin Geluso, a support coordinator at St. Read more…
Brazilian researchers are presenting the results at The Endocrine Society’s 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston.
Among more than 3,300 overweight or obese patients, those who took topiramate for at least four months lost 11.8 pounds more on average than individuals who took “dummy” pills, or placebo, found the meta-analysis, a systematic and quantitative review of published studies.
“Topiramate is not an approved drug for the treatment of obesity. Data from individual clinical trials might not be sufficient to support physicians’ decision to prescribe it for this use, and robust evidence of its safety is lacking,” said lead investigator Caroline Kramer, MD, PhD.
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Don’t mistake a food allergy from a food intolerance!Do you feel bloated every time you eat something with gluten? Feel itchy after eating shellfish? Or even get tired after eating chocolate? Dont worry youre probably not allergic to chocolate, but if you answered, yes to the former you may actually have a food intolerance.
It has been recently suggested that those with digestive issues be tested for IgG food intolerances. Unlike IgE food allergies that will cause an immediate reaction like difficulty breathing or a skin rash; they say a IgG food intolerance is a delayed reaction, possibly causing problems 3-21 days after the ingestion of the food.
The best preventative measure you can take is checking food labels and keeping a food journal of exactly what it is youre eating, along with any noticeable reactions that soon follow.
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Now there could be a new, completely legal and rather surprising weapon in the armoury for riders aiming to shave vital seconds off their time — beetroot juice.
Research by the University of Exeter, published in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, has shown drinking the juice enables competitive-level cyclists to cut down the time it takes to ride a given distance. This is the first study which has shown that beetroot juice can be effective in a simulated competition environment.
For the study, nine club-level competitive male cyclists were asked to compete in time trials over 4km (2.5 mile) and 16.1km (10 mile). All the riders were asked to do each time trial twice.
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