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Fish Oil Supplements May Boost Prostate Health
Why take nutritional supplements? Besides getting a daily dose of vitamins and minerals, men who consume nutritional supplements containing omega-3 fatty acids may be contributing to better prostate health.
Anyway, that was the conclusion of a recent study conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Testosterone levels in the womb linked to language problems
New research from Perth’s Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has found that boys who are exposed to high levels of testosterone before birth are twice as likely to experience delays in language development.
The research has been published in the latest edition of the international Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
The study, led by Associate Professor Andrew Whitehouse, used umbilical cord blood to explore the presence of testosterone when the language-related regions of a fetus’ brain are undergoing a critical period of growth.
Dr Whitehouse said the finding is significant in that it gives a biological explanation for why boys language development differs to that in girls.
“An estimated 12% of toddlers experience significant delays in their language development,” Dr Whitehouse said.
“While language development varies beftween individuals, boys tend to develop later and at a slower rate than girls.”
Dr Whitehouse said the research team wanted to test whether this could be due to prenatal exposure to sex-steroids such as testosterone.
Male foetuses are known to have 10 times the circulating levels of testosterone compared to females.
How to Really Lose Weight
Everybody is concerned about weight loss, and emerging from amidst the popular garbage, is a guide that will really tell you how.
Losing weight is not easy. But putting it on can be (apart from those of us with mega metabolisms). There are many factors that contribute to the gaining of weight. Two are beyond our control; our genetic predisposition to retaining or burning fat; and our age – as we grow older our metabolism slows, particularly past 30. However, the rest are well within our ability to manage; and if theyre managed well, their effect will outweigh that of the previous two factors.
The majority of the other factors can be summarized and examined in two broad names.
Gluten Intolerance Is A Big Problem
Taking gluten-free nutritional health supplements may be a good way to sidestep inflammation reactions to wheat and other grains. After all, gluten intolerance appears to be a growing problem.
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases estimates that one in 133 Americans has an intolerance to gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. The condition is hereditary, meaning that if a member of your family has been diagnosed with it, you are about six times more likely to have it too.
Gluten intolerance is no small problem.
TODAY Moms share resolutions for a quiet, harmonious new year
If many of us can accomplish our parenting resolutions, 2012 is going to be one quiet year. That’s because eliminating yelling is top of many TODAY Moms’ resolutions, which were .
Ellyn Kunich Wheeless has a goal of showing “more grace and mercy, less yelling and more hugging.” Her mantra for the new year resonated with many readers:
“If the house isn’t on fire, we don’t have to yell!”
Amanda Long Stone also wants to keep the yelling (hers and her kids’) to a minimum, while Steph Gardner strives to be more patient and quieter. She says: