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I will discuss two publications, where researchers showed that many diseases and premature deaths come from excessive weight. How much does what we weigh influence our life expectancy? This is exactly what researchers asked themselves in a study from 2017. It was based on four Europe

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November 13, 2024

by Ray Schilling

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body mass index, class II obesity, cohort studies, diseases, excessive weight, life expectancy, metabolic syndrome, mortality rates, obese people, premature deaths

This article is about the lower life expectancy in the United States. The US mortality rates up to 20 years ago were the same as other comparable industrial states. Now life expectancy in the US is about 4.5 years lower than in other comparable states. A publication in PLOS ONE summar

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August 16, 2023

by Ray Schilling

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car accidents, cardiovascular disease, excess deaths, firearms, homicides, intentional injuries, life expectancy, mortality rates, obesity, opioid overdoses

The World Heart Federation announced that alcohol is overlooked as cancer cause. This is based on new research where alcohol industry sponsors of previous research were omitted. But the American Heart Association (AHA) finds this conclusion too one-sided. The AHA points out that there

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March 10, 2022

by Ray Schilling

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alcohol, alcohol abuse, alcohol control policies, alcohol related cancers, cause of death, disability, heart attacks, impact of alcohol on health and disease, life expectancy, small amounts of alcohol consumption

Introduction A new study pointed out how foods can extend or shorten life. The authors described a health nutritional index, which tells whether a food item prolongs life or shortens it. A hot dog for example can take 36 minutes off your life expectancy. On the other hand, a helping o

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November 03, 2021

by Ray Schilling

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health nutrition index, heart attacks, hot dog, life expectancy, omega-3 fatty acids, processed meat, salt, sardines, strokes, walnuts

We do not often hear about gene therapy for diabetes. But there is new evidence, which makes this topic timelier. Dr. Fatima Bosch from the University of Barcelona, Spain has done impressive experiments on mice showing that obesity and diabetes could be cured. Essentially, Dr. Bosch f

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April 29, 2020

by Ray Schilling

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diabetes, fibroblast growth factor 21, fibroblast growth factor 21 hormone, gene experiments, gene therapy, insulin production, life expectancy, obesity, pancreatic islet cells, stem/progenitor cells

The life expectancy in the US drops; but this is for the third year that it has gone down. Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains in this video that there are three factors that are mainly responsible for this: suicides have increased significantly; alcohol abuse has gone up resulting in the deadl

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September 04, 2019

by Ray Schilling

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alcohol abuse, chronic diseases, cirrhosis of the liver, diabetes, drug overdoses, heart diseases, kidney disease, life expectancy, strokes, suicides

A study has shown that we are sitting too much. There are more than 400,000 deaths per year in the world because we are sitting on average 13 hours per day. About 7.5 hours are spent sitting at work, but after work we are spending another 5.5 hours on average watching TV at home or si

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January 17, 2018

by Ray Schilling

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deaths, getting diabetes, getting heart attacks, hip-mounted accelerometers, life expectancy, movement break, risk of sitting, sit for prolonged periods, sitting, sitting at work

Melanoma Survival Improved With The Immunomodulator Opdivo®

A new study presented at an American Cancer Research Conference in New Orleans has shown that melanoma survival improved with the immunomodulator Opdivo®. After 5 years of treatment with Opdivo® 34% of patients were alive, while only 16% of melanoma patients receiving conventional tre

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January 11, 2017

by Ray Schilling

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earlier stage melanoma, immune checkpoint inhibitors, immune response, immunomodulator, life expectancy, melanoma, melanoma patients, melanoma survival, opdivo, special proteins

A study following 792 persons for 13 years showed that shortened telomeres predict cancer. Telomeres are the caps at the end of chromosomes that protect the DNA between cell divisions. Initially all of the patients of the Northwestern and Harvard study were cancer free, but after 13 y

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June 16, 2015

by Ray Schilling

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anti-aging drugs, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, elongate telomeres, life expectancy, lifestyle changes, modified RNA, telomere length, telomeres, white blood cells

Calorie restriction makes you live longer; that’s what a remarkable study with primates showed that took 25 years to complete. Rhesus monkeys that had been fed 30% less calories lived longer than their normal controls without calorie-restriction. Rhesus monkeys are genetically v

Many Diseases and Premature Deaths Come from Excessive Weight

Lower Life Expectancy in the United States

Alcohol is Overlooked as Cancer Cause

Foods can Extend or Shorten Life

Gene Therapy for Diabetes

Life Expectancy In The US Drops

We Are Sitting Too Much

Melanoma Survival Improved With The Immunomodulator Opdivo®

Shortened Telomeres Predict Cancer

Calorie Restriction Makes You Live Longer

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