Sentences with phrase «of diet drugs»

Over the next year or two several new types of diet drugs are set to reach the clinic.

Prior to that, she participated in the statewide defense of thousands of diet drug litigation cases for a pharmaceutical manufacturer.

Not exact matches

Your own health habits — especially in terms of diet, weight, activity (or lack thereof)-- and choices around smoking, drinking and drug use, are arguably even more important predictors, said certified financial planner Carolyn McClanahan, who is also a medical doctor.

But no one has to live on a zero calorie diet unless they're taking one of the hard drugs and don't care about eating.

Hormone changes due to induced abortion may indeed be related to breast cancer, but there are other known causes of hormone changes that we should worry about, including the widespread use of chemical contraceptives, fertility drugs that cause hormone surges, increased obesity and fat content in the diet that change the body's estrogen metabolism, and last but not least, chemical contaminants in the environment that mimic estrogen....

My doctor decided, with me, to change my diet for an kind of «deliciously Ella» diet, to avoid (or try to avoid) strong drugs.

«The importance of fulfilling that diet order is as important as fulfilling that drug order in the healing of a patient.»

The most common causes of candida overgrowth are antibiotics, steroids, over-the-counter anti-inflammatory drugs, oral contraceptives, mercury dental fillings, drugs or alcohol, chlorinated drinking water, meat or dairy products from animals fed antibiotics, and diets full of too much sugar and refined and processed foods.

I would hope any adult or child who has been given a mood associated disorder such as ADHD, ADD or anxiety / depression or a respiratory diagnosis such as asthma, would try a paleo diet before they let themselves think there is no hope of life without prescription drugs.

Some of us have to consider health as well as taste (I use a low carb diet to maintain normal blood glucose instead of taking diabetes drugs, while at the same time I focus on foods that have a long tradition of supporting healthy populations, as well as limit processed «fake food» ingredients which are novel to the human diet).

In 2011, Dr. Stephanie Seneff published research looking at the effects of a low - fat diet and statin drugs in relation to Alzheimer's Disease.

«The safety of low - kilojoule sweeteners used in diet drinks is supported by leading regulatory agencies throughout the world, such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the European Food Safety Authority, the National Health and Medical Research Council, and Food Standards Australia and New Zealand — as well as leading health groups, including the Australian Diabetes Council and Dieticians Association of Australia.»

Here are some of the causes of constipation: a poor diet comprised of too much animal protein and a lack of fiber intake, not enough fluids, lack of exercise or other physical activity, an illness, certain drugs and medication prescribed for other diseases or weight loss programs, colon cancer, depression, stress, anxiety etc

My uncle has diabetes and might have prostate cancer, I found out today, but instead of changing his diet he will just take drugs and the conventional therapies and feels horrible.

For example, a lot of cheap protein powders are filled with WHEY protein that come's from cows who have been bred and raised in an over populated farm, fed on a poor diet and induced with lots of different drugs.

A 2005 study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that consuming almonds as part of a heart - healthy diet can be just as effective at lowering LDL «bad» cholesterol levels as first generation statin drugs.

This diet was meant to keep the digestion clear so as not to bog down the brain with the «drug - like» effects of food (anxiety and stress, negative thoughts like, «am I eating well?»)

Some scientists also believe that Dianabol decreases skin-fold thickness — viz., the paper - thin quality of the skin of body builders taking the drug — though here, again, others claim this to be an effect of a high - protein, low - fat diet.

In addition to hay and oats, they are given an almost steady diet of Butazolidin, an anti-inflammatory and analgesic drug, and Lasix, used to prevent bleeding.

While a daily diet of meth can not be healthy, I do wonder exactly how risky drug use is, and how much abuse it takes to be ultra high risk.

I stuck to my prescribed dose of methadone, stopped using street drugs, ate a healthy diet, stopped smoking, lived a healthy lifestyle and fortunately, my son was absolutely fine — no signs of withdrawal.

In a draft report released earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency estimated that over 5 percent of children consume more than 6 micrograms per day of lead — the maximum daily intake level set by the Food and Drug Administration in 1993 — in their diet.

British children were twice as likely as the average to have been drunk by the age of 15, and significantly less likely to be in two parent families than those elsewhere, were more likely to have tried drugs and had one of the worst diets in the developed world.

Your doc will also be able to offer a full rundown of the over-the-counter drugs that can be harmful to your baby, like aspirin, antihistamines and diet drugs.

The Functional Medicine toolkit uses a wide - range of therapeutic modalities to optimize health and wellness, including nutritional supplements, herbal medicines, therapeutic diets, lifestyle modification, and drugs when appropriate.

In the new work, published June 10 in the journal Scientific Reports, Zhao, Reid and colleagues used a highly sensitive probe to measure electrical fields in the corneas of isolated eyes from three different lab mouse models with different types of diabetes: genetic, drug - induced and in mice fed a high - fat diet.

Noting that diet and weight loss surgery are often recommended for the care of metabolic syndrome, Heinrich Taegtmeyer, M.D., D.Phil., professor of cardiovascular medicine at McGovern Medical School, said, «This drug amplifies the biological rhythms of metabolic genes to the extent that the animals burn more fuel and store less fuel.

Some people can manage their symptoms by sticking to a restrictive diet, or using drugs to remove sugar from their system, but many of these have side effects, such as weight gain.

Treatment with the diabetes drug liraglutide, in combination with diet and exercise, led to a significant reduction in weight and improved a number of cardiovascular risk factors, including high blood pressure and high cholesterol, according to a multicenter study.

If the drug were to pan out in clinical trials, it would probably be prescribed as part of a regime including diet change and exercise, says Dow, who stresses that the drug is unlikely to be a magic bullet.

When the researchers gave digoxin to mice that had E. lenta in their guts, higher levels of the active drug appeared in mice on a high - protein diet (containing arginine) than in mice that went without protein.

Clearly, he realized, med school had taught him a lot about drugs, but his training had been markedly deficient in the areas of diet, nutrition, and exercise.

Interfering with the biological pathways that link eating to parasite rhythms — perhaps through diet, or drugs that manipulate the process — could reduce both the severity and spread of malaria infection, researchers suggest.

Two years ago the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline purchased Sirtris for $ 720 million, and by August of last year The New York Times was speculating that compounds capable of activating sirtuin genes were now the leading candidates for what the newspaper called «the ultimate free lunch... a drug that tricks the body into thinking it is on [a calorie - restricted] diet.»

Graham MacGregor of the Wolfson Institute of Preventative Medicine in London says the drug has potential but it makes more sense for people to change their diets: «Why eat all this salt and take a drug to block it?»

A more healthful diet will not only help you get fitter, but, new research indicates, it might also increase the odds that your sperm are in better shape, too.A whole host of factors might impair male fertility — including alcohol intake, smoking, drug use, excessive heat, environmental factors and biological abnormalities.

While the research is promising, George C. Ziobro, Ph.D., of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, cautioned that it would not be simple to add insects to the typical diet.

To reduce their risk of developing kidney disease, patients should be attentive to their blood pressure and keep it under control, maintain a diet that isn't high in salt; avoid or reduce use of medications that are directly toxic to the kidneys; including nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; and get their rheumatoid arthritis and inflammation under as good of control as possible, he adds.

In the most convincing study to date, a team of researchers in Cambridge has shown that a diet high in soya protein can alter women's hormones in a way that mimics the effects of the anticancer drug tamoxifen.

Air pollution ranks ninth among the modifiable disease risk factors, ahead of low physical activity, high sodium diet, high cholesterol and drug use.»

«We hope this technology will in future enable researchers to design personalised diets or drugs that can efficiently target problem areas in the gut, to help the millions of people worldwide that are affected by digestive disorders and diseases.»

Osama Hamdy likes to talk about the Diabetes Prevention Program, a national study at Joslin and elsewhere that tested the impact of exercise and diet versus that of drugs.

In the past few years alone, researchers have had to backtrack on the health benefits of low - fat, high - fiber diets and the value and safety of hormone replacement therapy as well as the arthritis drug Vioxx, which was pulled from the market after being found to cause heart attacks and strokes in high - risk patients.

The drugs also significantly reduced the negative effects of a high - fat diet in mice, including reducing weight gain and, to the researchers» surprise, significantly lowering blood glucose levels and improving responsiveness to insulin.

More research is still needed to determine whether a comprehensive program of diet, weight maintenance, exercise and targeted drug therapies can fully resolve liver fibrosis, the study concluded.

«Overall, we are working to apply the same rigorous science to the understanding of diet and lifestyles in the colon cancer patient population that we apply to defining new drugs,» Fuchs said.

The researchers examined respondents» deference to science on a scale of 0 - 10 when it came to 14 policy issues, including child vaccinations, stem cell research, global warming, child obesity and diet, AIDS prevention, birth control education, legalizing drug use, gun control, regulation of nuclear power, animal testing, and teaching evolution in schools.

Pharmaceutical companies are now seeking a drug that mimics the benefits of a restrictive diet without the sacrifice.

«Only three interventions — severely cutting the number of calories consumed, restricting the amount of methionine (a type of amino acid found in meat and other proteins) in the diet and using the drug rapamycin — have been shown to truly prolong the lifespans of vertebrates, but eating less and not eating meat will not be welcomed by general population, while rapamycin has shown to suppress the human immune system,» Liu said.

«From our past research, we know the ketogenic diet is effective in approximately one - third of adults with epilepsy who are resistant to traditional anti-seizure drugs,» says Mackenzie C. Cervenka, M.D., associate professor of neurology and director of the Adult Epilepsy Diet Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.