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Back Pain Causes Brain Loss The study shows the negative affects that chronic pain can have; it can decrease your brain size and function as much as 11% which is usually seen in 20 years of normal aging. What is pain? It is the body talking... (Entire Article)		Painkillers Damage the Intestinal Tract More than 70 percent of patients who took painkillers such as ibuprofen for more than three months suffered damage to their small intestines, U.S. researchers reported.... (Entire Article)

Cancer Now the Leading Killer of Americans Rates of cancers linked to too much weight are increasing, reflecting the obesity epidemic spreading throughout America. About one-third of new cancer cases this year will be due to tobacco use and one-third to poor nutrition, physical inactivity or overweight and obesity. Lung cancer remains the leading cancer killer... (Entire Article)		Americans are Overmedicating This is just further confirmation of how far we have fallen from Hippocrates’s, the father of medicine, words. “Let your food be your medicine.” And Thomas Edison’s wise words, “The doctor of the future will use no medicine but instead will interest his patients in the care of the human frame in diet and the cause and prevention of disease.” (Entire Article)

Aspirin, Ibuprofen Might Boost Risk of Certain Breast Cancers Long-term aspirin use was tied to an increased risk of breast cancer that was not hormone-driven. There was also evidence that long-term ibuprofen use increased the risk of breast cancer... (Entire Article)		Excess pounds may raise ovarian cancer risk This study can be summarized very simply that women that were obese had 2½ times greater risk of ovarian cancer compared to the thinnest women. These findings were stated in the Journal, Cancer. The mechanism behind this is excessive body fat which can raise levels of estrogen in the body.... (Entire Article)

Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Will Reach Epidemic Status in the US study highlights that if the current rates of obesity and diabetes continue for another two decades, the prevalence of NAFLD in the US is expected to increase by 50% in 2030... (Entire Article)		Screening Does Not Reduce Prostate Cancer Deaths Screening does not significantly reduce prostate cancer deaths, but the risk of overdetection and overtreatment is considerable, concludes a 20-year study published by the... (Entire Article)

Keeping Cancer Dormant by Blocking Energy Production Required for Malignant Cancer Growth Breast tumor cells depend on a metabolic pathway called glycolysis to generate the energy required for their malignant growth. By inhibiting a specific enzyme with the anti-glycolytic agent, the energy production required for tumor cell growth and spread is blocked," "Disrupt glycolysis and cancer cells are unable to produce enough energy to survive... (Entire Article)		Smoking Causes Genetic Damage Within Minutes After Inhaling scientists are reporting that cigarette smoke begins to cause genetic damage within minutes -- not years -- after inhalation into the lungs... (Entire Article)

Back Pain Causes Brain Loss (Entire Article)

Painkillers Damage the Intestinal Tract (Entire Article)

Cancer Now the Leading Killer of Americans (Entire Article)

Americans are Overmedicating (Entire Article)

Aspirin, Ibuprofen Might Boost Risk of Certain Breast Cancers (Entire Article)

Excess pounds may raise ovarian cancer risk (Entire Article)

Keeping Cancer Dormant by Blocking Energy Production Required for Malignant Cancer Growth (Entire Article)

Screening Does Not Reduce Prostate Cancer Deaths (Entire Article)

Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Will Reach Epidemic Status in the US (Entire Article)

Smoking Causes Genetic Damage Within Minutes After Inhaling (Entire Article)

Estrogen Replacement Therapy Increases Ovarian Cancer Growth (Entire Article)

Cancer Metastasis Formation Revealed (Entire Article)

Obesity Now Poses as Great a Threat to Quality of Life as Smoking (Entire Article)

Study Suggests 86 Percent Of Americans Could Be Overweight Or Obese By 2030 (Entire Article)

How Coffee Raises Cholesterol (Entire Article)

Cancer Cells 'Reprogram' Energy Needs To Grow And Spread, Study Suggests (Entire Article)

Memory Restored In Mice Through Enriched Environment: New Hope For Alzheimer's (Entire Article)



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