Month: May 2014

For weight loss, the paleo diet, which is what our ancestors ate when they had to hunt or gather their food instead of growing it, seems like a good idea. … plenty of the soluble kind, which can be found in a healthy modern paleo diet.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Surprising new research shows a small but diverse community of bacteria lives in the placentas of healthy pregnant women, overturning the belief that fetuses grow in a pretty sterile environment.

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The human placenta, the organ that nourishes a developing baby, is not the pristine place some experts had assumed. Researchers said on Wednesday they have identified a relatively small but thriving group of microbes that inhabit the placenta alongside human cells in a finding that may point to new ways of spotting women at risk for pre-term births. There were clear differences in the makeup of placental microbes, or microbiome, in women who had premature babies compared with those who delivered full-term babies, said Dr. James Versalovic, a professor at Baylor College of Medicine and head of pathology at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston. "This is a eureka moment where we say: 'Wow, there are bacteria here in the placenta,'" said Versalovic, who noted that the view among many experts had been that the placenta might be sterile, free of such microbes.

Real treatments are published, peer-reviewed, and independently verified over a number of years in order to ensure their safety and effectiveness. Cancer is tricky, because we can't at this point cure it, and that scares many people into thinking that's because traditional treatments don't work, when really it's just the best we can do at this point.

Get the facts and know your numbers.