Friday, April 25, 2008

Clinical Trials Update: April 25, 2008 (HealthDay)

HealthDay (HealthDay buy wholesale enzyme coQ10 -- Here are purchase wholesale ginkgo biloba leaf supplement latest clinical trials, courtesyof Thomson CenterWatch:

Great demographic changes are occurring as the baby buy wholesale creatine powder ester hcl reach their golden years..

Since we arrived on the scene purchase wholesale ginkgo biloba leaf supplement 1946, we have been the source of significant trends most industrialised nations. When the baby boomers were infants, companies marketing baby food and nappies grew substantially. As the baby boomers grew up, they spawned other economic trends. These include:

1950s - substantial growth in toy production and building of primary schools.

1960s - rise of fast food chains and the music industry (as baby boomers became teenagers)

1980s - real estate booms (as more baby boomers entered the market)

1990s - discount superstores (as early baby boomers reached peak spending years).

Although baby boomers make one-third of the developed world's population, we control two-thirds of the wealth. The first baby boomers are reaching retirement age but we don't want to "grow old gracefully" as our parents did. We want to feel young, stay fit and be active. We want to keep a youthful appearance. In other buy wholesale greentea pe we don't want to grow old. Despite this, some of us are beginning to suffer from degenerative diseases and we want intelligent solutions to our health problems.

A growing number of baby boomers are turning to nutritional supplements to help stay young and active, and prevent the degenerative diseases buy wholesale fos online plagued our parents. The high disposable income of baby boomers, combined with our growing concerns about health, is the foundation for the continuing trend in the growth of the health and wellness industry.

Increasingly, baby boomers are turning to nutritional supplements to maintain optimal health, combat ageing and prevent degenerative diseases. The decision of many baby boomers to take their health into their own hands and benefit from nutritional supplements isn't wishful thinking. It is based on scientific research.

In a report titled The Benefits of Nutritional Supplements, The Council for Responsible Nutrition (based in Washington, reviewed over a decade's worth of scientific research measuring the health benefits of multivitamins and other nutritional supplements. They found that nutritional supplements can promote health and help prevent disease among the discerning baby boomers.

Annette Dickinson, Ph.D. and author of the report, said, "The critical mass of science now building around the material impact of supplementation on adults in mid-life is extremely positive."

"The data underscores the opportunity baby boomers have to significantly improve both their buy wholesale d-glocosamine-hcl and long-term health outlook with very simple lifestyle changes. Like not smoking and getting regular exercise, supplement use in now being shown to have a dramatic, positive effect on health."The first baby boomers, born in 1946, are just entering their sixties and are expected to live at least another 20 years on average. The last baby boomers, born in 1964, are only in their early forties and are expected to live into their eighties. As more and more baby boomers recognise the health benefits of nutritional supplementation the use of vitamins will continue to grow for a long time to come".

About the Author: Myrna Widlend is a baby boomer, who has spent a great deal of time doing her own research in the area of vitamins and nutritional supplements when she suffered from Chronic Fatique. She enjoys sharing her experience of how to enjoy good health in the golden years. She is continually searching for ways to maintain a healthy balance between work and family. In her spare time she enjoys travelling, reading, working in the community and educating people about the real truth of vitamins. Additional information can be found on http://www.vitaminprotection.com

Experts say sex abstinence program doesn't work (Reuters)

A young couple walking hand-in-hand cast a late afternoon shadow on a city street December 29, 2007. (Tim Wimborne/Reuters)Reuters - Programs teaching U.S. schoolchildren to abstain from sex have not cut teen pregnancies or sexually transmitted diseases or delayed age at which sex begins, health groups told Congress on Wednesday.

Diabeticine has had to change its name to Websites promoting the sales of Diabeticine have had to show FDA warnings buy wholesale d-glocosamine-hcl the claims made by the manufacturers of Diamaxol/Diabeticine are breaking the law by making medical claims for a product that is not approved as a drug. So where are these clinical studies that the sites claim were done? Where were the results published? Is this a safe product?

FDA approved as a dietary supplement

Diamaxol/Diabeticine has been approved as a dietary supplement. That means that the FDA is reasonably sure that it can cause no harm. Further, any ingredients that have known daily limits (such as the chromium) are not in excess of safe doses. buy wholesale enzyme coQ10 you look at the ingredients, which are freely available for viewing in the internet, most all of them are generally regarded as safe by the FDA. buy wholesale gamma aminobutyric acid harm will buy wholesale glucosamine sulfate potassium largely to wholesale fructo-oligosaccharides fos pocketbook, not your body, if you purchase and consume Diamaxol.

Safe Ingredients, but Effective in Diabetes Treatment?

Pubmed, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed , is the science geek's place to start searching for medical information on the internet. It's not the last stop, but usually the first. If you do a brief search in Pubmed for each ingredient +diabetes, you will see that many of the ingredients are indeed shown by research to be helpful at least in certain instances of diabetes treatment.

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But they say there is clinical research, and the studies are available online!

Yes, there are two "clinical studies" available online. Neither list a journal in which they are published. Being published in a peer reviewed journal is part of the accepted procedure for proving your medical research. If you search Pubmed for "diabeticine" or "Diamaxol", you will no entries at all. These two "clinical studies" are only available on sites selling the product.

If you search the FDA site for clinical trials, http://clinicaltrials.gov , you will not find any entries for diabeticine or Diamaxol.

Who are the authors?

Google may not be the best place to find someone, or the only place to verify the identity of an author of a scientific clinical study, but for the first article, you will have a difficult time finding anyone with those names. Especially if you add -diabeticine to the search term. A PhD who has only ever published a paper that does not appear in any peer reviewed journal?

For the second article, you will actually find various scientists with name Andrew Stevenson, but I challenge any real Andrew Stevenson NMD MPH to put his place of employment on the article.

Go back to Pubmed and look at an article abstract. The places of employment of the researchers who published the work are always listed in an article. These two "clinical studies" do not list the places of employment (university, hospital, medical center) of any of the authors.

No clinical studies can just list "The study was conducted in an Out-Patient Department of Endocrinology." Any legitimate clinical study must list exactly the hospital, university, or other center where patients are recruited and samples are handled.

In other words, these "clinical studies" look, smell, and walk like fake ducks. They may have indeed been done somewhere, sometime, at some undisclosed place. However, at $75 - $90 per bottle of 60 capsules, you can probably do your own online reading research and purchase all the ingredients separately in a far more economical manner.

Samantha Rangen writes about home health issues. She has a BA in chemistry and has as a research technician for over 20 years in biochemistry, genetics, biochemistry, and cancer research. She enjoys reading medical research journal articles, especially when her friends ask her about popular medical topics.

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