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More Healthy Calories

January 13, 2010 By

increase muscle mass_How our muscles perform when working out comes from what we feed ourselves. However, in a world obsessed with being thin, casually using our favorite four letter “f-word” in a sentence about being fit is almost as bad as confessing one’s love for carbohydrates. Eating adequate calories is important to build and increase muscle mass. It is critical to obtain many of your calories from protein sources. Eating lots of fresh green and other colorful vegetables provides more healthy calories and serves as the perfect complement to your protein-rich sources.

Nevertheless, our human body is very smart and adapts quickly.  The muscles will quickly adapt to a workout; therefore, if the same routine is used with no change or new stimulus results will be slower and progress will soon come to a halt.  There are several ways to change a routine.  Increase the weight, increase the repetitions or sets, increase or decrease the speed of the exercise, eat right and do strength training. As such, you’ll soon be on your way to the body you want having all those things in its right perspective.

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Wrinkle Fighting Ingredients

January 13, 2010 By

best wrinkle serum_Though the economy is suffering, but that doesn’t mean your beauty regimen needs also to suffer along with it. The ugly truth is that as we age, skin does lose some of its lift and firmness and, although no woman is safe from the perils of father time, there are less invasive, painful, and risky ways to slow down the effects of time on the skin. And according to known dermatologists nationwide, there are bargain beauty products which deliver results as good as their department store counterparts.

Anti-aging creams work through different mechanisms, depending upon the particular agents contained in them. You could spend hours in the drug store trying to find the perfect facial cleanser, but for the optimum long-term health and beauty of the skin, an effective daily routine should include best wrinkle serum that can both cleanse and protect the skin without disrupting its natural pH balance. Certain ingredients have, however, stood the test of time. So for you to determine the most active and potent wrinkle fighting ingredients, then better visits the above mentioned.

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Breast Cancer Multigene Test May Help Patients Avoid Chemo

January 13, 2010 By

breast cancer multigene test may help patients avoid chemo_A new study shows that a 21-gene test of a patient’s breast cancer tumour may change doctor and patient treatment decisions, including the need for chemotherapy.

The test, Oncotype DX, is made by Genomic Health Inc. It examines 21 genes from a tumour sample to determine how active they are.

A test score between 0 and 100 predicts how likely the cancer is to recur. For women with low scores, chemotherapy is not recommended.

More than 120,000 breast cancer patients have undergone the test since it became commercially available in 2004.

The test is intended for patients who have a type of breast cancer, called estrogen receptor-positive, which has not spread to the lymph nodes. About 100,000 such cases are diagnosed each year.

“The trend in oncology is towards personalized medicine. We likely will see more tests similar to this one in the future,” said Loyola University Health System Medical oncologist and study’s lead author Dr. Shelly Lo.

The findings are based on study, which included 89 breast cancer patients who received the gene test.

They were treated by 17 medical oncologists at Loyola, University of Michigan, University of California at Davis and Edward Hospital in Naperville, Il.

Doctors changed treatment decisions for 28 patients. In 20 of these cases, they changed their decision from hormone therapy plus chemotherapy to hormone therapy alone. 24 patients changed their treatment decisions, including nine who dropped chemotherapy.

“This is the first study to show that results from this test simultaneously impact decisions by physicians as well as patients,” Lo said.

The study has been published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Newstrack India

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