Can someone give me a very interesting health article please?

Answer 1

i've got one for you.

Answer 2

Here's an interesting NY Times piece on Huntington's Disease: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/health/18huntington.html?_r=1&n=Top%2fNews%2fHealth%2fDiseases%2c%20Conditions%2c%20and%20Health%20Topics%2fHuntington%27s%20Disease&oref=slogin

Answer 3

sure! i am not against all forms of alternative medicine by any means, but i had a mother-in-law who was recovering from colon cancer by visiting an alternative doc that didn't know what the hell she was talking about and quite probably increased the chances of her death by prescribing a high Omega 3 diet.


Cancer Res. 1998 Aug 1;58(15):3312-9.

Dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids promote colon carcinoma metastasis in
rat liver.

Griffini P, Fehres O, Klieverik L, Vogels IM, Tigchelaar W, Smorenburg SM, Van Noorden CJ.

Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Department of Cell Biology and Histology, The
Netherlands.

The effects of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) and omega-6 PUFAs on the development of
experimentally induced colon carcinoma metastasis in rat liver were investigated quantitatively in vivo. Rats
were kept on either a low-fat diet or on a fish oil (omega-3 PUFAs) or safflower oil (omega-6 PUFAs) diet
for 3 weeks before the administration of colon cancer cells to the portal vein, until they were sacrificed at 1 or
3 weeks after tumor transplantation. At 1 week after transplantation, the fish oil diet had induced 7-fold more
metastases (in terms of number and size) than had the low-fat diet, whereas the safflower oil diet had not
affected the number and total volume of metastases. At 3 weeks after tumor transplantation, the fish oil diet
and the safflower oil diet had induced, respectively, 10- and 4-fold more metastases (number) and over 1000-
and 500-fold more metastases (size) than were found in the livers of rats on the low-fat diet. These
differences were sex independent. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed that the immune system in the
liver (Kupffer cells, pit cells, T cells, newly recruited macrophages, and the activation state of macrophages)
did not play a significant role in this diet-dependent outgrowth of tumors. In conclusion, omega-3 and omega-
6 PUFAs promote colon cancer metastasis in the liver without down-regulating the immune system. This
finding has serious implications for the treatment of cancer patients with fish oil diet to fight cachexia. :