Author: Tom Patriot

Sun Protection to patients with rare genetic disease

Tom Patriot

Skin cells taken from patients with a rare genetic disorder are up to ten times more sensitive to damage from ultraviolet A (AVA) radiation in laboratory tests, than those from a healthy population, according to new research from the University of Bath. It is hoped that the work, which has involved designing a brand new molecule with potential to be added to sun cream, could benefit those with Friedrich’s Ataxia (FA), as well as those with other disorders characterised by mitochondrial iron overload, notably Wolfram Syndrome and Parkinson’s disease, where…

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Why environmental cues make drug addiction extra hard to beat

Tom Patriot

It’s known environmental cues can be strong triggers for those trying to kick a drug habit because those cues activate the brain’s emotional and stimulus-response systems. A new study by University of Guelph researchers reveals for the first time that there’s more going on in the brain when someone walks past a customary lighting-up spot or sees drug-taking paraphernalia that makes quitting the habit even harder. Besides triggering the brain’s emotional and stimulus-response systems (“see smoking area, smoke, feel good”), environmental cues activate brain areas where memories are processed. Prompting…

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Tamera Mowry Drinks Sister Tia’s Breast Milk After Falling Ill, Hoping It Will Cure Her Sickness

Tom Patriot

Tamera Mowry-Housley is relying on Tia Mowry-Hardrict to get better — but not in the way you might think! After Tamera, 40, recently came down with an illness and desperately searched for remedies, she finally turned to her twin sister. Instead of suggestions for medicine or herbal remedies, Tia provided Tamera with some breast milk as she had just read an article suggesting it can be beneficial for adults. While the thought of drinking a woman’s breast milk isn’t most people’s go to when they aren’t well, The Real host had nothing but praise for…

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Is the most effective weight-loss strategy really that hard?

Tom Patriot

If you want lose weight, research shows, the single best predictor of success is monitoring and recording calorie and fat intake throughout the day — to “write it when you bite it.” But dietary self-monitoring is widely viewed as so unpleasant and time-consuming, many would-be weight-losers can’t muster the will power to do it. New research to be published in the March issue of Obesitysuggests that the reality of dietary self-monitoring may be far less disagreeable than the perception. After six months of monitoring their dietary intake, the most successful participants…

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