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Football is in the air,why? Well duh! FIFA starts from today! *woohoo*
So all the girls out there who love football (and their jerseys) as much as me,here are 3 ways in which you can wear your jersey,and give your jeans a break!

Look 1:











For this look,I added a pastel skater skirt *high waist* all of which is in trend. I also added my silver sneaker wedges and to bring some glam to the just,I added charm bangles.

Look 2:














My jersey is white and I wanted to do the white on white trend. Hence. Good thing,white shorts will go with any coloured jersey *yaaay*
I added black pumps and to give this look a little colour I added royal blue sling as well as watch.

Look 3:















For this look,I decided to go monochrome with a pop of red,my favouriiiiiiite!
So I added this sheer slit maxi,put on some red heels,added a red bangle with golden bracelet and feather earrings!

P.S-I am rooting for Spain and Germany this time for World cup,who are you supporting? Tell me!


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Swimming Help You Lose Weight
Swimming Help You Lose Weight

Have you taken up swimming as an exercise to help you to lose weight? If you are, you are not alone because most people think that swimming is effective way to tone muscles and lose weight. This is why the public swimming pools everywhere are always packed in the evenings and on weekends.

Before I disappoint you, I must first declare that I am not against swimming. On the contrary, I swim regularly for the sake of my cardiovascular health.

However, some research seem to suggest that swimming is not an effective way to lose weight and in fact, one can even gain weight with swimming. Getting more bewildering eh?

Swimming is considered by many as one of the best exercises to lose weight and to tone muscles because when you swim, most of your muscles are called into action and you are actually having a full body workout. Furthermore, swimming also has an aerobic effect and so the heart and lungs are getting their dose of exercise as well.

However, a research published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine demostrated that in the absence of a controlled diet, swimming has little or no effect on weight loss.

Professor Grant Gwinup conducted an experiment correlating swimming with weight loss and came up with surprising results.

a) Test subjects put in a cycling program lost 19 pounds in a 90 days study.

b) Those following a walking program lost 17 pounds in the same period.

c) Now, brace yourself for this! Subjects in the swimming program actually gained extra 5 pounds!

Did the findings shock you? I couldn't believe what I was reading when I first came across the report.

Professor Gwinup then assumes that swimming in cold water stimulates the appetite to increase caloric consumption. Do you feel hungry after a swimming session? If you do, then professor could be right.

Professor Louise Burke, Head of Nutrition at the Australian Institute of Sport pointed out that competitive swimmers typically have body fat levels that are higher than those of runners or cyclists who expend a similar amount of energy when they train.

Why is that so? This is because swimmers feel hungry after swimming and may simply replace all the calories they have burned with a large meal and a sugar laden drink after their swim.

On top of that, they may even consume more calories than they have used up.

"Some research suggests that this is due to the cool temperatures in which swimmers often train in and by contrast, runners and cyclists usually experience an increase in body temperature during their training sessions, which may help to suppress appetite." Professor Burke said.

Professor Burke also noted that competitive swimmers are less active when not in training sessions. The swimmers are so tired from the hours of intensive training that they sleep, relax or avoid any active physical activities outside their training sessions. Deja vu? Do you feel tired and sleepy after a swim?

Now, let's talk about toning muscles. Do note that most of the work your body does when swimming involves positive muscle actions and no negative action and we know all know that the negative phase, that is, when lowering the weights during weight training is very important in building muscles.

So can your muscles develop properly when only the positive muscles are worked on? By the way, before you say that competitive swimmers have nice muscle tone, that is because they lift weights to maintain muscle balance as well as to gain strength for more powerful strokes.

Please, do not give up swimming if you enjoy the sport. Doing any exercise is better than not exercising at all. Just make sure that you don't eat more or become more less active after your invigorating swim.

Can Swimming Help You Lose Weight?

A small pilot study of older people suggests that taking a daily supplement of a nutrient that is present naturally in foods may improve artery health and blood pressure.
A certain type of supplement may promote healthy arterial aging and reduced blood pressure.

The researchers, at the University of Colorado Boulder, found that the supplement — called nicotinamide riboside — mimics some of the effects of caloric restriction and activates several identical biological pathways.
Studies of caloric restriction — which have been done mainly in rodents and fruit flies and not so much in humans — indicate that reducing daily calorie intake by a third may delay the aging process and lengthen lifespan.
The new study found that taking nicotinamide riboside supplements significantly improved blood pressure in people with mild hypertension, or elevated blood pressure.
Should the results be confirmed in a larger clinical trial, the researchers think that they could have important implications in biomedicine, such as increasing treatment options for elevated blood pressure.
Elevated blood pressure and stage 1 high blood pressure are now defined as a blood pressure of 120/80 or 139/89 millimeters of mercury, respectively, which — although is not high enough to justify medication — is high enough to raise the risk for a heart attack or stroke.
Currently, the recommended options for people with elevated blood pressure include changes to diet and increasing physical activity.
Senior study author Doug Seals, who is a professor and researcher in the Department of Integrative Physiology, and his colleagues report their findings in a paper due to be published in the journal Nature Communications.

Stiff arteries, blood pressure, and aging

In a Western culture, stiffer arteries and the high blood pressure that results from them as we age is so common that it is accepted as a normal consequence of aging.
For example, the American Heart Association's (AHA) explanation of high blood pressure states, "The normal aging process can cause the big elastic arteries to become stiff over time."
In the United States, an estimated 103 million adults have high blood pressure, and this figure is expected to rise as the population continues to age.
However, there is evidence that stiff arteries and high blood pressure are not necessarily a normal consequence of aging.
Although genetics plays a role, preserving artery health as we reach our 70s and beyond also depends on things that we can do something about — such as lifestyle and diet.

Nicotinamide riboside

Nicotinamide riboside is a trace nutrient present in certain foods such as cow's milk and in higher concentrations in dietary supplement form.
Studies have indicated that the nutrient contains "unique properties as a vitamin B-3" that include: raising insulin sensitivity; boosting the effects of exercise; protecting the brain; and resisting the harmful effects of a high-fat diet.
For their study, Prof. Seals and his colleagues recruited 24 lean and healthy men and women from the Boulder area. Their ages ranged from 55 to 79 and they were put into two groups.
One of the groups took 500 milligrams of nicotinamide riboside chloride twice per day for 6 weeks, then spent another 6 weeks taking a placebo. The other group followed the opposite pattern: they took a placebo for 6 weeks, and then a twice-daily 500-milligram dose of nicotinamide riboside chloride for another 6 weeks.
The team analyzed blood samples that the subjects gave at the end of each treatment period, and they took other "physiological measurements" at these times. There were no serious side effects.

An evolutionary survival mechanism

The results showed that taking 1,000 milligrams of nicotinamide riboside each day increased levels of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) by 60 percent.
NAD+ is a compound that activates sirtuins, a group of enzymes thought to be responsible for the beneficial effects that calorie restriction has on healthy aging and longevity. The compound — levels of which tend to wane with age — is involved in many of the body's metabolic processes.
There is a theory, which is supported by research, that our bodies are programmed by evolution to conserve NAD+ when food is scarce, and that this is activated when we restrict calorie intake.
More recent research has also begun to investigate the possibility that older adults might regain this protective property and age more healthily by taking supplements of "NAD+ precursors," such as nicotinamide riboside.
The results also found that nicotinamide riboside supplementation caused a drop in systolic blood pressure of 10 points in 13 of the participants who had elevated blood pressure or stage 1 high blood pressure. This represents a 25 percent reduction in the risk of having a heart attack.

More work now needed to confirm findings

The researchers conclude that their paper is a step forward in highlighting the potential benefits of nicotinamide riboside supplementation in older adults. However, they point out that there is still a lot of work to do to confirm that it is safe and effective.
They hope to investigate the specific impact of nicotinamide riboside on artery health and blood pressure more robustly in a larger clinical trial.
In the meantime, another trial is about to investigate the effect of the supplement in older people with mild cognitive impairment, a condition that often precedes Alzheimer's disease.
"This was the first ever study to give this novel compound to humans over a period of time. We found that it is well-tolerated and appears to activate some of the same key biological pathways that calorie restriction does."
Prof. Doug Seals
The study was part-funded by ChromaDex, who make the supplements that the researchers used.

Sources : https://www.medicalnewstoday.com

This Supplement May Promote Healthy Arterial Aging

When it comes to New Year's resolutions, eating better is at the top of our list. But which diet plan is the best? A panel of health experts — on behalf of U.S. News & World Report — reveal the top-rated diets for 2019.
U.S. News & World Report reveal the best diets for 2019.
It is estimated that around 45 million people in the United States go on a diet each year, with weight loss being the primary goal.
However, whether you're dieting to lose weight or simply to improve overall health, sticking to a specific eating plan can be challenging. With so many diets to choose from, how can you tell which one will work for you?
U.S. News & World Report put together a panel of health experts every year to evaluate the most popular diets in the U.S.
This year, the experts assessed 40 diets, ranking them from lowest to highest in seven categories, including the best diets for weight loss, diabetes, and heart health. So, we take a look at some of the key results.

The best diets for weight loss

For the majority of dieters, weight loss is the ultimate goal, but losing weight and keeping it off is far from easy.
Research suggests that approximately 30–35 percent of weight lost from dieting is regained within 1 year. But it is possible to maintain weight loss. It's just a matter of finding the right eating plan.
The U.S. News & World Report panel of experts evaluated 40 popular diets for their effects on both short- and long-term weight loss, noting that some people want to lose weight quickly, while others want to maintain their weight loss for years to come.
The health experts rated Weight Watchers as the best diet on both accounts, scoring 4 out of 5 for short-term weight loss, and 3.5 out of 5 for long-term weight loss.
One of the longest-running, well-known commercial diets, Weight Watchers incorporates a points system, wherein foods and beverages are assigned points based on their nutritional values, and dieters are assigned a daily points allowance.
According to U.S. News & World Report, the expert panel "appreciated the program's support system, which helps dieters keep the pounds off."
The Volumetrics Diet came in at second place for best weight loss diet, scoring 3.8 out of 5 for short-term weight loss and 3.3 out of 5 for long-term weight loss.
Designed by Barbara Rolls, who is a professor of nutrition working at Pennsylvania State University in Centre County, the Volumetrics Diet focuses on putting foods with low-energy density, such as low-fat milk, grains, and non-starchy fruits and vegetables, at the forefront of one's diet, as well as limiting foods with high-energy density.

The best diets for heart health

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the U.S., killing around 610,000 people in the country every year.
A poor diet can increase the risk of heart disease, because eating food high in fat can lead to high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, and obesity, which are major risk factors for the condition.
But which eating plan is best for a healthy heart? For this category, the health experts analyzed each of the 40 diets and gave them average heart-health ratings.
The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet took first place in this category.
Developed by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute — a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) — the DASH diet is high in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fish, poultry, and low-fat dairy, but it limits foods high in sugar and saturated and trans fats.
The DASH diet was also ranked the best overall diet.
The Mediterranean diet — which emphasizes consuming fish and seafood at least twice weekly, alongside regular consumption of fruits, vegetables, legumes, and whole grains — took joint second place for best heart-healthy diet, alongside the Ornish diet.
With the Ornish diet, fat is limited to 10 percent of daily calories, and foods are divided into five groups, from the least to most healthful.

The best diets for diabetes

The Mediterranean diet not only ranked highly for one of the best heart-healthy diets, but it also took the crown for the best diabetes diet, scoring 3.7 out of 5.
It is estimated that around 30.3 million people in the U.S. are living with diabetes, wherein blood glucose levels become too high due to the body's inability to produce or effectively use insulin.
Although eating a healthful diet is important for all of us, people with diabetes need to be extra cautious; skipping meals or eating the wrong foods may lead to problematic highs and lows in blood glucose levels.
According to the panel, "The Mediterranean diet is a great option for preventing or controlling diabetes. [...] Some research has shown that diabetics on a Mediterranean diet may improve their levels of hemoglobin A1C, a measure of blood sugar over time."
The DASH diet makes yet another appearance here, ranking second in the best diabetes diet category, with the experts noting that "its menu looks a lot like widely accepted nutritional guidelines for those with the condition."
Whichever eating plan that you decide is best for you, it's important to note that physical activity is just as important as the foods you eat.
Current guidelines recommend that adults should engage in at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity aerobic activity every week.

Source : https://www.medicalnewstoday.com

What Are The Best Diets For 2019?

Baking soda has been used as a home remedy for generations due to its antacid properties. Yet its benefits run even deeper, and new research may explain why it is an effective aid in the treatment of autoimmune diseases such as arthritis.
How can this kitchen staple change the body's inflammatory response?

Baking soda, also called sodium bicarbonate, is a kitchen staple commonly used as a raising agent for cakes.
That being said, it has also made a name for itself as a home remedy for various conditions. Half a teaspoon of baking soda is often taken to ease heartburn or acid reflux, for example, and this substance is also used to whiten teeth.
In a new study, whose findings are now published in The Journal of Immunology, researchers from the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University reveal exactly how drinking a solution of baking soda could prime the immune system against inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis.
Paul O'Connor, a renal physiologist at Augusta University, and colleagues tested the effects that drinking a baking soda solution would have, first on rats, and then on humans.
Their experiments tell a complex story about how this salt provides a signal to a special kind of cell called "mesothelial cells," telling them that the body is fine and not under attack, rendering an aggressive immune system unnecessary. Thus, harmful autoimmune responses are averted.

Baking soda and mesothelial cells

Mesothelial cells line the internal organs as well as many different cavities in the body. Not only do they prevent organs and other internal tissue from sticking together, they also serve other functions, not all of which have been studied in detail.
In the new study, O'Connor and team tested the effect that a baking soda solution would have first on rats, and then on healthy human participants, and they noted that it influenced an intriguing mechanism.
Baking soda "prompts" the stomach to produce more gastric acid, which allows it to digest food quicker and easier. But, in addition to this, it also seems to tell the mesothelial cells that line the spleen to "take it easy," because there is no threat.
Basically, in O'Connor words, mesothelial cells learn that "[i]t's most likely a hamburger not a bacterial infection." So they, in turn, do not activate the spleen's "army" of macrophages, or white blood cells tasked with clearing up potentially harmful cellular detritus.
"Certainly drinking bicarbonate affects the spleen and we think it's through the mesothelial cells," O'Connor explains.
Mesothelial cells communicate with the organs they line using small projections called microvilli, and the medium through which they send their message is the neurotransmitter acetylcholine.

'From inflammatory to anti-inflammatory'

So what actually happens? The study authors note that those who drank the baking soda solution experienced a shift in the kinds of immune cells activated in the spleen. In fact, pro-inflammatory macrophages (M1) dwindled in number, while the levels of anti-inflammatory cells (M2) rose.
The same kinds of cells are also housed in the blood and kidneys, and baking soda happens to be used in the treatment of chronic kidney disease. This idea prompted the new study's authors to explore the mechanisms through which this substance might help to improve renal function.
"We started thinking, how does baking soda slow progression of kidney disease?" says O'Connor.
At first, the researchers analyzed the effects of the baking soda solution on a rat model of kidney disease, and then again on healthy rats, which acted as the control sample.
This is when the researchers noticed that the levels of M1 cells in the kidneys dropped, while those of M2 cells increased.
Both the rats with kidney disease and the healthy rats presented the same development. And it was this shift that flagged up the notion that baking soda could influence the inflammatory response at cellular level.
When the researchers recruited healthy medical students and asked them to drink the baking soda solution, it became apparent the anti-inflammatory effect of this substance happened in the spleen as well as in the blood.
"The shift from inflammatory to an anti-inflammatory profile is happening everywhere. We saw it in the kidneys, we saw it in the spleen, now we see it in the peripheral blood."
Paul O'Connor

'Safe way to treat inflammatory disease'?

One of the authors' main revelations was the fact that it was the mesothelial cells that mediated the anti-inflammatory signals.
An existing working theory had been that signals were transmitted to the relevant cells through the vagus nerve, a long cranial nerve that communicates with the heart, lungs, and various organs in the abdomen.
But experiments revealed that this idea was incorrect. When the scientists tried cutting off this nerve, this did not affect the behavior of the mesothelial cells. Instead, it became apparent that these cells had a more direct communication with the organs they lined than previously thought.
O'Connor and his team became aware of this when they noted that moving the spleen affected mesothelial cells that lined it, and the signals modulating the inflammatory response were lost.
"We think the cholinergic (acetylcholine) signals that we know mediate this anti-inflammatory response aren't coming directly from the vagal nerve innervating the spleen, but from the mesothelial cells that form these connections to the spleen," explains O'Connor.
The results begin to provide an answer as to why baking soda can help with autoimmune diseases, including arthritis, and further research into these mechanisms could help to optimize the results obtained through this common compound.
"It's potentially a really safe way to treat inflammatory disease," O'Connor concludes.

Sources : https://www.medicalnewstoday.com

Baking Soda: A Safe, Easy Treatment for Arthritis

For many cancers, diagnosis is a long and challenging process. A new blood test, however, could offer a much-needed simpler and more effective diagnostic technique. Called CancerSEEK, it has the potential to identify eight cancer types from one blood sample.
Researchers have created a blood test that could detect eight cancer types.

In the new study, researchers reveal how the blood test demonstrated high sensitivity and specificity for cancer detection in more than 1,000 people with the disease.
The team — from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD — recently published their results in the journal Science.
Worldwide, cancer remains one of the leading causes of death. It is estimated that by 2030, the number of cancer deaths will have risen from 8 million to 13 million.
Early diagnosis is key to reducing cancer-related deaths; the earlier the disease is diagnosed, the higher the chances of treatment success. But sadly, many cancers are not caught until the later stages, and this is largely due to a lack of fast and effective diagnostic tools.
However, the Johns Hopkins researchers believe that CancerSEEK could bring us closer to a quick, simple way to detect cancer in its early stages.

Test produced high sensitivity and specificity

When cancerous tumors form, they release small fragments of mutated DNA and proteins into the bloodstream, and these can act as markers for cancer.
The new blood test works by identifying the markers for 16 gene mutations and eight proteins that are associated with eight different cancer types. These include breast, lung, and colorectal cancer, as well as five cancers — ovarian, liver, stomach, pancreatic, and esophageal — for which there are currently no routine screening tests for people at average risk.
"A novelty of our classification method is that it combines the probability of observing various DNA mutations together with the levels of several proteins in order to make the final call," explains study co-author Cristian Tomasetti, Ph.D., an associate professor of oncology and biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University.
For their study, the researchers tested CancerSEEK on 1,005 individuals who had been diagnosed with non-metastatic forms of one of the eight cancers.
They found that the test was able to identify 70 percent of the cancers, with sensitivity ranging from 33 percent for breast cancer to 98 percent for ovarian cancer. Sensitivity ranged from 69 percent to 98 percent for the five cancers that currently have no routine screening tests, the researchers report.
In terms of specificity, the test yielded an overall result of more than 99 percent. On testing CancerSEEK on 812 healthy adults, it only produced seven false-positive results.
As study co-author Kenneth Kinzler, Ph.D. — co-director of the Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics at Johns Hopkins — notes, "Very high specificity was essential because false-positive results can subject patients to unnecessary invasive follow-up tests and procedures to confirm the presence of cancer."
What is more, the researchers found that their test was able to pinpoint the location of tumors for 83 percent of patients.

Test could 'substantially impact patients'

The researchers note that larger studies will now be needed to further determine the efficacy of CancerSEEK as a routine screening test for cancer, and such studies are in the pipeline.
However, the team believes that the results of its current research are encouraging.
"This has the potential to substantially impact patients. Earlier detection provides many ways to improve outcomes for patients," says study co-author Dr. Anne Marie Lennon, Ph.D., who is an associate professor of medicine, surgery, and radiology at Johns Hopkins.
"Optimally, cancers would be detected early enough that they could be cured by surgery alone, but even cancers that are not curable by surgery alone will respond better to systemic therapies when there is less advanced disease," she adds.
The team hopes that CancerSEEK will one day offer a simple, noninvasive, and fast strategy for diagnosing cancer in its early stages.
"This test represents the next step in changing the focus of cancer research from late stage disease to early disease, which I believe will be critical to reducing cancer deaths in the long-term."
Study co-author Dr. Bert Vogelstein, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Sources : https://www.medicalnewstoday.com 

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High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a major risk factor for heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States. But a new study has found that two classes of medication that are commonly used to lower blood pressure could present a death risk all on their own.

Researchers have identifIed two blood pressure drugs that could raise mortality risk.

Scientists at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City, UT, found that individuals with hypertension who used alpha blockers and alpha-2 agonists to control their blood pressureshowed an increase in blood pressure variability, which could increase mortality risk.
Lead study author Dr. Brian Clements and team have recently presented their findings at the 2018 American College of Cardiology (ACC) Scientific Sessions, held in Orlando, FL.
Blood pressure is the force of blood that pushes against the wall of the arteries. And, in November last year, the American Heart Association (AHA) and the ACC set new guidelines.
Now, a person is considered to have hypertension if their systolic blood pressure (the top number) is 130 millimeters of mercury (mmHg) or higher, and their diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number) is 80 mmHg or higher.
Systolic blood pressure is the force of blood against the artery walls when the heart is beating, while diastolic blood pressure is the force of blood when the heart is at rest, or between heartbeats.
The updated guidelines mean that almost half of adults in the United States have high blood pressure, which puts them at greater risk of heart attack, stroke, and heart disease, among other health problems.
Of course, when it comes to treating hypertension, the goal is to lower blood pressure. This may be achieved through lifestyle changes — such as adopting a healthful diet and increasing physical activity — medication, or both.
Previous research, however, has discovered that consistency is key for blood pressure levels. A study published in The BMJ in 2016, for example, associated higher variability of systolic blood pressure with a 15 percent increase in all-cause mortality.
According to the new study from Dr. Clements and colleagues, certain types of medication that are used to lower blood pressure may be contributing to this mortality risk.

Two medications 'should be avoided'

For their study, the researchers analyzed the data of over 10,500 adults with high blood pressure.
The participants had their blood pressure measured at least seven times between January 2007 and December 2011, and the type of blood pressure medication they were using was monitored.
The team used these data to assess whether certain classes of blood pressure medication were associated with variability in blood pressure levels.
The study revealed two classes of blood pressure medication that were linked to higher blood pressure variability in subjects: alpha blockers and alpha-2 agonists.
Alpha blockers — which include doxazosin mesylate and prazosin hydrochloride — work by dilating the blood vessels. Alpha-2 agonists, such as methyldopa, work by targeting sympathetic nervous system activity, thereby reducing blood vessel constriction.
Based on the study results, Dr. Clements and colleagues say that these two medications should not be used to treat hypertension.
"Patients should know what their blood pressure is," he says, "and if it's up and down all the time, the patient should work with their physician to explore options for the best blood pressure medications that will reduce variances."
"Where possible, the two types of medications that show an increase in variances should be avoided."
Dr. Brian Clements
Dr. Clements adds that ace inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers, calcium channel blockers, and thiazide diuretics may be safer treatment options for people with hypertension. "People who are on other types of blood pressure medications have an increased risk of death," he adds.
However, blood pressure variability is not solely down to medication; Dr. Clements notes that the way in which blood pressure is measured can have a significant effect on readings.
"[...] because of the variables that affect blood pressure measurements," says Dr. Clements, "finding ways to more accurately measure blood pressure can better identify effective treatments for patients who have hypertension."
For accurate blood pressure readings, he recommends sitting or laying down for 15 minutes before measurements are taken. Avoiding stressful situations and using a well-fitting blood pressure cuff may also help.

Sources : https://www.medicalnewstoday.com

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