Food Variety, Calorie Intake, and Weight Gain

Let's kick off this post with a quote from a 2001 review paper (1):

Increased variety in the food supply may contribute to the development and maintenance of obesity.  Thirty-nine studies examining dietary variety, energy intake, and body composition are reviewed. Animal and human studies show that food consumption increases when there is more variety in a meal or diet and that greater dietary variety is associated with increased body weight and fat.

This may seem counterintuitive, since variety in the diet is generally seen as a good thing.  In some ways, it is a good thing, however in this post we'll see that it can have a downside.

Speaking at AHS13

The 2013 Ancestral Health Symposium will be held in Atlanta, GA, dignified 14-17.  Last time was a notable consultation, and I look familiar to more informative talks and networking.  Tickets set out fast, so reserve yours at the moment if you plot to attend!

The Neurobiology of the Obesity Epidemic

I recently read an attractive re-evaluation paper by Dr. Edmund T. Rolls upper-class "Taste, olfactory and food consistency reward giving out in the brain and the control of appetite" so as to I'll discuss in this position (1).  Dr. Rolls is a copious neuroscience researcher by the side of Oxford who focuses on "the brain mechanisms of perception, remembrance, emotion and feeding, and in this fashion of perceptual, remembrance, emotional and hunger disorders."

Update

I haven't been putting much effort into blogging these past few weeks.  Frankly, a little break has been nice while I take care of other things in my life.  But I haven't been twiddling my thumbs.  Obesity research hasn't slowed down and there are many topics that I'd love to write about here if I had the time.  I'll be starting a new series soon on the genetics of obesity-- a fascinating subject.  I also plan to cover some of my recent publications on obesity and blood glucose control by the brain.  Last but not least, we will soon roll out a substantially upgraded version of the Ideal Weight Program.  Those who have already purchased the program will continue to have access to the new version.

Food Reward

This week's "winner" will certainly be the most controversial yet... bacon!!

Bacon is a fatty cut of pork (typically side or back) that has been thinly sliced, cured, then cooked until crispy.  This results in a fatty, salty, savory flavor that almost everyone loves.  Bacon's extremely high calorie density, saltiness, and savory flavor give it a reward value that competes with chocolate and ice cream.  Sometimes it's even used to flavor chocolate and ice cream!

Food Reward

This week's lucky "winner"... cronuts!!

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Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... low-carb gluten-free bacon chocolate mocha ice cream cake!!

The Genetics of Obesity, Part I

Choosing the Right Parents: the Best Way to Stay Lean?

In 1990, Dr. Claude Bouchard and colleagues published a simple but fascinating study demonstrating the importance of genetics in body fatness (1).  They took advantage of one of the most useful tools in human genetics: identical twins.  This is what happens when a single fertilized egg generates two embryos in utero and two genetically identical humans are born from the same womb.   By comparing identical twins to other people who are not genetically identical (e.g., non-identical twins), we can quantify the impact of genes vs. environment on individual characteristics (2).

Food Reward

This week's lucky "winner"... beer!!

The Genetics of Obesity, Part II

The Genetics

The study of stoutness genetics dates back more than partially a century.  Modish 1949, researchers by the side of the Jackson Laboratories identified a remarkably fat mouse, which they dogged voted for a spontaneous change in an unidentified gene.  They named this the "obese" (ob/ob) mouse.  Over the after that only some decades, researchers identified several other genetically obese mice with spontaneous mutations, counting diabetic (db/db) mice, "agouti" (Avy) mice, and "Zucker" (fa/fa) rats.

Return to the Source Parkour Camp

 

For individuals who are interested in natural movement training, this summer my colleague Rafe Kelley will be hosting an attractive three-day event draw near to Bellingham, WA called "Return to the Source".  Rafe is skilled in a variety of movement disciplines and is the co-founder of the Seattle parkour fitness center Parkour Visions.  Parkour is a very fun sport so as to hones our natural aptitude to capably navigate pure obstacles, but it's mostly ready in an urban context.

The Genetics of Obesity, Part III

Genetics Loads the Gun, Environment Pulls the Trigger

Thanks to a WHS reader* in support of reminding me of the beyond citation by Dr. Francis Collins, director of the US National Institutes of Health**.  This is a model so as to help reconcile the following two seemingly contradictory observations:

Zucchini

Zucchini

One of my most important crop growing goals has been to harvest more of something than I can lunch, despite my imperfect crop growing deep space at this point in the Emerald City.  I care for the feeling of profusion so as to comes with having to preserve and break away food as I can't lunch it all.

Brown Fat

Non-shivering thermogenesis is the process by which the body generates further part lacking shuddering.  Shivering is a way in support of the body to service muscular contractions to generate part, but non-shivering thermogenesis uses a completely another instrument to accomplish the same goal: A specialized fat-burning tissue called brown fat.  Tan fat is brown more willingly than white as it's packed with mitochondria, the power plants of the cell.  Under cold conditions, these mitochondria are activated, using a specialized molecular instrument called uncoupling* to generate part.

Food Reward

This week's lucky winner... salted nuts!!

Food Reward

This week's lucky "winner"... Cola!

Food Reward

Thirsty yet?  Visual cues such as these are used to drive food/beverage seeking and consumption behavior, which are used to drive profits. 

AHS Talk

For individuals who are attending the Ancestral Health Symposium this time, my jargon will be by the side of 9:00 AM on Saturday.  The title is "Insulin and Obesity: Reconciling Conflicting Evidence", and it will focus on the following two questions:

•     Does elevated insulin cause stoutness; does stoutness cause elevated insulin; or both?
•     Is nearby a unifying hypothesis that's able to explain all of the seemingly conflicting evidence cited by both parts of the deliberate?

Reflections on the 2013 Ancestral Health Symposium

I precisely returned from the 2013 Ancestral Health Symposium in Atlanta.  Despite a only some challenges with the audio/visual setup, I think it went well.

I at home on Thursday twilight, and so I missed a only some talks so as to would allow been attractive to attend, by Mel Konner, Nassim Taleb, Gad Saad, and Hamilton Stapell.  Dr. Konner is single of the progenitors of the advanced Paleo movement.  Dr. Saad does attractive product on consummatory behavior, reward, and its doable evolutionary basis.  Dr. A staple is a historian with a significance in the advanced Paleo movement.  He got a little part in support of suggesting so as to the movement is suspect to be set out in fact mainstream, which I am the same weight.  I had the opportunity to use up quite a small piece of instant with him and found him to be an attractive person.

More Thoughts on Cold Training

Now so as to the model of cold training in support of cold adaptation and fat loss has expected technical support, I've been thinking more almost how to apply it.  A digit of frequent allow been practicing cold training in support of a long instant, using various methods, on the whole of which haven't been scientifically validated.  That doesn't mean the methods don't product (some of them probably do), but I don't know how far we can simplify personality results preceding to since controlled studies.

Is Refined Carbohydrate Addictive?

[Note: in previous versions, I mixed up "LGI" and "HGI" terms in a couple of spots.  These are now corrected.  Thanks to readers for pointing them out.]

Recently, a new study was published that triggered an avalanche of media reports suggesting that refined carbohydrate may be addictive:

Speaking in Lisbon on October

My colleague Pedro Bastos kindly invited me to articulate by the side of a consultation he ordered in Lisbon on October  upper-class "Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases".  I will break two talks:

•     "Ancestral Health: What is Our Human Potential?"  This jargon will explore the vigor of non-industrial cultures in an effort to understand how much of our advanced chronic disease burden is needless, and it will temporarily handle on single major aspect of non-industrial life so as to might care for aligned with the "diseases of civilization".  This presentation will focus on age-adjusted data from from top to toe quality studies.  

Sleep and Genetic Obesity Risk

Evidence is steadily accumulating so as to insufficient be dead to the world increases the hazard of stoutness and undermines fat loss pains.  Short be dead to the world duration is single of the on the whole big hazard factors in support of stoutness (1), and several possibility mechanisms allow been identified, counting increased hanker, increased significance in calorie-dense highly toothsome food, cut-rate drive to implement, and alterations in hormones so as to influence hunger and body fatness.  Dan Pardi presented his exploration by the side of AHS13 viewing so as to be dead to the world restriction reduces willpower to turn into healthy choices almost food.

Marilyn Monroe's 'boob job agony' before her death

Marilyn Monroe had a boob job as well as a sponge chin plant, according to a US cosmetic surgery expert.

The film star had probably been prearranged liquid silicone injections in her breasts and they were infected beforehand her death from  an overdose, according to  Joan Kron, editor by the side of big of US beauty bible Allure.

There was a scramble by the side of  mart keep up week to purchase X-rays  of Marilyn’s skull.

Secret surgery: A friend of Marilyn Monroe said that before her death 'her breasts were infected', probably from liquid silicone injections

Artist Ingrid Warner, centre, working with delegates to create a ‘memory tree’ during World Mental Health Day

Artist Ingrid Warner, centre, working with delegates to create a ‘memory tree’ during World Mental Health Day

Mental health was highlighted on Wednesday, that was World Mental Health Day, at the Assembly Hall, Melksham.

Eye exams provide overall health insight

The eyes might be the window to the soul, but eye exams can offer insight into a person's overall vigor. Modish this edition of Wellness, YNN's Jill Urban explains the meaning of eye vigor.

"During an eye exam I look by the side of blood vessels in the back of the eye and the state of individuals blood vessel,s and could you repeat that? They look like tell me could you repeat that? The blood vessels are burden in other organs of the body like the empathy, the lungs, the kidneys, the liver," explained Dr. Robert Cykiert.

Dr. Cykiert thought your eye doctor might be the single to discover a serious difficult beforehand symptoms get up. For instance, six years in the past, Gloria Lapin went in in support of a routine eye exam. She was quickly rushed to the emergency area with a life threatening put out.

"The doctor exposed flaking from my corroded conduit which were circulating in areas dangerously close to the brain which might cause a stroke," recalled Lapin. "He recommended we set out without delay to the sickbay. We did so and surgery was ready the following sunlight hours and was highly thriving."

During an eye exam, Dr. Cykiert so-called any more enduring had a swelling on his brain. The doctor was straight, and at the moment the enduring is undergoing cure.

"My life has been saved. If I didn’t set out through this diagnosis, I might not be at this point straight at the moment," thought the enduring.

Dr. Cykiert thought tumors and strokes are precisely a only some of the things so as to can be detected all through an eye exam.

UK vigor manager withdraws certification of Wockhardt troop

 New Delhi, Oct 12:  Modish yet any more retard to drug definite Wockhardt, UK’s vigor manager has withdrawn the fine manufacturing certification of the company’s Chikalthana talent in Maharashtra.

“The company has expected a consultation from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, United Kingdom (UKMHRA), whereby the agency has categorical to withdraw the previously issued GMP Certificate to the company’s manufacturing talent situated by the side of L1, MIDC, Chikalthana, Aurangabad,” Wockhardt thought in a filing to the BSE.

Mental health has 97 percent treatment

Ghana’s current mental vigor service freedom has a 97 for each cent cure gap, Dr Akwasi Osei, the Chief Psychiatrist, thought on Friday.

This, he thought, is an indication so as to 97, not worth it of a100 mental patients, who require vigor thoughtfulness, act not progress it.

Dr Osei disclosed this by the side of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Conference organised by the Mental Health Foundation- Ghana, with support from the Australian Embassy in Ghana.

Navigator Alexandra Dixon at Community Clinic

Navigator Alexandra Dixon at Community Clinic

Alexandra Dixon threads her way amongst the frequent waiting to comprehend a doctor by the side of the Community Clinic, Inc. In Silver Spring, Maryland. She introduces herself with a dazzling smile and an outstretched tender: "I'm single of the new-fangled vigor thoughtfulness navigators. Have you heard of the Affordable Care Act?"

The Obamacare software mess

The Obamacare software mess

JASON LAHOZ can be a parking attendant in Philadelphia with two small children. He's also one among nearly 50m Americans without medical health insurance. He wishes to change that. He recently visited the
“Independence Express“ bus Independence Blue Cross, a neighborhood insurer, has evolved coverage under Obamacare. Mr Lahoz was told however be entitled to public subsidies to buy insurance.
“That will be perfect,“ he explained, "if that's actually true.“

The doctors recreate the famous scene

The doctors recreate the famous scene

INNOVATIVE bosses next to a major NHS physical condition trust own doubled up as actors to recreate the grizzly “ear-slicing” view from the film Reservoir Dogs – in a propose to cheer fill with to take up the infection dig.

Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust faced court charged with safety breaches over the death of diabetic patient Gillian Astbury

Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust faced court charged with safety breaches over the death of diabetic patient Gillian Astbury

A scandal-hit sickbay trust is facing an indefinite fine in support of vigor and safety law breaches which led to the death of a diabetic enduring.

The Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust pleaded guilty at present to failing to ensure the safety of Gillian Astbury, who lapsed into a diabetic coma while being treated by the side of Stafford Hospital in April 2007.

Snacking On Almonds Curbs Your Appetite Without Adding Pounds

Snacking On Almonds Curbs Your Appetite Without Adding Pounds

An estimated 97% of Americans consume by the side of smallest amount single snack for each sunlight hours, making snacking just about universal. A new-fangled study led by Purdue University researchers found so as to persons who ate 1.5 ounces of dry-roasted, lightly salty almonds day after day veteran decreased hunger and improved levels of dietary vitamin E and monounsaturated (“good”) fat intake. The findings, in print in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, plus showed so as to nearby was nix escalation in body stress.

the Canadian Cancer Society released a report on liver cancer

the Canadian Cancer Society released a report on liver cancer

Two things trapped my attention. One, so as to although statistics indicate so as to incidence and death tariff from many types of cancer is decreasing, liver cancer is on the gradient. The other mechanism was so as to it is not unexceptional to hear of a person with liver cancer and very little is celebrated by the wide-ranging community.

Congress protects itself first

WASHINGTON, D.C. — If Obamacare is so respectable, why was meeting crying to President Obama representing an illegal discharge, which he liberally granted?

When meeting agreed Obamacare in 2010, it affirmed to facilitate meeting and its run would be topic to it the same as one and all besides. That is single trade event to facilitate they must live under the same rules to facilitate they forced on one and all besides.

Gov't clarifies timing to pass up vigor law fines

WASHINGTON — You'll allow to progress coverage by Valentine's Day or thereabouts to pass up penalties in support of being uninsured, the Obama administration fixed Wednesday.

That's almost six weeks earlier than a ruin. 31 deadline often cited previously.

The explanation: Vigor insurance coverage typically starts on the at the outset sunlight hours of a prearranged month, and it takes up to 15 days to process applications.

Force options confuse vigor insurance shoppers?

The online vigor insurance marketplaces so as to opened Oct. 1 break consumers who are looking in support of coverage on the personality sell a undivided new-fangled way to store in support of vigor procedure.

David Koch, executive vice president of Koch Industries

David Koch, executive vice president of Koch Industries

WASHINGTON â?? Koch Industries, the conglomerate run by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, has not taken a situation on Republican pains to defund President Obama's vigor thoughtfulness law as a condition of reopening the government, a top company formal thought in the communication sent Thursday to senators.

A study says risks of hospital admissions and deaths from stroke, heart and circulatory disease are higher in areas with high levels of aircraft noise

A study says risks of hospital admissions and deaths from stroke

Risks of sickbay admissions and deaths from stroke, empathy and circulatory disease are elevated in areas with from top to toe levels of aircraft clatter, a study has found.

Researchers by the side of Imperial College London and King's College London compared data on sunlight hours and night-time aircraft clatter with sickbay admissions and mortality tariff amongst a population of 3.6 million frequent living draw near to Heathrow airport in west London.

They found the risks were around 10% to 20% elevated in areas with highest levels of aircraft clatter compared to the areas with smallest amount clatter.

Previous exploration has found relations linking living in a noisy nature and hazard of from top to toe blood pressure, but only some studies allow looked by the side of stroke, empathy disease and circulatory disease.
The new-fangled findings, in print in the British Medical Journal, raise the risk so as to aircraft clatter might be a contributing cause to these conditions, but the researchers say more product is desirable to create the exact correlation linking clatter and cruelly vigor.

The study covered 12 London boroughs and nine districts outside of London anywhere aircraft clatter exceeds 50 decibels - almost the volume of a typical conversation in a subtle area.
The undivided study area was on bad terms into 12,110 small areas, both with a population of around 300. For both small area, the researchers looked by the side of clatter levels from 2001, provided by the Civil Aviation Authority, and sickbay admissions and deaths from 2001-2005.

Dr Anna Hansell, from the School of Public Health by the side of Imperial, the go in front author of the study, thought: "These findings advise a doable link linking from top to toe levels of aircraft clatter and hazard of empathy disease and stroke.

"The exact role so as to clatter exposure might fool around in cruelly vigor is not well established. However, it is plausible so as to it might be contributing, in support of instance by raising blood pressure or by disconcerting people's be dead to the world. The qualified meaning of daytime and night-time clatter plus needs to be investigated auxiliary."

Professor Paul Elliott, the senior author of the study and director of the UK diminutive Area Health Statistics Unit, Public Health England and the Medical Research Council, anywhere the study was conducted, added: "From this type of study, we can't say in support of undeniable so as to aircraft clatter is trustworthy in support of the increased empathy disease and stroke hazard in these communities as nearby are other doable explanations."

He added: "It's worth compass reading in mind so as to nearby are many other factors so as to are celebrated to allow imperative influences on an individual's hazard of empathy disease and stroke, such as diet, smoking, lack of implement and remedial conditions such as raised blood pressure and diabetes.
"However, our study does raise imperative questions almost the possibility role of clatter on cardiovascular vigor, which needs auxiliary study."

The researchers plus considered other factors in individuals areas so as to allow been linked to empathy disease tariff, such as social deprivation, ethnic concerto, road traffic clatter, air pollution and lung cancer tariff - a proxy in support of the prevalence of smoking.

After adjusting in support of these factors, South Asian background - which is associated with elevated risks of empathy disease - was found to story in support of part of the correlation linking empathy disease admissions and clatter levels, as many areas with the on the whole clatter plus allow big South Asian populations.
The area incorporated in the study comprised the London boroughs of Hillingdon, Hounslow, Ealing, Brent, Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster, Richmond leading Thames, Kingston leading Thames, Wandsworth, Lambeth and Southwark.
It plus covered nine districts to the west of London: Windsor and Maidenhead, Slough, Spelthorne, Wokingham, Elmbridge, Bracknell Forest, Wycombe, Runnymede and South Bucks.

Professor Kevin McConway, Professor of Applied Statistics by the side of The Open University, thought: "Both of these studies (the Heathrow single and a US study) are thorough and well-conducted. But, even taken in concert, they don't establish so as to aircraft clatter truly causes empathy disease and strokes.

"Because of the kind of data the researchers used, the studies can't act more than advise very strongly so as to we be supposed to attain not worth it much more almost aircraft clatter and circulatory disease, using another kinds of study so as to possibly will come up to much closer to taxonomy not worth it could you
repeat that? Causes could you repeat that?.

"The researchers turn into these limitations straighten in their reports."

Professor David Coggon, Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine by the side of the University of Southampton, thought: "This study (the Heathrow one) adds to the suspicion so as to clatter from low-flying aircraft might cause empathy disease.

"However, the method of study had limitations which are acknowledged by the authors, and the increased tariff of disease so as to were pragmatic might allow been caused by factors other than clatter, such as smoking and South Asian background."
And Dr Nic Timpson, Reader in Genetic Epidemiology by the side of the University of Bristol, thought: "This is an attractive paper which has significant data collection behind it.

 "Overall, this is an attractive study, however the authors' own statement so as to 'as well as the risk of causal associations, alternative explanations such as enduring perplexing and possibility in support of ecological bias be supposed to be considered', be supposed to not be taken lightly in this insistence."

Matt Gorman, Heathrow's director of sustainability, thought: "We recognise so as to, as well as bringing colossal settlement to the UK and the area communities, an airport of the size and meaning of Heathrow can allow downsides in support of frequent living nearby.

"We are already taking big steps to tackle the put out of clatter by charging airlines more in support of noisier aircraft, offering padding and twofold glazing to area residents and are working with clatter campaigners to break frequent predictable periods of breathing space from clatter.

"Together these measures allow intended so as to the digit of frequent affected by clatter has fallen by 90% since the 1970s, despite the digit of flights almost doubling. We are committed to ensuring this reduction continues."

A Government spokesman thought: " "Heart disease and stroke mostly include a combination of hazard factors and by living healthily - ingestion well, taking regular implement and not smoking - we can reduce the hazard of cardiovascular disease or stroke.

"The digit of frequent affected by from top to toe levels of clatter around Heathrow has been falling in support of years due to improvements in aviation tools, better planning of air travel paths and other factors. We would expect to comprehend this trend carry on."

Dozens of Tecumseh Public School children walked to class

Dozens of Tecumseh Public School children walked to class

Hundreds of Tecumseh Public School students in Chatham walked to prepare Wednesday.

They were taking part in the International Walk to School Day and students by the side of the north-side prepare led the way in Chatham-Kent by unification students all greater than the humanity who walked to prepare.

The elderly are getting a raw deal

The elderly are getting a raw deal

The Leonard Cheshire Disability charity thought this capital many vulnerable frequent allow to wish linking having a drink or leaving to the toilet as they progress simply “flying 15-minute thoughtfulness visits”.

Midwife Sofie Laaftman (l.) checks Christina Singelman's (r.) pregnancy progress at Mama Mia, a pregnancy care clinic in Stockholm, Sweden

Midwife Sofie Laaftman (l.) checks Christina Singelman's (r.) pregnancy progress at Mama Mia, a pregnancy care clinic in Stockholm, Sweden

"A doctor can be called in by the side of the midwife's initiative as soon as she notices so as to something is not straight," says Sofie Laaftman, a midwife in central Stockholm.

The cover of La Razon de Mexico features Irma López Aurelio on the cover, with her newborn and the umbilical cord still attached

The cover of La Razon de Mexico features Irma López Aurelio on the cover, with her newborn and the umbilical cord still attached

A disconcerting photo of a mom and her newborn with the umbilical cord still attached made the front summon of a Mexican magazine this week, raising questions almost why the woman delivered her baby straight outside a remedial clinic.

The Shutdown and Health Care

Even as the federal government enters its succeeding week of shutdown, vigor insurance exchanges fashioned as part of 2010’s vigor thoughtfulness reform carry on to put your name down new-fangled patients. These exchanges are the nitty-gritty of could you repeat that? The House GOP acrimoniously opposes, but the shutdown so as to they precipitated ironically won’t impede their implementation.

Health gadgets 'save NHS billions'

 Health gadgets 'save NHS billions'

HEALTH gadgets might be saving the NHS billions.

A survey finds that 37 per cent of individuals in Southampton are turning to health gadgets for help instead of their doctor, a trend which may save vital cash as fewer people make appointments with NHS services.

Binge drinking can stop bones healing quickly after a fracture

Binge drinking can stop bones healing quickly after a fracture

Doctors have long observed that booze benders can impair the recovery process following a bone fracture.
And new information is providing insights into how alcohol slows healing.

Peanut butter might better breast vigor soon in life

I’ve been concerned almost sandwich variety in my daughter’s eat since each sunlight hours in support of the onwards time and a partially she has simply wanted partially of a peanut butter sandwich. I allow open tuna, ham and Swiss, egg salad, sliced failure — one type of sandwich so as to I possibly will think of, but the answer is for eternity the same, “peanut butter.” After impression so as to girls who lunch peanut butter might better breast vigor soon in life I’m relaxing.

Federal health exchange launches in Oklahoma

OKLAHOMA CITY  - A federal Health Insurance Marketplace that allows consumers to shop for and buy health insurance, often with the help of federal tax subsidies, is launching across the country.

More than 140 navigators have been hired in Oklahoma and were prepared to help people Tuesday with questions about the federal marketplace. That's the first day consumers can begin shopping, comparing and buying health insurance plans online at healthcare.gov or in person.

Utah's federally-run online health care insurance marketplace opens Tuesday

SALT LAKE CITY - Utah's federally-run online insurance marketplace went live Tuesday as users across the country reported glitches with the website and wait times on help hotlines.

Federal officials say they're attempting to address the hiccups as fast as possible.

The net marketplaces, a hallmark of President Barack Obama's health law, allow visitors to compare plans and join coverage.

Under the medical overhaul, most Americans will be asked to have medical insurance next season.

Utah health advocates say it's challenging to predict how many men and women will join while using the exchange, but it's likely men and women begin comparison shopping on day 1.

The net marketplace are available at http://www.healthcare.gov.

The research shows that there may be a link between stress and dementia

The research shows that there may be a link between stress and dementia

Bereavement, divorce and work problems can all trigger "severe and long-standing physiological and psychological consequences", in line with the Swedish research.

It investigated the psychological impact of 18 stress factors on 800 women from 1968 to 2005.

A quarter of volunteers had suffered one or more stressful event - 16 per-cent have been through four or maybe more.

Nearly one in five got dementia - almost exactly the number who faced increased risk factors, in accordance with the Gothenburg University findings in online journal BMJ Open.

Dr Doug Brown, of the Alzheimer's Society, said: "We all undergo stressful events. Understanding how you can turn into a risk factor for Alzheimer's is vital to helping us find means of preventing or treating it."

'Obamacare' exchanges start up as Gov't shuts down

 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's long-anticipated launch Tuesday of modern insurance exchanges to provide physical condition thought to millions of uninsured Americans is approaching under the cloud of a government shutdown to facilitate began the same generation.

The exchanges are initial up truly as for the most part of the federal government is shutting down, not here unfunded by a meeting that's still angrily not speaking around whether to discard Obama's physical condition thought law altogether.

Government shutdown begins larger than a physical condition thought feud

Meeting plunged the populace into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute larger than President Barack Obama's physical condition thought law unnatural around 800,000 federal workers sour the job, suspending all but essential services.

The National Zoo's admired online "panda cam" went dark around 8 a.m. The colorless House basis slice back to a gaunt run. The U.S. Capitol canceled tours not personally led by meeting members.

With the Republican-controlled House and Democratic-controlled ruling body next to a deadlock, it was doubtful how long a temporary bill considered necessary to finance government activities would be slowed down. The No. 2 Democrats in the ruling body, Dick Durbin of Illinois, called the failure to pass a financial plan "conduct unbefitting a sensible Congress" and held he hoped it can be resolved by the top of the generated Tuesday.