Major League Baseball has gone through a horrible image of late with all their steroid and human growth hormone controversy. The league has been plagued with many of their top level star being named or caught using performance enhancing drugs.

Those on the list include big name stars like Sammy Sosa, Ken Caminiti, Jason Giambi, Benito Santiago, Gary Sheffield, Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire, Chuck Finley, Barry Bonds, Miguel Tejada, Lenny Dykstra, Roger Clemens, Miguel Tejada, Eric Gagne, Chuck Knoblauch and Alex Rodriguez. In the MLB Mitchell report this list summarizes news reports linking these players to steroids, steroid precursors, human growth hormone, or other drugs banned by MLB (excluding amphetamines) which list more than 200 players implemented in used performance enhancing drugs.

The world is getting fatter. Not only in North America but in Europe and Asia people are becoming fatter and fatter due to a number of factors. In the fast paced society there are a number of contributing factors to way people are become fatty on the body mass index (BMI) and why people are becoming obese and increasingly unhealthy.

Nutrition is the most significant contributing dietary factor to why people are becoming fatter. Diet and a fast paced lifestyle have shifted from a home cooked meal to eating out. Eating out a fast food restaurants is a quick and easy way to get a meal but it is very unhealthy which includes a high sugar intake, poor portion control, eating late at night, and poor digestion.

Have a proper balanced diet is crucial for success with plenty of green vegetables, fruits and grains is crucial to maintaining weight along with limiting processed foods. One of the best ways to control your nutrition is by maintaining a log of what you eat and to buy as much fresh ingredients as necessary.

Skin Care Tips

Skin care is a hot topic these days. With longer and hotter summers more and more people are exposing themselves to damaging their skin. Back in the 80’s people use to sunbath with baby oil. Now in 2010 those techniques have caused damage to the skin along with a number of other contributing factors.

By Steven Reinberg

HealthDay Reporter

WEDNESDAY, June 21 (HealthDay News) — Specific hormones may play a key role in longevity and healthy aging, two new studies suggest.

Researchers found one hormone, adiponectin, at higher-than-average concentrations in 100-year-old women, while
another study found that stimulating the body’s production of growth hormone brought a youthful pep back to people in
their 60s to 80s.

By Brian Alexander

July 9, 2006

I have traveled to the Palm Springs Life Extension Institute in search of Dr. Edmund Chein. Instead I find Tiffany Caranci. Tiffany is 20 years old and looks exactly how you might expect a 20-year-old named Tiffany to look: platform heels, low-slung skirt, hair streaked blond and black. She’s brazenly sexy, and so very young. I am a man and not very young. I have entered that disorienting neverland of middle age where you can’t tell if women like Tiffany smile because you remind them of their fathers or because they think you’re hot. I’m pretty sure Tiffany is smiling at me as I walk into Chein’s clinic because she’s a receptionist and gets paid to smile, but my ego scouts for any sign from her to justify the voice in my head that’s saying: “You’ve still got it, brother.” This neediness, of course, proves that I don’t have it, and I don’t mind admitting that right now I’d like it back. Well done, Tiffany.

I’ve come to meet the good doctor, but he is elusive, lying low on the advice of his lawyer. I don’t leave though. The clinic sees, maybe, two people on a busy day, and it is so quiet I can almost hear my youth hissing out of me. So when Candice Dillon, Chein’s 24-year-old director of new-patient relations, emerges from somewhere behind Tiffany and offers to show me just how far gone I am, I figure why not?

By David Kohn
April 7, 2006

Two years ago, Richard Casey was feeling his age. At 48, he was tired, gaining weight and suffering from a growing number of aches and pains. On top of that, his libido had decreased.

“I could see the distance between my 40s and my 20s,” he says. “As I looked ahead, it was all downhill. That’s depressing.”

Looking for relief, he found a Chicago doctor named Paul Savage, who focuses on adjusting hormone levels in older patients. Savage modified Casey’s diet and workout, and prescribed several hormones, including human growth hormone.

Research from the Carmel Medical Center in Haifa, Israel shows that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) reduces the risk of colorectal cancer in postmenopausal women. The study indicates a reduction of risk by more than half in women taking combined estrogen-progestin oral pills.

Italian researchers have shown that long-acting testosterone on top of optimal medical therapy seems to improve a range of symptoms in elderly men with chronic heart failure. Dr Giuseppe Caminiti (Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy) and colleagues report their findings in the September 1, 2009 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

AlbuquerqueJournal

02-07-06

Is your middle age fellow going through “the change?” Don’t snicker. Medical professionals increasingly are putting a label on symptoms experienced by middle-age men — ranging from decreased sexual drive to depression. They may be a result of lower testosterone levels that are a normal part of aging.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Testosterone supplementation improves spatial memory and constructional abilities in older men with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment, according to investigators.