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40 plus and fit - Kent Ninomiya

2008-01-17T09:35:13Z

Kent Ninomiya - I've always taken care of myself. I don't drink or smoke. I eat well and exercise every day. Still, I find it increasingly difficult to stay slim and fit now that I've passed 40. It's something every middle aged person complains about, but somehow I thought I would be immune since I considered myself fit. I accept that I am getting older but I refuse to accept that means I need to get soft and flabby. A few years ago I changed my focus from being big to being lean. I traded low rep heavy weights for higher rep maintenance weights. I also cut back on my protein and calories. The diet that fed my muscles through my youth was fattening me up in my middle age. This seemed to work fine until I decreased my weight work and increased my cardio. It actually made it harder for me to keep off the pounds. I was puzzled by this until I talked to several experts in fitness and nutrition. Apparently I lost muscle mass when I stopped lifting all those weights. Muscle burns a lot of calories, apparently more than cardio work in my case. So I hit the weights again and seeing the results. I will never stop lifting again. Kent Ninomiya

fresco - Kent Ninomiya

2008-01-15T09:04:41Z

Kent Ninomiya - Yo quiero a healthier taco! Continuing my look at better food choices when you dine out... how about Taco Bell? That's right. The fast food chain has a "Fresco" menu with nine items with less than 9 grams of fat. That's still quite a bit of fat for a little taco but much less than what the regular stuff packs. There's nothing too innovative here. They just replace the cheese and sauce with salsa. The fatty meat and fried shell are still there. No one ever went to Taco Bell looking for health food so I doubt this will make anyone change their habits. However, if find yourself in a Taco Bell and are forced to eat, try something Fresco. Kent Ninomiya

Skinny Coffee - Kent Ninomiya

2008-01-13T07:56:46Z

Kent Ninomiya - Starbucks is finally jumping on the healthy bandwagon. They plan to introduce a line of lighter products this year. The first will be skinny lattes and mochas. They are just 90 calories for a tall compared to 190 for a regular latte and 270 in a regular mocha. The shocker here isn't that Starbucks is introducing diet coffee. It's that many of us have been guzzling this stuff for years without realizing how fattening it was. Oh... the new drinks have no fat compared to 5 grams for a regular tall vanilla latte and 12 grams of fat for a tall caffe mocha. Feeling coffee remorse? You would have been better off with the doughnuts! Kent Ninomiya

No Kiding - Kent Ninomiya

2008-01-09T21:13:15Z

Kent Ninomiya - There's a great article I came across on Yahoo health. It talks about all the extra years of life you'll get by eating well, exercising and laying off the booze. When reading it the words "no kidding" came to mind. Someone actually did a study on that? There is no magic secret behind good health and long life. Do all the good things and avoid the bad things. So why doesn't everyone do it? They either don't want to live better and longer or they are too lazy to do what it takes. Everyone is looking for short cuts but study after study and real life experience tells us there are no short cuts. So here's the article. Read it if you like but you already know what it tells you. Eat well, exercise and stay away from things that are bad for you. Kent Ninomiya

(Yahoo Health) To get an extra 14 years of life, don't smoke, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, exercise regularly and drink alcohol in moderation. That's the finding of a study that tracked about 20,000 people in the United Kingdom. Kay-Tee Khaw of the University of Cambridge and colleagues calculated that people who adopted these four healthy habits lived an average of 14 years longer than those who didn't.

"We've known for a long time that these behaviors are good things to do, but we've never seen these additive benefits before," said Susan Jebb, head of Nutrition and Health at Britain's Medical Research Council, which helped pay for the study.

"Just doing one of these behaviors helps, but every step you make to improve your health seems to have an added benefit," said Jebb, who was not involved in the study.

The benefits were also seen regardless of whether or not people were fat and what social class they came from. The findings were published online Monday in the Public Library of Science Medicine journal.

The study included healthy adults aged 45 to 79. Participants filled in a health questionnaire between 1993 and 1997 and nurses conducted a medical exam at a clinic. Participants scored a point each for not smoking, regular physical activity, eating five servings of fruits and vegetables a day and moderate alcohol intake.

Until 2006, the researchers tracked deaths from all causes, including cardiovascular disease, cancer and respiratory diseases. People who scored four points were four times less likely to die than those who scored zero, the research showed.

Khaw said that the study should convince people that improving their health does not always require extreme changes to their lifestyles.

"We didn't ask these people to do anything exceptional," Khaw said. "We measured normal behaviors that were entirely feasible within people's normal, everyday lives."

Public health experts said they hoped the study would inspire governments to help people adopt these changes.

"This research is an important piece of work which emphasizes how modifying just a few risk factors can add years to your life," said Dr. Tim Armstrong, a physical activity expert at the World Health Organization.

But because the study only observed people rather than testing specific changes, experts said that it would be impossible to conclude that people who suddenly adopted these healthy behaviors would automatically gain 14 years.

"We can't say that any one person could gain 14 years by doing these things," said Armstrong. "The 14 years is an average across the population of what's theoretically possible."

But experts worry that the new findings may still not be enough to persuade people to change their unhealthy ways.

"Most people know that things like a good diet matter and that smoking is not good for you," Jebb said. "We need to work on providing people with much more practical support to help them change."

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Stem Cell Hope - Kent Ninomiya

2008-01-07T05:40:05Z

Kent Ninomiya - The United States government drastically limits the type of research that can be done with stem cells. For people suffering from debilitating illnesses and spinal cord injuries stems cells are their last, best, and only hope. This standoff is apparently forcing Americans to head to China to get the treatment they can't get at home. The associated press wrote this thought provoking article that is worthy of note. (AP) They're paralyzed from diving accidents and car crashes, disabled by Parkinson's, or blind. With few options available at home in America, they search the Internet for experimental treatments � and often land on Web sites promoting stem cell treatments in China.

They mortgage their houses and their hometowns hold fundraisers as they scrape together the tens of thousands of dollars needed for travel and the hope for a miracle cure.

A number of these medical tourists claim some success when they return home:

Jim Savage, a Houston man with paralysis from a spinal cord injury, says he can move his right arm. Penny Thomas of Hawaii says her Parkinson's tremors are mostly gone. The parents of 6-year-old Rylea Barlett of Missouri, born with an optical defect, say she can see.

But documentation is mostly lacking, and Western doctors warn that patients are serving as guinea pigs in a country that isn't doing the rigorous lab and human tests that are needed to prove a treatment is safe and effective.

Noting the lack of evidence, three Western doctors, undertook their own limited study. It involved seven patients with spinal cord injuries who chose to get fetal brain tissue injections at one hospital in China. The study reported "no clinically useful improvements" � even though most patients believed they were better. Five developed complications such as meningitis.

Experts in the West have theories about why some people think they've improved when the evidence is thin. Some are often getting intensive physical therapy, along with the mysterious injections; the placebo effect may also be a factor.

John Steeves, a professor at the University of British Columbia who heads an international group that monitors spinal cord treatments, has another theory. Some patients may be influenced by the amount of money they paid and the help they got from those who donated or helped raise money.

"Needless to say, when they come back, what are they going to report to their friends and neighbors? That it didn't work?" said Steeves. "Nobody wants to hear that."

He and other experts have written a booklet advising patients who are considering such treatments.

Western doctors discourage their patients from seeking such treatments. They note that it's impossible to gauge the safety and effectiveness of the treatments, or even know what's in the injections put into brains and spinal cords.

Patients and their families say they accept those risks. They simply don't have time to wait for more conclusive evidence. For many, the trip to China is a journey of hope.

"It's one of the only games in town," said Savage, 44, a lawyer who suffered severe spinal cord injuries after a canoe trip 25 years ago.

Savage spent 2 1/2 months in late 2006 and early 2007 at a hospital in the southern China city of Shenzhen to get what he was told were stem cell injections in his spine from umbilical cord blood. He made the arrangements through Beike Biotechnology Co., which offers the treatments at a number of hospitals in China.

Afterward, Savage said he was able to move his right arm for the first time since his diving accident; a video made at the hospital appears to show slight movement. He also said he noticed greater strength in his abdomen and more sensation on his skin.

Just how many foreigners like Savage are coming to China for treatment isn't known; and China is only one of several countries where such techniques are being offered.

Many Chinese doctors don't wait for results of rigorous testing before treating patients and they offer what they say are stem cell or other cell treatments to those willing to pay.

What is known about the procedures being performed comes from material on their Web sites or from patients who give detailed accounts of their visits. Little has been published in scientific journals for other doctors to scrutinize.

The use of stem cells for treatments isn't new. For decades, doctors around the world have been using adult stem cells from blood and bone marrow � and more recently from umbilical cord blood � to treat cancers of the blood like leukemia and lymphoma and blood diseases like sickle cell anemia.

Scientists have been exploring whether such adult stem cells and other cells such as those from the retina or fetal brain tissue could be used to replace cells lost because of injury or disease. And they are trying to figure out if there's a way to stimulate the body's own stem cells to make repairs.

But those strategies are still being investigated in the lab in animals; there have been very limited tests in people.

Whether any clinics in China are using the more controversial embryonic stem cells � doctors in some other countries claim to be � isn't clear. These stem cells are taken from days-old embryos. They can develop into all types of cells, but research into their usefulness is in early stages.

Patients seek out these unproven treatments after hearing about them from other patients, patient groups or Web sites for the medical companies. The patients' stories posted on the Internet usually tell of some kind of improvement from the treatments � slight movements in arms or legs, fewer spasms or tremors, a feeling of sensation, an ability to sweat.

Chris Hrabik, 21, has been disabled since a 2004 car crash left him with limited use of his hands and legs. His father took out a second mortgage on their Oak Ridge, Mo., home to help pay for $20,000 worth of stem cell injections at a Beike facility in China.

More than a year after returning home, Hrabik says he has nearly complete use of his left hand, with improvement in the right. He can work on his customized 1993 Nissan 240SX, a modified number complete with hand controls and racing seats.

He said he was able to move his left fingers within days of that first injection of umbilical cord stem cells into his spinal cord. There's been little progress since he left China, but he called the incremental changes significant.

"I just wanted something back, no matter what it was," said Hrabik, who attributes some of the changes to the physical therapy that he had in China.

Beike founder Sean Hu, who returned from abroad in 1999 with a doctorate in biochemistry, said the company has treated more than 1,000 patients, including 300 foreigners from 40 different countries. The only side effects have been slight fevers and headaches among a small percentage of patients, according to Hu.

He said patients with trauma injuries experience the most dramatic improvements; those with degenerative diseases such as ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, tend to improve initially but then slide back to their former condition within months.

"Patients shouldn't have their expectations too high," Hu said. "For patients to think they can walk again may be too much at this stage," he said.

He's now seeking venture capital to expand his web of treatment centers, labs and doctors and adapt proprietary techniques from researchers overseas.

"There is real potential here for China to take the lead in stem cells," Hu said.

Also offering treatments is Tiantan Puhua in Beijing, a joint venture between Asia's largest neurological hospital and an American medical group. Tiantan's sunny, sparkling rooms are a far cry from the dour facilities and staff at most Chinese hospitals. Diseases treated there range from stroke and spinal cord injuries to cerebral palsy and ataxia, a rare neurological condition that can cause slurred speech.

The hospital says its stem cell injections are combined with daily, three-hour doses of intravenous drugs designed to stimulate production of the patient's own stem cells. Physical rehabilitation and Chinese medicine are also part of the plan. A standard two-month course of treatment costs $30,000 to $35,000.

"We want to see actual improvements," said Dr. Sherwood Yang, head of the hospital's management team. "We are giving them another option at the highest level of safety."

Yang contends that 90 percent of patients show some results, with the rest suffering disabilities that are too far advanced to respond to treatment.

"We are making no promises," he added. "It's impossible to say exactly how any given patient will respond."

Western experts point to the lack of documented evidence that cell treatments have any benefit for spinal cord injuries or degenerative diseases like Parkinson's.

"All of us in the so-called Western world, if there was something valid, we'd be the first to be offering it," said Steeves, the Canadian professor and director of the International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries, known as ICORD.

Three other experts were involved in the study that found no improvement in the seven spinal cord injury patients who went for fetal brain tissue injections in China. The patients were evaluated before and after their surgery.

The doctors stressed their observations were no substitute for a larger, more strict investigation.

"People are looking for a cure," said Dr. Bruce Dobkin, a neurology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine, one of the study's authors. "They may come to do something based more on a gut feeling. It's like looking for a religious miracle."

Along with the patients' booklet of advice about exploring experimental treatments, Steeves and other researchers have drawn up a set of guidelines on how to do research in spinal cord injuries. Another researcher, Dr. Wise Young of Rutgers University, is assembling a network of Chinese medical centers and universities to train researchers and conduct studies that meet international standards.

Dr. Michael Okun, medical director of the National Parkinson Foundation, said his group discourages patients from seeking out experimental treatments unless they're being done under the most rigorous research protocols.

"Stem cell therapy ... is a really interesting area that has a lot of promise for therapeutic approaches. But we're just not ready to be putting stem cells into people's brains at this point in time," said Okun.

But such warnings don't dissuade people like Penny Thomas of Captain Cook, Hawaii. She sought treatment for Parkinson's disease at Tiantan, where doctors drilled into her skull and injected what she was told were cells from a donor's retina. One year later, she said her tremors are almost gone and her medication has been cut to one-half of a single pill.

"I have no regrets and would do it all over again if need be," said Thomas, 53.

So would the parents of Rylea Barlett of Webb City, Mo. The family raised nearly $40,000 from friends and neighbors to spend a month in China at a Beike facility last summer, hoping treatments would cure their daughter's blindness. The child was born with an optic nerve disorder.

Dawn Barlett said her daughter responded to lights shone in her eyes within a week after the first of a series of five stem cell injections and can now make out blurry images on TV.

"She had no vision whatsoever before we left," the mother said. "There was no hope otherwise."

The girl's optometrist, Larry Brothers, said: "It truly is a miracle."

But when pressed for details, he said he detected "subtle differences" in Rylea's optic nerve after her return from China. Asked if he would characterize her progress as incremental, he said that "might be too optimistic."

diet pop - Kent Ninomiya

2008-01-03T07:40:02Z

Kent Ninomiya - Get a load of what I found on yahoo health. Diet soda can make you fat? That explains why so many overweight people drink diet soda. Check this out:

One recent study has shown that people who drink diet soda still have a 41 percent chance of being overweight.

What is even more interesting about this research is that these diet-soda drinkers have a greater risk for obesity than do those who drink regular sodas.

How is this possible? It can't be that the diet sodas are causing obesity, since they contain no calories.

Some researchers believe that the problem with diet sodas is this: When people consume diet drinks, they think they're doing something "good" for their body � and then they feel free to splurge on other, high-calorie items.

For example, if you are eating at McDonald's and order a diet soda in place of a regular soda, you may think, "Now I can super-size my meal." People don't do this intentionally; it just happens and we don't pay attention to it � and then the extra pounds slip on board and stow away.

There is also some research that suggests diet sodas may actually stimulate the appetite. This explanation of the relationship between diet sodas and obesity is that the overly sweet taste of diet drinks actually creates a craving for still more sweet things, thus upping calorie consumption.

What then should you do about your drink choices?

First, remember: Everything in moderation. If you are drinking a lot of regular or diet soda each day, decreasing your intake of either may help you lose weight. Also, think about when during the day you drink diet sodas; do you then tend to splurge on other calories?

Although escaping the obesity epidemic isn't as easy as avoiding diet sodas, you should think about what you drink.

Happy New Year! - Kent Ninomiya

2008-01-02T06:11:58Z

Kent Ninomiya - I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year! I hope your 2008 is fullfilling and fruitful. Let's all treat each other well and work toward peace and harmony. Kent Ninomiya

indulge - Kent Ninomiya

2008-01-01T04:40:50Z

Kent Ninomiya - Over the past week I have eaten enough junk food to last a lifetime. Combine that with an extreme lack of activity and you get an expanding waistline. Sure, I thought about putting down the pie and getting off the couch, but it never amounted to anything. My holiday gift to myself is to take it easy over the holidays. I indulge in extra food and watch more football. I only make a token effort at exercise. I do this knowing that I earned it. I plan ahead and try to work out more before the holidays. I go in slim and come out fat and rested. I also know that I will work extra hard after the holidays to burn off what I gained. Some will say this is a bad cycle but I disagree. The body needs rest now and then. A week of indulgence can kick start any exercise program and heal nagging injuries. It's also fun to let yourself go for a bit. If you have discipline you can work it off in January. There's not much else to do in January anyway. Kent Ninomiya

broccoli pickle - Kent Ninomiya

2007-12-29T07:47:46Z

Kent Ninomiya. My son hates broccoli. I mean he really hates the stuff! However, since everyone else in the family doesn't mind it and it is very good for you, we tend to eat it often. Making him eat his broccoli involves a combination of incentives, cajoling and threats. It always involves a battle. When we went on vacation for a week I told him that he didn't have to eat broccoli for the entire vacation IF he promised not to complain about eating it when we returned. He enjoyed his broccoli free week but grimaces every time I remind him that he's not allowed to complain about consuming it anymore. To his credit he eats it anyway. The other day he proposed something that left speechless. He said since he had to eat broccoli, something he hates, I should have to eat pickles. I hate pickles. His logic is flawless. If he's suffering why shouldn't I? The only response I could come up with was "because I'm the Daddy and I'm not eating pickles. Kent Ninomiya

Merry Christmas Everyone! - Kent Ninomiya

2007-12-25T22:31:48Z

Since I can't send a Christmas card to everyone, i'd like to use this blog to hand out my best wishes to all of you this holiday season. Thank you all for your support and interest. May you have a happy and fruitful new year as well!

Take care,

Kent Ninomiya

Christmas lessons - Kent Ninomiya

2007-12-25T02:54:23Z

Kent Ninomiya. I'd like to pause and take a moment to reflect on this holiday season. As I get older I gain a greater understanding of the importance of Christmas as a family experience. Young adults tend to discard the ritual of family gatherings and togetherness for independence. However, once new children enter the equation the holiday regains it's place. Christmas is all about the children and how their faces light up when they open their gifts. That look is the parents' gift. There are also important lessons in Christmas. Delayed gratification is perhaps the most torturous of the lessons for kids. Waiting to open gifts is both painful and rewarding for them. Gratitude is another lesson. That's a tough one. With the bounty of gifts before them it's hard for children to think about others. They just want the presents. It's the parent's job to link the two together. It's not always an easy task. Of course the most important lesson of all is family. The act of doing everything together is what Christmas is all about. So enjoy the holiday everyone! Merry Christmas! Kent Ninomiya.

warning for parents - Kent Ninomiya

2007-12-22T02:27:42Z

Kent Ninomiya. Despite all the warnings and toy regulations we still hear about children hurt and killed by toys over the holidays. Here's a much needed refresher I found on child toy safety. Dennis Thompson (HealthDay News) -- Holiday toys are supposed to surprise and delight. But this year, toys are threatening to cause more worry than joy. Millions of toys made in China have been recalled in recent months by toy companies, many because they were decorated with lead paint. The recalls involve popular brands, including Hot Wheels, Barbie, and Thomas the Tank Engine, among others.The recalls have also pushed toy safety to the forefront of consumers' consciousness."We are hoping the unprecedented news attention will remind parents to make wise toy choices," said Ed Mierzwinski, consumer program director for U.S. PIRG, a national consumer advocacy group. "There's nothing new about what happened here, except it was on the front page."An estimated 202,300 toy-related injuries were treated in U.S. emergency rooms in 2005, and there were 20 deaths. Nine of the deaths involved choking or asphyxiation, and the toys included six small balls, a balloon, a bead from a toy horse figurine, and a toy dart, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reported.Lead paint is a more insidious hazard to children, because its toxic effects usually aren't immediate. Prolonged exposure can affect a child's mental and physical development, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."There is no safe dose," Mierzwinski said. "Continued exposure makes it worse. Parents must get the lead out of their child's environment."To keep up with toy recalls, whether due to lead content or other safety problems, parents should frequent the Consumer Product Safety Commission's Web site at www.recalls.gov.Parents should also be careful with any toy, new or old, said Christine Bradley, safety program manager for Prevent Blindness America. "Just because something's new to the market doesn't make it necessarily safer," she said.And parents should know that just because a toy sits on a store shelf, that doesn't make it safe. U.S. PIRG reported finding some toys for children under 3 years of age with small parts but no warning label identifying the toys as a potential choking hazard.Some toys can pose a hazard even if they meet the letter of the law. Last year, two small children suffocated when oversized, plastic toy nails sold with a play tool bench became lodged in their throats, U.S. PIRG said.Toys containing tiny yet powerful magnets are raising new concerns among safety advocates.A 2-year-old boy in Redmond, Wash., died in 2005 after ingesting magnets that had fallen out of plastic building blocks that the boy's 10-year-old brother was playing with. The magnets entered the boy's small intestine and then connected, twisting his intestine and forcing deadly bacteria into his bloodstream."They're very powerful, tiny little cylinders," Mierzwinski said. "Several get trapped and can fold the intestine to cause a blockage."One of the first things parents should consider when choosing a toy is whether their child is old enough to enjoy it properly."You want to buy toys that are age-appropriate and show children how to use them," Bradley said.Prevent Blindness America offers these other suggestions:Read all warnings and instructions on the box.Avoid toys with sharp or rigid points, spikes, rods or dangerous edges.Buy toys that will withstand impact and not break into dangerous shards.Avoid toys that shoot or include parts that fly off."Any sort of toy weapon, that's just got eye injury written all over it," Bradley said.Parents also should look for the letters "ASTM" on the toy's packaging. This means the product meets the national safety standards set by the American Society for Testing and Materials.And parents should take care to keep older children's toys away from their younger siblings, as their toys can contain small parts or balls that can choke a younger child."If you have a child who still mouths things, keep the older child's small parts away," Mierzwinski said. "You've really got to check your toy chests. Make sure toys belonging to older children are not available to smaller children."If giving a riding toy like a scooter or bicycle, parents should make sure they also buy protective gear like helmets and pads, and make sure their kids use them.Finally, parents should avoid buying one of the most common -- yet one of the most dangerous -- items on the toy market: latex balloons. Balloons and pieces of broken balloons can block a child's airway and should never be given to children younger than 8."Balloons are a terrible choking hazard," Mierzwinski said.

lose weight with your feet - Kent Ninomiya

2007-12-18T04:41:59Z

Kent Ninomiya. Would you like to eat anything you want and lose weight at the same time? Just try walking. I am serious here. This is no gimmick. I've done it myself many times. On an extended trip to Europe I drank real Coke and downed every candy bar and hamburger I could find yet lost nearly 18 pounds. It's all because I walked everywhere. On a week long visit to Disney World I consumed every fried and sugared item I saw, yet lost 5 pounds. Of course I was on my feet 10-12 hours a day at these times. It's all about anaerobic exercise. Walking raises metabolism a bit causing you to burn more calories all the time. Without even trying your fat melts away. The catch here is that it's virtually impossible to force yourself to walk that much. No person in their right mind would continue walking when their legs ached and they're ready to collapse from exhaustion. However if you are two miles from your hotel with no other way to get there or spending hundreds of dollars a day on a vacation at an amusement park... you will walk. Try it. Kent Ninomiya

Kent Ninomiya thank you

2007-12-17T04:53:08Z

Kent Ninomiya.

Thank you to everyone who wrote to me with words of support. I am back and new posts will appear on my blogs starting tomorrow. Thank you for your backing and patience.

Kent Ninomiya