Hidden Dangers Behind Fish Consumption

Regularly eat fish it can help us get the intake of omega-3, but be careful choosing fish because of the dangers of mercury.

The latest study, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, said that the mercury found in fish can cause autoimmune diseases. It was the first time a study showed an association between mercury with the risk of this disease.

Autoimmune diseases occur when the body's cells attack the body's healthy cells. These autoimmune diseases include lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease).

Researchers at the University of Michigan conducted an analysis through dietary surveys and mercury levels in more than 1,300 women aged between 16 and 49 years. They also tested the blood of the respondents to see antinuclear antibody (ANA) or proteins that attack the body's own tissues and is an indicator of overall autoimmune disorders.

The scientists found that women who were exposed to organic mercury in high quantities, have higher levels of ANA than women are less exposed.

Mercury is also a predictor showed a positive ANA condition. Surprisingly, it turns out smoking and age was not associated with ANA.

The researchers noted that just because you have the ANA in the blood, does not mean you will definitely develop autoimmune disease.

Research shows that as many as 15 percent of the population tested positive for ANA but still healthy. However, ANA is still regarded as an important predictor of autoimmune diseases. This needs to watch the women, especially because women have the possibility of 9 times suffer from autoimmune diseases.

To reduce exposure to mercury, avoid seafood that contain toxins in the number of moderate or high, including swordfish, shark, king mackerel, tilefish gulf, marlin, fresh tuna, halibut, grouper, sea bass, bluefish, and cork. Avoid canned tuna.

Analysis of Consumer Reports recently recommended intake of seafood as much as 132 pounds per person, no more than 4 ounces and 11 ounces of albacore tuna per week.

Naun if you seafood lovers, the consumption of some classes of low mercury levels seafood such as oysters, sardines, wild salmon, squid, and indigo. Other safe choice including haddock, pollock, flounder, shrimp, catfish, fish, crab, and Atlantic mackerel. (Monica Erisanti)

Drug Headaches Also Turns Helpful Extend Age

Ibuprofen was not only cure a headache but also promises the key to longevity and healthy. In humans is a pain reliever that can add 12 healthy years of quality life.

Ibuprofen pain reliever found in many headache drugs are sold freely. Ibuprofen is a relatively safe drug that is in almost everyone's medicine cabinet.

In an experiment, a pain reliever that can extend the life of yeast, worms and flies up to 15 percent. "Tend to eat a lot of healthy worms. The worms too. When they grow tubes, they swallow food more quickly than expected. Previous data also prove that ibuprofen prolong life," said lead investigator of the Buck Institute for Age Research in California Dr. He Chong.

The dose given in the experiment used a dose equivalent to millions of people to cope with headache, muscle aches and flu. It was not clear exactly how the drugs are sold under the brand Nurofen slow the aging process. There seems to be something to halt cell taking tryptophan, a compound found in eggs, chocolate and turkey.

Researcher Dr. Michael Polymenis Dair Texas A & M University, said, "In our opinion, the aspect promising from our study that the drug fairly safe as ibuprofen proved to be beneficial in the future. Our study supports the idea that a drug commonly used turned out to have other benefits that are unexpected. We need research farther to examine and understand the contents of the. "

But he did not encourage us to drink ibuprofen without consulting your doctor. Although safe, ibuprofen can cause indigestion and heartburn. Drugs with long-term high doses to treat arthritis may increase the risk of stroke and heart attack. Even also can reduce a woman's fertility.

The study, published in the journal PLoS Genetics, was not the first to conclude that the drug is relatively inexpensive it is beneficial is much larger than expected. Newcastle University was taking pain killers on mice aging to add age.