Health and Fitness for Monday August 30, 2010

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Cinnamon extracts may reduce diabetes BELTSVILLE, Md. (UPI) -- Cinnamon extracts -- a water soluble extract of cinnamon -- may reduce diabetes and heart attack risks by lowering glucose levels, a U.S. researcher says. Chemist Richard Anderson of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, Md., and colleagues say the extract increased antioxidant variables by as much as 13 percent to 23 percent. The improvements in antioxidant status were linked with decreased glucose in the blood. "Only more research will tell whether the investigational study supports the idea that people who are overweight or obese could reduce oxidative stress and blood glucose by consuming cinnamon extracts that have been proven safe and effective," U.S. Agricultural Department scientists say in a statement. The study, published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, was conducted in Ohio by co-author Tim Ziegenfuss, currently with the Center for Applied Health Sciences in Fairlawn, Ohio. Twenty-two obese participants whose blood glucose values were classified as prediabetes were randomly divided into two groups and given either a placebo or 250 milligrams of a dried water-soluble cinnamon extract twice daily. Fasting blood tests at the beginning of the study and after six and 12 weeks measured blood glucose and antioxidant changes. The study included researchers at Integrity Nutraceuticals International of Spring Hill, Tenn., and Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France. Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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Man gets new kidney in transplant 'chain' SAN DIEGO (UPI) -- San Diego doctors say a patient awaiting a kidney transplant has a new organ after his wife donated hers -- but to a stranger, not to her husband. Oscar and Rita Ayub were participants in a National Kidney Registry live-saving effort that finds donors for people who need a kidney, but only if they have a partner willing to donate one of their kidneys to a stranger, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Friday. They were part of a transplant chain of donations involving 21 donors and 21 recipients in seven states. Each person in need of a kidney had a donor partner -- a relative, friend, co-worker or possibly a stranger -- whose kidney was not a match for them. The National Kidney Registry, founded in 2007, uses sophisticated computer analysis to match donors with recipients. The New York non-profit is the largest such paired-exchange kidney transplant program in the United States. Kidneys transplant recipients in the United States typically wait four years or more to find a matching donor, even when a loved one wants to help. The registry now has 2,000 donors in its system and plans to expand, Executive Director Thomas Mollo said. "We've done 178 transplants," he said. "Each hospital has to come into the system with a recipient and a donor, so we can continue to pay it forward." The Ayubs said they hope their experience would encourage others not to be fearful about donating an organ. "They're giving life to somebody else, like she gave to me," Oscar said as he reached for Rita's hand. Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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Signing: Hands/mouthing separate in brain LONDON (UPI) -- In a study using British Sign Language, signers made different mistakes in the sign and mouthing, meaning hand and lip movements are separate, researchers say. David Vinson of University College London and colleagues propose hand and lip movements are separated in the signer's brain. Vinson explains when study participants translated English words into British Sign Language, the hands sometimes made a mistake but the lips didn't. The study, published in Psychological Science, suggests differences in signs and in mouthing indicated hand and lip movements are not part of the same sign. "In essence, they're doing the same thing as reading an English word aloud without pronouncing it," Vinson says in a statement. "So they seem to be processing two languages at the same time." Vinson and colleagues recruited both deaf and hearing signers who had grown up signing with deaf parents. The participants sat in front of a video camera and were asked to sign pictures or words shown on a monitor -- shown at a fast pace to encourage mistakes that may reveal how language is processed. Vinson noted British Sign Language is a separate language from both English and American Sign Language. Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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Oxytocin not the magical 'trust elixir' LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE, Belgium (UPI) -- Belgian researchers have linked oxytocin -- dubbed the "love hormone" or "liquid trust" -- to increased trust, but not to gullibility. The scientists said oxytocin increased levels of a hormone associated with greater caring, generosity and trust. However, researcher Moira Mikolajczak of the Universite catholique de Louvain in Belgium and colleagues, say oxytocin does not increase trust in just anybody. "Oxytocin may make individuals more trusting, but only in certain situations," the study authors said in a statement. "Oxytocin is not the magical 'trust elixir' described in the news, on the Internet, or even by some influential researchers." Mikolajczak and colleagues had volunteers receive either a placebo or oxytocin nasal spray and then had them play a trust game in which they received a certain amount of money that could be tripled if shared with a partner. The participants played the game against a computer and virtual partners, supposedly in another room, some of whom appeared reliable and seemed likely to share the money with the participants and some of whom appeared unreliable and seemed likely to keep the money for themselves. The study, reported in Psychological Science, found those receiving a dose of oxytocin were more trusting of "reliable partners" vs. those who received a placebo. However, neither those taking oxytocin nor the placebo shared with "unreliable partners." Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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