Louisville vascular surgeon provides 'hands on' support for troops

Dr. Andrea Yancey, a vascular surgeon from Louisville, has completed two weeks of volunteer service treating wounded American soldiers transported from Afghanistan and Iraq to the U.S. Army’s Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.

“I now have a better understanding and enhanced respect and appreciation for our military,” Yancey said in a press release from the Society for Vascular Surgery, which has provided continuous two-week rotations of vascular surgeons at LRMC for the past four years, the release said.

“The soldiers were young, polite, and grateful,” Yancey said. “Their mental and physical toughness and capacity for resilience were hard to comprehend. In spite of their injuries, they never complained or asked for pain medicine. They did not want to inconvenience anyone.”

Yancey is an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Louisville and a surgeon at the Robley Rex Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Louisville.

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Panacea for obesity - mushrooms - Nutritionists

The latest diet - mushroom, which leads to fast, natural and not harmful to human health lose excess weight, developed by experts from the UK and U.S.

Those who want to lose weight, experts suggest replacing high-calorie foods, and especially meat, in mushroom dishes.

Participated in the study volunteers had lost over five weeks with a similar diet of about 7 kilograms of excess weight. In doing so they, instead of four meat dishes a week, ate mushrooms, transmit medicinews.ru.

Experts note that mushrooms contain a lot of vitamin D, which is also available in significant quantities in meat. Simultaneously, mushrooms are a source of vitamin B, minerals and a special class of extremely important antioxidants.

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Women are more difficult to resist the delicious food - study

Women are more difficult to resist the temptation when they are facing a plate of treats

This is stated in a study by American scientists, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Researchers were asked 23 healthy volunteers and slender to refrain from eating for 17 hours. Then, in front of them put on a plate with their favorite foods and asked to suppress the feeling of hunger by thinking about something else.

Dr. Gene-Jack Wang, who led the research Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, followed the work of their brains using positron emission tomography.

He concluded that an attempt to suppress hunger for men a brain region responsible for this feeling, becomes less active, while women did not change brain function, transmit medicinews.ru.

"Reducing the restraining control in women, probably accounts for the fact that they achieve less success trying to lose weight through diet, compared with men," - said Wang.

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