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Sick Of Being Fat Article:

Is There a Cure for PCOS?

Many women with polycystic ovarian syndrome have increased their fertility by losing weight, following a low-glycemic diet, or through medication or herbs. These treatments are helpful, but they do not make the PCOS go away. No one understood why PCOS affects each woman so differently. Promising new studies may explain the cause of PCOS and how to cure it.

Women with PCOS are prone to inflammation. They also develop heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, thyroid disorders and other diseases caused by chronic inflammation at an alarming rate. Women with PCOS have high numbers of "markers" (C-reactive proteins) in their blood that indicate inflammation. These C-reactive proteins or CRPs are a more reliable indicator of heart disease than high cholesterol levels alone.

Inflammation is the body's immune response to irritation or infection. When your skin is red or itchy, you can see the inflammation. However, chronic internal inflammation is a silent killer. In an attempt to fight the inflammation, your immune system may attack your thyroid or other organs. It may stop using insulin properly. Or it may try to repair the inflammation such as when your arteries are inflamed and the body tries to patch the problem with arterial plaque, causing the arteries to harden and leading to heart disease.

Finally, researchers have linked this chronic inflammation with the genes that seem to cause PCOS in Mexican-Americans (Mexican-Americans, Southeast Asians, and Native Americans all get PCOS at a higher rate than non-Hispanic Caucasian women). Other studies have shown that chronic inflammation is behind obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Taken with the other studies, I see this as a very, very hopeful sign that the cause of PCOS can finally be treated. Obviously, these genes are not going away, but research seems to show that if you treat the inflammation then you can prevent insulin resistance, diabetes and heart disease.

9th grade science projects get kids learning about science, yet they won't even realize they're "learning." Simple science projects are sometimes the best way to demonstrate scientific principles in a hands on way.

Astrobiologists at NASA and elsewhere are now seriously considering the possibility that life on Earth originated outside the planet and was brought into it by space debris impacting its surface over vast stretches of time. Do these space debris only contain ordinary matter? The scope of evolution will be considerably broadened if they also contain dark matter. Were the first cells a composite of dark and ordinary matter? Did dark matter bodies co-evolve with ordinary matter bodies?

Biologists are beginning to realize that co-operation was just as important as competition in the evolution of life's diversity and resilience. Every cell in the human body contains a mitochondrion which is thought to be a bacterial cell which invaded an early eukaryote. Instead of being digested, both cells tolerated each other and began to live with each other - a merger which provided synergies to both.

It seems saving the planet is a big deal, a world-wide goal, but, if we are truly going to save the planet we need to consider a few things first. For instance can 10 Billion people live on the surface of the planet and if so, will the planet sustain them all? How about 15 or 20 Billion? Well, at our current consumption levels most likely not. What if we reduce or consumption; can it be possible then?

Today, although it is somewhat uncommon many are living over 100-years of age. Each year more and more people make it to their centurion years. Have you ever wondered what the high-end of human life span might be in the future? Well, sorry for the delay in the reply to this question of your, I do believe it does deserve a legitimate answer. So, will it be possible for humans to live to be 250, 500 or even 1,000 years old?