Tag: "consumes" at medical news

Extrovert People Drink More Alcohol

...processes that determine how much alcohol a person consumes in the presence of peers. Father as role modelThe research was carried out under young adults aged 18 to 25 years, most of whom did not live at home. Nevertheless, upbringing and the role of the parents still exert a small effect on the amount drun...

Gazas Basic Food Storage Will Last Only for a Few Days

... day and had enough left for seven days. The Strip consumes 77 tonnes of rice, with enough in stock to last eight days and flour was expected to run out in about a week as well. Hospitals and medical facilities in the Strip meanwhile are also reporting a worsening lack of supplies, with Erekat putting their...

West Told to Stop Blaming China for Pollution

...a accounts for 5.5 per cent of the global GDP, but consumes 15 per cent of the energy, said Peterson. Its water consumption as a percentage of its GDP is four times the world average. Masatoshi Wakabayashi, Japan's minister of the environment, called for a new global mechanism to achieve the Group of Eight'...

Work Less to Sustain Planet Earth, Say Activists

... of its solid waste, and, on average, each citizen consumes 53 times more goods than a person in China, according to the environmental nonprofit, Sierra Club. When people work longer hours, they rely increasingly on convenience items such as fast food, disposable diapers, or bottled water. Built-in obsolesc...

Study Finds Glycerin to Be a Good Source for Cattle Feed

...value and how it compares to corn. When the animal consumes glycerin, it's absorbed, and the glycerin is used to make glucose. Actually, it's like feeding sugar to a cow. Because it's liquid, there are two things we worry about - one, how much can be used in the diet before it changes the form of the diet; an...

Soft Drink Additive Could Cause Cell Damage

...t: they knock it out altogether. "The mitochondria consumes the oxygen to give you energy and if you damage it - as happens in a number if diseased states - then the cell starts to malfunction very seriously. And there is a whole array of diseases that are now being tied to damage to this DNA - Parkinson's an...

Study Challenges Conventional Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury

...raumatic injury, the brain takes up and apparently consumes more lactate than at any other time. They discovered this by measuring the levels of lactate in blood entering and leaving the brain. To determine if lactate was being used by the brain, the researchers, in collaboration with George Brooks, a profess...

‘Mesothelioma’- Trouble Under the Asbestos Rof

...er develops just like any other type of cancer; it consumes its victims gradually as it releases chemicals that weaken the body and slowly destroy immunity. This form of cancer has a gestation period of 30 to 40 years. Dr David Landau, in charge of a mesothelioma clinic at St Thomas's Hospital in London, sa...

Excessive TV Viewing Linked to Poor Eating Habits in Children

... 3-year-old watches television, the more he or she consumes sugary drinks, and extra calories, Harvard researchers// said today. “For every one-hour increase in TV viewing per day, we found higher intakes of sugar-sweetened beverages including juice (one extra serving per week) and total calories (46.3 mor...

Biochemical Chip Solves Cell-mating Puzzle

...ight engage in 'expensive' mating behaviour, which consumes a lot of cellular resources. Secondly, in the cells that were attempting to mate, Kss1 improved the precision of finding the partner. The researchers said their findings show the importance of unravelling the role of multiple, apparently redundant...

Yaws Disease - Making a Comeback After 50 Years

... South America. Yaws is a spiral bacterium that consumes the skin, cartilage and bones. Victims are often left with holes instead where their lips or noses should be. Spiral bacteria are similar to those that cause syphilis but can be treated with a single dose of penicillin. The global health body said ...

Body Composition Is Key Player in Controlling Cancer Risks

...e long thought that limiting the calories a person consumes can prevent, or at least slow the progression of certain cancers. But research using mice suggests// that body composition – whether a person is lean or obese – actually is key to reducing cancer risks. In other words, how the body handles calori...

Nothing Fishy About This

... of protein than red or white meat. When a woman consumes fish, it is absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract and enters the bloodstream. The trace elements of mercury, or methyl mercury, the commonly found form of mercury in fish, pass through the placenta and then to the fetus. Elevated mercury levels ha...

Male Contraception: Discovery Stirring Interest Among Scientists, Drug Developers

...icates that the sperm flagella mainly produces and consumes energy through a process called glycolysis.” According to Kim, finding that SFEC is associated with glycolysis is particularly significant. “This is the first time that such an ATP carrier protein has been linked to glycolysis,” he said. “In exper...

Iodine Deficiency: A Global Initiative to Weed Out the Problem

...hot way to prevent IDD is to ensure that everybody consumes iodized salt. Just eating iodized salt in place of non-iodized salt, in the usual quantities, is more than sufficient to prevent IDD. Further iodized salt does not cause harm to people who already consume sufficient iodine. Contrary to popular belief...

Americans Deficient In Dietary Intake Of Choline Needed for Fetal Brain Development

...hers found in their study that an average American consumes just 314 milligrams of choline each day that is far less than the amount recommended. Soy lecithin, beef liver and egg yolks, are some of the foodstuffs that are rich in choline. Soy lecithin is also considered as one of the most bioactive and natu...

Honey is Better than Sugar for Diabetics and Obese People: Study

... The researchers note that honey is sweeter, but consumes fewer calories. The study appeared in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. (Source: IANS)...

Consumption of Milk is low Among the Indians

...st producer of milk in the world but paradoxically consumes the least with infants and growing children being the worst deprived, parliament was informed on Friday.// The per capita availability of milk in India is 229 gm per day as against 887.7 gm in Switzerland, 848.03 gm in Sweden, France (777.5) and Ge...

Skin Patch Offers Relief to Patients with Parkinson's disease

...e main treatment included a drug which the patient consumes called the dopamine agonist. This acts directly on the dopamine receptors in the brain. But now this latest technique contains a new dopamine agonist, called rotigotine, and delivers a continuous dose of the drug over 24 hours, so patients only h...

Bionic muscles developed by scientists powered by alcohol and hydrogen

...sh Columbia in Vancouver, Canada said, "The muscle consumes oxygen and fuel that can be transported via a circulation system; the muscle itself supports the chemical reaction that leads to mechanical work; electrochemical circuits can act as nerves, controlling actuation; some energy is stored locally in the ...

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