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Simple Eye Movement Test For Early Detection Of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

...efined as "birth defects resulting from a mother's consumption of alcohol during pregnancy", fetal alcohol syndrome is associated with hyperactivity, difficulty in learning and deficits in memory, understanding and reasoning, as well as problems dealing with stressful situations. The next stage of the Queen's ...

Land of Kebabs, also reaps enormous profit in fast food

.... The report also claims that it is the increasing consumption of fatty, Western foods across the continent that has caused the development. WHO's report is particularly galling for a country like Pakistan that has always prided itself on its nutritious, spicy foods. Ever since the first KFC restaurant appea...

A warning for children consuming hamburgers: Asthma

...w Zealand. Researchers were able to correlate the consumption of fast food with the increased risk of asthma and...vated risk of experiencing asthma symptoms. Higher consumption of hamburgers led to a higher incidence of asthma. Asthma is a disease more commonly found in devel...

Foetal alcohol syndrome: has an answer as a test now!

...fants is the foetal alcohol syndrome caused due to consumption of alcohol by pregnant ladies. Canadian researchers found a technique for accurately // diagnosing Foetal Alcohol Syndrome based on the pattern of eye-movement, Queen's University reported on Nov. 11, 2005. Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), often caus...

Coffee In Pregnancy May Be Risky: Study

...al deaths. The women were interviewed about coffee consumption and potentially confounding factors, such as alcohol consumption and smoking, at about 16 weeks' gestation. Of the women surveyed, 55.4 percent reported drinking no...

One Third Of All Cancers Preventable!

...ting for nearly 21 % of all cancers. Surprisingly, consumption of alcohol and inadequate intake of fruits and vegetables stand second and third respectively as causative factor of cancers. Overweight and obesity, physical inactivity, unsafe sexual practices, air pollution due to the growing industrialization/ u...

Artificial Sweetners Not Really Safe?

...luation” of the current guidelines for the use and consumption of this compound. “Our study has shown that aspartame is a multipotential carcinogenic compound whose carcinogenic effects are also evident at a daily dose of 20 milligrams per kilogram of body weight (mg/kg), notably less than the current acceptab...

Doctors Do Not Excise Sufficient Caution While Prescribing High-Risk Drugs

...alerts can be issued to serve as a warning against consumption of BBW drugs. However, designing such an exhaustive system requires careful and consistent efforts with a critical evaluation of morbidity and mortality. “This will require new information about risks, about the way drugs are used in everyday pract...

Drinking Laws 'Fuel Disease' In UK: Expert

...any measure that results in an increase in alcohol consumption in this country as a whole can be justified,' he told the channel. 'I don't think there is any evidence that lengthening the periods of drinking in this country will lead to less alcohol consumption. It will lead to more.' Williams, who oversaw B...

Scottish Children Have Worst Dental Health In Europe

...ilk teeth. Faulty brushing habits coupled with the consumption of sticky substances are generally responsible for triggering dental decay or dental caries. 'Tooth decay in young children is a problem that can be beaten. Our guidelines show that starting brushing early and making good decisions about what we ea...

Alcohol: Liver's worst enemy

... was one of Europe's worst offenders' with alcohol consumption rising by 15 percent over the last five years. It ...ospital admissions due to the same. Excess alcohol consumption leads to fatty liver then to cirrhosis of the liver and then liver failure. It also remains the majo...

Olive Oil Found To Preserve Cardiovascular Health by Improving Function

...tion was noted following the first few hours after consumption of the high-phenol olive oil meal. More specifically, the improvement was found to be associated with elevated levels of a molecule called nitric oxide. It is presumably thought to play a role in the vasodilatation effect (dilatation of blood vesse...

The Mediterranean magic: helpful in heart disease

... a 15% reduction in the risk of heart disease //on consumption of a Mediterranean diet for a period of three months. The sample size was 212 men and women who were at moderate risk for heart disease were put to eat a Mediterranean diet for three months. Participants on the Mediterranean diet were instructed to...

Carbohydrate-rich Diet In Diabetes Raises Blood Pressure

...affect blood pressure in the short term, long-term consumption of a high-carbohydrate diet may modestly raise blood pressure in type 2 diabetic patients,' the researchers concluded in the study, which is published in the latest issue of Diabetes Care. Blood pressure remains a number one concern in diabetics. I...

Children Are Indifferent To Obesity

...nnected to obesity in the western nations, and the consumption of alcohol can only complicate this matter further. Hip and knee replacement surgeries will be refused in East Suffolk to people who are obese due to healthcare rationing. This is regardless of the fact that they are enduring unbearable pain and obe...

Vegan(ism) not so 'in' and healthy for children

...nd is that many nutrients can only be derived from consumption of animal foods. In a strongly worded statement she said, 'If you're talking about feeding young children, pregnant women and lactating women, I would go as far as to say it is unethical to withhold these foods [animal source foods] during that peri...

Mystery Surrounding Use Of Abortion Pill Yet To Be Resolved

...an women due to the toxic shock syndrome following consumption of the abortion pill RU-486 (Mifeprex) has created much confusion // and controversy among members of the scientific community. It has been confirmed by health officials that it is due to the toxins produced by the highly lethal bacteria - Clostrid...

AMA To Combat Obesity

... disease, type II diabetes, and liver disease. The consumption of junk food by children is reportedly responsible for this state of affairs. Breast-feeding is recommended by the AMA during the first six months of an infant’s life, and junk food should not be sold at canteens at the country’s schools. A national ...

Calcium taken as food far effective than medication

...beneficial for cortical bone mass accrual than the consumption of tablets containing a similar amount of calcium," was the analysis of the researchers. On considering individual growth speed, none of the supplements, calcium tablets or calcium-rich cheese helped bones. this indicates that on supplying excess ca...

Alcohol And Drug Abuse (Cannabis) Leading Causes For Road Traffic Accidents

...raffic accident is significantly greater following consumption of even very small amounts of cannabis. Evidence o... positive for both cannabis and alcohol. Alcohol consumption was found to be responsible for fatal crashes (28.6%), surpassing those directly attributable to can...

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