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Vitamin D Reduces Cancer Risk

...ty to convert sunlight into vitamin D. People with dark skin have more difficulty making the vitamin. Persons living at latitudes north of the 37th parallel Omaha is near the 41st parallel cannot get their vitamin D naturally during the winter months because of the suns angle. Experts generally agree ...

New 'green' Pyre to Cool Planet While Burning India's Dead

... inauspicious because of its association with "the dark force". The latest model also has a chimney that traps much of the particle matter produced by the fire and releases clean emissions. Since then the Mokshda group has been actively promoting it across the country. Mokshda has installed 41 pyres, wh...

Ancient Healing Technique Gains New Popularity in Iraq

...ump out the air. In the ensuing vacuum , the thick dark blood slowly oozed out of the cuts and into the clear containers. "The Assyrians, the Chinese and the ancient Egyptians all used to practice cupping to draw out the corrupt blood," said Hajam as he deftly drained a few more spots on his patient's b...

Students With Sleep Disorder Symptoms Score Badly in Maths

...e bedtime either. 6. The bedroom should be quiet, dark and a little bit cool. 7. Get up at the same time every morning....

Alli- a New Weapon for War Against the Bulges

...ont about this, even recommending that people wear dark pants or bring a change of clothes to work until they adjust to the drug. Glaxo is also preparing 250 pages of educational materials to accompany the starter pack, a Web site, 200,000 copies of a diet plan and 800,000 copies of a book to help dieter...

Three Cases of Hepatitis C Points Finger at One NYC Doctor

... yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes, dark urine and pale feces. It is treatable, but many people who have the disease do not even know they are infected. There are several effective treatments for hepatitis C, including interferon and ribavirin. The officials refused to disclose the wh...

NRI Threatens to Move US Congress for Justice in India

... against the WBMC, which allegedly kept him in the dark about information he had sought under the RTI. Source-IANS/V...

Scientists Predict Bleak Future For Life

...elled by the still-unseen and unknown mysterious dark energy, will ultimately yield an environment in wh...rons and electrons. At the crux of the issue is dark energy, a hypothetical field or anti-gravity energy, which permeates space and tends to accelerate t...

Simple Changes in Diet Could Improve Sex Life of Women

...m the US suggests that a combination of fish oils, dark chocolate and controlling carbohydrate intake may be all that's needed, reported the online edition of Daily Mail. In her book "The Orgasmic Diet", author Marrena Lindberg has created a programme that she says not only boosts the sex drive, but aid...

Norwegian Glacier Shrinks and Marine Life Poisoned as the Globe Warms

...at depend on sea ice for hunting seals. They say dark sea water and land, once exposed, soaks up more heat than ice and snow. Glaciers are in retreat in many parts of the world, from the Alps to the Himalayas, and could push up sea levels in coming decades and centuries. Snow buntings, which arrive fr...

Artificial Tanning Causes Concern

...ys. Choose sunglasses with even shading, medium to dark lenses and UVA and UVB protection. · Wear sunscreen with an SPF of 15 or higher. If you work outdoors, or if you will be outside for most of the day, use an SPF of 30. Apply sunscreen at least 20 minutes before heading out and reapply every two hour...

Ever-Controversial Mental Health Act To Be Decided Upon

...orms was Enoch Powell who helped fade away the old dark and gloomy asylums of yore. This was followed by treatment in the 1960s with symptom suppressing drugs and other psychiatric treatment. Yet this policy of leniency began to be questioned after the early nineties due to incidents of murders carr...

Kiss a Chocolate and Tell

... activity. They were asked to bite into pieces of dark chocolate and a while later they were to kiss thei...us. While we fully expected chocolate - especially dark chocolate - to increase heart rates due to the fact it contains some highly stimulating substances, ...

Blood Pressure Tackled Better With Cocoa Than Tea

...e to substitute phenol-rich cocoa products such as dark chocolate for other high-calorie or high-fat desserts or dairy products, they continue. 'We believe that any dietary advice must account for the high sugar, fat and calorie intake with most cocoa products,' the authors conclude. 'Rationally applied, ...

'Smart' Sunglasses With Chameleon Powers

...y stay bright under strong midday light or get too dark in low-level evening light due to the angle of inc...ne in colors." The prototype glasses change from dark blue to light blue. Xu and her colleagues have developed other adjustable lenses in red and yellow. ...

Cocoa Polyphenols may Offer Diabetes Benefits - Study

...al chocolate. However, studies using flavonol-rich dark chocolate have reported positive effects with intakes of only 100 g of dark chocolate per day, providing a flavonol dose of 88 mg. "On the basis of the previous report and th...

A New Test Kit to Detect Spoilt Food

... spoilage. Specifically, the polymers changed from dark purple to yellow in the presence of badly spoiled fish, while the change was from dark purple to a reddish hue in the presence of mildly spoiled fish, he says. Depending on the degree of ...

Role of Lifestyle Choices in Heart Risks

... vegetables – and cardiovascular disease. Cocoa or dark chocolate products are considered one of the most ... it does suggest that we pay more attention to how dark chocolate and other flavonoid-rich foods might offer cardiovascular benefits”, said the researchers....

Want a Healthy Colon? Eat a Rainbow!

...ods including low-fat dairy products or skim milk, dark green vegetables, soy and tofu products, canned salmon and sardines, and fortified foods such as orange juice. o Get more calcium by having almonds, cottage cheese, or yogurt as a snack. o Talk with your doctor about whether a calcium supplement is...

Sleep Disturbances Could Affect Performances in School

...ings that make you worry. Make your bedroom quiet, dark and a little bit cool, the researchers said. Source-IANS...

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