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Deep Sleep Doesn't Increase Memory

Students who go to bed early to be ready for a big test the next day might be missing the mark, according to a study to be released Friday by a San Fernando Valley researcher that finds a good night's sleep does not increase memory. // .... REM sleep is a deep sleep during which an individual's eyes dart rapidly under closed eyelids and the body is almost completely paralyzed except for the hea...

Stretching the muscles doesn't make them more resilient

Stretching before or after hitting the squash court might be a waste of time. It does little to reduce injuries or muscle soreness, say researchers. Warning up and cooling down by stretching was thought to reduce the risk// of unused muscles going into painful spasm. The spasm theory turned out to be wrong, but the stretching habit stuck. It is one of the “many superstitions about how to prevent...

Less exercise doesn't help prevent osteoporosis

A recent study reveals that everyday activities such as walking and housework may be good for the heart, but don't do much for the bones. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have studied a group of people aged// 50 to 60 who had higher than average blood pressure, but were otherwise healthy. They measured their aerobic fitness, muscle strength and abdominal fat, to see how these were linked t...

Promised Drug Doesn't Help Acute Heart Failure

Intravenous administration of the drug tezosentan did not improve worsening heart failure or prevent death in patients with acute heart failure // despite high hopes. The above fact was found out in the largest international trial on acute heart failure to date. The study was conducted to evaluate if something more could be done for acute heart failure patients in order to speed up hospital disch...

Cocoa: Doesn’t Taste Like Red Wine But Has Benefits Like It

Chocolates have been elevated to the level of health friends. In the same league a key ingredient of chocolate cocoa has been shown to have benefits for coronary heart disease. ..New research suggests that cocoa // may also have a beneficial effect on heart disease and stroke. A research team in Southampton in England, led by Dr Denise O'Shaugnessy, has shown that drinking a cup of cocoa can pre...

Drinking Real Juice Doesnt Cause Obesity In Children

Children who drink juice do not face the risk of obesity, say scientists. Researcher Victor Fulgoni, examined about the effects of the juice in children’s diet and body mass index (BMI) on children of various ages and had come to this conclusion. // ....According to foodconsumer.org, he found that juice consumers have significantly lower z-scores for body mass index for their age and that child...

Dental Amalgam Doesn't Pose Health Risks In Children

In a first-ever clinical trial conducted to evaluate the safety of using the amalgam fillings that contain mercury, it has been found that it doesn't pose any health risk in children // , bringing much respite not only for parents but also to dentists as well, according to foodconsumer.org. The studies were conducted independently, one in Europe and other in the US, and have come to the same conc...

Exposure To Lead Doesn’t Cause Hypertension In Childre

Scientists have known for sure that exposure to lead can induce hypertension in lab animals and more recently the same have been found// to be true in adults too. But till now nothing concrete was known about the metal’s effect on children. But by making the children to expose to lead for five years researchers have found that the exposure doesn’t raises blood pressure in young children. ....Lea...

Heavy Coffee Drinking Doesn’t Cause Heart Disease: Stud

Now coffee drinkers can heave a sigh of relief as a new study has found that drinking more coffee per day doesn't affect the heart// in any way. ....According to foodconsumer.org, data on more than 120,000 participants in two U.S. studies that followed people for as long as two decades found no link between heart disease and a daily intake of six or more cups of coffee. In fact, the risk was the...

Sex In Last Week Of Pregnancy Doesn’t Hasten Birth - Study Reveal

During the final week of pregnancy, people believe that having engaged in sexual intercourse speeds labor and delivery - A new study finds it was the reverse//. ..In fact, just the opposite was true in 93 women studied at Ohio State University Medical Center. Women who were sexually active in the final three weeks of their pregnancies carried their babies an average of 39.9 weeks, compared to a...

Veggies ensure the brain doesn’t vegetat

Chicago: Among the known value adds of vegetables, this one really takes the carrot! New research on vegetables and aging has shown that eating vegetables is a sure shot// way to keep the brain agile and young, which may even retrograde any signs of dementia related to old age. .. ..A six year study involving 2000 men and women analyzed mental sharpness and found that older people who consumed mo...

Lung Cancer Surgeries Doesn’t Help Breaking Nicotine Dependence in Smoker

A new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have found out that successful lung cancer// surgery does not help in breaking the nicotine dependence in many smokers. This study published in the December issue of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, is the first to look at smoking relapse among people who were "forced" to quit due to impending surgery. ..The study...

Why Immune System Doesn't Attack Small Intestine?

Why the body's immune system - perpetually on guard against foreign microbes like bacteria – doesn't attack tissues in the small intestine that harbor millions// of bacteria cells - Answers to one of the oldest questions in human physiology – is found by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in a study published in the February issue of Nature Immunology and which is currently available on...

Fertility Clinic Web Sites Doesn’t Adhere to Ad-Guideline

A University of Illinois at Chicago study published in the January issue of Fertility and Sterility shows that the majority of fertility clinic Web sites does not adhere// to their own association's advertising guidelines. ..The study also found that services offered at private clinics and academic clinics were similar, but private clinics were more likely to publish success rates, use comparat...

'Families' - Doesn’t Cause Anorexia Nervos

Researchers from an international group of eating disorders say that the misstatements and ignorance claiming that families "cause" eating disorders is like blaming// parents for diabetes or asthma or cancer. ....Recent damaging statements by fashion model Gisele Bundchen stating that unsupportive families cause anorexia nervosa only perpetuate misconceptions and further stigmatize eating disor...

Anti-smoking Ads at the Movies Doesnt Make Any Impact on Smokers

Showing anti-smoking advertisements before movies in which the lead character smokes is not as effective a method as campaigners hope, for the only people such adverts really reduce the appeal of smoking to , are non-smokers. ......And, the news comes from a study that appears in the June issue of the journal Tobacco Control. ......The study was carried on 3,000 cinemagoers, 18.6 percent of who...

Fruit Juice Doesnt Cause Overweight in Kids

Intake of fruit juice does not cause obesity in children, according to a new study by a Houston based medical college . ......The researchers during the survey studied the dietary intakes of 3,618 children in the age group of 2-11 years. ......"We did not find a relationship between 100 percent juice consumption and obesity among children," said Theresa Nicklas, a child nutrition researcher at...