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Drinking Heavy Amounts of Alcohol Shrinks Your Brain

...eased .25 percent on average for every increase in drinking category (i.e. non-drinkers, former drinkers, low ...on, Paul reported the inverse relationship between drinking and brain volume was slightly larger in women than in men. Also, drinking heavy amounts of alcohol s...

Better Research Needed On Alcohol In Pregnancy

...archers say. Recommendations for safe levels of drinking during pregnancy vary across English-speaking countries and between states and organisations in Australia, according to new report written by Colleen OLeary and her colleagues at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Perth. The policie...

Premature Birth Linked With Increased Use of Pesticides

...vironmental pesticides and nitrates in surface and drinking water. Last year at the Pediatric Academic Societies' annual meeting, Dr Winchester reported that birth defects peak in Indiana and in the United States as a whole during April through July, the same months as pesticides and nitrates reach their maxi...

Sewage Flows into Hudson River in a Torrent

...use the Hudson River is a very important source of drinking water for much if not all of the people in New York State, activists note....

Residues Go Merrily Down the Stream in Portland

...t of that stuff was removed," said Sheree Stewart, drinking water protection coordinator at the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. "Actually a lot of what is in the raw water gets through," she added. The chemicals could be the surplus medicines that go down the drain, a practice which is being dis...

Low Test Scores Of Children Linked To Their Date Of Conception

...pesticide exposure, especially pesticides found in drinking water, is related to trends in test scores many years down the road. "We have now linked higher pesticide and nitrate exposure in surface water with lower cognitive scores," Winchester was quoted. "Neurodevelopmental consequences of exposure to pes...

Resident Bacteria May Help Clean Phosphorous From Lakes

...ge, shallow lake in Jiangsu Province that supplies drinking water to 40 million people in Shanghai and surrounding cities. 'We are looking at the relationship between what types of bacteria are present and the availability of phosphorus in the water,' says McMahon. She and her students also will incubate wa...

Hurricane Katrina Still Wrecking Lives - More So With Blacks

...n up, their relationships had failed, or they were drinking more since the August 2005 hurricane. The city's long-standing racial friction became a cause for public debate when Katrina's floods displaced countless black families.Many considered the federal and state governments' neglect of area levees and l...

Curb the Pocket Money, Curb the Problem Drinking

...kers in North West England. Almost 90% admitted to drinking alcohol, of which 38% binged, 24% drank frequently and 50% drank in public. Around a third bought their own alcohol, making them six times more likely to drink in public and more than twice as likely to binge and drink frequently than those who had...

Heavy Drinking may Trigger Stroke

Heavy liquor drinking may trigger a dangerous heart condition that can t...logist at the Imperial College, London. However, drinking in moderation is safe and does not significantly increase the chances of developing atrial fibrillat...

Farm Milk Reduces Childhood Asthma and Allergies but Raw Consumption is Unsafe

...d farm milk not in isolation. "All the children drinking unpasteurised farm milk and eating other farm-rela...best protection from asthma and allergies had been drinking farm milk since their first year of life." About half of the parents who told researchers that the...

'Cocaine' Turns 'Censored' and Remains 'energy Drink'

...h a tingly euphoric feeling within five minutes of drinking it. That initial boost is followed 15 minutes later by an energy buzz that will last five to six hours, according to the company. Kirby claims Cocaine is "350 percent stronger than Red Bull" but that people do not experience the "sugar crash" or j...

India is Uncorking Its Wine Market: Expert

...n even get married at the age of 18. Yet the legal drinking age is 25. This is also part of the Indian paradox," he said. "Our finance minister and commerce minister are both connoisseurs of fine wine. The minister of agriculture is a big grape farmer and has gone on record to say that wine should be treate...

Talking With Families may Help Prevent Childhood Obesity

...help families find new alternatives to dining out, drinking sugary drinks, TV viewing and ways to increase the family's physical activity. We ask parents 'What are your goals' and help them find ways to change their behavior in order to achieve those goals." Schwartz and his colleagues are still exploring w...

Smoking More Likely Linked With Head and Neck Cancers Than Boozing

...nts who never drank. The study also showed that drinking was associated with greater risk of head and neck ...even per cent of head and neck cancers were due to drinking among never smokers. "The major strength of our pooled analyses was assembly of a very large seri...

New Substance Use Prevention Program Being Developed

.... "Instead of inundating kids with anti-smoking or drinking lectures and films, our expert system will reach out to students individually and based on their profile provide information to help prevent them from adopting high-risk behaviors." "This highly competitive research award is a strong vote of confid...

Hexavalent Chromium in Drinking Water Causes Cancer in Mice

... (chromium 6) causes cancer when it is consumed in drinking water. Hexavalent chromium compounds are often ...textile manufacturing, and have been found in some drinking water sources. The two-year study showed that the mice had developed malignant tumors upon adminis...

Natural Pine Bark Extract Reduces Heart Failure Risk

... group of hypertensive mice received Pycnogenol in drinking water for four weeks and another group of hypertensive mice was left untreated. After five weeks, the hearts of the latter control group had significantly increased in size as a result of hypertension. In the Pycnogenol treated group, hypertension an...

Moderate Drinking may Lower Risk of Kidney Cancer

Moderate drinking may lower the risk of a type of kidney malignancy called renal cancer according to a study . The researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston found that women and men who drank an average of one alcoholic beverage a day were about 30 perce...

New Electro-chemical Biosensor to Check Food Contamination

...ed successfully to detect pesticides in samples of drinking water and commercial orange juice, as well as to detect traces of antibiotics in cow's milk. The study was conducted by a team of researchers including Isabel Pividori at the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona (UAB), in cooperation with the CSIC. T...

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