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Emboldened Warriors-Cancer Fighting Foods

...ent colon cancer — Researchers in Germany say that drinking two to three glasses of cloudy apple juice (unfiltered) per day may help keep colon cancer at bay. In a ten-week study using a mouse model for colon cancer, animals that were fed either cloudy apple juice or a potent extract of the juice showed a 38 ...

'School Sermons' Need a Comeback

... claims that "risky" behavior such as smoking and drinking could be explained by a large school size and a poor school ethos. AN...

Alcohol Could Damage Youngsters' Brain

... While earlier studies have shown that smoking and drinking affect teenagers' ability to recall past events, this is the first time they have been shown to harm the ability to remember future tasks. Heffernan said it was likely that both substances are damaging the brain at a crucial point in its developme...

Memory Loss Linked To Alcohol Abuse

...end into adulthood. According to doctors excessive drinking hinders the development of brain at a very crucial... and liver cirrhosis are attributed to smoking and drinking and is widely known. But a harmful effect of these two habits on the brain activity is more dangerou...

Program Helps Reduce Binge Drinking

...ge Students, or BASICS, program assesses students’ drinking habits and identifies those who are binge drinkers... risk of becoming binge drinkers. Among men, binge drinking is identified as having five or more drinks in one sitting. For women, the measure is four or more d...

Solutions Possible for Providing Water and Sanitation in Poor Urban Settlements, Says WaterAid

... women’s federation for their efforts in providing drinking water and sanitation to those normally forgotten. The CM inaugurated a photo exhibition and released WAI publications that focused on the theme of the celebrations. Her address emphasized on the need to change our consumption patterns if we are to...

Tuberculosis, A Challenge To The Political Will Of Governments, Says Veteran Crusader

...That apart in Tamil Nadu the official patronage of drinking is a matter of serious concern, says Deivanayagam. Congested living, tremendous stress at the workplace and easy access to alcohol have meant more and more are hitting the bottle. And the infected father passes on the disease to his children. Wha...

Improve School Ethos to Combat Teen Evils

...ear old girls smoke. Rates of illegal drug use and drinking continue to rise, whilst teenage pregnancy rates i...sky health behaviours (such as regular smoking and drinking and marijuana use). Follow-up research suggested impacts might increase over time as the changes 'be...

Spirituality Increases as Alcoholics Recover

...urpose in life are most likely to be free of heavy drinking episodes six months later. “While people’s actu... were contributing to the recovery and decrease in drinking in the first six months. They note that this pattern is consistent with two AA slogans: “Bring yo...

Babies and Drinks Don’t Mi

...yists like Fleisher are pushing for a total ban on drinking by pregnant women. AN...

The Science of Happiness

...ring this period they refused to stop for feeding, drinking or acts of procreation. These areas, identified as the ‘pleasure centers’ of the brain, were found to be impaired in individuals with Parkinson’s disease. The signaling chemical, dopamine , was christened the ‘pleasure chemical’. It was la...

Anti-Fluoride Claims Discarded As False

...rict who decided to remove fluoride from the local drinking water. According to this pediatrician, fluoride ca...l. He said that fluoride is added in safe doses to drinking water, and it is found naturally in many water supplies. Private wells are the main source of wate...

Trial Run of Copper to Combat MRSA

... The Pharaohs used copper to sterilize wounds and drinking water, while the Aztecs used it to treat skin conditions. Hopefully, the superbugs will meet their match in this versatile metal. AN...

Green Tea may Help to Fight Lung Cancer

...ory Investigation". The study doesn't prove that drinking green tea curbs lung cancer in people. However, it may be possible to make new lung cancer drugs based on green tea extract, Lu's team suggests. Such drugs would target the lung cancer protein remodelled by the green tea extract in the lab tests. ...

Effect of Snoring on Partners

...tributed to obesity, allergy, and binge eating and drinking in both men and women. Snoring occurs when there is a vibration of the soft palate and other tissues in the mouth, nose and throat when air is taken into the lungs. JYT...

Wine- Toast to a Longer Life

...em for 40 years. They have concluded that while drinking less than a glass of alcohol is associated with lo...es of death from cardiovascular causes and others, drinking just half a glass of wine daily is linked with the lowest rates of deaths. Wine drinkers were found ...

FDA and CDC Remind Consumers of the Dangers of Drinking Raw Milk

...on (CDC) are reminding consumers of the dangers of drinking milk that has not been// pasteurized, known as raw...exception of a few aged cheeses. Proponents of drinking raw milk often claim that raw milk is more nutritious than pasteurized milk and that raw milk is inh...

Bhopal Gas Victims Demand Treatment of Children With Birth Defects

...survivors and their families, availability of safe drinking water and removal of hazardous waste from the Union Carbide Corporation's (UCC) now-defunct pesticide plant. Source-IANS...

More Fall Sick from Water Pollution in Tripura

Twelve more people were taken ill Saturday after drinking water from a river contaminated by toxic industria...plained of vomiting and respiratory distress after drinking the river water. A health camp was set up in the affected area to treat the victims. Police arrest...

Developing Countries may Fail MDG Sanitation Targets

...Goals, the number of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation should be halved by 2015. Yet at the end of 2004, 1.2 billion people in developing countries still lacked basic sanitation, according to a 2006 report. If natural population growth is considered, the world will miss th...

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