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Inclination of North Carolina’s Elderly Population towards Home Remedie

... older adults in rural North Carolina// widely use folk or home remedies, such as taking a daily tonic of vinegar or using Epsom salts. Their use is largely limited to home remedies, vitamins and minerals. The aim of the study was to study more about what complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) the...

Tsunami Unplugged: Natural Disasters Favor the Under-privileged

...a video camera at the time! Infact the poor fisher folk were among the majority who met a watery grave, away from the eye of the camera. Since their contributions to the national economy were a drop in the ocean, one could not precisely estimate the economic repercussions caused by the Tsunami. Therefor...

Study links obesity to kidney failure

... The obese are nearly twice as likely as thinner folk to develop kidney disease // and the risk for the morbidly obese is seven-fold higher, says a US study. The link could be because obesity is linked to hypertension and diabetes, which could eventually lead to end-stage renal failure, said author ...

Valley's Winters - Time For Nostalgia And Salt Tea

...aditional recipes - with chicken and turnips - and folk tales weave a blanket of warmth over Jammu and Kashmir during the cold winter days // . 'Rooster and turnip cooked over a simmering fire a whole night in an earthen vessel tickles the taste-buds with its rich aroma,'says Muhammad Sidiq, a resident o...

Children’s Stress Levels Directly Related To Maternal Job Satisfaction

...s children. This has offered flexibility for women folk to visit such centers during break hours and allows them to work rest of the day without any preoccupation...

Orissa found to be worst affected by the killer disease, AIDS

...l sex workers, truckers, migrant labourers, fisher folk community, jail inmates and slum women labour force. It has been proposed to initiate another 26 targeted intervention projects in 23 districts during the year. National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has approved 15 new targeted intervention pro...

A bird's eye view of the Bird Flu scare

...ns of poultry traders in the country. These simple folk feel that no virus can survive the heat and temperature of Indian spices! And hence they are paying little heed to the warnings being issued rapidly elsewhere in the world. The Chinese connection is also not worrying these people since they feel that...

Aromatherapy: Ambient odors of orange and lavender reduce anxiety

...ffects of essential oils have been acknowledged in folk medicine and aromatherapy for a long time//. Citrus and lavender fragrances have been particularly attributed with mood enhancing properties by aromatherapists. Recently a study, published in the September issue of the journal Physiology & Behavior,...

Folk medicine is given more to UTI patients

...e a common practice for the parents to rely on the folk medicines like cranberry juice more than taking th...ctors. Most of the time the usage of such types of folk medicine is not reported to the doctors at all. Researchers for the study feel that this brings out...

Curry Powder (haldi or turmeric) can prevent cancer

...eservative, as a coloring agent and as part of the folk medicine. Researchers have found out that a daily dose of curcumin powder retards the growth of multiple myeloma and pancreatic cancer. Researchers are still studying the effect of curcumin on breast cancer. The chemical had kept the protein NF-kB i...

Abstain from sex- the latest mantra of American teens

...alysts who have studied the abstinence of the teen folk in the U.S. According to these analysts, only 7% of men and 20% of women remain virgins till their marriage. The matter is not so important from the ethical viewpoint but a very important topic with regards to healthy sexual behavior, they say. With...

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