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Alcohol Drinking Affects Risk Of Colorectal Tumours

... The study found that those who drank one to eight glasses of wine per week were actually 50 percent less likely to have colorectal neoplasia. Researchers believe that a compound called resveratrol in red wine is responsible for the reduced risk of colorectal tumours. Previous studies have partially reveale...

The Mediterranean magic: helpful in heart disease

...nd red meat only once a week. Men were allowed two glasses of red wine daily, while women were limited to one. In food stuffs poultry rather than beef, pork and other mammal meats were advocated; fish to be eaten two or three times a week; abstain from animal products rich in saturated fat; and liberal inta...

Even Moderate Drinking Is Not Good For The Heart

...onventional medical wisdom states that a couple of glasses of wine everyday, or a pint of beer is beneficial to the human heart. According to The Independent, health experts from New Zealand cite a large US study published earlier this year of 200,000 adults which found drinkers were healthier than non-drin...

Alcohol lovers: It has no role in Heart disease

...ontrary to popular belief that drinking one or two glasses of alcohol helps in heart disease, a New Zealand study claims that alcohol has no such effect//. Dr Rod Jackson and colleagues from Auckland University conducted the study and challenged the French paradox that makes believe alcohol has its role in ...

LASIK Treatments Still To Reach Common Man

...who are tired of remembering where they kept their glasses are opting for this procedure. However, there are certain complications including the risk of developing an infection and eyesight that is worse than before if any instrument happens to scratch the cornea. "You hire an experienced surgeon and he'll u...

Lazy Eye Can Be Effectively Treated By New Approach

...ay a compromise in the vision even when corrective glasses are used. If untreated, it can lead to permanent vision loss. Until now, the condition has been regarded to be incurable in children over 8 years. The new study however promises a restoration of vision by as much as 70% in individuals above 19 year...

Short Glasses Make You Drink More

...new study has indicated that the use of short wide glasses while consuming alcohol results in a person drinki...Journal. More liquor is poured into // these small glasses than in the narrow tall glasses of the same volume. This is a mistake that is committed even by prof...

Over indulgence more so when intake is in short glasses

...ople pour 20-30% more alcohol // into short , wide glasses than into tall, narrow ones of the same volume, but they wrongly believe that tall glasses hold more. The study finds mention in BMJ. This trend is not limited to general public but season...

Gardening, Walking and moderate drinking reduce risk of dementia

... gardening and had moderate drinking of one to two glasses had a reduced incidence of dementia. The study did not show any correlation between gardening, walking and moderate drinking to development of dementia in women. Some of the risk factors associated with dementia were depression, aging, heart and lung...

Sleep Science awakens from deep slumber!

...iles, wrist straps, seat linings and the frames of glasses and would be wirelessly integrated through a computer network. The measurements they would take would range from brain activity, heart rate, eye to muscle movements during your waking and sleeping hours. Halfway through the funding part the projec...

Facts about Common Cold and Flu

...preventing and speeding up recovery time. Eight glasses of water and/or juice per day is recommended. This will help keep the lining of the nose and throat from drying out, so that mucus remains moist and easy to clear from the nose. Smoke will irritate the throat and will result in worsening of the cough...

Wine and Beer in Moderation Good for Health

...ition of Daily Mail. People who drink 14 or more glasses of wine or beer a week have the lowest risk of a heart attack, they said. Those who had between one and six drinks a week were seven percent less likely to have a problem than long-term abstainers. For those who had seven to 13 drinks a week, the r...

Watch Out! Eye Glass Related Injuries On The Rise

...earchers suggests that injuries related to wearing glasses account for 27, 000 visits to the emergency depart... 'We also found that injuries related to wearing glasses vary by age and gender,' said Huiyun Xiang, a study co-author and an assistant professor of pediatri...

Good News for Coffee Drinkers

...ular disease risk in people who drank one to three glasses of red wine daily. Data of 27,000 older women, followed for 15 years, has been used for this study. Its results have been published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The study found that women who took coffee in moderation had a reduc...

Ideal Vitamin D Intake

...y of Vitamin D, "You would need to drink three big glasses of milk and eat a tin of sardines every day to get adequate vitamin D," she said. "Fortification is the way to go. We need to get vitamin D into the food the people actually eat." These new recommendations were drafted at a conference in March, whi...

Role of Vitamin D in Preventing Cancer

...es, consumption of cod liver oil and drinking nine glasses of milk per week significant reduced the risk of cancer and bone fractures. The active form of vitamin D inhibits the growth of cancer cells in the colon, breasts, prostate and kidneys. As we age the ability of our body to synthesize vitamin D also r...

Apple Juice May Keep Alzheimer's Away

...e --comparable to drinking approximately two 8 oz. glasses of apple juice or eating 2-3 apples a day. The findings also suggest that the apple-supplemented diet was most helpful in the framework of an overall healthy diet. Shea concludes, "The findings of the present study show that consumption of antioxid...

England in the Grip of Dangerous Alcohol Addiction

...one session for men and three pints of beer, three glasses of wine or six spirit measures for women. It was found that in the regions across eastern and southern England 16% of adults drink this amount or more, at least once a week. TheCentre for Public Health at Liverpool, the North West Public Health Obs...

Lactose-Intolerant kids need to take dairy products to meet nutrient requirements

...e day. "Some children are able to drink one to two glasses of milk each day without difficulty," Dr. Heyman said. · Consume dairy products with other foods, as this often reduces symptoms. · Try yogurt, which is often better tolerated because the bacteria partially digest the lactose into glucose.· Try aged ...

Mother’s Drinking May Increase Child's Alcoholism Ris

... that children of mothers consumed more than three glasses of alcohol at any time during early pregnancy were often nearly two-and-a-half times more likely to develop an alcohol disorder before age 18 and over twice as likely to develop an alcohol problem between ages 18 and 21. The researchers found that ...

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