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Green Tea may Protect the Bladder from Becoming Inflamed

... a preliminary study that looked at the ability of green tea to protect bladder cells from inflammation. ...(AUA) in Anaheim, Calif., found that components of green tea protected bladder cells from damage in culture. The study is Abstract 299 in the AUA proceedings...

Beware Weight Loss Drugs, Say Canadian Experts

...ver-the-counter weight-loss supplements, including green tea, chromium, and guar gum, met acceptable criteria for safety and efficacy. He also said companies skirted the ephedra ban by using related chemicals, such as those found in bitter orange plants, which can also cause cardiovascular problems. Any ...

AIDS Victims, Supporters Gather in Bond of Hope

... 27-year-old Bhagwati of Rajasthan. Dressed in a green salwar with a white T-shirt and sporting a bold imprint of the symbolic red ribbon, Bhagwati was not hesitant to say that she has been HIV positive for the past one year and so is her husband. Nor was she any less confident in saying that the couple ...

Work Less to Sustain Planet Earth, Say Activists

...ssions made through conservation, cleaner fuels or green technology would be overwhelmed by increased industrial output. A national organization with 10,000 members, Take Back Your Time has launched a campaign calling for national legislation guaranteeing a minimum of three weeks of paid vacation, an iss...

Color Vision Drove Primates to Develop Red Skin and Hair, Study Finds

...allows these primates to distinguish between blue, green and red colors. Primatologists have disagreed abou... forage for ripe fruit and young, red leaves among green foliage or evolved to help them select mates. Now a new study published online this week in Americ...

Delivering the Green Message to Children

...schools in Delhi are sensitising their students to green concerns through the Programme for Environmental Awareness in Schools (PEAS), a nationwide network aimed at motivating students into action for the protection of nature. "The key to environmental conservation is to make young students committed to ...

New Drug to Help Kick Smoking Habit Cleared in UK

...icline, (brand name (CHAMPIX), has been given the green light by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), which advises the NHS on which drugs it should supply. The pill, taken twice a day, also outstrips other anti-smoking agents such as bupropion, Nice analysis showed. A spoke...

World Environment Day (International Polar Year)

...o understand that such gases in turn increase the green house effect. Greenhouse effect is simila... the ozone layer is also linked to the emission of green house gases, especially Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). CFCs also contribute to global warming. In ...

Drinking Oolong Tea can Help Fight Obesity

...cher of the study also noted that among black tea, green tea and Oolong tea, it was the third kind that was...d is consumed primarily in the West, 20 percent is green and is drunk primarily in China, Japan and a few countries in North Africa, and less then 2 percent ...

March of Dimes Praises Folic Acid Fortification

...s that naturally contain folic acid, such as leafy green vegetables. Studies show that if all women consumed the recommended amount of folic acid before and during the early months of pregnancy up to 70 percent of all NTDs could be prevented. The March of Dimes works to improve the health of babies by pr...

A Welcome Initiative to Spread Awareness on Environment

... make carbon dioxide emissions almost nil." "Our green initiatives has helped us reduce the energy consumption cost by over 12 percent. Through the green mela (exhibition), we want to give exposure to several grassroot innovators who are environmentally ...

India to Propose Global Fund for Clean Energy Technologies

...position paper says India's per capita emission of green gasses was only 23 percent of the global average and a mere 4 percent of that of the US, 12 percent of the EU and 15 percent of Japan. There has also been an effective de-linking of energy and economic growths where the former has been expanding by...

Shimla to Take Stringent Action Against Tree Felling

... the forest department as the gradual depletion of green cover in the town has caused them worries. A less cumbersome provision has been made to cut down trees threatening residential houses but only after a team of officials is convinced of the danger....

Surgeons Shocked By Green-Blooded Man

...ouver, wrote how his team was startled to discover green blood flowing in the veins of a man prepped for surgery. The 42-year-old man was being operated upon to prevent his condition-compartment syndrome from worsening. The man had fallen asleep on his knees and developed the condition. In compartment s...

New 'green' Pyre to Cool Planet While Burning India's Dead

...ol's clean development mechanism, which encourages green projects in developing countries. It allows industrialised countries that have committed to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases to count reductions achieved through investments in projects in developing countries towards their undertakings. More t...

To Die For: Rolls-Royce and 'green' Coffins at British Funerals

...rs Mintel, adding that 63 percent are in favour of green coffins and 64 percent support green funerals. According to the Natural Death Centre in London, which helps people planning green funer...

Arnie Wants to Team Up With Blair to Fight Global Warming

...egger, known as the "emissions terminator" for his green policies, wants a 25 per cent cut in emissions by 2020. He had introduced a global warming solutions act in California last September....

Gays Get Green Light for Jerusalem Rally

Israeli police have given the green light for a gay rally in Jerusalem and for religious Jews to demonstrate on the same day against what they consider an outrage, a spokesman said on Thursday. "Police decided to allow a march of homosexuals in the centre of Jerusalem which will finis...

Research on Fruit Bats

...es that detect short-wave light, and the so-called green cones that detect middle-to-long-wave light. With ...bat) completely lack blue cones, they possess only green cones. "With just one cone type, spectral discriminations are not possible, so these species must be...

Maggots Rid Patients of MRSA

...gots. Professor Andrew Boulton and his team used green bottle fly larvae to treat 13 diabetic patients wh...lood supply, with sterile free-range larvae of the green bottle fly Lucilia Sericata. They applied the larvae between two and eight times, depending on the s...

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