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Trans fatty acids increase the risk of gallstone disease.

...ey are produced commercially inlarge quantities by heating vegetable oils in thepresence of metal catalysts and in the process thepoly unsaturated fatty acids are removed. Trans fattyacids increase LDL cholesterol (the bad cholesterol)and decrease HDL cholesterol (the good cholesterol)thereby increasing the ...

Macular Degeneration treatment with Laser

...ment, which takes just 15 minutes, involves gently heating the retinal pigment// epithelium, the tissue that contains harmful deposits called drusen. This heating and damaging of the retinal pigment epithelium causes the body to come in and do some repair work an...

Carbon monoxide passes down

... are vehicle emissions and malfunctioning domestic heating equipment. In 1980, the Clean Air Act was passed in the US to reduce carbon monoxide. The use of catalytic converters in cars helps bring down the carbon monoxide content of exhaust fumes. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Preventi...

Grapes, Melons Implicated in Outbreaks

...tions. Other researchers looked at the process of heating lettuce to increase its shelf life. By dipping iceberg lettuce into warm water baths, the vegetable resists brown discoloration.However, Larry Beuchat, research professor of food safety at the University of Georgia, Athens, found the treatment also a...

Outdoor cold is a health hazard

...attention has been given in recent years to indoor heating with older people qualifying for an allowance to help with fuel bills. But this does not help those who get chilled in the outdoors - waiting for a bus or a train. In just 30 minutes, say Professor Ketinge, you can get cold enough to create a problem...

Cooked vegetables give more iron

...he vegetable is the same before and after cooking; heating simply causes the iron stored in the food to be released, making more of it available to the body for absorption. For instance, Lee found that the available iron in cabbage increased from 5% to 15% through cooking and the available iron in broccoli i...

FDA approves new device to treat women's bleeding disorder

...evices that destroy the endometrium by freezing or heating it. The Food and Drug Administration approved Novacept Inc.'s NovaSure system as an outpatient electronic treatment for women hoping to cure the bleeding without a hysterectomy. NovaSure is the first of those outpatient options that heats the endom...

Health at heights

...er they go, the colder it gets. Should the cabin's heating systems fail, the balloonists will face two main threats - hypothermia and frostbite. // Hypothermia symptoms take effect in stages, starting with bouts of shivering and an inability to think straight. It progresses until the sufferer loses consciou...

A non-stick danger

... David Ellis, from the University of Toronto. The heating also produces two other classes of environmentally-damaging chemicals: polyfluoro- and polychlorofluoro-carboxylic acids, which are being phased out of the US because of links with possible adverse health and environmental impacts, and CFCs, which ar...

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