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Chocolate-makers Reverse Decision to Go for Animal Enzyme

...kesman Liz O'Neill said: "People will not like the idea that you cannot make a Mars bar without killing a calf. "We have had no good, clear answer from Masterfoods why they have to use animal products when all these items were previously produced using vegetarian alternatives. "But we can no longer desc...

Work Less to Sustain Planet Earth, Say Activists

... "People spend so many hours working they have no idea of how much creative potential they have, but you get a taste of mental freedom you want more of it. It's an explosion of creativity." says Schmidt, quickly adding, "I'm a workaholic, but it's the type of work that's the problem. Our society is focus...

Watch Out for Signs of Autism in Babies!

...f the CDC-Interdisciplinary group report, said the idea is not to slap a label on babies and give them medication. Greenspan said the goal is to raise awareness about early warning signs and to encourage treatment to increase the chances that children can develop normally....

Study on Bioactive Paper That can Detect Life Threatening Bacteria and Viruses

...r the development of the bioactive paper, said the idea stemmed in the wake of the SARS outbreak and the anthrax scare in the US. "What bioactive paper will offer are immediacy, portability and low-cost in detecting and repelling or deactivating harmful pathogens. Right now, it can take days or weeks to...

Five Servings of Fruits, Vegetables a Day Not Mandatory

...ll get the right amount of nutrients. "The whole idea that you must meet some vitamin and mineral targets every day of your life is a marketing myth," she said. Collins's advice flies in the face of Britain's Five A Day campaign which encourages people to eat five pieces of fruit and vegetables every da...

Hypnotherapy may Help Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome

...blem to a physical complaint). This has led to the idea that IBS has a psychological as well as a biological basis and a growing body of evidence supports the use of antidepressants for IBS, write the authors. However, many doctors are reluctant to prescribe such agents to patients who are clearly not d...

Appetite-regulating Peptides Influence Alcohol Cravings

...lics without specifying subgroups. This raised the idea of investigating these peptides in specific subtypes of alcohol dependence." he added. The researchers analysed data gathered as part of a larger examination of different neurobiological aspects of alcohol dependence. Of the original sample of 200...

Our Medieval Ancestors Were More or Less Similar to Us Than Previously Thought

...mained "very stable" across the centuries. "The idea that people were dwarflike is just not true. The perception comes partly from buildings having low doorways and partly from things like small bits of armour. The reason why you get small pieces of armour is they are the ones made for rich small kids,...

Fat Screen Delivers Plant-derived Chemical With Antidiabetic Effects

...anation for this paradoxical mode of action is the idea that the body needs a place to store lipids," Tontonoz said. "If the body becomes less able to store lipids in fat, it may deposit in other tissues," where it can spur disease. Despite their efficacy, the development and clinical use of TZDs is lim...

Essential Tones of Music Rooted in Human Speech

...uthors Deborah Ross and Jonathan Choi tested their idea by recording native English and Mandarin Chinese speakers uttering vowel sounds in both single words and a series of short monologues. They then compared the vocal frequency ratios to the numerical ratios that define notes in music. Human vocalizat...

Researchers Training Rats To Diagnose TB

...tjens, a former industrial designer, developed the idea of training rats to detect TB, as well as land min...ould then confirm positive samples. However, the idea of using rats to diagnose TB is facing some skepticism, the Times reports. "When I first suggested i...

Folic Acid may Help to Cut Down the Stroke Risk

... seen if homocysteine did not drop, supporting the idea that this protein may be a significant stroke risk factor. Professor Wang's team recommended more research, among individuals with no history of stroke who are from regions without grain fortification, with longer follow-up - four years or longer. ...

Shock TV Reality Organ Donor Show Goes on Air

...ff one-nighter, BNN says the fury triggered by the idea has successfully thrown the question of organ donation on the map world wide. "BNN is done with talking, it is time for action. In the Big DonorShow a terminally ill woman will choose which one of three kidney patients will get her kidney. That is ...

Now Viagra Oysters Could Appease Your Appetite and Boost Your Libido!

...erseas market. The 59-year-old came up with the idea of feeding Viagra to oysters after he underwent surgery for prostate cancer. May claims tests have proven the oysters show trace elements of sildenafil citrate, the active ingredient in Viagra. May has registered his product as "Viagra Oysters"...

Brain Inflammation A Friend for Alzheimer's Patients

...ating the disease. The current work reinforces the idea that inflammation is not simply the bad guy that many people think it is. The work could have ramifications for the development of a vaccine or other strategy to protect against or fight off Alzheimers. Work on an Alzheimers vaccine has at times be...

New Drug to Help Kick Smoking Habit Cleared in UK

...h my parents are smokers. "It seems to be a good idea if it works, so it is something I would consider putting forward to my parents. "If it is going to help people kick the habit, it is not going to be so bad on the taxpayer."It will be better for everybody, including passive smokers like me."Smoker Ga...

Implanting Electrodes in the Brain Could Help Treat Severe Depression

...th Parkinson's disease, to treat depression. The idea behind the study is to rearrange disordered neural...re's buy-in scientifically and conceptually to the idea of a circuit and that some nodes are more important than others, the engineers will advance the tech...

Hot Flashes in Men Treated for Prostate Cancer Reduced by Non-hormonal Drug

...ease in dosage. His research team may explore that idea in the future. Women can develop hot flashes during menopause because of the suddenness with which their ovaries stop producing estrogen. Similarly, a sudden loss of testosterone in men, from androgen deprivation therapy, can also result in hot fla...

Gay Gang in Netherlands Lures, Rapes and Infects Fellow Homosexuals With HIV/AIDS

...Two of the three arrested reportedly said the very idea of infecting others with the virus excited them. Our mission is to promtoe unprotected sex as it is the purest form of relationship. This hangup about condoms could be destroyed only when the virus is rampant and everyone reconciles himself to that, ...

Study Finds Reason About Brains Refusal to Change Brands

...t a theory of cognitive lock-in centred around the idea of skill-based habits of use, that is, how using or buying a product becomes easier with repetition. In a series of experiments, they found that people are more influenced by their understanding of ease-of-use rather than how neutrally easy a product...

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