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High Carbohydrate Food Brings on Sleep Faster

...cemic index, reported the online edition of health magazine WebMD. The researchers found that higher carbohydrates raised two brain chemicals involved in sleep, tryptophan and serotonin levels, making people sleepier, according to the Australian study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition....

Crushed Garlic Has Health Benefits

...ng compounds, reported an online edition of health magazine WebMD. Crushing garlic may help prevent that damage, report researchers in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Claudio Galmarini of the agricultural sciences faculty at Argentina's Universidad Nacional de Cuyo and other researchers fo...

Breast Cancer may Be Prevented by Exercise

...reast cancer, reported an online edition of health magazine WebMD. The researchers, however, don't promise that exercise will prevent breast cancer completely. They don't blame breast cancer on a lack of exercise either. Many factors affect cancer risk. But, they do report that exercise appears to have bene...

Diet-based Method to Treat Brain Cancer

...in children, reported the online edition of health magazine 'WebMD'. The treatment does not involve administering toxic chemicals, radiation or invasive surgery, the researchers say after studying its impact on mice. The researcher surgically implanted two different kinds of tumours into the brains of mal...

Diabetes and the Magic Beans

...Journal of Agricultural Food and Chemistry and the magazine Chemistry and Industry, have sounded that soya beans when included in a daily diet can help prevent sugar buildup. This is as a result of soya hindering weight gain and lowering the levels of cholesterol. The experiment was carried out on anima...

Specially Treated Prawns for Seafood Allergy Sufferers

...reports Lisa Richards in Chemistry & Industry, the magazine of the SCI. Li Zhenxing led the research at the Ocean University of China. The team revealed that treating prawns with a combination of heat and irradiation significantly reduced the level of reactive proteins called allergens. They took blood from...

Garlic Supplements may Not Lower Cholesterol: Study

...ad consumed, reported the online edition of health magazine WebMD. "Garlic supplements or dietary garlic in reasonable doses are unlikely to produce lipid benefits" in people with moderately high LDL cholesterol levels" the study said. Researcher Christopher Gardner said the study was large enough and lon...

Nepali Doctor Conferred Asian of the Year Award

...id Jim Plouffe, the Asia Editor of the 85-year-old magazine Reader's Digest: "Ruit is such an amazing personality about whom the whole subcontinent can feel proud of." Ruit was chosen for the Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding last year. Source-IANS...

Scientists Identify 120 New Cancer Genes

...an be implicated in cancer development, the Nature magazine reported in its latest issue published Thursday. The number of mutations that appear to be involved in driving the growth of cancerous tumors was larger than expected, but ultimately the technique will allow scientists to acquire a complete catalog...

Green Tea may Help to Fight Lung Cancer

...tea extract, reported the online edition of health magazine "WebMD". The lung cancer cells marinated in the green tea extract for up to three days. The extract remodelled a certain protein in the cells. As a result, they became more likely to stick together and less likely to move, the study found. Antio...

Regulation Suggested For Private Medical Screening

...tional Screening Committee (NSC), told the medical magazine Pulse that there needs to be a regulation of tests...e Royal College of General Practitioners, told the magazine that medical screening has become widely accepted but is harmful if national standards are not adher...

organic kiwifruits promote health

...al conditions. This study is reported in the SCI’s magazine Chemistry & Industry. UK environment secretary David Miliband had declared in January that consuming organic fruits was just a choice in lifestyle. The Davis scientists, led by Drs. Maria Amodio and Adel Kader, showed that organically grown kiwifru...

An Orange a Day may Keep Heart Disease Away

...ity in Jerusalem reported to Chemical and Industry magazine that flavanones not only reduced levels of bad LDL cholesterol but also increased the ratio of good HDL cholesterol. The findings could help explain why those who live in the Mediterranean tend to live longer and have lower levels of heart disease...

Patients Buy Untried Cancer Drug On Web

Nature magazine has reported that cancer patients have been buying an untried drug in the web hoping to find some remedy for their illness//. The drug called DCA, short form for dichlroacetate has been reported to decrease the size of tumors in rats. But it has not ...

Asians in US Increasingly Undergoing Plastic Surgery to Look White

...t from 2004. One only needs to open a Vietnamese magazine or newspaper in San Jose or Orange County to see t...reports Anna M. Park in Audrey Magazine, a fashion magazine for Asian-American readers. Plastic surgeons are trying to understand better the anatomy of the As...

Sun Exposure Severe in Males

... sun lamp. According to online edition of health magazine WebMD, The mice underwent eight- to 10-minute tanning sessions three times a week for six months. That was enough to give both male and female mice skin cancer. "We found males got skin tumours earlier, got more of them, and more of the tumours wer...

Baby's First Toothbrush Should Be a Cotton Swab

...me starting their child's dental care, says German magazine "Baby and Familie". It advises cotton swabs to cle... circular motions from the gum to the crown. The magazine advises against fluoride-fortified toothpaste for children under three as small children often swall...

New Clothes Developed to Monitor Medical Conditions

...them. According to the online edition of science magazine AAAS, published by American Association for the Advancement of Science, Inganas' electronic circuitry finds a place in the textile's own threads. Source-IANS/L...

Eat Fruits, Vegetables to Ward Off Cancer

...ian cancers, reported the online edition of health magazine WebMD. While the first study was conducted by Ute Nothlings, DrPH, a postdoctoral fellow at the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii in Honolulu, the second study was conducted by Neal Freedman and other researchers at National Cancer Institute. The ...

Childhood Obesity may Increase Ear Problems

...ith obesity, reported the online edition of health magazine WebMD. Most of the children had normal levels of total cholesterol and triglycerides. But 19 percent had abnormally high total cholesterol levels and 35 percent had abnormally high triglyceride levels. Obesity and high total cholesterol levels we...

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