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Japanese are Weighed Down by Deviating from Their Traditional Diet

...er said. Despite the phenomenon of obesity among older Japanese citizens, many young females have the pro...oy at least one nutritional expert. In addition, older citizens are recruited to take children to the countryside and plant vegetable gardens. "If we cha...

Solving Puzzles Could Boost Brain Power

...tial way to improve sensory processing by reducing older adults' susceptibility to distracting stimuli," Mozolic said. Crossword puzzles, sudoku and similar highly focused task could help us keep our minds young, the study suggests....

Major Surgeries and Operations Could Prove Deadly for Anaemic Older Men

...ries and operations could prove deadly for anaemic older men. The US research, published in Jama, showed that elderly men with even slightly irregular red blood counts are at a higher risk of dying after major surgery. The study, which examined data from 310,311 men aged 65 or older, is the first resear...

Increase in the Rate of Food Allergy

...ntual increase in the incidence of food allergy in older people and, possibly, a need to reassess the risk of fatal outcomes in young children, he said. One day we hope to be able to say that we have a way of desensitising to food, like we already can with hay fever and venom allergies....

Some Common Human Injuries Also Common in Dogs

... dogs, especially dogs that are very active, or in older dogs with arthritis. The rupture occurs when dogs stands on their toes with their knee bent forward, causing the femur to bear down heavily on the cranial cruciate ligament, the only ligament opposing the femur as it pushes down. When the stress beco...

Annual Cancer Run Draws Huge Response in US

...s too shy to talk about his feat afterward but his older sister, Taylor Amble, 7, said she was completely out of breath by the end. "I was one of the first people to cross the finish line," Taylor said proudly. "I was really near the front." The children were there with their great-auntie Teek, Auntie Caro...

The Custom of Circumcision Decline in the US

... bleeding or infection. These risks are higher for older babies, boys and men. Circumcision remains the nation's most common surgery, and the United States is still one of the few developed countries where a majority of baby boys are circumcised. Circumcision is still common in many Jewish and Muslim commu...

Exercise Reduces Fracture in Men

...orous activity. Serious fractures are common among older people and can have devastating consequences, particularly if a hip is broken. It is already recommended that women should take exercise to reduce the thinning of their bones. The thinning of the bones with age is known as osteoporosis. Women are a...

Dating, Drugs and Sex Make Teens Feel Older Than They are

...ting, sexual activity and drugs do make teens feel older than they really are. Researchers at the Universit...ted that, as is typical for teens, the sample felt older than their chronological age. Kelly Arbeau, a doctoral student in psychology at the University of ...

Interoperative Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer Patients

... The study participants from PMH will generally be older patients with small, early-stage tumours (less than 2 cm). The revolutionary technique was pioneered four years ago in Britain, where more than 800 women are now part of an international trial....

Even Pre-diabetes can Kill, Australian Study Says

... and his team studied 10,429 Australians age 25 or older for five years as part of the world's largest diabetes study AusDiab. They found that diabetes and pre-diabetes accounted for 65 per cent of all heart disease deaths in the group. Participants considered pre-diabetic had a 2.5 times higher risk of de...

Women With Few Older Female Relatives Face Cancer Threat

Women with few older female relatives may be unaware they carry a genet...th fewer than two female relatives who lived to be older than age 45 on both sides of the family, according to researchers in California. Both sides of th...

IIT Delhi Scientist Finds Climate Models Consistent With Ocean Warming Observations

...Germany had recently discovered a warm bias in the older instruments. However, now with the introduction of new instruments called Argo floats, more complete and more reliable ocean temperature measurements have become possible. The first Argo floats were deployed in the Atlantic in 2000 and their netw...

Women Taking Oestrogen Therapy Showed Reduced Coronary Artery Calcification

...enting cardiovascular disease in either younger or older postmenopausal women. The authors further state, The current recommendations from many organizations that hormone therapy be limited to the treatment of moderate to severe menopausal symptoms, with the lowest effective dose used for the shortest dura...

Fishing for a Speedy Recovery After Chemotherapy or Marrow Transplant

...lls in one cord of blood is often not adequate for older children and adults, leaving them with diminished immune function and high risk for infections. Zon and colleagues Trista North, PhD, and Wolfram Goessling, MD, PhD, both also of Childrens Stem Cell Program, zeroed in on dmPGE2 by screening more th...

Wine Packaging: Bag-in-box, Plastic Bottles, Cork Comeback?

...l recently when sales grew as buyers switched from older non-airtight "cubies", which once opened had to be transferred to bottles at home or drunk as soon as possible. New-age BIBs, plastic air-tight containers with a self-sealing tap, allow wine-lovers to drink by the glass without spoiling the wine or a...

Video Game Addiction to Be Termed as a Medical Condition

...t belts to calling for annual mammograms for women older than 50....

First-borns Have Higher IQs Than Their Younger Siblings

...r younger siblings. Even if a child had lost an older sibling and was raised as the eldest, their IQ was...in their study group; even within single families, older siblings are on average smarter. "There can be no confounds in this type of study, and so the the...

Stroke - Unfair to the Middle-aged Fair Sex

...t higher rates among women compared to men in each older age group. For instance, with each decade, mens blood pressure increased by an average of four to five points, whereas womens blood pressure increased by eight to 10 points. Similarly, men had significantly higher total cholesterol levels than wome...

Two-year-old Joins Mensa, Becomes Its Youngest Ever Genius

...r daughter has been taking in information from her older brothers and sisters and father, a self-employed carpenter, while not receiving any special treatment. 'There is always someone around to offer her something. But she still has temper tantrums, like you wouldn't believe, throwing herself on the flo...

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