Hamburgers cause asthma, NZ research says Eating hamburgers more than once a week nearly doubles the risk of asthma attacks and wheezing in children, according to research carried out on 1300 New Zealand school pupils.
Other takeaway food and fizzy drinks also increase the chances of getting asthma, doctors found.
Youngsters who eat at least one hamburger a week are 75 per cent more likely to have asthma and almost 100 per cent more likely to suffer wheezing problems, according a study published yesterday ... (more)
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Ontario Health Minister apologizes for comments: Optometrists are ''terrorists''TORONTO -- Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman has apologized for calling some members of the Ontario Association of Optometrists ''terrorists'' after a party fundraiser last week.
Association president Shirley Ha wrote a letter to members quoting Smitherman as saying optometrists are ''a bunch of terrorists, and I don't negotiate with terrorists.''
Ha said it appeared to be a reaction to the association's Preserve Your Sight Grassroots Advocacy Campaign, whic... (more)
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Microbes overcome natural antibiotic: Might we create superbugs that resist our bodies' ancient defences?Bacteria can develop resistance to at least one experimental drug based on naturally occurring antibiotics in sweat and mucus. The finding confounds the predictions of many experts, and sounds a cautionary note for drug developers.
In people, natural bacteria-fighting compounds kill microbes in places such as the mouth, eyes and skin. More than 800 such compounds, dubbed antimicrobial peptides, have been identified in humans, plants, frogs and other organisms.
Sever... (more)
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Finally Medical Journal Admits the TruthToday's British Medical Journal features an editorial on the bird flu in which they state the following: The lack of sustained human-to-human transmission suggests that this AH5N1 avian virus does not currently have the capacity to cause a human pandemic.
While they do go on to say the virus could mutate with a influenza A virus and has the potential to acquire the means for rapid human to human transmission, i... (more)
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UK: One In Four Adults Binge DrinkLondon, England (AHN) – A new study reveals an alarming number of adults engage in consuming excessive amounts of alcohol, or binge drinking. One out of every four adults in the United Kingdom admits to binge drinking on a regular basis.
Out of 2,000 people surveyed, almost on in three men (29-percent) and one in five women (20-percent) drank at least double the recommended daily limit during a night out. This means almost 11-million British citizens are putting a serious risk to ... (more)
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Fish retards age-related mental decline: studyThose who eat fish at least once a week retard the decline of their mental abilities associated with age by about 10 per cent, a study has said. For those who ate fish more than once a week, the decline was cut by 13 per cent.
“That rate of reduction is equivalent to being three to four years younger in age,” said Martha Clare Morris, lead author of the study. Morris is associated with the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Under the study, she and her team scrutinized the... (more)
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New Flu Vaccine is Loaded With MercuryGlaxoSmithKline's new flu vaccine Fluarix was approved Wednesday for sale in the USA this fall under an accelerated FDA approval process. Another flu vaccine manufacturer, Chiron, moved closer to getting their license back; it was suspended when their flu vaccine was found to be contaminated with bacteria.
Chiron's license was suspended by British regulators in October, and the FDA barred U.S. distribution of the vaccine, cutting the nation's expected supply of flu vaccine in half... (more)
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Pomegranate juice promising for prostate cancerNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pomegranate extract may prevent prostate cancer or slow its growth, if results of lab experiments conducted at the University of Wisconsin in Madison translate to real-world benefits.
Dr. Hasan Mukhtar and his colleagues note in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition that pomegranates are high in polyphenolic compounds, making its juice higher in antioxidant activity than red wine and green tea.
When they incuba... (more)
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Intravenous Vitamin C Kills Cancer CellsRecall how hydrogen peroxide is poured on wounds to kill germs. Well now researchers clearly show high-dose vitamin C, when administered intravenously, can increase hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) levels within cancer cells and kills them. I.V. vitamin C was also demonstrated to kill germs and may be an effective therapy for infectious disease.
With a growing body of evidence mounting, National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers conceded today that intravenous vitamin C may be an e... (more)
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