Archive for the ‘Health News’

  • Brewed Versus Bottled Green Tea – Making the Best Health Choice
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    Brewed Versus Bottled Green Tea – Making the Best Health Choice
    With the soaring temperatures it is not surprising to spot chilled bottled beverages being chugged down in profuse quantities. For the health fanatics, several of these drinks have or are made from green tea which has an indisputable reputation of proffering myriad health benefits. Green tea is touted to help reduce the risk for wide-ranging ailments caused either by bacteria or virus, unceasing de-generative health problems like heart ailment, cancers, stroke, RA (rheumatoid arthritis), diabetes among many others. However, beverage consumers need to understand a vital point that green tea preparation is not the same in every case and the key lies in the manner that it has been brewed. Green tea is the one which has undergone the least extent  [...]
    by admin at August 26th, 2010 at 04:08 am
  • Dicey Skin Whitening Products Flourish Globally
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    Dicey Skin Whitening Products Flourish Globally
    Being fair is a common hang-up among major populaces of Indians. This obsession impels scores of females to flock to stores for procuring skin whitening products. Fairness advertisements manage to strike a delicate chord on the conviction held across cultures that lighter-skinned people are deemed more beautiful and able to seize better jobs, mint more bucks and are seen as part of an upper class. Indian males harbour the same thought process and many moms do not wish their daughter or daughter-in-law to have a darkish skin tone. Similar to self tanning products types thriving in N. America and European regions, skin lighteners hold cultural relevance in Asian countries. According to the investigative company, Global Industry Analysts, the global  [...]
    by admin at August 5th, 2010 at 12:08 am
  • Gastric Bands for Teenagers – Gauging the Safety and Effectiveness Quotient
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    Gastric Bands for Teenagers – Gauging the Safety and Effectiveness Quotient
    The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is lately taking into consideration expanding standards on gastric bands for including people in their adolescence (fourteen to seventeen years of age). Presently, the method has lawful approval for usage in weight loss for morbidly obese adult populaces in the ages of eighteen years or more. However, latest research findings have indicated that gastric banding, like Lap-Band has shown success in assisting teenagers with severe obesity issues. The risk of adults facing death as a result of weight reduction surgery has dropped to less than one percent in the current years. But, researches done on teens that underwent such methods are uncommon. A scientific study, printed in the initial part of 2010 in the  [...]
    by admin at August 1st, 2010 at 12:08 am
  • How Diet & Lifestyle Modifications could Prevent Asthma in Children
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    How Diet & Lifestyle Modifications could Prevent Asthma in Children
    Study investigators from Britain have claimed that making changes to lifestyle of infants at elevated risk of developing asthma could thwart asthma developing later on in their life. When intake of food items like milk products, nuts, soya were restricted alongside lowering levels of dust mites in beds and nurseries, reduced asthma rates in teens, according to a new-fangled research. This study has shown for the foremost instant that when dietetic intake of kids, their nursing moms and the surroundings in which they are growing are intensively manipulated then it is could have a major effect on their likelihood of developing any form of allergy and asthma. The research is exceptional since it has done a follow-up on kids from delivery onwards  [...]
    by admin at June 8th, 2010 at 04:06 am
  • No More Allergy Shots – Pills Offer a Novel Twist to Treatment
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    No More Allergy Shots – Pills Offer a Novel Twist to Treatment
    One of the fascinating aspects regarding Schering-Plough and Merck joining forces is that the corporations have a proclivity of pushing forward quite diverse array of medications out from their research & development laboratories. Merck has a tendency of having the sense of onerous, perspiration-loaded science – medications for diabetics, inoculations for hospital illnesses, a therapy for migraine sufferers and HIV drugs. In comparison Schering’s assembly line is more exhilarating with the leading potential success from the concern being a tablet obtained from the Australian Mangolia tree intended on averting blood clot formation with no bleeding being caused. Another interesting discovery by Schering is their large, starch-like particle  [...]
    by admin at March 23rd, 2010 at 12:03 am
  • Elevated Risk Of Sleep Apnea Among Users Of Recreational Drug Ecstasy
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    Elevated Risk Of Sleep Apnea Among Users Of Recreational Drug Ecstasy
    A new-fangled study indicates that users of the recreational drug ecstasy could be placing themselves at a risk of developing sleep apnea. The lead author of the study, Una McCann, MD, from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore states that ecstasy has additionally been associated with cognitive problems. An approximate fifteen million people from the U.S. are afflicted with sleep apnea – a prevalent condition that leads to hiatus in breathing while asleep. McCann and associates’ study printed in the 2nd December online edition of ‘Neurology’ – the journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Users of Ecstasy at 8 times the Risk of developing Sleep Apnea The study involved 71 individuals in good health that were recreational  [...]
    by admin at December 8th, 2009 at 03:12 am
  • Top 5 Tips and techniques for memory skills.
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    Top 5 Tips and techniques for memory skills.
    This time I am bringing you some tips and Healthy habits which can help you in improving your memory skills. 1. Do regular exercises a) They will reduce the risk for memory loss disorders which may occur due to cardiovascular diseases and diabetes mellitus. b) Help your brain in getting good oxygen content. c) Will help in protecting your brain cells and will increase the effects of useful brain chemicals. 2. Maintain good sleep habits a) Disorders like sleep apnea and insomnia will leave you tired and this will cause concentration problems during daytime. b) Remember that sleep is very essential for consolidation of memory. 3. Manage your stress and depression a) Stress will create difficulties in concentrating your work. b) A stress hormone  [...]
    by admin at October 11th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
  • Do you know normal blood glucose levels.
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    Do you know normal blood glucose levels.
    People nowadays are very interested to know things regarding the diabetes and its effects on health and first question arising in their minds is that ” What is normal blood glucose(sugar) levels ?”. I hope this post will clear all those basic doubts regarding normal glucose levels and its regulation. Normal glucose levels fall between 70 mg and 150 mg. Important points to be remembered here are: 1. Levels are lower in morning and rise after meals. 2. Sugar levels consistently above 150 are indicative of hyperglycemia or high blood sugar, similarly levels falling consistently below 70 are suggestive of hypoglycemia or low blood sugar. Hypoglycemia is a fatal condition where the symptoms include: loss of consciousness, irritability,  [...]
    by admin at September 29th, 2009 at 01:09 am
  • MARSHALS CAN BE NOBLE AS WELL
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    MARSHALS CAN BE NOBLE AS WELL
    Through this post I am going to tell you about the noble and social work behind the medical students of Rangaraya medical college , India. Medical students from our college are actively participating in social service program, we being students from medical field decided to collect some funds for blind schools,orphanage students, and also to some schools where there are no health facilities. As you know very well that in country like India there are so many schools dwelling in this situation and we want to set an example and create a healthy atmosphere and also inculcate these social service thinking among the people especially students like us here…… Our noble work was initiated by some anonymous person among our medical students batch  [...]
    by admin at July 8th, 2009 at 09:07 am
  • Tips and methods to gain weight
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    Tips and methods to gain weight
    In the present world of greasy and junk foods most of the people are suffering from the obesity and fat problems but there are also people who are facing the problem of under weight and feeling worried of being skinny.After seeing this i have decided to give my tips, methods and collection of ideas to gain weight in the form of this post to those who are really interested in gaining weight.I find some people who are in confusion to decide whether they are under weight or normal so for this i suggest you to check your BMI, and if you are 18.5 then you are under weight. Now lets see what are the points to be stressed upon to gain weight: Simple principle in order to gain weight is to consume more calories than spending. Here are some nice tips  [...]
    by admin at June 27th, 2009 at 11:06 pm