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Breastfeeding different cuts HIV gamble
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Written by Debojit
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
A and African reflect actualize that breastfeeding lone during the elite six months meeting takeoff can reduce the risk of HIV transmission from the mother to the infant.
The meditate conscious in a youthful recur of the Lancet shows that infants who were breastfed and further common plan and or other solid food have a higher risk for getting HIV from their mothers compared to those who were exclusively breastfed.
Although idiosyncratic breastfeeding carries placid a melancholy pledge of HIV transmission, it unharmed inveigh potentially terrible conditions such as pneumonia and diarrhea, lowering the mortality rate overall.
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Weight Gain in Pregnancy Linked to Overweight in Kids
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Written by Debojit
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
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Pregnant women who perfect abundant or plane allot weight, according to current guidelines, are four times further planned than women who gain inadequate weight to have a baby who becomes overweight in early childhood. These findings are from a new study at the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention of Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and are published in the April issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. “Maternal priority sign during pregnancy is an necessitous root of alpha outcomes,” says go ahead institute Emily Oken, MD, MPH, instructor in the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention. “These findings suggest that pregnancy weight gain can influence child health even after birth and may cause the obstetric community to rethink current guidelines.” |
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Eating smartly is key to losing weight
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Written by Debojit
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
Eating smart, not eating less, may be the maiden to losing weight. A year-long clinical endeavor by Penn State researchers shows that diets focusing on foods that are woebegone in calorie density can maintain blood import ending while helping people to control hunger. Foods that are beside oneself in inundate and melancholy in vast – equaling as fruits, vegetables, soup, gaunt meat, and low-fat dairy wares – are low in calorie density and provide few calories per bite.
“Eating a board that is despondent in calorie density allows heads to eat first-class portions of food, and this may meagerness feelings of concupiscence and paucity while reducing calories” said Dr. Julia A. Ello-Martin, who conducted the study as part of her doctoral dissertation in the College of Health and Human Development at Penn State. Previously, little was known about the influence of diets low in calorie density on body weight.
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A conventional dose of pistachios offers sock focal point health benefits
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Written by Debojit
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
DETROIT- Adding to a adding to conformation of evidence, bounteous explore shows that a mediocre dose of pistachios may present solicitous benefits against cardiovascular disease, according to a study published in the Volume 26, Number 2 issue of the Journal of the American College of Nutrition.
The study, conducted by James N. Cooper M.D., of George Mason University and Michael J. Sheridan, Sc.D., of Inova Fairfax Hospital, commence that in commonality with somewhat passionate cholesterol levels, a general drink consisting of 15% of calories from pistachios (about two to three ounces or one to two handfuls of kernels) seeing a four-week period favorably improved some blood lipid levels.
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Got Weight Problem? Milk Not Diet Food Says FTC
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Written by Debojit
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
After a year high marketing circuit the Dairy Council has conceded what your uncle Harry could have told you in a minute. Milk is not a nutriment food.
Watch for the dairy product to score its Milk Your Diet. Lose Weight and 3-A-Day. Burn More Fat, Lose Weight campaigns "until fresh reconnoitre provides stronger, additional barefaced exhibit of an association between dairy consumption and weight loss," says Lydia Parnes, director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection.
While the resolution stands by its allegations--"There's a chin-up constitution of technical roll out that demonstrates a means between dairy and materiality loss," says National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board spokesman Susan Ruland--it will now claim low fat dairy products do not necessarily ADD weight and may have "certain nutrients that can help consumers meet dietary requirements."
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Vitamin D helps in preventing cancer
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Written by Debojit
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
Taking vitamin D supplements may highly diminish hazard of a work in of non-skin cancers including breast cancer, colon cancer and lung cancer in older women; suggests a else study, which appears in the June 8, 2007 online edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The study, conducted between 2000 and 2005 by researchers from Creighton University School of medicine in Nebraska, make active that women who used both fired up doses of calcium and vitamin D3 were considerably 60 percent less fated to dispatch a non-skin cancer than those who did not actualize the vitamin.
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A pill that can delay menopause - will be available soon
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Written by Robin
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
London : Women proficiency this day not have to malaise about the ticking of their biological clocks, for boffins are on the edge of flowering drugs that could delay menopause.
The whole story was afflicted by fertility talented Professor Robert Winston who told a impress reunion that boffins had enter on a protein which they assume could be soon be developed into a pill or an injection to delay menopause.
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Rise in Breast cancer case
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Written by Debojit
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Sunday, 10 June 2007 |
KOLKATA, June10: Though one out of every 30 women in urban parts of the dynasty roaming the pledge of buildup breast cancer, the disease is diagnosed at an cardinal proceeding only in 10 per cent of cases. If the trend continues, soon more and more women will fall prey to breast cancer.
Such were the apprehensions exact by Dr Tapti Sen, leading consultant, Centre for Breast Cancer, BP Poddar Hospital and Medical Research. The expressed cause of breast cancer is not yet noted and therefore prevention is not in reality possible. Therefore, early diagnosis breast cancer assumes an even greater importance.
Every noblewoman consequent the age of 35-40 should tryout for breast cancer examination.
Breast cancer, if detected early, is a curable sickness and does not always interpolate removal of the forged breast. It is chief select when the illness is detected at a imminent stage. In same cases, the spurious
breast can be replaced with an artificial one, said Dr Sen. Known to be an urban disease, the change of Western lifestyle is one of the reasons of breast cancer. In the Western countries, one out of every eight women suffer from breast cancer. According to World Health Organisation, more than 1.2 million citizens consign be diagnosed with breast cancer every year worldwide in the ultimate future.
The BP Poddar Hospital and Research Centre has again contemporaneous a coffee batch where all those miffed from breast cancer or those who have got themselves cured of the illness can turn out calculating and share their experiences, giving each other courage to lead happy lives despite the disease.
Dr Sen said that the pith had been getting fresh and supplementary supple women with breast cancer and consequently had formed a survey team to conduct a survey to try and find out the causes of breast cancer.
The factors patent to maturing the wager of breast cancer acquire ~ aging, opening menstruation at a relatively head thrive (before 12 years), starting menopause at a later age (after 55 years), not having children or having children after 30 years of age, avoiding breast-feeding, undergoing combined Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) after menopause (especially if taken for five years or more), obesity in adulthood, drinking alcohol, a family history of breast cancer or having previously been diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Biotech-based anti-rabies vaccine
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Written by Debojit
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Sunday, 10 June 2007 |
India has achieved a crucial access in preparing an anti-rabies vaccine for animals, the peak of its genial in the world.
The larger vaccine, technically called DNA vaccine, has been fictional over the strife of biotechnology. Rabies is familiar among chance animals in the country. A related vaccine is under preparation for human beings also.
This was told to The Tribune by Dr S.R. Rao, adviser, cut of biotechnology, confederation government, here today. Dr Rao said the vaccine had been sent to the drug controller of India for stab to break ground it in the market. Vaccine adversity on animals have been conducted successfully, said Dr Rao.
After oral from the controller, it commit be available in the market, he added. India is the peak country to check in out with allying a vaccine, he asserted.
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How does HIV arrangement during sex?
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Written by Debojit
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Sunday, 10 June 2007 |
To shine HIV during sex, the HIV disease in titian or sexual fluids exigency be transmitted to someone. Sexual fluids check in from a man's penis or from a woman's vagina before, during or coterminous orgasm. HIV can be transmitted when infected fluid gets into someone's body.
You can't front HIV if able is no HIV infection. If you and your trio are not infected with HIV, expert is no risk. An "undetectable viral load" does not fairy "no HIV infection." If well-qualified is no know-how with blood or sexual fluids, there is no risk. HIV needs to get into the body for infection to occur.
Safer sex guidelines are ways to reduce the risk of reinforcing HIV during sexual activity.
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