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Cockroaches may be asthma culprit for city children

2011-06-13T14:15:00.000-07:00

Homes in the neighborhoods with high rates of asthma contained more of the allergen produced by cockroaches in household dust.

Cockroaches have been identified as a possible explanation for dramatic neighborhood variations in asthma rates among New York City children.In some neighborhoods, 19 percent - nearly 1 in 5 - of children have asthma, while in others the rate can be as low as 3 percent. Heavy traffic, industrial incinerators, and other outdoor air pollution sources have all been blamed in the past.
But researchers at Columbia University have now found that children living in neighborhoods with high rates of asthma were twice as likely to carry antibodies against a cockroach protein in their blood, a sign the children had been exposed to the insects and were likely allergic to them.
In addition, homes in the neighborhoods with high rates of asthma contained more of the allergen produced by cockroaches in household dust.
The study provides "further evidence that cockroach exposure is part of the story," said study author Matthew Perzanowski.
"Cockroach allergen really could be contributing to disparities in asthma prevalence, even in an urban environment like New York City."
For the study, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Perzanowski and his team visited in the homes of 239 seven- and eight-year-olds, half of whom lived in areas with high asthma rates.
Previous research has linked poverty to an increased rate of asthma in childhood, but to eliminate the influence of income or the results, the authors only included families with the same middle-income health insurance plan, to ensure they had the same income and access to health care.
More than half of the children already had asthma.
During the visits, the researchers collected dust from the children's beds, then took blood samples to look for antibodies against various allergens associated with asthma -- including dog, cat, mouse, dust mite and cockroach proteins.
Nearly 1 in 4 children in neighborhoods with high asthma rates appeared to be allergic to cockroaches, compared to 1 in 10 children living in areas where asthma is less common.
Cockroaches leave behind proteins that people inhale and can become allergic to, which in turn increases the chance they will develop asthma, Perzanowski said.
Homes in high-asthma communities also had higher concentrations of the cockroach allergen, as well as allergens associated with mice and cats.
In addition, children who were allergic to cockroaches and mice were more likely to have asthma, noted Joanne Sordillo at the Channing Laboratory of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, who reviewed the findings for Reuters Health.
"Mouse or cockroach allergen exposure may increase the risk of allergic sensitization (allergies), which is in turn related to the development of asthma in children," she said.
Although cockroach-protein sensitization was more common in children in high-asthma neighborhoods, overall, children who were allergic to dust and cats were also more likely to have asthma.
Perzanowski said the issue of cat ownership is a bit murkier. Some previous research has found that children in homes with cats were more likely to be allergic, but in this study, having a cat did not predispose children to asthma.
"It's complicated. Avoidance of cats doesn't seem to reduce your risk of developing asthma," he said.
Reuters

US adds formaldehyde to list of carcinogens

2011-06-13T14:13:00.000-07:00

The U.S. government added formaldehyde, a substance found in plastics and other commonly used products, to a list of known carcinogens and warned that the chemical styrene might cause cancer.

The U.S. government on Friday added formaldehyde, a substance found in plastics and other commonly used products, to a list of known carcinogens and warned that the chemical styrene might cause cancer.

In a report prepared for the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), scientists warned that people with higher exposure to formaldehyde were more at risk for nasopharyngeal cancer, myeloid leukaemia and other cancers.

"There is now sufficient evidence from studies in humans to show that individuals with higher measures of exposure to formaldehyde are at increased risk for certain types of rare cancers ...," the Report on Carcinogens said.

Formaldehyde is a colorless, flammable, strong-smelling chemical widely used to make resins for household items, such as composite wood products, paper product coatings, plastics, synthetic fibers, and textile finishes.

It is also commonly used as a preservative in medical laboratories, mortuaries, and some consumer products, including hair straightening products.

The report, produced by the National Toxicology Program (NTP), also added styrene to the list of substances that were reasonably anticipated to be human carcinogens.

Styrene is a synthetic chemical used in the manufacture of products such as rubber, plastic, insulation, fiberglass, pipes, automobile parts, food containers, and carpet backing.

The greatest exposure to styrene in the general population is through cigarette smoking, the report said.

The American Chemistry Council (ACC), an industry group, lashed out at the report, saying it was concerned that politics may have hijacked the scientific process.

"Today's report by HHS made unfounded classifications of both formaldehyde and styrene and will unnecessarily alarm consumers," Cal Dooley, president and CEO of the ACC, said in a statement.

Jennifer Sass of the National Resources Defense Council, a U.S. environmental group, praised the government for publishing the report in the face of what she described as pressure by chemical companies to prevent its release.

"The chemical industry fought the truth, the science, and the public -- but, in the end our government experts came through for us, giving the public accurate information about the health risks from chemicals that are commonly found in our homes, schools, and workplaces," Sass wrote in a blog.

The report also listed aristolochic acids, found in some plants, as a known carcinogen and added the fungicide captafol, some inhalable glass wool fibers, cobalt-tungsten carbide, riddelliine and o-Nitrotoluene to the list of substances reasonably anticipated to be carcinogens.

It, however, said listing the substances did not in itself mean they would cause cancer. Amount and duration of exposure, and susceptibility to a substance were among the many factors that affected whether a person developed cancer, it said.

The report is available at http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/go/roc12

Reuters

German scientists look for E.coli clues in restaurant

2011-06-08T09:11:00.000-07:00

The 17 people who fell sick from the E.coli bacteria included a group of German tax officials and tourists from nearby Denmark.

German scientists are looking for clues about the source of the killer E.coli food bug in a restaurant in the northern German town of Luebeck after 17 people fell ill after eating there, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
The 17 people who fell sick from the E.coli bacteria included a group of German tax officials and tourists from nearby Denmark, the Luebecker Nachrichten newspaper said.
"The restaurant is not to blame," said Werner Solbach, a microbiologist at University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein. "However, the supply chain could give us important clues about how the pathogen was passed along."
So far authorities in Germany have yet to pin down the source of the bacteria, which has killed at least 19 people in Europe and made more than 1,700 ill in 12 countries -- all of whom had been travelling in northern Germany.
A German woman, one of the tax officials at the Luebeck restaurant, died after contracting E. coli. Many who contracted E.coli have developed haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS), a potentially deadly complication that can affect the kidneys.
The group of German tax officials, who were attending a tax union event, ate at the restaurant on May 13, the union head told Reuters on Saturday. The Luebecker Nachrichten newspaper said all victims ate there between May 12 and May 14.
German news magazine Focus reported on Saturday that officials are pursuing a theory in which the outbreak started at the beginning of May in Hamburg as people started becoming ill after a week, consistent with E.coli's incubation period.
The food contamination is believed to have been caused by poor hygiene at a farm, in transit, a shop or food outlet.
Health authorities have repeated warnings to avoid some raw vegetables in northern Germany -- rattling farmers and stores in the high season for salad -- and said 199 new cases of the rare strain of the bacteria had been reported in the past two days.
European health institutes have tried to reassure the public that the spread of E.coli, a frequent cause of food poisoning, can be contained by washing vegetables and hands before eating.
Efforts to identify the source of the outbreak have been complicated by the fact that salads include a variety of ingredients from different producers and often different countries.
Germany is at the centre of the outbreak but people have also become ill in 10 other European countries and the United States, probably from eating lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers or other raw salad vegetables in Germany.
The World Health Organisation said the strain was a rare one, seen in humans before, but never in this kind of outbreak.
People have also become ill in Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Britain and United States.
E.coli bacteria themselves are harmless but the strain making people sick has the ability to stick to intestinal walls where it pumps out toxins, sometimes causing severe bloody diarrhoea and kidney problems.
Many patients have gone into hospital, with several needing intensive care, including dialysis due to kidney complications.
A German government spokesman said Chancellor Angela Merkel had set up an E.coli task force and spoke to Spain's Jose Luis Rodriguez-Zapatero about the impact on farmers there, who were initially blamed for exporting contaminated cucumbers.
The outbreak has put strains on trade relations. Spain is considering a compensation claim from Germany, which had to back down from its assertion blaming tainted Spanish cucumbers.
Reuters

Ovarian cancer screening doesn't save lives:Study

2011-06-08T09:09:00.001-07:00

The finding is in line with other recent research that suggests annual screening doesn't prevent deaths from the disease.

Women screened annually for ovarian cancer were just as likely to die from the disease as women who didn't have regular screening, concludes a large new study that found screening did not catch the cancers earlier as it is intended to do.
Calling into question the effectiveness of current ovarian cancer screening techniques, the researchers also found that more of the women screened annually had surgery to remove their ovaries and suffered complications related to false-positive test results -- meaning a screening test suggested they had ovarian cancer when they really didn't.
The finding is in line with other recent research that suggests annual screening doesn't prevent deaths from the disease, which kills most women within 5 years of their diagnosis
According to the National Cancer Institute, 1 in 72 women will get ovarian cancer. But symptoms usually don't start until the cancer has spread, so most women who are diagnosed already have an advanced stage of the disease that is harder to treat.
Doctors have hoped that screening women regularly could help catch ovarian cancer earlier, when patients have a better long-term outlook.
"We know with ovarian cancer that when the disease is detected in stage 1 you can have 85-90 percent 5-year survival," said Dr. Christine Berg, one of the new study's authors from the National Institutes of Health. "The question is, can you detect the cancers that are destined on to be stage 3 or unfortunately stage 4 at an early enough stage that you can intervene?"
The current study was part of a larger trial looking at the effectiveness of screening for prostate, lung, colorectal and ovarian cancers. Berg and her colleagues randomly split almost 70,000 women into two roughly equal-sized groups -- one that got yearly screening for ovarian cancer between 1993 and 2001, with both blood tests and ultrasounds, and one that didn't.
The researchers then followed women in both groups until 2010, through questionnaires and a national registry of deaths, to see how many were diagnosed with ovarian cancer and how many died of the disease.
Out of about 34,000 women in each group, 212 women in the screening group were diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and 118 of them died from the disease. That compared to 176 diagnoses and 100 deaths in the group that didn't get regular screening.
Also in both groups, more than three-quarters of women who were diagnosed with ovarian cancer already had stage 3 or 4 disease.
The results are published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and were presented last weekend at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Chicago.
Berg's team also recorded more than 3,000 cases of false-positives in the screening group, and of those, more than 1,000 women who didn't end up having ovarian cancer had surgery to remove an ovary because of a positive test result. Those surgeries resulted in serious complications, including infection or cardiovascular complications, in 163 women.
"Many people will say, 'Oh it's just a blood test, oh it's just an ultrasound, what's the harm?'" Berg told Reuters Health. "The harm is you might have unnecessary surgery that could hurt you."
The combination of blood tests and ultrasounds that her team tested "shouldn't be used for screening in the average-risk woman," she said. "I don't think it's working at all."
Berg said that it's possible that a modified form of the blood test -- which looks for a protein that hints at the presence of ovarian cancer cells - will help doctors identify early cases of ovarian cancer. But she said that researchers need to understand more about how ovarian cancers grow and spread to find the best early detection strategy.
"In the meantime," Berg added, "I think women who are high risk for ovarian cancer based on family history of the disease or a personal history of breast cancer -- they should see a specialist...to consider being tested for genes that predispose to ovarian cancer. But for the normal-risk woman, I don't think we have a screening strategy."
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a federally supported expert panel, also recommends against routine screening for ovarian cancer.
Reuters

Scientists find "master switch" gene for obesity

2011-05-16T14:47:00.000-07:00

Scientists find "master switch" gene for obesity

Scientists have found that a gene linked to diabetes and cholesterol is a "master switch" that controls other genes found in fat in the body.

Scientists have found that a gene linked to diabetes and cholesterol is a "master switch" that controls other genes found in fat in the body, and say it should help in the search for treatments for obesity-related diseases.
In a study published in the journal Nature Genetics, the British researchers said that since fat plays an important role in peoples' susceptibility to metabolic diseases like obesity, heart disease and diabetes, the regulating gene could be target for drugs to treat such illnesses.
"This is the first major study that shows how small changes in one master regulator gene can cause a cascade of other metabolic effects in other genes," said Tim Spector of King's College London, who led the study.
More than half a billion people, or one in 10 adults worldwide, are obese and the numbers have doubled since the 1980s as the obesity epidemic has spilled over from wealthy into poorer nations.
In the United States, obesity-related diseases already account for nearly 10 percent of medical spending -- an estimated $147 billion a year.
Type 2 diabetes, which is often linked to poor diet and lack of exercise, is also reaching epidemic levels worldwide as rates of obesity rise.
Scientists have already identified a gene called KLF14 as being linked to type 2 diabetes and cholesterol levels, but until now they did know what role it played.
Spector's team analyzed more than 20,000 genes in fat samples taken from under the skin of 800 British female twin volunteers. They found a link between the KLF14 gene and the levels of many other distant genes found in fat tissue, showing that KLF14 acts as a master switch to control these genes.
They then confirmed their findings in 600 fat samples from a separate group of people from Iceland.
In a report of their study, the researchers explained that other genes found to be controlled by KLF14 are linked to a range of metabolic traits, including body mass index, obesity, cholesterol, insulin and glucose levels.
"KLF14 seems to act as a master switch controlling processes that connect changes in the behavior of subcutaneous fat to disturbances in muscle and liver that contribute to diabetes and other conditions," said Mark McCarthy from Britain's Oxford University, who also worked on the study.
"We are working hard...to understand these processes and how we can use this information to improve treatment of these conditions."
Reuters

Does sleep loss up weight by lowering energy use?

2011-05-15T14:09:00.001-07:00

Sleep deprivation makes the day drag and appears to put a drag on metabolism, causing the body to use less energy, European researchers found in a small study.The results, which appear in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, add to evidence that a lack of shut-eye can promote weight gain -- not just by boosting hunger, but by slowing the rate at which calories get burned.
The study suggests that getting plenty of sleep might prevent weight gain, said Dr. Christian Benedict of the Uppsala University in Sweden, who led the new work.
Approximately 50 to 70 million Americans - including a significant number of shift workers -- suffer from chronic sleep loss and sleep disorders, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Previous studies have linked sleep deprivation with weight gain, and shown how disrupted sleep also disrupts levels of stress- and hunger-related hormones during waking hours.
To help identify the exact mechanisms by which a lack of sleep might pack on the pounds, Benedict and his colleagues put 14 male university students through a series of sleep "conditions" - curtailed sleep, no sleep, and normal sleep - over several days, then measured changes in how much they ate, their blood sugar, hormone levels and indicators of their metabolic rate like oxygen use.
The team found that even a single night of missed sleep slowed the volunteers' metabolisms the next morning, reducing their bodies' energy expenditure for tasks like breathing and digestion by 5 to 20 percent, compared with the morning after a good night's sleep.
The young men also had higher morning levels of blood sugar, appetite-regulating hormones like ghrelin, and stress hormones like cortisol after sleep deprivation. Still, the sleep loss did not boost the amount of food the men consumed during the day.
A number of studies have observed that people who snooze five hours or less are more prone to piling on weight and developing weight-related diseases such as type 2 diabetes.
But those studies do not prove that sleep loss causes weight gain.
"It is not clear that sleep deprivation leads to obesity," Dr. Carol Everson, who was not involved in the German study, told Reuters Health by email.
Factors such as lifestyle and diet may also add to obesity risk, said Everson, a sleep expert at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
It's tempting to link sleep health and obesity but sleep deprivation is complicated, added Dr. Sanford Auerbach, who heads the Sleep Disorders Center at Boston Medical Center. For instance, medications and other conditions may influence sleep, he said.
The new findings, Auerbach noted in an email, should be kept in context. "They showed that we adapt to sleep deprivation and that some of these adaptations could theoretically contribute to obesity." On the other hand, it's not clear how chronic sleep loss influences hormone levels, he said.
The National Sleep Foundation recommends that adults get about seven to nine hours of sleep each night.
For those who don't get their full 40 winks and worry about weight gain, Benedict recommends they commit to a daily mealtime to help keep the extra weight at bay.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/gyfkpT The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, online April 6, 2011.
Reuters

Do bedbugs carry superbugs?

2011-05-12T12:35:00.000-07:00

Researchers in Canada have found bedbugs carrying antibiotic-resistant superbugs, a surprise finding because scientists had thought the pests were not capable of spreading infections.
The study was done by a team in a poor corner of Vancouver, where both bedbug infestations and strains of antibiotic resistant bacteria are increasing.
Dr. Marc Romney, a medical microbiologist at St. Paul's Hospital/Providence Health Care in Vancouver, decided to see if the two were related.
Romney and colleagues removed five of the pests from the clothes and skin of infested patients and tested them.
They found bedbugs carrying two types of drug-resistant bacteria, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci.
"I was a little surprised. Historically, bedbugs have not been associated with infections," Romney said in a telephone interview.
He said scientists have tested bedbugs to see if they carry blood-borne diseases, such as hepatitis or HIV. But so far, they have not been reported to carry infection.
Infestations of the bloodsucking bugs, which can cause severe itching, have made a comeback in cities such as Paris and New York in recent years.
Romney said the strain of MRSA they found requires skin to be somewhat compromised, and he thinks the bedbugs are providing that as people scratch their bites.
"Maybe the bedbug's bite is breaking down the patient's skin," he said.
He said that some of these pests may be carrying MRSA and going from individual to individual.
"The data are preliminary, but it suggests maybe there is an association," Romney said.
"Even though they can't carry hepatitis B and HIV, maybe they can carry resistant bacteria."
"Maybe it is yet another factor that could be responsible for this large increase in resistant bacteria in inner cities in North America," he said.
Reuters

Experimental AIDS vaccine shows promise in monkeys

2011-05-12T12:30:00.000-07:00

An experimental vaccine helped monkeys with a form of the AIDS virus control the infection for more than a year, suggesting it may lead to a vaccine for people, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
They said the vaccine works by priming the immune system to quickly attack the HIV virus when it first enters the body, a point at which the virus is most vulnerable.
Dr. Louis Picker of the Oregon National Primate Research Center, whose study appear in the journal Nature, said he thinks it will be possible to have a vaccine ready to test in people within three years.
Tests of the vaccine with a primate version of the virus called simian immunodeficiency virus showed more than half were able to keep the virus from replicating so that even the most sensitive tests could not detect any traces of the virus.
So far, the vast majority of the vaccinated monkeys have maintained control over the virus for more than a year, gradually losing any signs that they had ever been infected.
Macaques in the unvaccinated group have since developed the monkey form of AIDS.
"We feel it has a possibility of keeping the virus under complete control or clearing the virus," Picker said.
Picker and colleagues use a relatively harmless virus called cytomegalovirus (CMV) as a transport system to take the experimental vaccine into the body.
They chose it because scientists think most people are already infected with CMV -- a virus that remains in the body for life but causes little or no symptoms for most people.
Picker said because the virus is persistently present, it keeps the immune system on alert, ready to attack the virus as it first enters the body, when the virus is thought to be less impervious to the immune system.
"The virus comes in and can be basically stopped in its tracks," Picker said in a telephone interview.
Eliminating the virus
"What's exciting about these findings is that for the first time a vaccine candidate has been able to fully control the virus in some animals," said Dr Wayne Koff, chief scientific officer at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), which helped fund the research.
Koff said the findings also suggested the possibility that the immune system may eventually eliminate the virus altogether.
"This research gives us potential clues as to how we might design an HIV vaccine for humans that would provide the same type of control," he said.
There is no cure for AIDS, but cocktails of drugs can keep the disease at bay for many years.
The human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS infects 33.3 million people globally, according to the United Nations agency UNAIDS. It has killed more than 25 million people.
Because it is spread in so many ways -- during sex, on needles shared by drug users, in breast milk and in blood -- there is no single easy way to prevent infection.
A vaccine is the best hope, and many drug companies and scientific research groups are working on various ways to try to develop one.
"The breakthrough here is in using a viral-delivered vaccine that persists -- essentially using an engineered virus to thwart a pathogenic virus," said Robin Shattock, a professor of mucosal infection and immunity at Britain's Imperial College, who was not involved in the research.
"Before this ... scientists had pretty much given up on the idea of a vaccine that could control HIV replication (but) this puts it firmly back on the agenda."
Efforts so far to make an AIDS vaccine have not been successful, but a 2009 study in Thailand involving 16,000 people showed for the first time that a vaccine could safely prevent HIV infection in a small number of volunteers.
Picker said the next step is to make a weaker version of the CMV virus to make sure it does not cause any problems in people.
"The concern would be if we move a virus that is not modified that in some small number it might cause disease," he said.
Reuters

For egg-allergic kids, one-dose flu shot may be OK

2011-05-06T14:38:00.001-07:00

Children with egg allergies may be able to safely get their flu shot in one dose, just like other kids, a new study suggests.
Because the flu vaccine is grown in chicken eggs, there have traditionally been concerns about the safety of flu shots for people with egg allergies -- most of whom are young children.
To be safe, children with egg allergies often get their flu shot divided into smaller doses. They might, for instance, get 10 percent of the dose, then if they have no allergic reaction get the remainder of the dose 30 minutes later.
Children with a history of severe allergic reaction to egg could get up to five small doses.
However, today's flu vaccines actually contain "vanishingly small" amounts of egg protein, said Dr. Susan Laubach, the senior researcher on the new study and a physician at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
And studies have been suggesting that flu vaccination is safe for most children with egg allergies. A study last year in the journal Pediatrics found that of 171 egg-allergic children who received a two-dose flu shot, upwards of 95 percent had no significant reaction. A few had mild symptoms like hives and itchy skin.
The new study, published in the Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, looked at the safety of single-dose vaccination.
Laubach and her colleagues reviewed the records of 152 egg-allergic patients -- mostly young children -- who had gotten a seasonal flu shot and/or the vaccine against "swine flu" during the 2009-2010 flu season.
All of the patients underwent skin-prick testing to see if they were likely to have an immune reaction to the flu vaccine. Only one child had a positive result on the skin test, while six had unclear findings. So, most of the study group was given a single-dose flu shot.
Overall, Laubach's team found, none of the patients had a serious reaction to the vaccine, whether they got one dose or divided doses. That included the 22 percent of patients with a history of severe reactions to egg.
"The results of this study, combined with others, suggest that most kids with egg allergy can probably receive the flu vaccine safely," Laubach told Reuters Health.
These latest findings also suggest that many kids can be vaccinated, literally, in one shot -- which would offer the advantage of having to jab young children only once.
However, more research is needed to confirm that, according to Laubach. She said a clinical trial is now underway comparing two- and single-dose vaccination in egg-allergic kids.
Such clinical trials, Laubach noted, "are our 'gold standard' for proof."
For now, she recommended that parents of children with egg allergies talk with their doctor about flu vaccination.
In general, experts recommend that all children age 6 months or older get an annual flu shot.
Although the flu causes no more than a week or so of misery in most kids, children younger than 5 are at increased risk of flu complications like pneumonia, bronchitis and sinus infections.
There are probably many children with egg allergies who have never gotten the flu shot, Laubach noted. "I hope that will change in the future," she said.
It's estimated that about 1.5 percent of children are allergic to eggs, according to the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/fWs1OO Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, online April 4, 2011.
Reuters

Virtual reality shows promise for stroke patients

2011-05-06T14:36:00.000-07:00

Virtual reality isn't just fun for kids -- it might also be able to help many stroke patients on their way to recovery, hints a Canadian summary of the research on the technology.Virtual reality could turn out to be an inexpensive way for patients to intensify their rehab efforts after stroke, Dr. Gustavo Saposnik, who led the new work, told Reuters Health.

But Saposnik, who directs the Stroke Outcomes Research Unit at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, added that the technology still isn't ready for primetime.

Nearly 800,000 Americans suffer a stroke each year, and more than 137,000 of them die, according to the American Stroke Association. Those who make it are often left with crippling brain damage, which can cause paralysis, speech problems or memory loss.

To see if video games or virtual reality systems such as Nintendo Wii, PlayStation EyeToy, Sony Glasstron and CyberGlove could help these people recover some of their movement, Saposnik and colleagues pooled the best existing evidence on the question.

Their findings, based on 12 earlier studies, appear in the journal Stroke. Five of the studies directly tested the technology against standard rehab such as physical therapy, while the rest used weaker research methods.

In total, 195 patients who were partly paralyzed and had problems moving their arms took part in the research. Depending on the study, they trained daily on the virtual reality systems for an hour or so over two to six weeks.

Combining the results of the studies, the researchers found the patients had five times the odds of improving their grip and other movements if they had virtual reality training added to standard rehab.

Based on the seven weaker studies, stroke patients also became about 20 percent better at simple tasks such as moving their fingers independently after using virtual reality.

One reason for the improvements may be that playing the games speeds up the brain's ability to change and rewire itself, researchers said.

Previous findings suggest virtual reality technology may also help people with dementia and Parkinson's disease.

But much of the research is limited -- and that includes the new results. For instance, all of the studies analyzed were small and they only examined people with mild to moderate stroke, so more research is needed before doctors start recommending the technology, Saposnik said.

What's more, virtual reality doesn't provide the same assistance as a therapist, said Dr. Joel Stein, a rehab expert at Columbia University in New York.

As a consequence it might only be for people who can move pretty well on their own, Stein told Reuters Health. The advantage, on the other hand is that it might keep people committed to their rehab.

"If we can make it fun and engaging then eventually it is helpful and important," Stein said.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/iZDlgD Stroke, online April 7, 2011.

Reuters

THE WORLD'S MOST INTERESTING DRUG

2010-12-09T05:28:00.000-08:00

In a study conducted in England, aspirin reduces the risk of heart attack and cancer, were investigated on the thesis. The interesting result of research conducted at the University of Oxford in the quarterfinals of aspirin taken every day before going to bed with milk, 20 percent of the middle ages, the likelihood of developing cancer was reduced in the direction.
Very low doses of aspirin taken over the side effects that the benefits outlined in the survey, the positive effect of aspirin is available for all types of cancer. However, experts in the use of aspirin, the risk of lung and larynx cancer risk decreased by 60 percent, he says. The effect of aspirin increased the calcium in milk is specified.
Four years of work on 25 thousand 570 people stating they do Professor Peter Rothwell, "Our study found that aspirin not only detract from the risk of cancer. 45 to 70 years of age to take an aspirin a day, in this age range at risk of dying from a heart attack or any other disease by 10 percent reduces the rate, "he said.
THE WORLD'S MOST INTERESTING DRUG
UK Cancer Research Center, working with "promising" Alastair Watson, professor at the University of East Anglia is to modify the results of interesting research, "This proves that aspirin is the world's most interesting drug," he said.

Drugs 'could target asthma genes'

2010-09-23T13:28:00.000-07:00

A large international study has revealed several genetic variants which are linked to people with asthma.

In all, more than 500,000 tests were performed on the genes of 10,000 children and adults with the condition, and 16,000 non-asthmatics.

The Imperial College-led research, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, could point to new targets for drugs.

Experts said gene testing could not predict who would get the condition.

One in seven children in the UK suffers from asthma, which causes the airways to become irritated and narrow, making it harder for them to breathe.

The reasons why people develop the disease are not yet fully clear, although scientists suspect a roughly equal mixture of genetic susceptibility and environmental factors.

The latest genetic variants discovered by the international research appeared in more than a third of children with asthma.

However, the gene with the strongest impact on children did not affect people who developed asthma in adulthood, suggesting that the two versions of asthma may differ biologically.

Some of the genes identified are involved in the body's system for telling the immune system about damage to the lining of the airways, while others appear to control how quickly the airways heal.

Professor William Cookson, from Imperial College London, who co-ordinated the research, said: "Asthma is a complex disease in which many different parts of the immune system can become activated.

"Our study now highlights targets for effective asthma therapies and suggests that therapies against these targets will be of use to large numbers of asthmatics in the population."

However, parents have been warned that although genes make a contribution to asthma development, there is no way to use a genetic test to predict the condition.

Leanne Metcalf, from Asthma UK, said: "This unique study helps us to understand in much more detail how the genetic side of things works.

"Importantly, it has also shown that genetic testing does not help to predict who is susceptible to developing asthma, meaning that early diagnosis and intervention, and effective treatment for everyone who is affected by asthma, are even more vital.

"However the most exciting part is that these results will now help to ensure that scientists are able to focus their research on the most influential targets for asthma, with the important long-term aim of preventing a condition which is responsible for the deaths of three people every day."

Vulnerable pregnant women 'miss out on antenatal care'

2010-09-22T13:27:00.001-07:00

Many of the most vulnerable pregnant women are missing out on vital care in England and Wales, experts say.

NHS watchdog NICE said teenage mothers, domestic abuse victims, drug users and non-English speakers were the least likely to use antenatal services despite being the most in need.

The body said the health service needed to become more flexible and welcoming.

But there has been criticism over its suggestion for schools and colleges to start hosting antenatal classes.

AdvertisementDr Gillian Leng from NICE: 'The problem at the moment is lack of access'

NICE, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence which acts as the official advisory body to the health service, said antenatal classes played an essential role in improving the health of mothers and babies.

They offer lifestyle advice about drinking and smoking, as well as helping to spot medical problems such as pre-eclampsia and a form of diabetes linked to pregnancy.

But NICE said that despite teenage mothers, domestic abuse victims, drug users and non-English speakers being the most likely to encounter problems, antenatal attendance among these groups remained low - although it was unable to supply figures, and instead based its report on anecdotal evidence.

NICE said not using antenatal services was a factor in the high rates of complications.

Fourteen in 100,000 women die during pregnancy or after childbirth on average, but in deprived communities that figure rises five-fold. Stillbirths and infant mortality rates are also higher, according to official figures.

Interpreters

The guidance said the NHS should take a range of steps to ensure more women from difficult backgrounds accessed antenatal care.

As well as providing classes in schools and colleges where appropriate, the body called for more interpreters for those with difficulty speaking English, out-of-hours contacts, a text-messaging service to remind women of appointments and one-on-one sessions to allow sensitive subjects to be discussed.

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Implementing the recommendations will require additional resourcing and staffing at a level that it is not clearly available in the current context of cutbacks in NHS spending”

Louise Silverton

Royal College of Midwives

NICE said antenatal services could also help refer women in difficult situations on to other services, such as social care.

Its experts said many of their suggestions were already being used in some of the best-performing places - the sure start scheme for deprived areas offers antenatal support in some places - but said the majority of the NHS could still make improvements.

They also highlighted that some women from these groups had complained that staff had been judgemental about their situations.

There are more than 600,000 pregnancies a year, of which 30,000 are to substance abusers, 40,000 to under 20-year-olds, 47,000 to domestic abuse victims and 70,000 to non-English speakers.

Dr Gillian Leng, NICE's deputy chief executive, said: "Although these women represent a small proportion of those having babies in the UK each year, they and their unborn children deserve the same level of care as anyone else."

She told the BBC that some schools which had a high number of pregnant students would perhaps be able to help them access antenatal care by hosting classes.

"What we might be talking about really is a midwife going into the school or the college taking direct care of the women concerned," she said.

She said NICE was also looking at how to tackle the UK's teenage pregnancy rate and would be announcing proposals around this in the future.

'Not in schools'

But Norman Wells, the director of the Family Education Trust, an organisation which researches family breakdowns, told the Daily Mail it would be a bad idea for schools to host the classes.

"Bringing antenatal classes on to school premises runs the risk of normalising teenage pregnancy and of increasing the very problem it was intended to address," he said.

"Schools exist to assist and support parents in the education of their children, not to be the panacea for every social ill.

"The more that schools are called on to shoulder the burden of problems created by a permissive society, the more they will lose their focus on imparting knowledge and teaching children to think in a rational and logical way."

Louise Silverton, from the Royal College of Midwives, said the proposals would help improve care.

But she added midwives were often hampered in providing the best services because of a lack of resources.

"Implementing the recommendations will require additional resourcing and staffing at a level that it is not clearly available in the current context of cutbacks in NHS spending," she said.

Mary Newburn, from the National Childbirth Trust parenting charity, said the proposals would make the NHS "more accessible and responsive to the complex needs of vulnerable women who can often slip through the net".

Do you feel that you 'missed out' on antenatal care? Send us your comments using the form below.

Plants that reduce the risk of heart attack

2010-04-24T14:43:00.000-07:00

1-SAGE: Reduces the risk of heart attack. Removes disease causing excessive sweating. Cramps, spinal disorders, and nervous trembling glands are affected miracle. Against insect bites is to bite the dust in the region to follow the sage is recommended.
2-WALNUT: Guard vessels, diarrhea cutter, skin cleansers, wart remover, effective on fungal diseases, tumors and immune system blocker has protective properties. Walnut prevents blood clotting, regulate blood circulation ... is great for the liver.
3-IHLAMUR: Influenza infection, as well as the beauty and wonder of the skin against the effects of spots are. Boiled thoroughly for skin blemishes, spots that are recommended to take down. In addition to stress that the linden Keep your kitchen ...
4-Chicory: Gallbladder and liver diseases, will create miracles. Chronic liver has therapeutic properties against dermatitis. Diabetes also is good. Itchy skin and acne, as well as that against the surprisingly effective.
5-Lavandula stoechas: Will relieve pain, it gives strength to the heart ... especially for those who smoke must be pointed, has expectorant characteristics. Numbness goes, this plant is a source of vitality. It is used in the treatment of epilepsy and brain disorders.
6-celery: Are you cranky and hot-headed one? Eat celery. Has sedative properties. Very helpful for kidney, blood is removed, preventing weight gain and increases sexual power.
7-Hip: What are you looking for vitamins. One for flu and cold. Cure for constipation ... Is recommended for fatigue and weakness. Makers and regulators of blood pressure should not be missing from the kitchen with features.
8-PARSLEY: Body's daily requirement of vitamin C a sprinkling of parsley and welcomes all. Toxins from the body throws, cleans the blood, anemia, kidney and liver diseases is good.
9-Licorice root: The expectorant properties of this plant is used to treat stomach ulcers. Adrenal glands and the effect of solvent runs are as cramped. Is also a good constipation relief.
10-POMEGRANATE: Antioxidants abundant in pomegranate, vitamin C, iron and potassium are. Antioxidant properties of a glass of pomegranate juice, two glasses of red wine and 10 cups of green tea with the same level. In addition, this property is protected through the heart like a drug.
11-purslane: Experts in the treatment of Parkinson's patients are always recommended to eat purslane salad. Mental fatigue, irritability, and insomnia is good. There is blood cleansing properties.
12-wormwood: If you are having problems with your stomach, if you have gastric trouble wormwood exactly ... Difficult to digest these plants facilitates the digestion of nutrients. Tonic effect of increasing the blood circulation, invigorate your body does. One important feature of the insect body is put away.
13-ONION: Eat raw as much as possible. Because it strengthens the stomach when consumed raw, stimulates the digestive system, increases urine. Flu, colds, laryngitis, and cough are used as contraceptives.
14-ZERDEÇAL: The most effective antioxidant turmeric, and is one of the most widely used. upper respiratory tract infection, asthma, bronchitis and sinusitis treatment is used. It is effective against cancer. Keeping the brain power, preventing Alzheimer's.
15-OLIVE: Of olive oil in particular is seen as a source of miracles. Omega-6 fatty acids the body needs to have. Renewing cells and nourish skin, and strengthens ... Olives and olive oil should never be missing from the kitchen, should be consumed in abundance.

WHAT COUNTS AS A SERVING

2010-03-18T15:06:00.000-07:00

Grain Products Group (bread, cereal, rice, and pasta)

1 slice of bread

1 ounce of ready-to-eat cereal

1/2 cup of cooked cereal, rice, or pasta

Vegetable Group

1 cup of raw leafy vegetables

1/2 cup of other vegetables -- cooked or chopped raw

3/4 cup of vegetable juice

Fruit Group

1 medium apple, banana, orange

1/2 cup of chopped, cooked, or canned fruit

3/4 cup of fruit juice

Milk Group (milk, yogurt, and cheese)

1 cup of milk or yogurt

1-1/2 ounces of natural cheese

2 ounces of processed cheese

Meat and Beans Group (meat, poultry, fish, dry beans, eggs, and nuts)

2-3 ounces of cooked lean meat, poultry, or fish

1/2 cup of cooked dry beans

1 egg

Two tablespoons of peanut butter

1/3 cup of nuts

Healthy Eating

2010-03-17T15:04:00.000-07:00

The following recommendations are for non-pregnant women.
For Healthy Nutrition in Pregnancy, check here.

Milk Group - 2-3 servings

milk, yogurt, low-fat cheese

Protein - 2-4 servings

fish, chicken, turkey, beans, nuts, eggs

Vegetables - 3-5 servings

Fruit Group - 2-4 servings

At least one should be citrus

Bread, Cereal, Rice & Pasta
6-11 servings:


Drink at least eight glasses of water a day.	Limit excessive salt intake. Spices can spice up your food. Use caffeine in moderation. Use fats, sugars, and oils in moderation
Eating out can be done, just watch the menu and tell the waiter exactly how you want food prepared. After all, you are paying for it.

Always Eat Garlic

2010-02-14T02:16:00.000-08:00

Eat raw or cooked, but surely.
Stomach, intestine, prostate, larynx, and breast cancer is good.
Consumed raw or cooked garlic ones, stomach, intestine, prostate, larynx, and breast cancer has been reported less seen. American dietetic Association of Overseas Countries Turkey Representative Dietitians Selahattin Dönmez, AA said in a statement to reporters, the structure of garlic in plenty of water, sugar containing carbohydrates, sulfur compounds, protein, fiber and amino acids are released, he said.
High amounts of garlic also phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, zinc, moderate amounts of selenium, vitamin A and C with a small amount of calcium, magnesium, sodium, iron, manganese and B complex vitamins include Dönmez stating that,''Civilization Throughout the history of medicine in the field of garlic properties has been evaluated and has been used to treat many diseases''he said.
Donmez, garlic still affecting arterial diseases, cancer, immune system disorders and painful joint diseases such as chronic disease prevention and treatment had been used to pointing, said:
Garlic is one of the most important biochemical properties''in the body helping to take the poisonous toxic substances (antioxidants) is the potential. This aspect of garlic in it which is thought to result from organic sulfur compounds. Raw garlic also has antioxidant potential, but high doses of the heart, liver and kidney to the toxic effects can be shown.''
EFFECT OF-CANCER -
Dietitians Dönmez, garlic, many functions in the organism to be shown, produced naturally in the human body effects increase as emphasized by nitric Oxide, said:
''These mechanisms of arteriosclerosis and hypertension treatment with garlic protective measures explains their role. Garlic may prevent various mechanisms carcinogen factors, immune system suppression may be useful against cancer by preventing known. Garlic is used for the treatment of cardiovascular disease for years.''
Garlic many different people that enhance the immune system and even if taken a balanced nutrition and reduce the risk of several cancers known chemical substances (fitokimyasal) stating that compounds found Dönmez, said:
Antioxidant properties of garlic''in particular other than it contains sulfur compounds, especially fruits and vegetables found to be common in some of the color material is due. Dietary intake of these substances with coronary artery disease in the opposite direction were associated with risk of death. Studies to increase consumption of garlic, is closely related with the incidence of cancer has shown. The studies, raw or cooked garlic consumption and stomach, intestine, prostate, larynx, and breast cancer as the result shows the inverse relationship between.
In the light of scientific studies, garlic consumption of the diet to encourage or recommend, such as cancer and cardiovascular disorders will be useful in chronic disease prevention. All vegetables and fruits in a healthy nutrition program also has an important place, such as garlic.
Attention to the consumption of garlic in each individual, be sure the product into the eating habits of places.''

WİNE WOMEN'S SEXUAL DESİRE İNCREASİNG

2010-01-23T09:55:00.000-08:00

Wine, women's sexual desire is increasing according to a research conducted by experts, within a day or two glasses of wine compared to other women, sexual desire of women who appeared to be higher.
Red wine for women body's key areas of blood flow increases tells Italian araştırmacalar, a powerful antioxidant that (healthy tissue and cells preservatives containing) red wine less than it is inside the heart is good and also a powerful aphrodisiac that contains said. Research before starting the participants' sexual lives are reviewed indicating experts, "First participants into 3 different groups were separated. green tea, smokers, excessive alcohol consumption and those who drink red wine in the form" found in the description. 50 to 18 years in the range of 800 women over the study, these 3 groups regarding sex life questions were asked and libido were measured. Two glasses of red wine a day as a result of this research made within the group formed by women, compared to the other two groups of sexual desire seen more bets.
In this study, 27.3 percent of wine-drinking women's sexual desires are being observed as a day, drink a glass of 25.9 percent, 24.4 percent non-smoking appeared to be

Miracle food protection with the swine flu

2009-12-24T09:28:00.000-08:00

In the fight against swine influenza virus to human health protection miraculous food takes.
Beekeepers Association President Cahit Çanakkale Forward, in the fight against swine influenza viruses using bee products increase the body resistance can be said.

Cahit Forward, said in a statement to the AA correspondent, swine influenza has become a nightmare of the entire society, he added.

People do not know what to do to protect them from disease has become defensive forward in the society of the time flu-related nervousness, he said.

Next, in the fight against swine flu striking in the use of bee products, said:

Honey bee products in the first place because of''balanced diet contains many useful substances. Since human existence with human subsistence and the bee products, has begun to increase attractiveness. Bees and bee products fully comply with natural conditions by the enzyme is obtained by joining.''

Royal Jelly renewal of the cell, to delay aging property is located, to give vigor to the body known as the most powerful food that point forward is, pollen abundant vitamins, proteins and enzymes containing food''miracle''as a benefit to the people said.

Next, the body's weight and age of these products are used by certain doses of the virus entering the body and is said to destroy germs.

In the fight against swine flu vaccine using bee products do not get to be No matter the body's resistance may increase the expression Next, this method is protected through the''apiterapi'', he said.

EXPERT VISION

COMU the (ÇOMÜ) Health Practice and Research Hospital, Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty Field Asst. Assoc. Dr. Alper Sener, genetic factors and immune system is directly related to the person's eating habits, he said.

Person's genetic features of the innate and unchangeable factors and that nutrition edit any person against infectious diseases and strengthen the immune system may be possible that point Sener,''protein and carbohydrate content of heavy foods that a person's immune system, balancing and strengthening nutrients are known to be. Protein content, which is particularly intense, fish, eggs and honey with high carbohydrate content significantly percentage,''he said are the most commonly known nutrients.

Sener, honey, especially in the pediatric age group to support the immune system's most important and least expensive food items as stated, the pure and concentrated carbohydrate content of the diet alone can not prevent viral diseases, but the effect of strengthening the immune system also noted can not be strange.

Increases sexual power, clean lung

2009-12-23T09:25:00.000-08:00

Especially the sexual power to crush the power train. Lung is a good cleanser.

PINE PISTACHIO

Walnut is more nutritious, but it is more difficult to digest. She has a content of the ink, and fluid, as well as soil (mineral) from the nevi contain substances. That kind of gas from the materials less. More detailed information about him 'pine' will be given in the article.

CONTENT

His regular content, there is very little heat.

BENEFITS

Feeder body is organizing humidity is worse in the intestines. His digestion is difficult, is not digested. His cold and hot honey digestion with sugar makes Tabriz digestion. Thus, further increases nutritional value of pine nuts. Pine nuts are crushed in water, and therefore eat bitterness, and bitterness are easier to resolve. Non-nutritious pine nuts or even a small matter to be prepared in this way, it's nutritional value is revealed. This small pine is found in all countries.

MOTION ORGANS

Nerve pain and rheumatic pain resolves. Back and sciatic pains. O, muscle fatigue and relaxation useful.

POISONING added

With figs or dates are effective against scorpion stings.

RESPIRATORY

Lung is a good cleanser. Pus and heavy increases in their hıltlar. Mucous in the lungs of fluid and pus ejected allows.

ATAN OUT.REALLY BODIES

Increases sexual power, especially the crushing him to have this effect. O, pus and is useful against the stones in the bladder.

Herbal Medicine :WILD THYME

2009-12-21T13:46:00.000-08:00

Diluent and is disruptive. Prevent shivering from the cold in winter. Urine and menstrual söktürür, balgami hıltları clean ...
Wild thyme, Visual difficult to maintain and, seeing weakness resolves. Chest and lungs to clear mucus thrown facilitates mixed with honey chest and rib pain had turned to boil ...

WILD THYME

Dioscorides, it is a known drug, a small thorny tree, and branches bükeyli exists, these thorns on its branches that he has said stop. This is the thorn on the cotton wick is wrapped. There are branches around the small leaves. There are small pink flowers at the ends of branches.

Mostly high, arid and arid areas grow. The flowers have a tinge of red is white. Idhır-ı izhir branches (of marsh reed) similar to branches. His flowers round.

CONTENT

Third-degree hot and dry. Rufus, Hasan (thyme), pennyroyal (fudenec) has said that such an excessive dryness.

BENEFITS

Thyme, diluent and shredder is even melt the frozen blood components. Thyme syrup, prevents chilly winter.

BEAUTY

Destroys warts.

RESPIRATORY

Göğüsü and cleanses the lungs, mucus facilitates discarded; mixed with honey at the bottom of boiled extract chest and rib pain, coughing up blood due to good effect would prevent and dryer.

SEE

Participate in food, it protects the power of vision and visual weakness resolves. Dioscorides, it has been witness to this effect.

BODIES NUTRITION

Digestion (digestion) is suitable for. His syrup in digestive disorders (bad digestion) and appetite, reduces costs.

ATAN OUT.REALLY BODIES

Urine and menstrual söktürür; worms dumps; 2-4 dirhams is in him, clean balgami hıltları they do impact on the diarrhea.

New hope for childhood cancer

2009-10-08T14:58:00.000-07:00

Cause of cancer death in children with 15 percent of the road, a new hope was born nöroblastomanın treatment.
According to the research in the early stages yet, strengthening the immune system a chance to get rid of this disease of children is a significant increase might think.

According to research developed at the University of Southampton, "anti-41BB", "anti-CD40" and "anti-CTLA4 called antibodies, laboratory environment, 40 to 60 percent of tumor destruction was seen. Juliet Gray's pioneering study of the "Working in the early stages yet, but found a way to effectively combat are in a position," he said.

This type of cancer, nerve cells occurs. Infected 60 percent of children can be treated successfully by chemotherapy. Gray, who do not respond to chemotherapy in children could be said immunoterapinin a vital way to treatment.

More Vitamin A Cause Lung Cancer

2009-10-05T14:14:00.000-07:00

According to experts, but only a little more of the vitamin also damaged. Received liver damage than vitamin B3, vitamin C to the formation of kidney stones, vitamin A can also lead to lung cancer.

Hacettepe University (HU) School of Medicine faculty member, Department of Internal Medicine Assoc. Dr. Gul Oz, uncontrolled can lead to serious health problems, use of vitamin warned.

Today, most of the adults, vitamins and minerals in foods by the body can not be confident enough with the idea or not available in the form of vitamin pills and syrup get support who told Essence, but that high doses of supplements taken in the useless and can be dangerous said. Self, "a disease or deficiency is not in question do not need mega doses of vitamin intake, and certainly physicians should be in control," he said.

Aging of the bone fragility, muscle mass decreased, disease and injury resistance changes, such as disorders of the A, C, D and E vitamins as nutritional support for proper use of control which can be expressed Öz, antioxidants qualified A, vitamin C and E of the stress against the part of defense is reminded.

Extracts, antioxidants, plays an important role in protection from disease and that kept most of their diet composition in the said support, the vitamin has the following information regarding:

VITAMIN B3 body's nervous system and hormonal system important functions such as fulfilling an important function of this vitamin is loaded brewer's yeast, dried beans, peas, bran cereals, avocados, dates, figs, peanuts are available in abundance. Heat a small amount of light resistant and can be stored in the liver. B3 deficiency, such as forgetting and dementia with dangerous consequences Pellagra disease occurs. However, the more purchases in the skin burning, redness, itching, liver damage leads to. More of this vitamin, gout, diabetes mellitus, gastric ulcer, liver disease, such as heavy make existing problems.

VITAMIN B5 egg yolk, liver, kidney, yeast, and some of cereals with vegetables is contained within. During the half-loss advice is to be. Deficiencies in the 'burning feet syndrome' may develop. Nausea and diarrhea also can be seen in excess.

VITAMIN B6 Avocado, soy beans, potatoes, vegetables, nuts, meat, eggs, as is natural in the liver. Weak, alkaline environment, under the influence of sunlight, during processing, improper storage conditions and can easily disappear during cooking. Mikrositik hipokromik deficiency anemia; excess is seen in the permanent nerve damage.

Folic Acid (Folacin) Green vegetables, carrots, avocado, eggs and orange are the natural resources. Light, heat, standby and will be destroyed during firing. Deficiency megaloblastic anemia, neural tube defects occur during pregnancy. Redundancy can mask a vitamin B12 deficiency.

VITAMIN C strengthens the immune system. Deficiency disease occurs Skorbut. Taken in more than diarrhea, abdominal pain, burning in urine, kidney stone formation can be seen.

VITAMIN A fish oil, butter, eggs, milk, cheese, red meat and liver carotene as a carrot, leafy vegetables, tomatoes, fresh apricots, bananas and potatoes are yellow. Vision, cell growth and health, healthy immune system processing, play a role in strengthening bones. Deficiency, an increased risk of infection, night blindness, xeroftalmi, keratinizasyon occurs. In excess, blurred vision, liver disorders, decreased bone strength, birth defects, increased risk of lung cancer, hiperkarotenemi be seen.

VITAMIN D2-D3 and egg yolk, milk, butter, animal consumption, the liver can be obtained. Play a role in cell differentiation recovered. Get enough sunlight and vitamin D deficiency or any other disease does not occur. In children, rickets, osteomalacia and osteoporosis in adults causes. Redundancy hypercalcemia, soft tissue calcification, kidney stone causes, makes the arteries.

VITAMIN E Butter, margarine, oils, chicken, eggs, red meat, beans, grains and vegetables and fruit in bulunur.Antioksidan and allows cell contents and reduces the risk of heart disease. Of vitamin E deficiency and excess is rare.

VITAMIN K liver, cheese, butter, lettuce, cabbage, green tea are natural resources. Blood clotting and plays a role in bone formation. Absorption of vitamin E taken over K of disarray. Yogurt and kefir vitamin K production by bacteria in the intestines increases. Intestinal flora prevents the production of antibiotics disrupts. Deficiency is rare, increased bleeding tendency.

VITAMIN B1 Dried brewer's yeast, grains, nuts and legumes are located at. Alcohol, caffeine, food additives, in the use of antibiotics become ineffective. Deficiencies in the 'Beriberi Disease' is seen.

VITAMIN B2 liver, tongue, brewer's yeast, milk, eggs, cheese, spinach, green leafy vegetables such as broccoli, fish, mushroom and avocado is located. 'Choline' of a lack of substance to accompany the overall scarcity of protein.

Vitamin B12 can be obtained only from animal foods. Folate functions (synthesis of DNA and red blood cells) is important for. Stored in the liver. Heart, kidney, pancreas, brain, testis and bone marrow are also available in. Pernisiyöz deficiency anemia (megaloblastic anemia, and along with nerve damage) occurs. The harmful effects of vitamin intake compared to others is no more.

8 basic food keep your skin beautiful

2009-09-18T13:43:00.000-07:00

Reader's Digest magazine, freshen your skin beautiful all day long to keep the acquisition, it has identified 8 basic nutrients. That miracle foods for your skin are as follows:

1 - Avocado: avocado, tropical fruit is a good source of biotin. As a barrier to dry skin, hair and nail breakage when applied locally or in front of last avocado worn out from excessive heat and moisturize the skin treat.

2 - Green tea: Green tea is rich in Polyphenol your skin friendly. By drinking at least four cups a day to help keep your skin beautiful.

3 - Tomato puree: powerful antioxidant called Lycopene is found in abundance of the tomato puree, extra virgin olive oil with sun-exposed skin to burn when applied for 10 days your skin will return to health again. In addition, tomatoes contain intense as the carotene in the cells slows down damage to the hard radical atoms are known.

4 - Salmon: Aging slows to salmon, astaxanthin and carotenoids that are included in elasticity of the skin develops. Thus, less visible lines on your face.

5 - Eggs. Bring about radical atoms in cells that have plenty of protein that repairs damage eggs, dry skin and essential vitamin biotin have among the enemy.

6 - Pomegranate: pomegranate for your skin is absolutely required to have on your list. When applied locally it contains antioxidants that your skin by producing more collagen provides vitality to win.

7 - Walnut: does not like fish and Omega-3 fatty acids benefit the skin of your benefits if you want to try nut. Walnuts, are rich in Omega-3 fatty acids and shine of your hair will be beneficial to your skin softer and younger will like.

8 - Legumes: Other legumes are also a source of protein. Bring about radical damage in cells of atoms to help to resolve the skin's collagen and new skin cells to produce proteins that allow it contains beans that are managed.

Vegetable juice weakening

2009-09-15T05:03:00.001-07:00

Reader's Digest Magazine in the news, according to 1 cup of fresh vegetables every day to drink water to help weight loss was noted.
Heart health and diabetes risk of 81 overweight adults who participated in the work, every day at least one cup of vegetable broth salt to 2 kg in those 12 weeks they were seen.

In contrast, fat-reduced diet in vegetable broth, but they were detected not only 500 grams.

Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, officials at the research leader John Foreyt, "most of the participants after drinking vegetable juice themselves have stated that they feel more satiated. For this reason vegetable juice helps to lose weight," he said.

"Vaginismus is a psychological, can be treated"

2009-09-09T08:39:00.000-07:00

Denizli State Hospital and Mental Health Specialist Dr. Sağlıkı. Ahmet Öz, women intercourse (Vaginismus) Although women's fear of a physical disability, anxiety and worry are not allowed because of their sexual relationship, he said. Mergers during the woman's body and vaginal contractions in unsolicited and may create a feeling of pain indicating Dr. Self, "This is the contractions of women outside the control occurs. Vagina at the entrance of muscle contraction by the body, a spasm, anxiety and panic will form. Kızlık membrane is too thick to think and so intercourse can not believe that couples surgery with this solution they call the problem disappeared, did not they see. Doubles in this case thoroughly overcome with unhappiness and pessimism, and whether their relationship to attrition begin to blame each other. But it is mainly psychological and often curable causes vajinismusun "he said. This is a couple of problems with anesthesia and sometimes stunning methods they applied to the vagina contraction of muscles in the application under consideration yapılıdığı botox, medication was working residents, muscle relaxants and alcohol are used, but these applications are wrong stating that Dr. Essence, "It's that simple can be treated as a problem of this type Vaginismus false information to try and grow. This issue, many couples are living. Here is the problem well, to the distress of the people living there only in him that a strange problem, consider the physician does not apply. However, this problem faced with both the number of women in our country but also abroad, very much. 5 or 10 years, married intercourse pattern could not divorce the number of people who also many not be underestimated. Why does no matter if the couples willing to cooperate if Vaginismus always be treated. The important thing is to want treatment, and to apply for specialist doctors, "he said.

Mobile phones carried in the cause of infertility

2009-09-08T08:36:00.000-07:00

Mobile phones carried in pockets of pants sperm viability and mobility has serious adverse effects.

University of Newcastle in Australia, known for his work on fertility Prof. According to John Aitken'in that study, men who want to have a child with severe warnings about mobile phones have.

Cell phone frequency electromagnetic wave effects on the sperm examined according to the research, 1.8 GHz mobile phone radiation exposed to the 16 hours of sperm, fertility as two important factors in sperm viability and mobility are the losses.

Aitken, who wants to have children of men not to carry mobile phones has suggested the waist down. Changes in sperm viability and mobility of the SAR values 1 w / kg. It has become evident that in experiments.

2.8 W / kg SAR value is even more frightening in the DNA damage was detected. The higher the SAR value increased adverse effects were also observed.

BENEFITS of GOAT CHEESE

2009-08-31T06:08:00.000-07:00

According to the cow cheese, with fewer calories and more vitamins goat cheese consumption is increasing rapidly.
Sütaş'tan According to information received, packaged goat's cheese market in the first 7 months of last year same quarter of 2009 compared to 86 percent growth rate recorded. Also in the Egyptian Market cheesemonger, more recently, goat cheese, says sales increased 40 percent. Goat cheese as the cause of the increase of society are showing interest. Society, from salads to main dishes of all kinds of goat cheese is consumed.

DOCTORS RECOMMEND is

King of cheese known as the Assistant General Manager of Ali Taciroğlu'nun Taciroğlu Cheese son who Taciroğlu Yaman, goat cheese, the weight on the market, said it was selling between 14 to £ 22. Recently, an increase in the sales of goat cheese in question stating that Taciroğlu, "Goat cheese, healthy living, especially by those who claim being careful. Doctors are also advised. Hospital environment is much higher sales in our stores, "he said.

Meanwhile, according to the TSI data in Turkey in 2008 produced 12 million 243 thousand tons of milk only 1.71 per cent 'i goat milk. Experts, goat cheese, so he sold most of the products generated from 100 percent goat's milk attention and said, "Generally, goats and sheep's milk or cow's milk cheeses made by mixing goat cheese are sold under the name" he said.

Watermelon

2009-08-20T13:34:00.000-07:00

Watermelon: a real oil burner
Those who want to undermine you pass give the watermelon

Published in the Journal of Nutrition'a Americas, with plenty of watermelon in the amino acid called Arginine to trigger weight loss. During the 3 months of the obese mice are researchers do not take the field of reinforcement by arginine in the diet, 67% more fat lost.

Add this to your diet, amino acids, such as glucose and fats to increase the incineration, it encourages the formation of muscles that muscles burn fat more calories, it also supports to weaken.

Watermelon consumption in the summer months makes you a part of your daily life, the experts suggest, in the winter months are also arginine-rich seafood, nuts, nuts and beans are recommended to take advantage of.

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Spinach

2009-08-19T13:30:00.000-07:00

After 35 years of age to consume plenty of
Spinach, such as' folic acid 'containing leafy vegetables, in the elderly görülen'Alzheimer' reduces the risk was 50 percent.
Prof. Dr. M. Hikmet Boyacıoğlu, in recent years, a dream which has become fearful of the elderly with Alzheimer's disease, as the başyazarlık Colombia University Medical Center, New York and the U.S. Luchsinger'in Jose has information about research.

Boyacıoğlu, according to research on 965 people, aged in the use of folic acid, is reduced to half the risk of disease development was stressed. Boyacıoğlu, 35 years and over, products that contain folic acid should be pointed out that more was consumed.

Spinach, such as leafy vegetables, liver, heart, kidney, cantaloupe, orange juice, artichoke, beets, broccoli, okra and dry beans in large amounts of folic acid include underlines the Boyacıoğlu, folic acid in the body all biological phenomena, erythrocyte formation, amino acid metabolism, cell necessary for growth and renewal is a vitamin that has been recorded.

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PİNON

2009-07-22T13:30:00.000-07:00

Walnut is more nutritious, but the digestion is more difficult. She has a content of the ink, both liquid and soil (mine) from the nevi includes substances. The substances that is less than one kind of gas. More detailed information about her 'Pine' clause will be given.

CONTENT

He's a regular content, there is very little heat.

BENEFITS

Feeder body is bad in the bowels of the scheme is to moisture. He is hard of digestion, will be absorbed later. He's cold as well and hot well of digestion of digestion Tebriz sugar with honey makes it easy. Thus, further increases pinon's nutritional value. Pinon is crushed in water, and resolve the bitterness and the bitterness is so easy to eat. Even non-small pinon feeder prepared in this way is also, he reveals the nutritional value. This small country in all the pinon.

ER bodies

Nerve pain and rheumatic pain resolves. Good come back and sciatica pain. It is useful to relax the muscles and fatigue.

ZEHİRLENME

With fig or palm against scorpion into is active.

RESPIRATORY

Lung is a good cleaner. They fester and heavy on hıltlar increases. Taken out of liquid and mucous in the lungs allows pus.

OUT.REALLY the organs of the EC

Sexual power is increased, especially the crushing him to this effect has. It is useful for pus and stones in the bladder.

Wild thyme

2009-07-14T11:48:00.000-07:00

Dioscorides, a drug that is known, a small thorny tree, and there are bükeyli branches, this branch of his stand on tenterhooks has said. The thorns on the wick is cotton wrapped. There are small leaves around branches. There are pink flowers on the small end branches.

Mostly high, arid and arid areas will grow. The flowers have a tinge of red is white. Branches ıdhır-ı izhir (batak instrument is) similar to the branches. He is round the flowers.

CONTENT

Third-degree hot and dry. Rufus, Hasan (thyme), pennyroyal (fudenec) has said as much to dry.

BENEFITS

Thyme, is melting, and disruptive, even melt frozen blood, parts. Thyme syrup, to prevent shivering from cold in winter.

BEAUTY

Will have no warts.

RESPIRATORY

Chest and lungs are clear; phlegm making it easier to cast; Balla can be mixed at the bottom of the boiling chest and rib pain and better to spit blood and thus prevents the drying effect.

SEE

Food is participating in, protects the power of vision and vision will resolve the weakness. Dioscorides, it has been witness to this effect.

NUTRITION organs

Digestion (digestion) is suitable for. His mixture of digestive disorders (bad digestion) costs and reduces appetite.

OUT.REALLY the organs of the EC

Urine and menses will unravel; the wolf blood; 2-4 bandbox is inside of him, balgami hıltları clean and they do impact on the diarrhea.

Men's attention! This product is the enemy of sperm

2009-07-02T01:49:00.000-07:00

A research, cosmetic products for men indicate that sperm quality has been significantly reduced.
Hundreds of men were used as subjects in research, perfume, lotion, cream, or do not use deodorant users, compared to 5 times lower sperm quality output ...

Sint Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center of the Netherlands made by the research, cosmetic products for men indicate that sperm quality has been significantly reduced. According to the results of the survey, the average two times a day perfume, deodorant, lotion or cream, such as using cosmetic products of men's sperm quality, can be used rates lower than 5 times. The research team president Nel Roeleveld, cosmetic products, sperm damage that said very clearly and concisely set.

Degrees of damage

Roeleveld, but the lower and upper limit of the degree of damage may have changed. Zeist in the Netherlands city of Cosmetic Products Manufacturers Association, hundreds of men used as subjects of research regarding the results has been examined carefully explained to opine.

SPERM DAMAGE YOLU to prevent

In the meantime, research in Australia, more sexual relationships in semen that help to repair the damage was revealed. Research during the sperm of 118 men had suffered damage during a week of sex every day, they significantly decrease in the amount of damaged sperm was found to be.

DNA DAMAGE is LOWER

Dr. David Greening and her friends with their research, sexual relationship, sperm from the body by providing a quick way to cast thinks reduces DNA damage. How long the sperm remain in the body, it is that the likelihood of damage is increasing.

Halitosis and tooth pain resolves

2009-07-01T01:46:00.000-07:00

Corrects sexual impotence whip of the request. Deodorize the mouth and teeth.
Celery: Maydanozgiller from families. Roots and leaves are used as vegetables. Smelling, two years is a plant.

Sedanonik anhydride content, sedanolin, limonen, palmirik acid, there are substances such as gayakol. Leaf and heading is used.

Benefits of Celery: Alerter and diuretic. Corrects impotence. The scourge of sexual desire. Sugar, in the goiter and high blood pressure is good.

Celery, halitosis, and dental pain resolves. The liver and spleen is good.

Kidney, lung and liver disease it prevents. Strengthens the stomach. Give you an appetite. Is useful in Sürmenaj. Nervous fatigue resolves. Blood clean.

Liver swelling resolves. Kidney stones in the sand and poured in help.

Safra is ifrazat edit. Podagra and is useful in rheumatism. Cancels and the body is cool to thirst. Heart patients are recommended. Hoarseness resolves.

To protect your health in your hands

2009-06-23T14:52:00.000-07:00

With the coming of summer children's play park in the garden due to the close contact with germs is hand washing habits in the increase of the defense experts should definitely play very well after washing hands should say. Be careful not to wash your hands, not winning this habit of children, the natural environment is reported to be faced with germs. Child health professionals in their description of hand washing in general, is seen as behavior that does not focus on, but it is of great importance in terms of health are recorded.
Should instead be treated to prevent disease!

Children's body resistance is weaker than in adults because of the presence of children from adults in pathogenic microorganisms can be delivered more easily. Hands, the germs enter the body is in the bridge function. Sick and go to the hospital half of the children, the environment is ill because of the germs. Wash hands properly, especially not after the toilet, through the feces of infected with dangerous microorganisms are causing the body to enter. Hand cleaning should be given importance, especially hepatitis and parasitic illnesses lead to many diseases.

Experts, from their early years in the patients' families, drugs before their children keep their hands clean and make it a habit to express what they want to ensure that the water and soap for diseases of the best dual protection method that they say.
First, parents!

Hand hygiene should be sensitive to the first mothers and fathers. Children receive toys and games are great fun. Therefore, the importance of hand washing to children by entertaining them like approach to the understanding of different soaps and towels should be encouraged to wash your hands.
Hand hygiene issues to be aware of

- 1) clean your hands be a soap.

- 2) hands wet and then started to rub soap on your hands.

- 3) until foaming soap and rub hands for at least 20 seconds after foam continue.

- 4) between your fingers, fingernails into the back of the hands and wrists thoroughly and make sure it is clean.

- 5), and rinse your hands under running water after cleaning the hands do not touch the taps again.

- 6) hands, a clean or disposable towel to dry with. Close the valve tap with a towel in your hands.

- 7) used in the dirty towel in the bag at the water's dirty.

- 8) Open dirty bag with the foot pedal, not untouched.

- 9) is necessary for skin cracks you decide to use the lotion.

- 10) children want to wash your hands in your lap, you will reach the faucet by using a step above all the materials are in position to help, and then wash their hands.
When hand washing should be done?

- 1) Food prepared immediately before and immediately after the preparation process.

- 2) to set the table and kitchen equipment and table cloths just before manually.

- 3) for a meal before you go away immediately before and after the table.

- 4) by hand immediately after the garbage (the garbage bags off at the must).

- 5) after going to the toilet.

- 6) for children need help when toilet and after changing underneath.

- 7) Sweat, urine, mucus, vomit, feces, such as to remove the body immediately after contact.

- 8) animals, animal cages and other animal items manually after.

- 9) reached, and before leaving the work place.

- 10) returning home from the outside.

- 11) for children, and leave the nest and just before they reach kindergarten.

- 12) the drug just before hand.

- 13) is aware that hands are not dirty.

- 14) immediately after cleaning the house.

- 15) is to use hands after removing gloves should always wash.

There is no need to wash your hands with antibacterial soap. Wet wipes for cleaning the place of hand washing can not keep. Study after removing the gloves, even if hands are not soiled by the absolute need to wash with. Also, avoid contamination of the hands and gloves nickname spread of germs is not enough to know and to accept a measure should not be.
Do you know?

Why is the hotel doors revolving doors? Sole purpose of saving energy is a revolving door. Older buildings will be heated continuously inside. From the drop-down door in the normal cold air enters easily. If the door is being used in normal exchange of air and engines because air conditioning will run again. Enter and exit of many people, especially the hotels and similar buildings for energy-saving revolving door is used. Rotary-wing hot air out of the cold weather prevents the inside.

Foods to improve your body

2009-06-22T10:58:00.000-07:00

All this food is very good for your body. Foxnews'te in the news, to prevent various diseases and help to improve some foods are explained.

Cinnamon: mouth odor can be embarrassing, but I hope you have a mouth to get rid of your smell. Studies, and reduces bacteria in the mouth and the mouth of the cinnamon smell was resolved.

Ginger: When you break your stomach ginger looks like a very good folk remedy, but that's a fact. Recent study, chemotherapy patients, the internal capsule ginger significantly reduced nausea after they are.

Seaweed: seaweed is holding your migraine may be last thing on your mind, but the seaweed salad is the only thing you need. That magnesium-rich foods, is relaxation of muscles and nerves. Researchers, who have migraines have found that magnesium deficiency.

Avocado: avocado contains high doses of folic acid, helps to increase your energy. Aztec, avocado tree "Ahuacuatl" names were given.

Asparagus: stressful or anxious are you? Therefore, the evening meal should be added some asparagus. Improving the performance of antioxidants in the liver and asparagus with stress makes it easier başedebilmenizi.

Apple: Apple to avoid constipation is to eat. The apple is an excellent source of fiber, is helping to run the intestines.

Grapefruit: No one wants to be with unsightly cellulite, but grapefruit is food that help to prevent cellulite. The fruit is rich in vitamin C, liver enzyme production and activity of detoksifikasyon increases.

Bal: after counting sheep does not get your sleep now, honey a try. Known as content owners distaff natural honey, is the brain that help the rest.

Garlic: sneeze, cough, pain of cold symptoms. Ali and the Allium containing garlic, cleaning germs and strengthening the immune system also has effects.

The wild myrtle: I remember eating breakfast, what difficulties would you take? Do you feel you are aging? Studies, wild myrtle, and the memory is strengthened to prevent age-related loss of physical coordination was

HAZELNUT

2009-06-19T12:42:00.000-07:00

indie-friendly oil heart and arteries
Dr. Nurten Budak, hazelnuts and hazelnut oil is a very different position was remarkable.
The oil contains many research of vitamin E prevent Parkinson's disease is determined, save that Dr. Nurten Budak, hazelnuts and hazelnut oil is a very different position was remarkable.

Turn Buda, "hazelnut oil in large quantities in the vitamin E reproductive system, a positive contributor, as of red blood corpuscle to pieces by preventing blood values are organized. Also the most effective antioxidants as the body cells by protecting and renewal by giving to aging are delayed. Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease and prevent them is," he said. Prof. Dr. Hazelnut oil is heart disease Asım against Orem adeta says a drug.

Prof. Dr. Orem, "hazelnut oil fatty acids in the composition at a rate of 85 percent oleik acids are available and the rate of other olive oil, including vegetable oil is over. Olein acid, the risk of high blood pressure, reduces bad cholesterol (LDL) to reduce the good cholesterol (HDL) increases, heart disease and shows protective effect against, "he said.

Angel of death in Medicine 8

2009-06-18T14:14:00.000-07:00

Angel of death Joseph Mengele
Joseph Mengele, Hitler about people in prison in the period Auschwitz'de which was left free to experiment. He also was responsible for selecting the gas chambers convicts. And to separate the twins were interested. Second World War has been left exposed to thousands of surgeries and the terrible twins, unfortunately, very few people in this massacre was able to get rid of. With a different identity after the war, Mengele fled to Argentina. Experiments by a friend not as a record of the Mengele died in 1979. The tomb was opened in 1985 and died in 1992, DNA tests have confirmed the Mengele.

CARROT

2009-06-18T12:39:00.000-07:00

Is not consumed raw to the cooked carrots
In earlier studies of the evolution of cancer is determined to stop eating the carrots cut reduces the value of vitamins.
Researcher Doctor Kirsten Brandt, of research results in the content of carrot slices consumed by reducing substances that falcarinol to defend it against the cancer means you are weakening.

Recommended by the doctor to eat cooked carrots with Kirsten, cook the carrots in the anti-cancer vitamins so that 25 percent said more increases. Institute of Cancer Research UK's cancer risk reduced carrot tartafından research had revealed that. Carrots in the development of cancer of the suspended substance is natural falcarinol says.

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Angel of death in Medicine 8

2009-06-17T14:12:00.000-07:00

Nightmare nurse Jane Toppan
Jane Toppan, 11 murder confession was first realized, and then the other 31 murder. Cüretkârlık with drugs that many patients in spite of death and the theft accusations, between the years 1885-1901 was able to find work again and again Massachuessetts'te. Toppan in 1901, an innocent old woman to look after the death of Davis family moved to the next. In a very short time, the father and the two girls were found dead. A half-brother of the victim Toppan'ın learned is poison. On top of this you want to arrest the Toppan'ı, Toppan killed him. Toppan, not guilty due to insanity and death, is proud of machines that all do, he said.

Hepatitis D can be infected with AIDS from easily 100 times

2009-06-16T14:08:00.000-07:00

Ankara University (AU) Ibn Sina Hospital of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Department Chairman Prof. Dr. Ismail Fish, 100 times more easily infected with hepatitis B disease can AİDS'ten said.

Prof. Dr. Fish viral hepatitis in Turkey is the most common of the infectious disease, he said.

In Turkey, approximately 4 million carriers of Hepatitis B and C was found indicating Prof. Dr. Fish, particularly of diseases commonly seen in East and Southeast Anatolia region is made.

Measures of disease does not get liver failure, cirrhosis, liver cancer treatment, such as a difficult and expensive it can cause fatal disease striking Prof. Dr. Fish, from AIDS to hepatitis B disease can be expressed as 100 times more easily infected, said:

Barber and hairdresser in''the tools are sterilized and the spread of disease should constitute an important factor. Body tattooed with instruments to be sterilized, earrings and piercing holes to open a disease can spread easily. Condom use during sexual intercourse have to be sure.''

Prevention of the spread of disease stage is an important söyleyen been vaccinate Fish, Hepatitis B vaccine has been made free of charge by the health institutions.

LETTUCE

2009-06-10T02:45:00.000-07:00

Lettuce

Galenos, bostani lettuce is not the coldness, the coldness, but has said until the water rose. That's the damp, the moisture is among the beets and the hibiscus.

According to some, the structure of the lettuce and cabbage in terms of dryness in between the vegetables with the kind of arm that is said. I say it is cold in the third degree would be expressed. According to the Physicians, food is as bad or very few nutrients. This is not true. Lettuce, is cold in the second degree.

BENEFITS

Lettuce of the cleaners, is shrinking and no disassembly feature. Salty, sour to the lack of features such as, that of blood, of bleeding than other vegetables are red. cooked lettuce is nutritious. Lettuce, fluid is useful in complaints arising from disputes with each other.

Were washed lettuce is good. To wash, lettuce, and the gas will increase the constructive characteristics of the vegetables at the same time all the more makes the chills. It is rapidly absorbed. Nervous complaints (diseases) in front.

Soccer

Swelling and edema is effective on Yangılı. United edema can not be effective with.

ER bodies

Joints on the outside (plaster, poultice) applied is useful.

PER organs

Raw or cooked, is sleeping, so sleep will fix. Prevents wandering. Also protects the head of suntanning. This drug, the drug is the bottleneck.

SEE

The milk of wild lettuce, corneal wound clean. Milk of the same effects of lettuce Bostani shows. Ash of lettuce, can be used for burns. Wild lettuce milk, eyelash and prevent spills. To win, will damage the eye.

OUT.REALLY the organs of the EC

His seed, the seed is dry, it reduces sexual desire, orgasm is slow and I'd say the benefits are seen in his seed. Half bandbox lettuce milk, with water inside, the effect of diarrhea in the bowels do. The milk-bellied bostani grown lettuce, wild lettuce near the impact will have milk. Diarrhea or constipation in the bowels of lettuce has no effect.
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MULBERRY

2009-06-08T13:47:00.000-07:00

To strengthen hair at the ...
Reminder that the summer fruit, as well enteric also enhances your hair ...
Chronic diarrhea and intestinal ulcers will resolve Dutta, especially has the effect of dry berry. The diuretic. Leaves with pure water source be used, the thick hair and makes hair. Fix your mouth and throat are swollen, and canker sores in the mouth of the baby is good ...

There are two type of berry. One is sweet and red. This kind, such as figs are cleaner. But the feeder is less than the value of figs; infects blood, stomach and other conditions, such as the fig, but is weaker. Damascus tried the berry is not a benefit that is as often as the yellow clover. Established by Ham, sumac is used instead.

CONTENT

Sweet, the hot, damp and sour of the pickled Damascus, is prone to cold, is damp.

BEAUTY

Mulberry leaves, fig leaves overhead and profit, pure water source be used, the thick hair and makes hair.

Pus and sores

Sour berry bad wound up is useful; water (water extracts) makes the same impact.

PER organs

Dried sour berry, juicy in the mouth is good and he's done to hurt the root, the teeth will loosen, if not gargle with sour juice of mulberry leaves, the language is good for wounds.

BENEFITS

He astringent, cooling effects are. Berry extracts water, shows a lot of influence shrinking. In particular, the copper core in the boiling water, prevents penetration of substances in tissue. This effect is more crude mulberry. Kind of life, such as sumac is used.

To SIS

kşi mulberry, troubleshooting, and leaves the mouth and throat swelling, tonsils and new born children and canker sores in the mouth (ASPHYXIA) will do you good.

NUTRITION

Dutta, is harmful to the stomach. In particular, the red, sweet berry is damaged more quickly. If the quick deterioration in the stomach does not have any damage. He has no bad effects. Or a little is good, but is not nutritious. All varieties of mulberry and gastric juice before meals to beat the intense time that is appropriate. Even with İştiha yen, will be dropped quickly from the stomach. However, even if taken out quickly from the stomach of the mulberry, moves slowly in the intestine.

OUT.REALLY the organs of the EC

Sour pickled, dry salt by, in the bowels indicates severe constipation and dysentery great income effect. Leak fluid ejector effect of mulberry in the tree is in the shell, and cleaner, and there are ejector effect; ejector effect is greater. From the stomach to the bowels of the series of sweet berry pass because, moisture, or sweet liquids may be placed in the stomach acid.

Physicians Erhanhanes, as the slow digestive system of mulberry leaves is paramount, has also. I would think that this opinion may be related with sour berry.

Dutta, ejector tabiaten have an impact, but will eliminate the chronic diarrhea and intestinal ulcers, especially has the effect of dry berry. All varieties of mulberry in the diuretic effect is. Sami kind of berry, how quickly passes from the stomach, the bowels out of the past (is taken).

One of the ear and dental pain

2009-06-07T12:31:00.000-07:00

EYE on the one bruise ...

GARLIC

To count the benefits of garlic dishes bitmiyor been given up. Lepra disease is a good pass from toothache garlic. Peach is the decrease otalgia. Garlic and leek is known as one of bostani one and there is wild. There is poignancy in the wild. He called serpent garlic. Leek kind, includes compounds forces. And leek, and garlic effect shows.

content

Heaters and dryness in the third degree. It is up to the fourth degree. This is often called wild.

BENEFITS

Softeners, solvent, solvent-getter and is very good.

BEAUTY

Corrosive to skin will prevent the breakdown of liquids. By boiling the garlic into the mountains, will kill lice. Makes even lethal effects in children. Is applied externally on the skin of their time. Ashes of garlic, Balla can be mixed, behak (Lepra, Addison's disease) is applied externally to the stains and eye bruise, would be useful. Poured out of the hair provides.

PER organs

Garlic, headache doing. Embers of the cooked garlic and dental pain resolves. Cooked in garlic, especially hemp become part feature increases pain.

NUTRITION

Hubn (cirrhosis), which is useful in disease and especially that of Nasri impact of cooked garlic is more paramount. Nasari, olive oil and garlic are cooked with carrots.

YARA the

Bring about the injury to the skin. Balla can be applied on the scabby wounds. Open wounds and mountains of garlic, bad-tempered, suppurating wounds are applied from outside.

SEE

Garlic, seeing (eyes) will weaken and cause the eye to appear watery sores.

RESPIRATORY

Baked garlic, clears throat and chronic cough is useful to the (treatment they will fix). Good for the chest pain comes from the Cold; throat is sticking to remove a blood clot.

OUT.REALLY the organs of the EC

Garlic leaves and body of water be boiled in this water sitting patients, urine and the effect the curse was the disassembly shows secundine remove. 2 drachm doses were beaten in the garlic, honey with water inside, the phlegm out assigns. However, due to the severe effects of driers and solvents, has a negative effect on potency.

Poison

Vermin, and is effective against snakebite. Even has the same effect against rabies. Type of animal bite against poppy and cumin with the fig leaf is applied externally in the form of pomade.

Haraket organs

To sciatica, if the fuse is applied in the form of good income. In this way, raw and ill-hıltları disassemble and assigns.

Peach

CONTENT

The second degree is the end of the cold and damp in the first degree, but this is close to the end of the first degree of its moisture. BENEFITS quickly becomes corrupted due to damp; is softening. And fluidity of the sphincter has established a preventive effect has a structure. Indicates that the effect of raw sphincter.

BEAUTY

Leaves is used externally by time, will eliminate the bad smell

PER organs

Leaf extracts of water, is used in the form of drops, ear worm shows the lethal effect. Oil, a good income to pain in temples. At the same time, cold or hot is a good source of ear pain.

NUTRITION

Mature peach, is useful for the stomach. Effect is exhilarating İştiha: Peach on the food not eaten properly. Because yiyecekerler infects. Therefore, the right to be eaten before meals. Feature is more nourishing.

OUT.REALLY the organs of the EC

Leaves, applied externally for some time as your wife is on a pomade, a deadly effect on intestinal worm shows. In the same way that the core of the water in flower is petallarına, shows the same effect. Mature peach, enteric gives the softening effect and impact of raw peach indicates constipation. Some say it increases the sexual power. (This effect of the physician and the dose may be in line with orders.) This effect can be seen in the body warm and dry spirited.

HEALTH CONDİTİON

2009-06-06T12:10:00.000-07:00

She looks like a million bucks.
I feel like a million dollars.
I'm fresh as daisy.
He's healthy as a horse.
You are fit as a fiddle.
She looks tired.
You look like a hell.
He's a sight.
You look like you've been to hell and back.
Are you all right.?
Do you feel all right?
You look flushed.
You look pale.
You are white as a ghost.
I am allergic to dogs.
I have hayfever.
My nose is stuffed up.
I can't breathe.
Bless you.
My eyes are puffy.
I am sick.
I am sick as a dog.
I feel terrible.
I feel sick to my stomach.
I feel nauseous.
I have a headache.
I have a migraine.
I am so dizzy.
I need a nap.
My head is pounding.
Is it caching?
Does it hurt when I touch?
How long have you had this problem?
I have a pain in my back.
My ankle is swollen.
I am bleeding.
I feel weak.
It hurst after I eat.
I have been throwing up.
I lose my dinner.
I am really sleepy.

POMEGRANETE

2009-06-05T13:40:00.000-07:00

Bran's natural medicine

NAR

Grains of pomegranate, Balla otalgia good income, is applied externally to the bottom of the ear, makes the same impact. Balla also been mixed, with one battered pomegranate, is applied externally, to bran (to make) a good income ...

CONTENT

The pomegranate is sweet, so cold in the first degree, as damp, sour, which is cold and dry in the second degree.

BENEFITS

What is missing, the amount of bile and intestinal flow of surplus obstacles. In particular, it has the effect of syrup. All nevin, even sour ones, even though effect is constipation.

Soccer

Nar of them, with the externally applied Balla, the finger is in the care of wounds.

YARA the

Pomegranate flowers, the temperature will soften the suppurating wounds. What is missing, and all the softening is much less nutritious. But one is harmful. Is more conservative; part is disruptive, and all of them are sweet too, not that is the case.

PER organs

Grains of pomegranate, Balla good income earache. Balla also been mixed, with one battered pomegranate, is applied externally, to bran (to make) a good income. One sweet pomegranate, the wine is cooked, then well be crushed and then blown into the ear (mumps) is nearer to the good income. Pomegranate syrup, and wine (rub), being drunk in front of. This effect is stronger as well, especially sour.

EYE DISEASES

Sour water extracts, Balla together to cataract (zıfr) will do you good. The essence of sweet water and bitter water of the essence, the sun Balla, eyes on the fire, to quench, cehere (day blindness) will do you good. RESPIRATORY

Sour pomegranate, irritation of the throat and chest irritation eder. Fresh pomegranate, both to soften and strengthen the chest. If one of the pomegranate, with rain water inside, the mouth will stop the bleeding and all kinds of pomegranate to hafakan (tremor) good income and cancels hiccup.

OUT.REALLY the organs of the EC

Sour pomegranate, sweet nardan usually more diuretic, and both (sour and sweet) diuretic; Balla one of the pomegranate, is useful for wounds in the stomach; roasted pomegranate kernels, bile secretion is useful to strengthen the stomach. Pomegranate root of the shell, nebizle (a kind of palm trees and drinks made from grapes) are intestinal worm.

NUTRITION organs

And chronic inflammation of the stomach is good for all of keymus good income. Fresh pomegranate, is suitable for the stomach, it has a slight effect stoppage. The sour pomegranate, is harmful to the stomach. Furthermore, one of the worst effects of the stomach makes the pomegranate; the effects of burning in the stomach.

Roasted one of his pregnant iştiha of increases, but also of the essence of pomegranate sour, hot people to drink before eating, it is better to sip after dinner. Pomegranate sour after dinner, food, steam will prevent access to the organ. Pomegranate food before meals, prevents absorption of food eaten. All kinds of little food value has nar.

Of fever

Nar pain, fever and inflammation is well. However, honey is generally considered harmful in hot fever.

The Meditation Buddhism Metaphysics Meetup Group

2009-05-28T12:08:00.000-07:00

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The metaphysics of the spiritual traditions of man must address modern and postmodern critiques. Integral spirituality honors the insights of the great wisdom traditions of premodernity with the truths of the modern scientific age.

Our online meetup about meditation, spirituality, metaphysics, Buddhism, consciousness, philosophy, etc. A gathering place for us to discuss our paths.

Topics: spirituality, consciousness, mysticism, meditation, philosophy, metaphysics, the Soul, politics, the environment, social activism, literature, alternative health, vegetarianism, Buddhism, Kabbalah, Yoga, Astral Projection, Astrology, Barbelith, Brights, Burning Man, Comics, Corporatism, Cultural Creatives, Discordianism, Disinfo, Energy Healing, Esoteric, Futurism, Gnostic, Homeschooling, Indigo, Law of Attraction, Lifestyle Coaching, Literature, Magick, New Age, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Nondualism, Paranormal, Perennial Philosophy, Personal Growth, Psychic, Psychotherapy, Qi Gong, Questioning Religion, Reiki, Self Improvement, Spiral Dynamics, Tantra, Taoism, Tarot, Transcendence, Transhumanism, What the Bleep, Zen.

Authors and thinkers: Ken Wilber, Alan Watts, Ram Dass, Gary Null, Nietzsche, Caroline Myss, Terence McKenna, Krishnamurti, Thich Nhat Hanh, Robert Anton Wilson, David Deida, Alan Moore, Eckhart Tolle, Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman, et. al.

You are welcome to join and discuss and learn and grow with us, here.

Do you want to talk about personal development and self improvement?

Do you want to talk about physical fitness and personal health?

Do you want to talk about philosophy?

Do you want to talk about politics and current affairs?

Do you want to talk about art and culture?

Do you want to talk about spirituality and higher states of awareness?

Do you want to talk about intimacy and personal relationships?

Do you want to talk about financial improvement and goal setting?

Do you want to talk about how to make a contribution to the world?

This group can transform your life. This group is about success. We define success as:

1) A career that we find satisfying. Do something you love, love the thing you do, and manage life and finances so that they fit one another.
2) Physical health and fitness. A body which we would find desirable if we were the opposite sex. One which has the energy and aliveness to support us in our dreams.
3) A healthy, committed primary relationship. A stable, loving relationship with a partner we admire and lust after, who is also a friend and helpmate.

Topics: Personal development and self improvement, physical fitness and personal health, philosophy, art and culture, spirituality and higher states of awareness, intimacy and personal relationships, financial improvement and goal setting.

This group is about you. What do you most want out of life? What is most important to you? What aspect of your life do you most want to improve? You can transform your life, easier than you know. This is the only life you're given. Play it to win.

You are welcome to join and discuss and learn and grow with us, here.

Snohomish Gardening Meetup Group

2009-05-21T11:11:00.000-07:00

Home gardening, gardening for market, permaculture, organic gardening, survival gardening, chicken tractoring, community gardens and community supported agriculture.

Some activities to include, seed swaps, plant swaps and garden tours of those willing to share. And just a general pooling of information and knowledge with like minded people.

Also, many home gardeners have surpluses, but not enough to justify having their own booth at the Farmer’s market, but if we pool resources and share manning a booth, we could have an outlet for sales to help support our own gardening efforts.

In these hard economic times, it is great to encourage our community to turn their lawns to food.

Kitsap County Organic Foods Sharing and Support Group

2009-05-21T11:10:00.000-07:00

Come to Silverdale, Kitsap County and meet like-minded people in support of organic foods.
The Organics Meetup is, for me is for a sense of community around good, "people safe food". I am a crazy person when it comes to what I feed my son and it has manifested itself in Organic foods (and the absence of High Fructose Corn Syrup!).
The Organics Meetup will not be too high-brow or too Hippie 'cause that's just not me, but it will be a sharing of ideas about nourishment of self, of family, of community.

You know there is always one person in the house that could care less if you eat organic or not, meet people that share your interest and learn things about organics to shore up your case.

Not only will we talk amongst ourselves but I hope to have local speakers from the professional community to talk to us about the benefits of organic.

Living Health Raw

2009-05-21T11:09:00.001-07:00

We are interested in meeting local raw & living foods enthusiasts. Our meetings are fun opportunities to share stories, food & recipes, inspire one another, and learn more about the raw and living food lifestyle. The Living Health Raw meetups include recipe or kitchen equipment demos, the opportunity to watch RAW lifestyle movies, reviews of new raw lifestyle books, tips and advice from experienced raw foodies, guest speakers, and much more.

Everyone is welcome - you don't have to be a raw foodist or vegan/vegetarian to join our group or attend our Raw Celebrations/Potlucks.

Living Health Raw Resources: Click on the "Files" tab (left side of our website home page) for raw resources (books, places to eat, recipes)

Seattle Superfood Nutrition Meetup Group

2009-05-21T11:06:00.000-07:00

Join the Superfood and Raw Food movement by connecting with like-minded friends! We'll meet together for 'tastings' of scrumptious Superfood recipes: delicious smoothie creations, indulgent chocolate blendies, tonic elixirs, decadent raw desserts, and much more goodness. As the host, I'll prepare several drinks and treats for us to share and indulge in; you are welcome to bring something if you like, but it is absolutely not required. Leave the organization, preparation, and clean-up to me!

We welcome any and all that are interested in raw and living foods and the related holistic lifestyle!

Feel GREAT all the time by following Adonai's health basics!

2009-05-21T11:05:00.000-07:00

Will will FOCUS on health, NOT on spiritual beliefs! I read the entire Bible without realizing that it was loaded with health information! No matter what the health challenge, the body will heal itself IF provided what it needs to do so! As Jesus Christ asked in the book of John, chapter 5, verse 6, "Do you want to be in sound health?" I have learned that most people (believers included) are not willing to do what it takes to be healthy...Sure we will talk about the importance of eating fresh organic whole foods! But food is NOT our GOD! ADONAI IS!!! There is SO much more to GREAT health than just food! The mind, cleansing, digestion, activity (exercise), blood & oxygen, rest & sun, dental health & good hygiene, water, and not doing harm! Let's share Bible health info! As God's word says, "With God all things are possible!" It's all in the GREATEST health book ever written! The Bible! I hope there is SO much interest in this group that we move to one meetup per week, once per month in the south end, once per month in the north end, once per month on the eastside, and once per month is the Seattle area. So join the group no matter where you live in Western Washington and IF you want meetups in your area we will try to make that happen! Even join if not local, we might be able to speaker phone you in!

Vegan / Vegetarian Movie Nights

2009-05-21T11:04:00.000-07:00

Social meetup for vegans and vegetarians to chat and watch movies, and just hang out. The movie nights that we have at my place will have vegan junk food and raw food- so whatever your tastes we should cover it. This should be great fun for us all