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Superfoods may Help Enhance Your Diet
Ice Hockey Players Have Battle Cries Covered Up As IOC Cold Shoulders Them
Men Find Sexual Infidelity Intolerable, Says Survey
Survey Suggests Personal Grooming Important on Valentines' Day
Woolly Mammoths Lived on Wildflowers in the Arctic
Technology may Help Ensure You Have a Good Night's Sleep
Testosterone Therapy Risks Need to be Evaluated
Here are Some Reasons to Have Sex in Your 60s
Celebrate the Perfect Valentine's Day at Home!
Research Suggests Whole Diet Far Better for Heart Than Low-Fat Variant
What Did Large Herbivores Like Mammoths Eat 25,000 Years Ago?
Robot With Feelings Developed by Researchers
Mortality Rate In Drug Users 14 Percent Higher Than General Population
Protein Associated With Canine Hereditary Ataxia Identified by Researchers
Birth Hormone may Control the Expression of Autism in Animals
Research Suggests Source of Chlamydia Reinfections may be GI Tract
Septic Shock to be Now Handled With a New Potential Treatment
Spinal Cord Injury Patients Experience Benefits from Diaphragm Pacing Stimulation
E-cigarette Advertisements Violate the Laws of Tobacco Advertising
Help Your Baby Get a Good Night's Sleep: Here's How
New Clues to the Roots of Hunger
Leukaemia Risk Not Linked to Living Under Overhead Power Lines
Aspirin Use Could Reduce Ovarian Cancer Risk
Scientists Discover Cradle of Arbitration in the Brain
Positive Psychology, Good Diet Essential for Life After Cancer, Say Doctors

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Some "amazing superfoods", which will help provide nutrition, can help you attain the perfect body shape. These superfoods when accompanied with a balanced diet provide many nutritional benefits. "Superfoods" is a marketing term used to describe foods with supposed health benefits and Lovisa Nilsson, nutritionist at health brand Lifesum, shares some sought after items that come under the list, reports femalefirst.co.uk. *Lingonberries: They help to keep ...

Ice Hockey Players Have Battle Cries Covered Up As IOC Cold Shoulders Them

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The International Olympic Committee has stamped down on hockey goaltenders who want to show their patriotic pride by adorning their Olympic masks with partisan slogans and inspirational battle cries. Slovakia's goaltender Jan Laco wanted to use lyrics from the country's national anthem on his mask but was told by an official from the IOC that he couldn't do it. The national anthem of Slovakia is "Nad Tatrou sa blyska" which translates into "Lightning ...

Men Find Sexual Infidelity Intolerable, Says Survey

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People's opinion about cheating depends on their gender, as most men find sexual affairs to be worse than an emotional one, says a new survey. The survey, conducted by dating site Victoria Milan on 5,000 of their members, has found that men and women have very different ideas about what's forgivable and what's not in a relationship, Huffington Post reported. The poll, which aimed to find how people felt about cheating, revealed that 72 percent of the ...

Survey Suggests Personal Grooming Important on Valentines' Day

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A survey conducted by one of the leading matrimonial site says personal grooming becomes a very important task for people who plan on celebrating Valentine's day. According to a survey by Jeevansathi.com amongst 3,000 people, 70 percent of people think grooming oneself is absolutely essential. The survey also says that 70 percent of people spend more than Rs.500 on themselves for the day, said a statement. In all, 53 percent of the total ...

Woolly Mammoths Lived on Wildflowers in the Arctic

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Nearly 50,000 years ago during the Ice Age, the landscape of the Arctic was not drab and dull, infact, it was filled with colorful wildflowers, a new study revealed. These wildflowers helped sustain woolly mammoths and other giant grazing animals. The study, "Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafauna diet," included Joseph Craine, assistant professor in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University. It was led by the Centre for GeoGenetics at the ...

Technology may Help Ensure You Have a Good Night's Sleep

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A technology that can help you measure quality and quantity of sleep right in your own bed is being introduced shortly. "The current measuring methods are uncomfortable and designed mainly for medical diagnoses so they are unsuitable for measuring sleep independently at home," said Joonas Paalasmaa, from University of Helsinki, Finland. Discovering an easy way to track sleep could help improve sleep quality, he added. In this, a flexible ...

Testosterone Therapy Risks Need to be Evaluated

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The risks and benefits of testosterone therapy for older men having declining levels of the hormone needs to be evaluated, a new statement has revealed today. The statement comes in response to recent studies that have raised concerns about the safety of testosterone therapy in older men with a history of heart disease. Two retrospective analyses and one randomized trial supported by the Veterans Health Care System, and the National Institutes of Health found a ...

Here are Some Reasons to Have Sex in Your 60s

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There is some relief in sight for women in their 60s, who feel that they no longer have the hormones that supported their earlier sex drive. Huffington Post has come up with some very good reasons that will make the older women reconsider getting in the sack for some action. According to the publication, sex helps in strengthening the bond between two people, as it can be an amazing place where one can experience the pleasure of generosity and reciprocity ...

Celebrate the Perfect Valentine's Day at Home!

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Celebrating Valentine's day at home while cafes and fancy restaurants are filled with couples can be a very smart decision. Helen Leigh-Jones, designer at furniture brand DFS, shares some tips on how to spruce up your place for an amazing romantic dinner, reports femalefirst.co.uk. * Lighting is very important for an evening like this. Candles are perfect on Valentine's Day as they create the perfect soft, warm, romantic glow. Fairy lights are a lovely ...

Research Suggests Whole Diet Far Better for Heart Than Low-Fat Variant

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A whole diet which focuses on increased intake of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and fish, has more evidence for reducing cardiovascular risk than strategies that focus exclusively on reduced dietary fat, a new study has revealed. Investigators found that participants directed to adopt a whole diet approach instead of limiting fat intake had a greater reduction in cardiovascular death and non-fatal myocardial infarction. This new study explains that while ...

What Did Large Herbivores Like Mammoths Eat 25,000 Years Ago?

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DNA testing has been used by a team of researchers to give a unique view of the diet of large mammals which roamed the northern hemisphere in the last ice-age. The researchers, led by the University of Copenhagen, sequenced DNA taken from samples of frozen soils and the stomachs of creatures preserved in the permafrost of Siberia and Alaska-Yukon - an area many times the size of the UK. Their results show that around 25,000 years ago vegetation in this ...

Robot With Feelings Developed by Researchers

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Researchers have designed a Emotional Robot with Intelligent Network, a ERWIN, with feelings. This initiative is a part of a study attempting to understand how long-term relationships may be forged between humans and androids. According to researchers at the University of Lincoln, these durable relationships could be important in cases where a robot operates as a personal aid or companion, for example when providing care for the elderly or support for people with ...

Mortality Rate In Drug Users 14 Percent Higher Than General Population

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The analysis of risk factors and excess mortality among those consuming heroin and cocaine admitted to treatment in Spain is now done by a new study. The results reveal that the fatality rate among consumers of both drugs is 14.3 times higher than for the general population, while among those only using cocaine, it is 5.1 times higher. In Spain the majority of deaths related to cocaine are not correctly certified and therefore up until now very few studies have ...

Protein Associated With Canine Hereditary Ataxia Identified by Researchers

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A link between a mutation in a gene called RAB 24 and an inherited neurodegenerative disease in Old English sheepdogs and Gordon setters has been identified by researchers from North Carolina State University. The findings may help further understanding of neurodegenerative diseases and identify new treatments for both canine and human sufferers. Hereditary ataxias are an important group of inherited neurodegenerative diseases in people. This group of ...

Birth Hormone may Control the Expression of Autism in Animals

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In recent years, the scientific community has agreed that autism has its origins in early life-fetal and/or postnatal. The team led by Yehezkel Ben-Ari, Inserm Emeritus Research Director at the Mediterranean Institute of Neurobiology (INMED), has made a breakthrough in the understanding of the disorder. In an article published in emScience/em, the researchers demonstrate that chloride levels are elevated in the neurons of mice used in an animal model of autism, ...

Research Suggests Source of Chlamydia Reinfections may be GI Tract

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A review published ahead of print in iInfection and Immunity/i says that the current standard of care treatment for chlamydia sometimes fails to eradicate the disease and the culprit may be in the gut. iChlamydia trachomatis/i not only infects the reproductive tract, but abides persistently-though benignly-in the gastrointestinal tract. There it remains even after eradication from the genitals by the antibiotic, azithromycin, says first author Roger Rank, ...

Septic Shock to be Now Handled With a New Potential Treatment

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Septic shock is basically caused due to systemic reaction of the body against bacterial infectious agents. The number of deaths by septic shock in intensive care units is very high and is still increasing, despite numerous large scale clinical trials. Scientists of VIB and UGent, supervised by Peter Vandenabeele, demonstrated in a mouse study that a potential novel treatment for sepsis may consist of the simultaneous neutralization of two harmful cytokines in the blood circulation, ...

Spinal Cord Injury Patients Experience Benefits from Diaphragm Pacing Stimulation

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Diaphragm pacing stimulation in spinal cord injury patients doesn't just successful in weaning patients from mechanical ventilators, but also help them respire independently. The stimulation is provided by the Diaphragm Pacing System (DPS), a technology providing electrical stimulation to nerves running through the diaphragm, the major muscle involved in breathing. When stimulated, the diaphragm contracts, allowing patients to breathe more naturally than having ...

E-cigarette Advertisements Violate the Laws of Tobacco Advertising

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The display of electronic cigarettes in some publications of the Air India and civil aviation ministry has been found to violate the laws against tobacco advertising. In separate letters to the ministry of civil aviation and Air India sent this week, the health ministry said Air India through discount booklets "Air Bazaar", distributed during flights, is selling "Electronic Cigarette" with a picture of a model smoking. Most e-cigarettes consist of battery-powered ...

Help Your Baby Get a Good Night's Sleep: Here's How

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Brain development occurs when your child is asleep, which is why, a good night's sleep is important for your kid too!. According to baby sleep expert, Jo Tantum, babies don't just sleep through the night so it is necassary to take care of few things in night so that your babies can have brighter mornings, reports femalefirst.co.uk. * Set the scene: Try to set a scene that is appropriate for bedtime such as ensuring that lights are switched off or ...

New Clues to the Roots of Hunger

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v. Instead, it is hunger, with its stomach-growling sensations and gnawing pangs that propels us to the refrigerator - or the deli or the vending machine. Although hunger is essential for survival, abnormal hunger can lead to obesity and eating disorders, widespread problems now reaching near-epidemic proportions around the world. Over the past 20 years, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) neuroendocrinologist Bradford Lowell, MD, PhD, has been untangling ...

Leukaemia Risk Not Linked to Living Under Overhead Power Lines

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Children living near overhead power lines don't have an increased risk of developing leukaemia, a new study revealed. Data on 16,500 children who developed leukaemia in Britain between 1962 and 2008 was analysed. The paper found no increased leukaemia risk for those living near power lines from the 1980s onwards - but a higher risk did exist in the 1960s and 70s, the BBC reported. The researchers said the findings were "reassuring" but work ...

Aspirin Use Could Reduce Ovarian Cancer Risk

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Daily intake of aspirin may cut the risk of ovarian cancer by 20 percent, reveals research. Further research is needed before clinical recommendations can be made. Previous studies have suggested that the anti-inflammatory properties of aspirin and non-aspirin NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), may reduce cancer risk overall. However, studies examining whether use of these agents may influence ovarian cancer risk have ...

Scientists Discover Cradle of Arbitration in the Brain

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The areas of the brain that serve as arbitrator between the two decision-making systems have been identified by researchers. In John O'Doherty's study, participants played a decision-making game on a computer while connected to a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner that monitored their brain activity. Participants were instructed to try to make optimal choices in order to gather coins of a certain color, which were redeemable ...

Positive Psychology, Good Diet Essential for Life After Cancer, Say Doctors

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Doctors and dieticians say positive psychology and good diet are important for cancer survivors to lead a healthy life post cancer. Suman Gupta, a 32-year-old mother of two, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008. She went through several chemotherapy sessions and a surgery and is now a happy mother. "Positive lookout on life helped me fight cancer. It is a curable disease so nothing to feel scared about," Gupta told IANS. Explaining ...