1. Carbonated beverages speed up the aging process ! 2. Menthol cigarettes more dangerous than conventional cigarettes !

1. Carbonated beverages accelerate the aging process :

Specialists have found that aging closer phosphates, which in the soda water very much. They provoke cardiovascular disease and kidney disease. Phosphates adversely affect the body because they are toxic.

2. Menthol cigarettes more actively reward the smoker with carbon monoxide, nicotine and cotinine levels than regular cigarettes.

An explanation of the economic way:

low-income smokers are suffering from rising prices, are beginning to consume fewer cigarettes per day, but inhale more intensely and become more dependent, more so that menthol makes a deep breath of cigarette smoke even more enjoyable.

Which may deprive the smoker a bad habit and protect it from diseases that are transmitted by sexual contact and unwanted pregnancy. Note that the main problem of all inventions to combat smoking is that none of them brings a hundredth part of the pleasure that a man feels, inhaling.

However, nicotine condoms in this sense may be much more effective than nicotine patches, nicotine gum or electronic cigarettes. According to the creators, coated nicotine lubricated condom will provide the necessary body of nicotine. The substance of the grease will enter the body through the skin, charging lovers extra energy during sex.

The Swedish company Pharmacia Latex Aktiebolaget not the first time experimenting with its products. Previously they released condoms with caffeine for coffee-fans.

1. Aspirin reduces the effectiveness of antidepressants ! 2. Quit smoking with the help of telephone conversations !

1. That aspirin reduces the effectiveness of antidepressants. In rodents treated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, including ibuprofen and aspirin, were reported weakening of antidepressant action of drugs from the group of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. This group includes drugs such as sertraline, citalopram and fluoxetine, known under the trade name Prozac.

To participate in the second phase of the study was selected group of patients suffering from depression. Among patients taking NSAIDs, antidepressant therapy was effective in 40% of cases. At the same pronounced effect of antidepressants was observed in 56% of patients in the control group.

Greengard noted that the often anti-inflammatory drugs and antidepressants are prescribed for older people at the same time. In this regard, he urged doctors more carefully selected combination and dosage of drugs for such patients.

2. A special "hot line" anti-smoking. For this purpose, a specially created website with general advice on getting rid of smoking, paid online program QuitNet, in which smokers get more detailed advice, as well as call center support for smokers.

The researchers followed up to 2 thousand randomly selected smokers were divided into 3 groups. The first group includes smokers who refused the habit of using telephone consultations.

At the expiration of 18 months, 15% of those who served in the first group reported success getting rid of the habit. Percentage of successful quitters in the second group was of 8% in the third - at 6%.

Ministry of Health called the products that will control GMOs

The Ministry of Health has developed a list of foods that are planned to check on the content of genetically modified organisms mandatory.

The proposed Ministry of Health list includes raw and processed food products that are out of it can produce, namely:

Soybeans: Soybeans, soy protein concentrate and textured forms, soy flour and textured shapes, milk substitute, milk replacer, canned soybeans, boiled soybeans, roasted soybeans, roasted soy flour , the products are produced using soy protein isolate, soy protein concentrate, fermented soy products, soybean paste and products with its use.

Maize :

Maize for direct human consumption, flour, corn, barley, corn, flour, mixed, containing corn meal, corn, frozen and canned, popcorn from corn, corn chips, corn oil, crude, refined corn oil, corn starch, maltodextrin, produced from corn , syrups, made from corn starch.

Potatoes:

Potatoes, semi-finished products made from potatoes, mashed potato powder, potato flakes, potato chips, crackers, potato, fried potato products: firewood potato in slices, straw, concentrate of potatoes, including including - flour for pancakes, potato dumplings with semi.

Tomatoes :

Tomatoes for direct use in food tomato paste, tomato puree, tomato juice, tomato sauce, ketchup.

Courgettes :

zucchini in-kind, products or manufactured using zucchini.

Melon :

Cantaloupe in-kind, products or manufactured using a melon.

Papaya :

Papaya in-kind products produced or manufactured using papaya.

Chicory :

Products containing chicory, sugar beet, sugar, glucose, fructose, derived or produced from sugar beets.

Rapeseed :

Canola and its products, including: crude rapeseed oil, rapeseed oil, refined oil, rapeseed oil, and foods that contain it.

Flax :

Flax oil and products that contain it.

Cotton :

cottonseed oil and products that contain it.

Wheat :

Wheat in-kind, products or made from wheat, including bread and bakery products.

Rice :

Products containing rice, including: rice crushed, rice flour, rice flakes, rice crisps.

Baby food and raw materials for their manufacture.

Foods for special dietary, functional foods, dietary supplements, manufactured using the food mentioned in this list.

1. Seasonal depression can help to overcome meditation ! 2. Tonsillectomy increases the risk of obesity in children !

1. That meditation can help cope with stress and overcome the diseases associated with nervous tension. They passed within 8 weeks of the course program for stress relief, which was in meditation.

According to experts, a health conscious effect of meditation is based on the internal body's ability to relax. This type of meditation is recommended in diseases that are linked to nervous stress. For example, headaches, heart disease, hypertension and low back pain.

That daily for 8 weeks of one hour in meditation strengthens the immune system, increases the positive thinking and enhances mood.

2. Surgery to remove the tonsils in combination with adenoidectomy with or without children increases the risk of obesity. Number of children who are overweight or obese has increased significantly over the past 20 years. Such children are at risk to save weight problems in later life, which in turn makes them vulnerable to cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

In 47,7% of them the operation was due to the difficulty of breathing during sleep. Effects of the operation were studied by different methods. In particular, a survey group of 127 children, body mass index increased after surgery to 5.5% -8.2%.

In the second group, consisting of 419 patients after three different types of surveys, it was found that the weight of patients increased by 46% -100% of cases.

Develop specific recommendations for parents of children who underwent tonsillectomy, to avoid problems with obesity.

The surgeon had forgotten in the abdomen :

The woman had lived five months with the scissors in the stomach, it neglected the surgeon during an operation to abdominoplasty.

30-year-old Anne, who has survived two pregnancies, she turned to the clinic in Lyon, in order to make the abdominoplasty. After completing the operation, which was called "successful", the surgeon has forgotten in her stomach scissors. Discharged from the hospital, Ann began to complain of severe abdominal pain. In response to her complaint surgeon said it was "normal".

The woman became clear the cause of her pain only once during a severe coughing spell she spat out a piece of metal. After that, Anne promptly turned to her surgeon operated on, but who asked her to wait for the surgery until Monday because the same day was Friday. He also noted that the "minor accident" and it is better that it happened at the end rather than at the beginning of his career.

To date, scissors removed from the stomach, Anne, and she is recovering at home after the second operation. The woman is going to apply for a surgeon in court on charges of malpractice.

Educational level influences on blood pressure :

Argue that the educational level of human influence on his systolic blood pressure. Conclusion was reached based on analysis of case histories of 3,890 patients who participated in the 30-year.

In the category of highly educated subjects experienced before, if studied in a total of more than 17 years. It is this group of participants of the pressure was lower than that of others.

And the most noticeable difference is recorded in women: the study who gave more than 17 years, systolic blood pressure was at 3.26 mm Hg lower than those who did not graduate high school.

Ladies, go to college, but never made it to the Judiciary, had the advantage of a 2 mm Hg. Art. over less educated peers. A man studying at master's "lowered" the pressure to 2.26 mmHg. Art.

Even after taking into account such important factors as smoking, addicted to drinking, obesity and medication, communications diploma level pressure, though less explicit, it is still retained (2.86 mm Hg. Art. For women and 1.25 - for men).

In addition, the researchers found out that highly educated men had a lower BMI (body mass index), less smoking and drinking is not so much. In women, the situation is slightly different: the ladies masters had lower BMI, smoked less, but drank more than their female counterparts dropouts.

Patents on stem cell therapy :

All procedures involving the use of human embryonic stem cells can not be patented
This is stated in a preliminary ruling, the Court issued a ruling. As early as 1991 a scholar going to patent a method for obtaining neural cells from embryos to treat diseases of the brain and spinal cord. Take advantage of it, he could not because of two decades of legal debate.

They can not develop into a human being. Nevertheless, to ignore the existence of an embryo as a source of such cells, he said, is impossible. Otherwise, it will lead to the creation and destruction of human embryos on an industrial scale, which contradicts the ethics of modern society.

The preliminary conclusion will now be considered the thirteen judges of the Grand Chamber of the Court. The final decision is expected within several months. It will not
can only work with imported materials created no later than May 2007. Such cells can be converted only in certain organs but not in a full-fledged human.

EU legislation concerning patents on biotechnology is very vaguely formulated questions related to hESC. The drafters of the rules can be expressed in clear, even when dealing with cells derived from spare embryos created for in vitro fertilization and still be destroyed.
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Cocaine was more harmful than alcohol

American scientists have discovered mechanisms of suppression of the gene in the brain with alcohol and drug abuse, harmful effects of cocaine was more extensive, according to an article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Understanding what genes are and how involved in the formation of alcohol and drug dependence, it is necessary to find treatments for these pathologies. Molecular biologists from the National Institute of Health in Rockville, and the University of Miami School of Medicine, focused on the analysis of the gene in the hippocampus.

This area of ​​the brain responsible for translating the information from short-term memory into long-term, and also participates in the formation of drug dependence. Scientists studied the cells of the brain tissue 24 deceased men. A third of them during his life abusing cocaine, a third - of alcohol, the biological material from the rest served as controls. Preliminary analysis of 16,000 genes, working in the hippocampus, allowed to identify 1994 genes whose activity disrupted in people who are addicted to cocaine, and 1275 genes that go wrong with the brain of alcoholics.

In all samples of brain tissue, scientists have studied the number of mRNA molecules (the genetic "instructions" on the synthesis of proteins). This gives an indication of the genes (expression) - the more mRNA molecules, the more actively expressed a particular gene. In turn, the activity of genes depends, in part, on the spatial placement of the DNA molecule and on its chemical modification.

It turned out that the abuse of alcohol or cocaine may affect these processes. Previously it was shown that the activity of genes increases with the accession of the methyl groups CH3 to one of the histone proteins involved in the correct stacking of DNA necessary for the operation of genes. And cocaine, and alcohol hinders the formation of methylated forms of histone, which reduces the level of many genes - it was fairly clear by the number of mRNA molecules.

In this case, cocaine was more harmful than alcohol. The authors demonstrated that the use of this drug also leads to a violation of the expression of genes associated with the work of the mitochondria - the energy "factories" of living cells. This, in addition to other negative effects from the drug, leads to deterioration of brain energy supply.

laziness is inherited

Lazy are born, not made, and a chronic reluctance to do anything conditionally prirodoy.K ​​This is the conclusion of the University of California (USA) after eksperimanta with laboratory mice.

Biologists have brought four "rocks" rodents with increased activity, four with reduced activity, and analyzed the behavior of their offspring.

Cubs are more active parents have retained activity, and little mice of the second group were less "work". Scientists believe that based on these data, we can say with confidence that the activity peredaetsya genetically.

Professor Theodore Garland (Theodore Garland) and his colleagues believe that their discovery is of great importance to human health. "People are leading a sedentary lifestyle, can be treated with drugs that act on genes that are responsible for physical activity.

Drug treatment in the future can make sporting activities is much more enjoyable. Besides, with the help of treatment will be put off by immobilized lifestyle "," scientists hope.