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Posted on 06-09-2008 under
Weight Loss
The findings of American scientists simply shocked the world. They conducted a series of studies, which concluded that it often happens that we get fat because we want to drink.
In the West it becomes increasingly popular diet, which consists of only proper water consumption, as well as restrictions in the use of fatty products. The fact is that American scientists found that when the body is not enough of water, it is experiencing stress and the brain sends impulses, which are similar to those sent if people are hungry.
As a result, people wrongly considering the signs of tteir body starts eating, rather than drink. This means that people consume more food than they need, and this is the result of obesity.
American scientists emphasize that one should drink for two- two and a half liters of water a day, which, it should be emphasized that just water counts, not tea, coffee and juices. The point is that it even alter the chemical composition of the body. If people would drink the required amount of water a day, then he will eat less, because the feeling of hunger will visit him less frequently.
Scientists also stress that it was better to abandon the use of various carbonated drinks, which contain harmful chemical compounds, which could cause further dehydration.
Therefore, before torturing yourself with diets and bringing to exhaustion in the gym, just try to start more drinking. The effect pleasantly surprise you.
Posted on 05-22-2008 under
Stop smoking
During the large-scale analysis, conducted by scientists from University of Northern California, it has been shown, that deactivation of a specific gene in tobacco plants allows to lower substantially the concentration of dangerous carcinogens in “healthy” leaves of tobacco.
This analysis can lead to revolution in the tobacco industry, experts consider. New tobacco will be free from carcinogens which are the reason of development of cancer at smoking people. Research has been conducted by doctor Ralph Dewey and associate professor Ramsey Lewis. Scientists managed to solve a riddle of transformation of nicotine into nor nicotine, which is formed when nicotine gets to a human organism. This substance is carcinogenic.
In the course of tobacco processing the considerable quantity of carcinogens, which represent serious hazard to health of the smoking person, is formed in it. In the course of the new analysis scientists have compared properties of tobacco to suppression of a dangerous gene, and traditional tobacco, which is used today in manufacture of cigarettes. It has been established, that genetically modified tobacco is six times less carcinogenic, than the standard. The harm to the person in case of smoking of new tobacco, can appear twice more low, than from the cigarettes accessible for today, researchers mark.
“Having created tobacco which would possess a minimum of carcinogens, or would be absolutely clean from harmful substances, would give the chance to apply it in a pharmaceutical industry, and also in creation of the high-quality products inaccessible for today”, - doctor Dewey says. Scientists hope, that the further analyses will confirm the received results, making them suitable for production.
Posted on 05-16-2008 under
Other
Chair which creates uniform fluctuations, a mouse which vibrates, the display suspended over a table on a mobile support, - all this is not imaginations of computer designers, but insistent recommendations of doctors and scientists.
Researcher Alan Hedge, the professor of ergonomics from Cornel University, has conducted long tests of a workplace, which can cause considerable damage to health of the person, considering, that for today more than 100 million inhabitants of America spend eight and more hours at computers. The concept of computer traumas will soon become common among experts, scientists mark. “About half of traumas which the person can receive, sitting at the computer, are connected with frequent repetition of the same actions. Such position of a body leads to extremely unpleasant consequences”, - doctor Hedge says.
Back damages – are one of the most widespread traumas caused by a sedentary way of life by working at the computer. If earlier pains in a back were observed at people who by a sort of the activity should lift and carry heavy subjects today back traumas are most widespread among computer fans. The especially sharply this problem threatens young generation, experts mark.
For the purpose of prevention of such traumas scientists have developed a revolutionary workplace, which meets all demands of convenience and safety for the person. The chair creates uniform vibrations that does not allow to a back and finitenesses to “become numb”. Other workplace details also make oscillatory movements not stirring to work. The especial arrangement of the monitor promotes decrease of loading on eyes, scientists confirm.
Posted on 05-10-2008 under
Healthy diet
The beloved person can help you to grow thin or to recover - the Canadian researchers have found out that men and women, who meet or live together, influence on gustatory preferences in meal of the partner. After having conducted the detailed review, the experts of University Ryerson in Toronto have established, that in couple people influence a food choice in shop and restaurant and culinary habits of each other.
As experts have defined, in most cases people positively reacted on desire to dump superfluous kgs at their young man or the girl and rendered to him/her emotional and physical support, also trying to refuse from harmful and high-calorific products. However, in some cases dieticians observed a boomerang effect: the partner, which consumed substitute and fat food, also “accustomed” the beloved person to a wrong food.
Posted on 05-04-2008 under
Other
The interdiction for use water in bottles in the United Kingdom promptly extends. The day before, the organizers of Olympic games-2012 have forbidden their employees to drink water from bottles at offices.
As they said, this decision - only the first step on the way “most ecologically clean Games in history of the Olympic Games”. It is planned to establish, in particular, hundreds of “fountains of potable water” for participants and visitors of Games - 2012.
Earlier water from bottles was forbidden at the sessions of the government of the Great Britain. According to the official representative of an office, “the government is committed in its work to the policy of care of ecology, and this is one of priorities for civil service”. The present action as he has noted is “a component of much wider program of actions in this sphere”.
Hundreds restaurants of the capital, a number of entertainment institutions have followed this example. Supporters of “taboo” for water in bottles pay general attention to that use of water from under the crane turns around more than in 300 times smaller emission of carbonic acid in the atmosphere, than in the process of manufacture and transportation of water in bottles. From usual water does not remain plastic packing and it should not be transported on a long distance by cars or trains.
Posted on 04-28-2008 under
Women's health
Kreatine, used by bodybuilders and powerlifters for increasing of muscular force and endurance, may be also useful at pregnancy. The Australian scientists have found out that this bioadditive reduces the risk of damage of a brain of a fetus in conditions of hypoxia (deficiency of oxygen), American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology informs.
Scientists from Monash University have conducted experiments on Cairo thorny mice (Acomys cahirinus). Unlike domestic mice, which are born immature, thorny mice are born with open eyes and more developed brain – for this reason they serve as good model for studying of newborns.
The head of the research of Zoe Ireland and her colleagues added 5 % of kreatine in food of pregnant mice. Kreatine is an organic acid, which is present at meat and fish, and it can also be developed in a human body. In the conditions of oxygen starvation kreatine can serve as an energy source, interfering with damage of cells. 1-2 days prior to childbirth the scientists caused artificial hypoxia after which the extraction of a fetus with the subsequent resuscitation was made.
As a result of experiment 95 % of the little mice, which mothers accepted kreatine, and only 63 % of the little mice which mothers ate usual food, have survived. Besides, the posterity of the animals, accepting biologically active additives, has gained weight faster. According to Ireland, the last was explained by smaller damage a sucking reflex at defeat of brain.
Hypoxia of a fetus is frequent complication of pregnancy and childbirth. In the developed countries each three-hundredth baby suffers from the patrimonial traumas connected with the suffered hypoxia.
“I am a convinced supporter of reception of kreatine during pregnancy, however in the last experiments a very high dose of it has been used. Though the preliminary tests have shown, that even premature children transfer high doses of kreatine well, we necessarily need additional researches”, - Patrick O’Brien from the London Royal college of obstetrics-gynecologists has informed.
Posted on 04-22-2008 under
Weight Loss
Certainly, nobody forbids lovely ladies to waste time and money for anti-cellulite massages, creams and to be soared under «burning fat» belts and trousers. There is no harm from it, and positive emotions are good. Here only, the cellulite hardly will disappear somewhere.
The thing is that all these procedures and cosmetic preparations practically in any way do not affect the main reason of formation of a cellulite - a lack of albuminous elastic connecting fabric in hypodermic fatty cellulose.
Only one traditional technique possesses real anti-cellulite effect, which in folk execution sounds so: “After meal it is necessary to have a sleep, that fat “was fastened”. It is not a joke, and the centuries-old tradition reflected in Russian proverb and passed centuries-old check by time.
We already know: to make that fat was not deposited under a skin “clusters”, it is necessary to keep it with elastic bands an albuminous connecting fabric. I.e., to “tie” with it fatty cells, not giving it to form shapeless pieces sticking out on a skin.
And what is necessary for this purpose?
First of all, the building raw materials - albumens - should not be spent for fuel. Our muscles and brain will want to receive this fuel (glucose) in any case. And we can give them it either together with meal, or the organism will take them from our muscular fabric, thereby having opened a way to chaotic increase of fat.
Differently, is necessary to direct arriving in blood with food amino acids on manufacture of connecting fibers, instead of to “expense” for maintenance of high level of sugar in the blood, necessary at hunger and stress.
For this purpose it is necessary to carry out regularly consistently two most elementary anti-cellulite “procedures” – to eat well and then to have a good sleep. Having excluded these two main factors, destroying proteins (hunger and stress), we will get the building albuminous material, necessary for maintenance of elasticity of hypodermic fatty cellulose.
Posted on 04-16-2008 under
Weight Loss
Women who try to get rid of cellulitis by means of low-calorie diets or starvations make a mistake. The result often appears opposite – new fat, which is deposited in the form of “orange-peel”.
In general the reason of a cellulite is that hypodermic fat in some moment starts to be deposited, roughly speaking, not with an equal layer, but in the form of poorly connected lumps and clusters. To connect, or, more precisely, these fatty deposit must be connected by muscular and connecting fabrics. The stronger they are, the more equally the fat is distributed.
Muscular and connecting fabrics, in turn, cannot grow without receipt in organism enough of “a building material» - albumens. At women, synthesis of albumens by nature always concedes on intensity to the fatty. And when there comes half-starved time of “days of limited intake of food”, and even full starvation (though medical, though compelled) this rupture - between disintegration of albumens and their synthesis - becomes huge.
Besides, any diet is a stress for an organism which, being imposed on stresses of a daily life, also strengthens disintegration of albumens. Why? Because our organism replies on any stress by the strengthened emission in blood of the hormones-glucocorticoids literally “eating” those albumens.
By the way, known for many people syndrome of “grief eating” is a not realized attempt of our body by a superfluous food not to admit a dystrophy of muscles. I.e., both at hunger, and at stress, the organism throws in “fire chamber” first of all muscular proteins. But at their lack and without support of elastic bands of a connecting fabric, fatty deposit starts to grow chaotically, likely to clusters, what gives the effect of “orange-peel”.
Posted on 04-10-2008 under
Cardiovascular
That is what the Israeli scientists state after having conducted a number of researches and having found very simple way of struggle against a disease of modern times – the raised pressure.
During the research conducted in cooperation with the Gartner’s Epidemiology Institute, the children’s branch of hospital Shiva and the Jewish university in Jerusalem, 228 children at the age from 7 till 9 years had been stated.
It has appeared, that in those houses, where there were dogs, at children and adults problems with pressure were observed less often, than in those families where there were no such pets.
According to epidemiologist Michel Balaychem, about a third of children suffer from the raised pressure or will be subject to a hypertension in the future. Besides, pressure jumps increase risk of occurrence of serious cardiological diseases, therefore presence of a dog in the house can prevent development of the disease of modern times.
Posted on 04-05-2008 under
Pharmaceutical News
The American scientists have urged to reduce financing of clinical tests of new vaccines against HIV and to redirect the released funds for human immunodeficiency virus basic researches.
The corresponding statement has sounded at one-day conference at National institute of public health services of the USA.
Necessity of search of new approaches to working out of vaccines against HIV-infection became obvious after a failure of clinical tests of a vaccine of company Merck & Co in the end of last year.
The long and expensive research simultaneously conducted in the Republic of South Africa, Peru, Australia and Jamaica, has shown, that the promising preparation not only has not lowered, but also could increase some risk of infection of HIV among participants of the research.
After a failure of clinical tests many experts have expressed doubt in the possibility of creation of effective vaccines against HIV. Some representatives of scientific community have urged to refuse completely from working out of vaccines and to direct all available funds for preventive maintenance of an infection and treatment of already infected people.
However, according to the majority of participants of today’s conference, the preventive or therapeutic vaccine still remains the most perspective means of struggle against a HIV pandemic.
“It is necessary for us to transfer the centre of gravity from tests of new vaccines to basic researches of immunodeficiency virus”, - Anthony Fotsi, the head of National Institute of allergic and infectious diseases, heading the federal program on working out of the vaccine against HIV, has declared.
According to Fotsi, now on clinical tests of candidate vaccines about 38 percent of the budget of the program is spent. It is necessary to redirect the most part of these funds on laboratory researches of a virus, and also on creation of new, more perfect biological models of HIV-infection, the scientist believes.