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 The government and the FDA have released on Tuesday a list for all the consumers as to teach them how to reduce their exposure to BPA, a substance which is found in plastic baby bottles, metal cans and other food packaging. Even if the FDA stated that the chemical is safe, many sick people accused the BPA levels to be guilty of it.The...
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 According to a new study released by the University of California, San Francisco, diabetes are less likely than other people to lose weight so easily. Just like the people with larger stomach pouches, the diabetes find it hard to lose weight after gastric bypass surgery. The ones who suffer this kind of operations have their food intake...
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 A new study made by the National Institute of Mental Health found out that the new drugs for childhood schizophrenia, called Zyprexa from Lilly and Risperda from J&J, have no better effect than the older ones. In addition, the older drugs were cheaper and less likely to provoke side effects.According to the New York Times, the new...
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A study has recently showed that diabetes who control their blood sugar levels even if only in the first ten years since they were diagnosed, have lower risks to heart attacks, death or any other complications 10 years or more. The most common type of diabetes linked to obesity is Type 2 diabetes. Researchers want to teach the newly...
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 A study released by the University of Oxford tested 107 people who were apparently healthy, during a period of five years. They discovered that the lack of vitamin B12, which can be found in meat, fish and milk, represents an essential factor in memory loss for older people.The study showed that older people with a lower than average...
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 Researchers have recently stated that even if genetics play a main role in obesity, this weight problem can be overcame with regular exercise and physical activity. Physical exercise can really decrease the impact the genetics have on obesity. The particular gene known as fat mass and obesity associated (FTO) is also known to be in...
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 U.S. researchers have stated on Monday that pain relievers like aspirin and ibuprofen can lower the levels of a protein that is found in man’s blood and that doctors use to screen for prostate cancer. Still, it is still unknown if this means that men who take these pain relievers have a lower risk for developing prostate cancer or these...
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 Researchers have discovered that the vaccine against MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) doesn’t work for autism too. So the vaccine doesn’t raise the risk for the bipolar disease of autism. Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, director of the Mailman School of Public Health Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University College of Physicians and...
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 The Environmental Working Group reported on Thursday that a fire retardant chemical was found in children’s blood at triple levels found in their mothers. The retardant chemical is usually used in electronics, toys and furniture but the researchers tested blood samples of 20 families, searching for the PBDE, a hormone-disrupting...
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 The chemical used to make plastic for baby bottles and soda cans can really harm the fetuses and the baby children. The chemical needs to be studied better before it is concluded to be safe, as the U.S. government report said. The BPA, as the chemical’s scientific name is, had harmful effects on animals, the National Toxicology Program...
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