Reduce Stress And Aggression with Sweet Drinks
July 8, 2010
London: A new research found that sweet drinks can reduce stress at work and make people less aggressive or argumentative. According to a research psychologist says that sweet drinks such as sugary tea can help people to reduce stress and boost energy. People can prevent themselves from aggressiveness over reacting spontaneously when under stress and the sugar can boost energy and enables the brain to maintain control over its impulses, reports telegraph.co.uk.
In a test some of volunteers were given lemonade sweetened with sugar and some volunteers with artificial sweetener, study shows that those who had drunk sugar performed better than other volunteers under pressure. Researchers criticized in order to irritate them; they asked several stressful tasks on each subject before giving the presentation. People who drunk the sugary lemonade were less likely to snap than those people who had artificial sweetener.
The Australian psychologists said, “When provocation is likely, for example, when encountering a difficult supervisor at a work meeting, drinking a sweetened beverage prior to this encounter might increase one’s ability to effectively inhibit aggressive impulses.” “Consuming a sweetened beverage on the commute home following a stressful day could reduce aggression toward family members or fellow drivers,” he added.
The researchers from the University of New South Wales and Queensland University said that “Glucose is required by the brain to enable “executive functioning”, which included the ability to restrain one’s impulses”. “Despite the widespread notion that glucose consumption can lead to a ’sugar high’ resulting in impulsive behavior our data suggest that glucose can increase executive control when provoked,” said researchers.
Do Not Use Medical Treatment Information Available On Internet
Mon, Jul 5
London: Peoples are using internet for each and every need, a new report found peoples to use internet for cure of their injuries or illness. Patients are using internet search engines to get remedy, but may they are getting wrong or incomplete diagnoses.
A report in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery shows that injuries are aggravated when patients attempt their own treatments.
Daily Mail reported that, Information about the most common sports injuries varies widely in quality, according to the study, which found newspaper articles and personal websites the least accurate information sources.
Madhav A Karunakar, an orthopaedic surgeon and study author said “The reason that we decided to undertake this study is that patients are presenting to their physicians office with increasing frequency armed with printouts of information obtained from the internet.
Physicians and patients should be aware that the quality of information available online varies greatly,” he said.
To reviewed the top ten search result authors chose 10 most common injuries and their medicine diagnoses and reviewed the available online information about that. Authors used two most frequently used search engines, Google and Yahoo.
They reviewed top ten search result for every diagnosis and check the quality of information, completeness, clarity and correctness of the information.
Authors also found that the information’s are provided by non-profit organization, news source, academic institution, individual, physician, or commercial enterprise.
In terms of content, Karunakar said, “Non-profit sites scored the highest, then academic sites (including medical journal sites), and then certain non-sales-oriented commercial sites.
Commercial sites such as those sponsored by companies selling a drug or treatment device were very common but frequently incomplete. About 20 percent of the sites that turned up in the top ten results were sponsored sites.”
Karunakar said “These site owners are motivated to promote their product, so the information found there may be biased. We also found that these sites rarely mentioned the risks or complications associated with treatment as they are trying to represent their product in the best possible light.”
Vitamin D Is Essentially Required For Pregnant Women
Mon, Jul 5
A team at University College London Institute of Child Health suggested to pregnant women in the UK should routinely take vitamin D supplements. Researchers found strong case for a daily dose of vitamin D in pregnancy, writing in the British Journal of Nutrition.
The Department of Health advises to pregnant women that they should receive a certain level of Vitamin D 10 micrograms per day. Because sun and diet are providing too little so they should use supplements.
But the National Institute of health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) said in its guidance that it did not support supplements.
It is important to maintain level of vitamin D during pregnancy. Women may choose supplements to maintain level. Women should be informed about the importance of having adequate vitamin D levels.
Dr Elina Hypponen, co-author of the paper, said, “The incidence of vitamin D deficiency in pregnant women in Britain is unacceptably high, especially during winter and spring. This is compounded by a lack of exposure to sunlight and the limitations of an average diet to meet the optimal need. In the most severe cases, maternal vitamin D deficiency can be life threatening to a newborn.
We believe that the routine provision of a daily supplement throughout pregnancy would significantly decrease the number of mothers who are clearly vitamin D deficient, reducing related serious risks to their babies” he says.
“Past evidence showed a proactive approach to supplements coincided with a much lower incidence of deficiency linked diseases such as infantile hypocalcaemia and rickets (which weakens bones)” Dr Hypponen said.
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists recommends only women at risk of vitamin D deficiency should take a supplement.
Patrick O’Brien, a spokesman for the college, said, “There is gradually accumulating evidence that universal vitamin D supplementation in the UK might be beneficial for the whole population. But more research is needed on the balance of risks and benefits in women at low risk of vitamin D deficiency, and on the correct dosage to use.”
Smart Bomb-To Destroy Cancer Cells
Mon, Jul 5
Soon a ‘smart bomb’ will destroy cancer. Aussie researchers along with Indian scientists are developing it. ‘Smart Bomb’ drug delivery system will search and destroy cancer cells within the body. This drug will also have slighter side effect than conformist chemotherapy.
Deakin University’s Associate Professor Wei Duan, who leads the project in collaboration with scientists in India, says “Cancer cells are particularly difficult to kill as they contain so-called cancer stem cells, the root or seed cancer cells that are resistant to drugs.”
Duan said in a statement “While current treatments kill the bulk of the cancer cell, the cancer root escapes the therapy and can regenerate into a new cancer mass.
The aim of our research is to develop a smart bomb that can penetrate the cell and release the drugs within the cells, rather than from the outside, and kills the whole tumor, root and all.” he added.
A technique known as RNA interference or gene silencing, the molecular drug delivery system would use this technique which enables control over the genes inside cells. The researchers are developing a chemical antibody which will bind specially to cancer cells.
Duan said that “The same technique might be used to tackle neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, heart disease and diabetes.”
The project is collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, Barwon Health’s Andrew Love Cancer Centre and ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals.
Mumbai- One Year Old Dies Of The Deadly Virus HINI
22-06-2010
After the death of I year old because of the deadly virus of HINI, there are tremendous fears across the city of Mumbai. The fears of the spread of the virus have rekindled across the city and the activation of the virus seems to have become dormant.
Sine one month, three deaths have occurred in Mumbai alone and the virus is tremendously active in the state of Maharashtra claiming 62 lives so far in the state since the month of April this year. The latest victim was a child of the slum of dharavi.
The child was taken to the hospital of Sion and was treated for the symptoms of tamiflu. Later the throat swab of the child was taken to an examination by the kasturba hospital.
By Sunday, evening the clear confirmation reports clearly revealed the presence of HINI. Till that time, the condition of the child had become worse. This was confirmed by the dr preeti shanbag of Sion hospital. She further said that the tamiflu can work best in case the symptoms are treated in a span of 48 hours. Latter the effect on it is less.
The confirmed reports say that the child was having fever since the past five days, and th child died solely because of the unawareness and the factor of negligence on the part of the family. The family of the child has taken him to a local doctor prior to admission in hospital.