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Moneylife Digital Team 23 October 2017
Those of us, who have some sense of the traditional Indian ways of living, have always known that fasting is great for health. Even today, for religious or other reasons, the poor fast by choice once or twice a week on fixed days. It is the urban Westernised Indians who believe in gorging on...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 October 2017
Weight Loss from Black Tea?   Could it be that black tea may promote weight loss by changing bacteria in the gut? In a study of mice, scientists at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) have found that black tea alters energy metabolism in the liver by changing gut metabolites....

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IANS 27 September 2017
Some popular brands of facial creams that are advertised as containing "activated carbon" for better results can be harmful to the skin and even cause death, scientists say.   Application of such face creams may bring quick results and prolonged use could be disastrous, warns a study...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 September 2017
Problems with Meta Studies  Meta analysis is the process of combining the findings of several prior studies to “increase statistical power, provide quantitative summary estimates, and identify data gaps and biases,” according to Dr Neal D Barnard, Dr Walter C Willett and Eric Ding writing...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 September 2017
There is never an end to arguments over the relative importance of the three macro-nutrients our body needs, namely, carbohydrates, proteins and fat. Some experts have argued that we need to be on a low-fat diet; others argue that we need to be low in carbohydrates. Within this discussion,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 August 2017
A new study conducted by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis showed that a particular gut microbe can prevent severe flu’ infections in mice, by breaking down naturally occurring compounds—called flavonoids—commonly found in black tea, red wine and blueberries....

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 July 2017
What is common between Selma Hayek, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jessica Alba? They all swear by juicing because of the belief that a few days of fruit and vegetable juice can eliminate toxins from your body. There is, as yet, no scientific evidence of this, says Mayo Clinic. Maybe not much...

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Science should try and understand Nature. That is the main purpose of science. Technology, on the other hand, is for making money. It has brought lots of personal comforts to mankind. Therefore, it is venerated by all. Unfortunately, technology is pushing science beyond its calling of...

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Jacob Puliyel 20 July 2017
Clinical trial of the new rotavirus vaccine from the Serum Institute of India shows that the vaccine increases the incidence of diarrhoea instead of decreasing it.   The vaccine was field tested in Niger in Western Africa. The results were published in the prestigious New England...

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Moneylife Digital Team 04 July 2017
Low-fat Diet Leads to Obesity! Dr Aseem Malhotra is a star cardiologist of the UK who has been getting a lot of attention these days. In late April, he wrote an article in Men’s Health magazine titled, “The Truth About Fat and Sugar is Finally Explained”, that has been reproduced in The...

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M Rajaque Rahman (IANS) 21 June 2017
With weird concoction like "Beer Yoga" getting popular as the next big international fitness craze, the ancient art of inner blossoming is seemingly going topsy-turvy. And as yoga hogs the limelight on its third International Day, the loud call for saving the spirit of the ancient and modern...

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“Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.” — Abe Lemons   The placebo effect has been known to at least some lay people, but few, if any, know of the powerful ‘nocebo’ effect on human health and illness. Nocebo is a...

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“Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.” — Ausonius “Man’s effort to attain immortality is an age-old dream. Of course, that is impossible as it goes against the very grain of nature. However, efforts to keep humans healthy as long...

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  Do You Have a Sweet Tooth? Some of us like sweets and cannot resist them. And there are those who do not like sweets. I belong to the first category. Now, science tells us that those with a sweet tooth have a special genetic make up. Having said that, I have to reiterate that genes...

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“This is the latest whiz kid among cardiac stents. Nowhere else in the world you will have a stent like this. I have done 56 so far. No complications at all, affordable too.”   This is how a cardiologist starts his live streaming video at the National Interventional Council (NIC)...

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TruthInAdvertising.org 27 April 2017
Agency warns that "miracle cures" may also contain dangerous ingredients   A chewable vitamin C that not only wards off colds but also is a “secret weapon” against cancer. Tea bags with cancer-killing properties nearly 10,000 times stronger than chemo. And an ointment that protects...

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Ashok BK (IANS) 18 April 2017
Health plays a crucial role in building your self-confidence, living a longer life, having more energy, being less stressed and feeling emotionally happier. People should adopt preventive healthcare measures at an early age in order to keep rising lifestyle disorders at...

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“Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.” — Isaac Newton   The prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, published a good study on the heart status of aboriginals living in the Amazon forests in Bolivian territory. The aboriginals are the Tsaimane...

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“You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome.” — Patch Adams   India ranks 143 out of 188 countries in the UN’s new health-related sustainable development goal (SDG) index. India gets 42 out of 100 marks in this...

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Smoking and Radiotherapy Radiotherapy can have side-effects on a patient. If the person happens to be a smoker, the risks are compounded several-fold. Smoking is the main risk factor for many cancers; now research has shown that cancer treatment also becomes difficult in...

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