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As a researcher in the field for the past half a century, I fail to understand any scientific basis for blood pressure (BP) guidelines. But the drug companies keep coming out with expensive new BP-lowering drugs without any long-term experiential wisdom. Obviously, the reasons for changes in...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 April 2018
Alternative thinking on healthcare is entering the mainstream. Dr Aseem Malhotra, a star cardiologist in the UK, author of Poppi Diet (reviewed in Moneylife) and anchor of several television shows, has scored a huge success in his fight against conventional diet and medicine. He has managed...

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To understand the science of hypertension, or high blood pressure (BP), let us begin with an experiment with the help of a BP apparatus. Check the BP of 10 healthy adults. Take an average which we shall consider as normal. Next, see if any one of them matches it. You will be shocked to see...

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Some top-selling diabetes drugs in India may not be safe for patients, says a team of international experts, according to whom, the country's drug regulatory system allows use of a treatment that has not been found effective or safe.   For their study, published in the British Medical...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 February 2018
The conventional solution for weight gain is to cut calories. It’s the ‘what you don’t put in, you don’t put on’ theory which has been questioned by many thoughtful researchers; but the mainstream doctors and dieticians have continued to hold on to it. Now, a brand new study, quite a large...

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Clinical trials are research studies that aim to establish whether a medical strategy, treatment or device is safe for use or consumption by humans. These studies may also suggest which medical approaches prove most effective for specific conditions or groups of people. They advance medical...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 February 2018
Quick, are these statements true or false?   • Oatmeal is a healthy breakfast and prevents heart disease. • Butter causes heart disease. • Egg whites are healthier than whole eggs. • Red meat causes cancer. • Gluten-free food is healthy. • Dairy is necessary for...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 January 2018
One by one, various countries are making it tougher for food companies to continue to function as before. Among the latest to target food and supplement companies is China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP), which wants to prevent illegal advertising for food, drugs and wellness products....

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 January 2018
According to the latest findings by a team of German researchers, a diet rich in fibre could help in chronic inflammatory joint diseases because fibre may produce short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) in the microbiome, leading to stronger bones.    The research team led by Dr Mario Zaiss,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 January 2018
General practitioners (GPs) and patients are being put at risk by health guidelines because of an ‘epidemic of misinformation’ generated by the pharma industry in collusion with the medical community, Dr Aseem Malhotra, a top cardiologist in London, has warned. He argued that this was the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 January 2018
According to a new research report, one daily serving of green leafy vegetables would help you achieve cognitive abilities similar to those over a decade younger in age. The chemicals in the vegetables that do this trick are: vitamin K, lutein, nitrate and folate. Vegetables that have vitamin...

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Moneylife Digital Team 20 December 2017
French drugmaker Sanofi has come under fire as Philippines has suspended the company’s Dengvaxia vaccine — the first promising vaccine for dengue— amid widespread fears about its safety and growing public anger over its use in 830,000 schoolchildren, reports The New York Times. Dengue is a...

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Terry Wahls, a doctor, used to run marathons and climb mountains in Nepal. She earned a black belt in tae kwon do and competed multiple times in the American Birkebeiner 54-kilometer cross-country ski marathon. Then she developed multiple sclerosis (MS). By 2000, the disease had spread....

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Moneylife Digital Team 05 December 2017
A study by the Obesity Health Alliance, which includes several Royal Medical Colleges among its membership and the University of Liverpool, analysed TV commercials shown before and during some of the most popular TV programmes on the maximum number of children watch TV. They found that a...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 November 2017
Is there any nutritional benefit from having sugar? Most studies have conclusively established that there is no benefit. And, yet, wherever you look, there is sugar. There is sugar not only sweets but also in most bakery products, breakfast cereals, salad dressings and, of course, in almost...

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Sakib Burza (IANS)  and   Kavitha Devadas (IANS) 16 November 2017
It is difficult to imagine a world where a minor bacterial infection from a wound is untreatable and could possibly lead to death. In the short time that antibiotics have been around, their excessive and occasionally irrational usage by humans for medical purposes as well as in livestock and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 November 2017
US public health guidelines recommend that adults should do at least 150 minutes of moderate walking or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity physical activity per week. But surveys show only half of US adults are able to meet this norm. However, a study in American Journal of Preventive...

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IANS 27 October 2017
Every fifth blind person in the world is an Indian. Of the 15 million blind people in India, 1.1 million suffer from corneal blindness. And 25,000 new cases are added to this backlog annually.   Last year data shows that only 25,713 transplant procedures were done. In order to manage...

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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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