Fraud Food Ingredients
A new report published in the April Journal of Food Science includes the first ever public database which compiles reports on food fraud. Included are the most fraud-prone ingredients in the food supply, the most recent analytical detection methods and the type of fraud that has been reported. This new report has been a compilation of records from scholarly journals which was created by the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) a nonprofit scientific organization that will identify the quality and the purity of food ingredients. This study is more than just an in depth assessment of ...
Reconstructive Vs Cosmetic Plastic Surgery
Plastic surgery has become a very common procedure in the past decade. There is a great demand of plastic surgeons but most of the demand is purely for cosmetic purposes. There are many different types of plastic surgeries. What differentiates the two major types is the purpose of the surgery. A plastic surgery performed to improve a person’s appearance is termed as cosmetic while the one performed to cure or restore the health or physical injury is termed as reconstructive plastic surgery. There is a lot of debate regarding the two as insurance companies’ cover the latter but since the ...
Learning Ways And Means To Choose The Best Antacid
While acidity is a very common problem and affects almost each one of us finding out the best ways and means for solving this problems could indeed be quite tricky. Since there are a plethora of products that are available in the market, at times you could be confused when it comes choosing the right drug to treat acidity problems. More than addressing the symptoms it would be better if we could find out ways and means by which we could address the cause of such problem. More often than not it has been found out that our lifestyle could be one of the main reasons for acidity problems. Secondly wrong ...
Progressive Vision Through Progressive Lenses
Once the process of aging starts, it is accompanied by many different health issues and most of the body parts start weakening. The eyes are no exception to this. The vision starts getting affected as years pass by and seeing things whether they are close by or far becomes quite a problem. Most old people have the problem of reading. They need their glasses to read any fine print like magazines, books, newspapers etc. They may be able to see far off things clearly but the fine print is difficult to read. But there have been a lot of new techniques that are introduced to cure this problem.
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The Link Between Injectable Contraceptives And Breast Cancer In Young Women
The first large-scale US-based study was made to evaluate the link between injectable contraceptives and breast cancer risk in young women. The study was led by breast cancer epidemiologist Christopher I. Li, M.D., Ph.D., of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and was published online as well as a print issue of Cancer Research.
A study made focused on the contraceptive called depo-medroxyprogesterone acetate, or DMPA. This contraceptive contains the same kind of progestin compared to menopausal hormone-therapy regimen which was found by a Women’s Health Initiative ...
The Risks And Benefits Of First Line Treatment For Diabetes
A study conducted by French researchers has been published at PLoS Medicine suggested that the long term benefits of metformin compared to its risks are not yet clearly established. This study is in line with the use of this drug to manage type-2 diabetes all around the world; metformin is taken by millions of people who suffer from diabetes with the belief that this medication has long-lasting health benefits.
In the past decades, metformin has been the drug of choice as the first line treatment for type-2 diabetes; it has been recommended along with diet control and exercise can ...
Beach Sand Unsafe For Digging And Playing
Little do we know that digging and playing in beach sand can be very hazardous to your health; now that the summer months are coming, there is strong evidence that playing with beach sand exposes a person to disease-causing bacteria. A new report that appears in ACS’ journal Environmental Science and Technology is all about exposing this dangerous summertime hazard.
Authors of the study Tomoyuki Shibata and Helena M. Solo-Gabriele reveals that disease causing bacteria from sewage can lead to skin infections and various gastrointestinal problems which are present in beach sand. ...
How Can I Speed Hair Growth?
Everyone wants a new hairstyle every other day. Some like it keep it short and spiky whereas others grow it long. All these people want their hair to cultivate faster so that they would have the prospect to chic it whichever pathway they want it. The first step to heed to make your hair breed fasted is to stop cutting it frequently. There is a myth surrounding hair that hacking it makes it breed back faster and thicker. Nevertheless, that's not factual. When you engrave tour hair, the tip of the hair will only be removed. Therefore, when it grows back, the root comes out which is thicker than the tip. ...
Poultry Products With Banned Antibiotics
A study made by researchers of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Arizona State University has found evidence that a class of banned antibiotics from the US has made their way into poultry products and is still being used. The results of the study were published in Environmental Science & Technology.
This new study was collaborated by the Bloomberg School's Center for a Livable Future and Arizona State's Biodesign Institute and it focused on looking for drugs and other harmful residues found in feather meal which is a common additive in chicken, swine, fish and ...
Baby Food Insufficient In Micro-Nutrients
A study from the University Of Greenwich School Of Science shows that ready-made baby foods have very low micro-nutrient content. The results show that these products actually contained less than a fifth of baby’s recommended daily amounts of minerals like calcium, magnesium, iron and zinc.
The study involved testing 8 different varieties produced by 4 popular baby food brands. The study used a testing instrument called an Inductivity Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometer which can analyze the content of various elements in food. The tested samples included in the study ...
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