Health (General) – Newsletter for November 10, 2010

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Man who has DNA evidence of abduction by blonde female Asian aliens!

MELBOURNE – A man, who is set to be one of the guest speakers at a UFO conference in Central Australia early next year, has claimed that he was abducted by two female aliens, a blonde and an Asian.

Peter Khoury’s abduction is said to be the first with … Read : Man who has DNA evidence of abduction by blonde female Asian aliens!.

Mobile diagnostics can tell if you have STDs

LONDON – For those agonising over whether they have contracted sexually transmitted infections (STI), help is at hand — actually, just a mobile phone away.

University of London scientists are developing a self-testing device that will instantly diagnose a host of common infections such as chlamydia.
Users need to pass urine on the … Read more »».

70-day diet of ‘biscuits, cakes, fat-laden junk food’ to help you lose weight!

MELBOURNE – Ever thought gobbling fat laden junk food, biscuits, cakes and other high-sugar could help shed those extra kilos? If not, then here’s something you should know-an American professor managed to be leaner, healthier and happier after a 10-week junk-food diet.

After eating sponge cakes, biscuits, some raw vegetables and drinking full fat milk and … Read the original article on Gaea Times at : 70-day diet of ‘biscuits, cakes, fat-laden junk food’ to help you lose weight!.

Drinking 100 pc fruit juice means higher intake of essential nutrients

WASHINGTON – Fruit juice drinkers were more likely than non-consumers to meet recommended levels of certain key nutrients, reveal researchers at the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center and Baylor College of Medicine.

The new study examined a nationally representative sample of adults 19 years of age and older and found that drinking 100 percent fruit juice … Original article on : Drinking 100 pc fruit juice means higher intake of essential nutrients.

Probiotic drinks ‘cut chances of diarrhoea’

WASHINGTON – A new study by Cochrane researchers has claimed that probiotic drinks given as therapies for diarrhoea reduce the length of time sufferers are affected and lessen the chance of episodes continuing for more than four days.

The main treatment is rehydration fluids, but these do not tend to reduce the length of illness, which …. Original source  : Probiotic drinks ‘cut chances of diarrhoea’.

Eggs recalled in US over salmonella scare

LOS ANGELES – Hundreds of thousands of eggs have been recalled in eight US states for fear of salmonella contamination, officials said.

Cal-Maine Foods, the nation’s leading egg distributor, ordered a recall of 288,000 eggs distributed in California, Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas, Xinhua reported.
Cal-Maine Foods said it ordered the recall …. Original article on Gaea Times at  : Eggs recalled in US over salmonella scare.

Cal-Maine Egg Recall: Number Rise Upto 288K Eggs

Cal-Maine happens to be the nation’s largest distributor of eggs. Reportedly they have recalled huge number of eggs after evidence of salmonella could be spotted at an Ohio farm during a FDA inspection.
This recall infact is the second of its kind in 2010, if you remember the first of which is believed to have …. Source article  : Cal-Maine Egg Recall: Number Rise Upto 288K Eggs.

300-kg Briton sheds flab in India

PUNE – A 300-kg Briton, who is looking forward to getting married, became the heaviest patient to undergo weight loss surgery in Asia when he went under the knife at a clinic in Maharashtra’s Pune city, a doctor said Tuesday.

Doctor Shashank Shah at Ruby Hall Clinic and his team conducted the surgery upon [..] Read the original article: here.

35 new dengue cases in Delhi

NEW DELHI – The national capital witnessed 35 cases of dengue Tuesday, taking the total number of people infected with the vector-borne disease to 5,837, an official said.

According to a Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) official, the Shahdara (North) zone with 786 dengue patients has the highest number of cases, followed by 742 in …. Source  : Gaea News Network.

Stronger anti-cholestrol drugs can cut heart attack deaths

LONDON – More powerful statins – drugs used to lower cholesterol levels associated with cardiovascular diseases – can cut down deaths from heart attacks, a study shows.

Researchers from Oxford University and Sydney University looked at how death rates came down as the level of ‘bad’ cholesterol in the blood was reduced using statins.
…. Original article on Gaea Times at  : Stronger anti-cholestrol drugs can cut heart attack deaths.

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