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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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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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