Red wine compound can halt breast cancer
Tweet London: A compound found in red wine and grape skin, known to stave off heart attacks, also halts breast cancer in its tracks. Lab tests have shown that resveratrol blocks the growth of the hormone oestrogen and aborts the growth of breast cancer. Study leader Sebastiano Ando, from the University of Calabria in Italy, [...]
Tweet Toronto: Red wine, popularly touted as a remedy for a host of medical condtions, has no protective qualities to prevent heart disease, says a new study. "In particular, red wine has no special, protective qualities when it relates to cardiovascular disease," said Kathy Bell, CEO, Heart Foundation (Victoria). "After reviewing all the scientific evidence, [...]
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Tweet London: Many working mothers in Britain send off their children to school despite sickness because they are unable to take time off looking after them, a study has found. In a study, the researchers found four out of ten employed mums have sent their child to school when he or she wasn't feeling well [...]
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Tweet London: Nearly half of the British men face the risk of turning obese within next 20 years, with women closely following them facing a similar risk of turning overweight by 2030, says an international study. The study states four in ten British women may turn overweight. Overall, an extra 11 million Britons would be [...]
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Tweet London: British women are more likely to develop cancer by the age of 75 than the average European woman, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said in a latest research. On an average, one-fifth of women across Europe will develop cancer by the age of 75. But in Britain, around a quarter of women [...]
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Tweet London: Women taking a couple of alcoholic pegs a day may be reducing their chances of survival in case they develop breast cancer, a new study has found. The study, conducted by researchers from the National Cancer Institute in Milan, suggests women, who drank as little as two small glasses of wine on a [...]
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Tweet London: The recommendation to drink six to eight glasses of water daily to prevent dehydration is a “thoroughly debunked nonsense”, says an expert. There is currently no clear evidence of benefit from drinking increased amounts of water, according to Margaret McCartney, medical expert with the National Health Service (NHS), yet the “we-don’t-drink-enough-water” myth has [...]
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Tweet Sydney: Taking apples daily is one way of keeping risks linked with cardio health at bay. Catherine Bondonno, doctoral student in pharmacology at the University of Western Australia, researched the effect of apples on nitric oxide (NO) production and endothelial function, which affect cardiovascular health. “The endothelium is a single layer of cells lining [...]
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Tweet London: Diabetic patients who consumed just 600 calories a day were able to live without their pills at the end of a two-month trial, say experts. Eleven men and women with type 2 diabetes were put on a diet of 600 calories a day for eight weeks. After just a week, some of their [...]
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