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1. Stomach
Acid Drugs May Heighten Risk of Death from Infections
2. The Evolution of Bird Flu - One Profitable Flu Hoax After Another...
3. 3 Cups of Coffee a Day Keeps Dementia Away?
4. Sitting
Less can Extend Lifespan by Two Years
Stomach Acid Drugs May
Heighten Risk of Death from Infections
Stomach acid might cause a lot of people a lot of pain, but it also
serves an important purpose in the body: it stops incipient infections
in their tracks. Now, a new study says that medications that suppress
the production of stomach acid can make people more susceptible to
complications of gastrointestinal infections, including raising the risk
of dying.
Read entire article Stomach
Acid Drugs
The Evolution of Bird Flu - One Profitable Flu Hoax After
Another...
Renewed
calls for fast-tracked pandemic bird flu vaccines are being put out in
response to the publication of two studies detailing the successful
mutation of the H5N1 virus into a more virulent, and airborne strain
On
May 27, a 10-year old girl in Cambodia died after being infected with
the H5N1 virus. The World Health Organization suspects she was infected
while preparing chicken for a meal
According
to a recent study in the Lancet, the 2009 swine flu outbreak was 15
times deadlier than initially reported. The study, which was led by a
CDC researcher, came to this conclusion using statistical modeling. It
appears to be little more than an attempt to justify past, present, and
future pandemic responses, as the data so far has indicated the 2009
“pandemic" was in fact a very mild flu season
In
October 2009, CBS News conducted a three-month long investigation that
revealed the vast majority of “swine flu cases” were not any type of
flu at all, let alone H1N1, but rather other types of cold or upper
respiratory infection. This makes it highly unlikely that the death toll
from H1N1 infection was underestimated, as claimed by WHO
See entire article Flu
Hoaxes
3 Cups
of Coffee a Day Keeps Dementia Away?
More
great news for the "black gold." Research
published in the June edition of the Journal of Alzheimer's
Disease further supports the theory that coffee consumption
slows the rate of dementia. In the study, researchers
followed 124 patient participants between the ages of 65-88
for a duration of 2-4 years. Mild Cognitive Impairment which
measures decline in memory and cognitive abilities was used as a
standard of comparison amongst subjects. Those patients who
progressed to dementia were shown to have 51% lower levels of
caffeine than those that did not develop dementia. Interestingly,
scientists declared a critical level of caffeine as 1200 nanograms
per milimeter, which is equivalent to drinking large amounts of
coffee before a blood draw. Researchers discovered that those
patients who did not progress to dementia had caffeine levels that
were higher than this critical level. In fact, scientists went so
far to suggest that drinking 3 cups of coffee a day may help prevent
dementia.
Sitting
Less can Extend Lifespan by Two Years
Restricting
the amount of time you spend sitting down to less than 3 hours
each day might boost your life expectancy by an extra 2 years,
according to new research published in the online journal BMJ
Open. And cutting down the amount of TV you watch to less
than 2 hours per day might extend your life by an additional 1.4
years, the findings suggest.
Study: Sedentary
behaviour and life expectancy in the USA: a cause-deleted life
table analysis
Read:
Medical Journal on Sedentary Behavior
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