Limit The Level Of Lead In Candy

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There was a recent recommendation by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) where they have proposed that there should be a stricter limit on the amount of lead, which is a highly toxic metal, allowed in the children’s candies, which include spicy lollipops that are being sold in the a lot of Hispanic neighborhoods.

The Food and Drug Administration has recommended that the candies that are being eaten by children must not contain more than one tenth of a part per million of lead in them, which would be an about eighty percent reduction from the previous decade recommended level.
The Food and Drug Administration representative said that it would further reduce the minimal risk posed from lead exposure in candy.

The Food and Drug Administration has also made it clear that they want these guidelines to be followed as to what they have set for the candies regardless of their country of origin.

Most of the candies do meet the stricter requirement of the lead levels in the candies, but Food and Drug Administration has further lowered down the levels of lead being used in the candies. This decision was made after the candies from Mexico were being tested for the lead level and the ingredients that can boost the level of lead in the candies.

The ingredients that can increase the level of lead in the candies are chili powder, tamarind pulp and the salts, as well as the salty powdered snack mixes that are used in making these candies.
The representative said that apart from the ingredients mentioned above that cause the increased level of lead in the candies is believed to come from the improper washing and washing of the ingredients in lead contaminated containers, as well as the ink used on the candy wrappers, which are printed with an ink containing the metal.

Lead poisoning can lead to a disastrous situation, which includes behavioral problems, learning disabilities, as well as seizures or death.

This is a very serious matter on which the Food and Drug Administration have taken very strong steps to avoid having any children getting into any serious health problems.

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Grapefruits Can Help Fight Gum Disease

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The recent study says that people who eat grapefruit for about a fortnight may have minimal bleeding from gums, as it is found that grapefruit promotes wound healing.

The researchers conducted a study in which they selected about 58 people who were suffering from chronic gum disease. They asked those people to eat grapefruit and then after a period of time they found out that eating grapefruits had a very positive effect in both smokers and nonsmokers.

The mechanism with which grapefruits work is that they increase the level of vitamin C in blood and thus they promote the process of wound healing and reduce the damage that occurs by unstable free radical molecules.

It is found in the study that the vitamin C level in smokers is about 29 percent lower than in nonsmokers.

Researchers have also mentioned that eating two grapefruits a day can raise the vitamin C plasma levels in all those people who consume grapefruits.

The smokers were seen to have a level that was doubled after taking the grapefruit, but as they had a lower baseline of vitamin C level at the start of taking the grapefruit, the level of vitamin C was still lower than that recorded in the non-smokers.

The reason why the smokers have decreased levels of vitamin C is because it alters the way the body metabolizes vitamin C and it is also possible that smokers also have a less healthy diet.

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Bird Flu Vaccine Extracted From Christmas Tree

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According to the latest news report, a pharmaceutical company named, Biolyse Pharma Crop is planning to extract bird flu vaccine from Christmas trees. This company extracts chemicals from plants to develop medicines. They have a plan to extract the chemicals needed to develop the bird flu vaccine from over half a million Christmas trees that will be discarded in Ontario.

The Christmas trees contain an acid in their pine, which is known as shikimic acid, spruce and fir needles. The same acid, which is shikimic acid, is used in Tamiflu, which is being developed by Roche Holding.

It is also being said by the researchers that the demand for drugs such as Tamiflu has risen in the past three months due to the steep rise of patients having bird flu in several of the countries in Asia, which has killed about 71 people since 2003. According to the history, the Spanish flu had swallowed about 50 million people in 1918 and 1919.

The Biolyse Company has also informed that the price of the acid has risen to about $600 per kilogram in a year.

The demand for the shikimic acid has risen very sharply over the past few months since there has been reported cases of bird flu and it has become very pressing to meet the demands that are rising way high to meet the demands of the continents, as there is a fear that the bird flu can be a pandemic and would be a real disaster as we have seen that in the case of the Spanish flu that swallowed up millions of people.

We need to combat against the disaster before it becomes a pandemic.

The Biolyse company’s correspondent said that they are going to get the trees from the company, which recycles the forest products. The Biolyse correspondent says that the needles of the Christmas tree has a fairly high concentration of the shikimic acid in it. They also say that it is a difficult process of finding a simple way to extract the acid.

The production of shikimic acid is limited from the star nise tree that takes about eight years to reach the maturity level.

The high rise of bird flu has caused the researchers to extract large quantities of shikimic acid to meet the demands of the world to fight against the pandemic that can be there cause there is a news alert that it is spreading widely due to the migrating birds and the whole world is looking forward to find the way to combat this disease.

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Beware Frequent Complications With Breast Implants

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Breast cancer is the most common cancer occurring in women. The patients who are suffering from breast cancer go through chemotherapies, breast irradiation and surgical removal of breasts, which is also called as mastectomy, as well as breast conserving therapies and breast reconstruction surgeries.

After removal of a single breast or both breasts, the women prefer to go for breast implantation for cosmetic reasons. But, there was a concern regarding breast implantation surgery, which was mentioned in the archives of surgery regarding breast implantation. It was mentioned that statistics collected regarding breast implantation were that 31% of the women who had undergone reconstructive breast implantation after mastectomy were the ones who suffered at least one short-term complication in the chest or breast area, whereas there were about 21% of the women who required additional surgery.

The most common complications occurring from breast implantation are skin perforation; blood clotting, infection and seroma. The data also suggested that about 49% of the complications happened within three months of surgery and about 67% occurred within six months.
We will discuss very briefly as to what constitutes a reconstructive surgery is done, reconstructive surgery utilizes a breast implant or a method where a new breast is formed from the skin and other tissues from the woman’s body who is going under the reconstructive surgery and that tissue is known as autologous tissue, because it has the least chance of rejection from the body. There are times when other techniques are used.

Women mostly choose breast implantation because this procedure requires less surgery and is less complicated to perform. The benefits that the implants have is that it preserves the skin, as well as some sensitivity.

The researchers inspected the data from 574 women who had post-mastectomy breast reconstruction between June 1, 1999, and July 24, 2003.

The surgeons provided the information as to when the operation was performed and also provided the details of the operations and answered questionnaires when the women came in for follow-up visits.

The researchers then came up with the statistics that there were about 31% of the women who had at least one complication and about 16% had two complications and 8% were the ones who had three or more complications following their first implantation.

There were about 21% of the women who required additional surgery, while there were about 3% who underwent additional non-surgical treatment. The reason for which they had to undergo the additional surgery was displacement of an implant, correction of asymmetry of the breasts or capsular contracture where the capsule-like scar tissue was formed around the implant, which was hardened and tightened.

There were about 302 women who had re-implantations in order to exchange or replace the existing implants, about 36% developed at least one complication and 21% had to have additional surgery.

The researchers pointed out that when the risks and benefits are being evaluated for breast reconstruction, the surgeons and patients must acknowledge the fact that the women going through reconstructive breast surgeries might be needing other operations as well because of the complications resulting from the reconstructive surgeries and that this must be an essential part of the informed consent that the patient’s must sign before undergoing the surgeries for implantation.

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New Trends Among High School Students In America

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One of the most liked trends of teenagers in high schools in America were alcohol use and cigarette smoking, but the trends have changed and alcohol use and cigarette smoking has gone pretty low, but on the other hand there is a very steep rise of students using drugs like OxyContin is rising, as well as sedative abuse in 26 years.

The researchers had questionnaires and they were asking the students as to whether they have used tranquilizers, barbiturates or sedatives for non-medical use in the last year, about 14 percent of the high school seniors, 11 percent of the 10th graders and about 7 percent of the 8th graders responded in yes.

The figures are going on a rise with high school seniors and about 7.2 percent of them had used sedatives without a prescription in the last year, which has gone up from low of 2.8 percent in 1992. There were about 5.5 percent of the seniors who reported using OxyContin, which is a potent pain killer up from 4 percent in 2002.

OxyContin is a drug that is being taken to relieve severe pain and the drug has a great potential for overdose as well as for creating dependence.

It is another report it was noted that the prescription drugs were much more widely available than the illegal drugs. It was also noted that the kids who are growing up in this day and age are seeing prescription drugs for performance enhancement, there are drugs that can help to focus better in school, as well as to stay awake for long hours and calm one down during anxiety or depressive episodes.

The drugs are being marketed at a very huge scale and everyone just knows about their potential and their effects and this makes people aware of the product at a very large scale.
It is not only that people are using illegal drugs, they are also using legal drugs for illegal use.
The study was conducted on the students going to public and private schools and it was found that the number of students using steroids or marijuana was at a steady figure, but the figures were going high for students using the sedatives or pain killers, which have morphine in them.
To name a few drugs, which are increasingly used by teenagers are Ambien, Oxycontin and inhalants.

The other big issue that needs to be dealt with is that there are other forms of illicit drugs that are entering the market such as Ecstasy, the prescription drugs on the other hand are being made by the pharmaceutical companies, but no one exactly knows as to where the Ecstasy is being made and what harmful effects it bears. So this all needs to be really looked into as to what are the measures that can be taken to handle such a widespread use of illicit drug abuse in the teenage children. This is a pretty serious issue and requires serious attention.


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Risk Of Diarrhea Increased By Stomach Acid Drugs

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According to a recent research the most prescribed anti-heartburn drug such as proton-pump inhibitor blocks the stomach acid production, but on the other hand it increases the risk of an increasingly common infectious diarrhea.

The researchers say that there are some drugs, which are known to triple the risk of diarrhea, which was blamed earlier on the Clostridium difficile, a bacteria, and the names of the drugs are Nexium and Losec.

The other drug, which is prescribed for heartburn activity are called as H2 antagonists, the brand name of which is Zantac, which is found to double the risk of the bacterial diarrhea.
The other thing that causes the most common type of infectious diarrhea is Clostridium difficile, which occurs mostly in the patients aged 75 and older.

According to the statistics, the infectious diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile, which is the source of infection and inflammation of the intestine mostly happens during the hospital stays. But the latest reports suggest that the cases of diarrhea have risen to about 22 per 100,000 people in 2004 from 1 in 100,000 a decade earlier.

The research also suggested that the bacteria, Clostridium difficile, which is the pathogen for causing the infectious diarrhea is on a rise constantly, which is pretty concerning and that may be due to the fact that the bacteria is going constantly through a variation in the strains and this is quite alarming and concerning. The researchers are conducting studies to find out more about the strains and look for how the variation is taking place so that necessary steps can be taken to prevent this from turning into a disaster.

These acid blocking drugs have been gaining popularity over time for treatments of gastric reflux disease.

There is still a whole lot work that needs to be done in conjunction with the pharmaceutical companies to determine as to how we can prevent these drugs from causing the diarrheal symptoms in patients suffering from heartburn.

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Yoga Gives Ease To Patients With Low Back Pain

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Low back pain is the main problem that the adults suffer from and this is something that really hurts the back where one feels like a catch in the back or something is just tearing up the back in two or a stabbing pain that people experience in the back.

There are many treatments that are available for the low back pain such as pain killers, massages, acupuncture, back exercises to strengthen the back etc. There is another method, which is currently being used to help relieve the back pain and relax the muscles of the back, which is yoga. Yoga is considered to be a better approach to help the back of the people who are suffering from chronic low back pain.

In the study, researchers randomly assigned 101 adults to take either 12 weeks of yoga class or 12 weeks of a standard therapeutic exercise class, or to follow the advice of a self-care book.
The effects of yoga on the back are being evaluated through a study conducted on 101 adults in whom they had to go for about 12 weeks of yoga. The yoga class was carried out in the viniyoga style, which goes by the idea that the poses should be adapted to the individual’s needs. This session was conducted by an experienced teacher who had been conducted sessions of therapeutic yoga and the classes were limited only to basic poses that would not be putting too much pressure or strain on the back.

The individuals going through that therapy showed that their back functioning is better than their peers who were going through the same back problems.

It is said that yoga is making the mind and body work for you and to help you with the problems that you are going through with both your body and mind. So with the poses that were being made during the class, helped the individuals to get trained as to how they need to go through those poses and it helped them register those poses in their mind, and whenever they use their back to lift things or bending, they know how to perform those maneuvers in order to help them prevent from the agonizing pain that they suffer from their back pain by doing the movements the wrong way.

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Eat Healthy

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You must always remember that you must eat healthy and exercise. These are the basic factors that are going to ensure you live a healthy and a wonderful life, which will keep you stay away from a lot of diseases and problems.

Some people think that it is better that they should eat less in order to maintain their weight, but in actuality this thought puts their mind into a lot of questions as to what to eat, what not to eat, whether this food will help me take a grip on my increasing weight or not etc.

The basic fact is that you need to make choices, you need to see as to what is the right choice for you and what can help your body and help you to control your weight. For that matter, you need to understand that what are the right foods for you and how can you make choices on the different things.

If you have problem making decisions, you must visit a nutritionist referred by your family care physician and make an appointment with him or her and go over all your questions that you have and try to come up with a plan that is the best for you.

Once you have gone through the appointment with your nutritionist and designed the plan that is best for you, you must take your plan very seriously and must act on it very firmly. Just know that it would always be best that you stay in very close contact with your nutritionist and ask as to how you can keep yourself motivated to the goal of maintaining the diet that you have designed for yourself.

This is a clear fact that you are your best friend and you are your worst enemy. Just do not beat yourself inside and ask your family, friends and colleagues to motivate you to be compliant with your diet.

I believe that you can do it and I also believe that you will comply to every single step that you have designed for you. Best of Luck.

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Improve Your Memory By Exercising Your Mind And Body

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Memory problems are a rising dilemma in the recent era. The results of the research conducted showed that memory exercises and stress reduction when coupled with a healthy diet and regular physical workout improves memory in older adults.

The scientists have proved that memory can be improved with these important lifestyles and one can enhance the efficacy of brain in just a span of two weeks.

At the start of the study the researchers were not sure whether they would be able to get the desired results from their study, but to their surprise it was totally amazing that the volunteers who followed the lifestyle program not only noticed enhanced memory, but this was rather confirmed when they were being put through different memory tests to further back their statements and their memory did improve after following the lifestyles that were put down out for them.

This study was conducted on 34 adults, which was for a total of about 14 days. The plan that was set for the individuals is as follows: These individuals had to eat five small healthy meals per day, which were rich in omega-3 fats from fish and olive oil, healthy whole grain carbohydrates and antioxidants. The purpose of giving five meals instead of three meals was to prevent the decrease in the blood sugar level of blood, which is the main source of energy for the brain.

Then these individuals had to walk briskly along with physical conditioning to help brain circulation, as this is known to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. They were also asked to perform stretching and relaxation exercises, which decreases the body’s production of the stress hormone, cortisol. Cortisol can weaken the memory by decreasing the brain’s memory centers.

These candidates were also given memory training and crossword puzzles and the basic memory training regimen to improve everyday memory skills.

The researchers had taken the PET scans of these individuals right before and after the study to look for the activity of the brain.

The results after 14 days were that the PET scans showed a marked decrease in brain metabolism in an area of the brain directly linked to working memory and other cognitive functions, which suggested that were using their brains more efficiently.

So this study ultimately showed that with getting onto better lifestyles, we can definitely improve our memory as is being proved by seeing the individuals performing much better than before.

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Remarkable Breakthrough To Prevent Muscle Loss With Aging

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This recent research has brought about a big breakthrough in preventing muscle loss. It states that a diet rich in the amino acid, leucine, might help prevent the muscle loss that typically comes with aging.

The study was conducted on rats and it was found that a leucine supplemented diet reestablished a more young pattern of muscle protein breakdown and synthesis. The researchers also added that the rats had shown a propensity toward increased protein breakdown before going on the leucine rich diet, but they were amazed to see that the amino acid appeared to remove that imbalance.

Just to discuss a few basic facts about leucine; it is an essential amino acid and this cannot be manufactured by the body and must be ingested through dietary protein. Along with other essential amino acids, leucine helps maintain muscle mass and that has made leucine containing supplements a favorite food for bodybuilders and athletes.

This is a well known fact that after the age of 40 or so, people gradually lose muscle mass, and it is thought that this is caused by the imbalance in muscle-protein synthesis and breakdown.
On the other hand, in younger people, this process is typically in balance. The research shows that after a meal, muscle protein breakdown slows, whereas synthesis rises up in response to the influx of amino acids from food.

According to this new research, the older rats did not show any evidence of the decrease in the protein breakdown after a meal, but when they got a diet supplemented with leucine, it restored the pattern of protein breakdown in the elder rats, which was the same as in the younger ones.
The question is whether this will go the same for older adults. If this works the same in the older adults then there is a great chance that their quality of life will be greatly improved, as preventing muscle wasting is of great importance because it leads to physical disability.
The sources from where we can get leucine is particularly from animal foods, it can also be consumed through meat, dairy, soy, beans and other protein-rich sources. One can get leucine from dietary supplements as well.

The researchers are speculating that the use of leucine in the adults would bring pretty good results and if such happens then this will be a great breakthrough to help the older adults to live a better and healthy life.


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