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Teri Hatcher tells daughter sex and chocolate key to happy life!
Melbourne, Sept 8 ANI: Actress Teri Hatcher has some motherly advice for her daughter- "have sex and eat a lot of chocolate".In Hatcher's October column for Britain's Glamour magazine, the 'Desperate Housewives' star advised her 10-year-old daughter and the general public that having sex and eating chocolates are key to happy life. "Don't sit on public toilet seats and make sure to floss. ... Life's too short to stress; you'll be able to get past anything difficult; the sun will rise tomorrow; you are beautiful; you are lovable," the Herald Sun quoted her as advising in her column. Describing herself as "43-year-old somewhat successful but still flawed and fragile woman," Hatcher also admitted that with a little self-help handiwork, she had made herself a "goal board" to which she added every night. "It's basically a collage of images of things you want to achieve in your life - all written, glued or drawn onto a big piece of paper," she said. "Against all my well-honed cynical beliefs, it's actually working!" she added. ANI
2008-09-08 10:00:00
Nancy Gay's Quick Slants: Week 1
NFL Week 1 By Nancy Gay QUICK SLANTS -- Brady ... now what Throughout the offseason, we watched him duck questions during right Ankle/Foot Watch. Was it a bone bruise A stress fracture Did Giselle ste...
2008-09-08 08:00:00
Are You Developing Wrinkles Due to Stress
Best Syndication News Stress is something that we all have to deal with, but too much of it can have dire effects on you. One way in which stress leaves its mark on us is in the form of wrinkles. They...
2008-09-08 07:18:24
Hookahs as harmful as cigarette smoking
Karachi, September 8 ANI: University-level students are increasingly getting hooked to shisha, water-pipe smoking, in Karachi unaware of the fact that they are as harmful as cigarette, say researchers. Conducted by researchers in the Aga Khan University Hospital's department of pulmonary and critical care medicine and their colleagues from the Dow University of Health Sciences DUHS, the study suggests that more and more youngsters are getting hooked to such hookahs with parental approval. As many as 450 students-268 male and 182 female-took part in the study, published in The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.While water-pipe smoking was restricted only to rural areas for decades, the researchers say a number of shisha smoking venues have emerged in major cities of Pakistan in the last few years, and that they are increasingly attracting the youth. In their study report, they also write that the country is witnessing a surge in water-pipe smoking in both urban young men and women with greater parental approval for the addiction, compared with cigarette smoking.According to them, 64.2 per cent of the male and 37.9 per cent of the female participants in the study had smoked shisha at least once in their lifetime, with 77.3 per cent of the males who had smoked shisha continuing with the habit.The same was the case with 33.3 per cent of the women participants, they added. The study also revealed that 56.4 per cent of the participants smoked shisha less than once per month, 30.2 per cent did so at least once a month, 10 per cent at least once per week, and only 3.4 per cent were found to be regular smokers of shisha. The majority smoked for more than 30 minutes at each sitting, and also shared their water-pipes with others.The researchers say that the flavour is the most likeable attribute of water-pipes. While about a third of the current water-pipe smokers consider themselves addicted to shisha, only about a fifth are willing to quit it.As regards parental attitudes towards shisha smoking, 78.5 per cent of the participants claimed that their parents had no problem with this practice, while only 21.1 per cent of the parents approved of cigarette smoking.So far as the youth's knowledge about the health hazards posed by smoking are concerned, it was found that around 17.6 per cent of the participants were unable to identify even a single harmful effect of water-pipe smoking.The study also revealed that most of the participants considered cigarette smoking more hazardous than shisha smoking.Curiosity, pleasure-seeking, peer pressure, boredom and stress and a lack of entertainment were found to be the key factors behind the initiation of water-pipe smoking.A widespread myth about water-pipe smoking, the study points out, was that the passage of smoke through the steaming water in water-pipes "purifies" the smoke of all harmful elements.However, it had been established that exposure to carbon monoxide and nicotine after water-pipe smoking was at almost the same levels as those associated with cigarette smoking, said the research paper."It has also been proven that long-term habitual use of water-pipes, as with regular cigarette smoking, is associated with lung, gastrointestinal and bladder problems as well as pulmonary, cardiovascular and haematological disease. Other dangers include infections such as tuberculosis, hepatitis C, pulmonary aspergillosis and Helicobacter pylori infection, which have been assumed to spread from pipe sharing," the Dawn quoted the study as saying.The researchers suggested that water-pipe tobacco be subjected to the same regulations as cigarette and other tobacco products, and that awareness about the health hazards of pipe smoking be created. ANI
2008-09-08 07:00:00
Hugging benefits fractious chimps
A new study provides the first evidence that consolation in primates, such as hugging and stroking, can reduce stress levels after a fight....
2008-09-08 05:23:05
Common painkillers may reduce prostate cancer risk
Washington, Sept 8 ANI: Common painkillers like aspirin and ibuprofen have shown some promise to lower prostate-specific antigen PSA levels, the blood biomarker to detect prostate cancer risk in men, in a new American study. "We showed that men who regularly took certain medications like aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDS, had a lower serum PSA level," said first author Eric A. Singer, M.D., M.A., a urology resident at the University of Rochester Medical Center. The scientists, however, insist that men shouldn't go for these painkillers in order to avert prostate cancer as yet."But there's not enough data to say that men who took the medications were less likely to get prostate cancer. This was a limited study, and we do not know how many of those men actually got prostate cancer," Dr. Singer said.For the study, the researchers examined the records of 1319 men, who crossed the age of 40 and took part in the 2001-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey NHANES. They also took into account the men's use of NSAIDs such as aspirin and ibuprofen, as well as the painkiller acetaminophen, and at their PSA levels.The team found that men who used NSAIDs regularly had about 10 percent lower PSA levels than those who did not. The same was observed in case of acetaminophen, but as the number of men taking the medication was lower, the result was not statistically significant.Though one can easily assume that a lowered PSA level automatically implies a lowered risk of prostate cancer, the authors stress that it's too soon to draw that conclusion."While our results are consistent with other research that indicates that certain painkillers may reduce a man's risk of getting prostate cancer, the new findings are preliminary and don't prove a link," said corresponding author Edwin van Wijngaarden, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine.Singer said that it was possible that a man's PSA level could be elevated for reasons unrelated to cancer. At times, inflammation is part of a cancer process, sometimes it is not, and this it is possible that a lowered PSA reflects reduced inflammation without affecting a man's risk of prostate cancer. One more possibility can be that a PSA level lowered by NSAIDs might artificially mask a man's risk of getting prostate cancer. The medications might lower the PSA, but a man's risk might stay precisely the same."More than anything, these findings underscore the importance for doctors to know what medications their patients are on," said Singer.He added: "For instance, there are medications commonly used to treat an enlarged prostate that can result in a decreased PSA, and most physicians know that. Doctors should also be asking about patients' use of NSAIDs such as aspirin and ibuprofen.The study appears online in the latest issue of journal Cancer. ANI
2008-09-08 04:00:00
Fair Water Allocation Needed
THE death of four people from cholera in Chitungwiza and others in Mabvuku-Tafara last year stresses once again in the most graphic way that much better management of water supplies in Harare's me...
2008-09-08 00:18:11
Tourism ministry to promote adventure tourism
The tourism ministry is planning to lay stress on adventure tourism ina major way, especially hot air ballooning and mountain biking....
2008-09-06 17:12:07
Phallic figurines and oddly arranged human remains found in Israel
Washington, September 6 ANI: Archaeologists have found prehistoric graves with an unusual abundance of phallic figurines and oddly arranged human remains in Israel, which date back to the Stone Age.According to a report in National Geographic News, the findings were made nar Nazerat Nazareth, called Kfar HaHoresh, which dates to between 8,500 and 6,750 B.C. The site was uninhabited and probably served surrounding villages as a centralized burial and cult center, said excavation leader Nigel Goring-Morris of Hebrew University's Institute of Archaeology. Archaeologists have primarily found female symbolic figurines in other burials of this time period. "At Kfar HaHoresh, all the gender-oriented symbolism seems to be male," Goring-Morris said. "Researchers in the past have put more emphasis on the 'mother goddess' of agriculture," he added. At least 65 individuals, mostly young males between the ages of 20 and 30, were found buried in plaster-surfaced structures. The largest measures 33 feet 10 meters by at least 66 feet 20 meters. Many of the bodies' skulls were removed postmortem, and their facial features were reconstructed with lime plaster. "This is not a regular site. There are many burials and many of them are very unusual," said Avi Gopher, an archaeologist at Tel Aviv University. "Generally, we did not have central cemeteries during this period. But, there may well be places where the emphasis on burial was greater," he added. The period between 8,500 and 6,750 B.C. was characterized by a transition from hunting and gathering to large, village-based agricultural communities that domesticated crops and livestock. The people of Kfar HaHoresh were also dealing with fundamental societal change, according to archaeologists. One young male was found buried atop the remains of seven wild cattle. It is likely among the first evidence of burial feasts, excavation leader Goring-Morris believes. Other people were buried with fox jaws. "You have the first large-scale village communities with the beginnings of all the attendant problems we know today, such as land ownership and transfer of rights from one generation to the next," he said. "An intensification of ceremonial practices would probably serve to alleviate some of the stresses and tensions within the society," he added. Also, the shift in men's role from hunters to more settled herders and farmers may have reduced their status and self-image, according to Goring-Morris. This may have led the prehistoric people to bury young male adults at Kfar HaHoresh with animals as a way of honoring their past lives as hunters. Some of the children buried at Kfar HaHoresh also received at least some of the same funerary treatments as adults, such as being buried with grave goods including pendants and fox jaws. "As agriculture progressed and developed, symbolism developed in parallel," said Gopher. ANI
2008-09-06 06:00:00
Foreclosure May Become Health Problem
Behind the foreclosure numbers are a lot of families under severe stress. A family in Tracy, Calif. explains how their financial problems are impacting their health....
2008-09-06 04:44:09

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