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Wine

Professor Loses Weight With No-Diet Diet

Brock Vergakis
Associated Press
Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:00 UTC
Salt Lake City, Utah - When Steven Hawks is tempted by ice cream bars, M&Ms and toffee-covered almonds at the grocery store, he doesn't pass them by. He fills up his shopping cart.

It's the no-diet diet, an approach the Brigham Young University health science professor used to lose 50 pounds and to keep it off for more than five years.
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Coffee

Decaff is the unhealthy option, say scientists

Jeremy Laurance
The Independent
Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:00 UTC
Decaffeinated coffee may be worse for drinkers' health than the caffeine-laden kind, scientists reported yesterday.

In the first randomised study of the two coffees, researchers found that the decaffeinated variety raises the level of fats and "bad" cholesterol in the blood more than caffeinated blends.

The finding was presented to a meeting of the American Heart Association after a study of 187 people by the Fuqua Heart Centre in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Health

Will a pastry a day keep the doctor away?

James Kingsland
New Scientist
Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:00 UTC
Thorkild Sørensen of Copenhagen University Hospital and his colleagues looked at data from the Finnish Twin Cohort Study, in which volunteers filled in questionnaires about their health and lifestyle, first in 1975 and again in 1981. These included questions about height, weight and motivation to lose weight. Even after controlling for smoking and excluding anyone with a chronic illness that could have led to weight loss, Sørensen found that overweight or obese people who intended to lose weight in 1975 and succeeded were nearly twice as likely to have died by 1999 compared with those who had no intention to lose weight and stayed about the same (Public Library of Science Medicine, vol 2, e171).
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Health

Mexico May Overtake U.S. as Fattest Nation Amid Junk Food Binge


Bloomberg
Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:00 UTC
Mexico probably will surpass the U.S. in obesity rates for the first time next year as the Latin American nation adopts the fast food and sedentary lifestyles of its neighbor to the north.
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Health

Teenager with peanut allergy dies after a kiss


CTV.ca
Sun, 27 Nov 2005 12:00 UTC
Teenagers with allergies have to let their friends know.

A Quebec teenager with a peanut allergy has died after kissing her boyfriend who had eaten a peanut butter sandwich hours earlier.

Fifteen-year-old Christina Desforges died Monday. She went into anaphylactic shock and in spite of being given an adrenalin shot, could not be revived.

Desforges lived 250 km north of Quebec City in Saguenay.

The official cause of the teen's death has not yet been released.
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Family

Prescription for heart disease: pat a dog


Reuters
Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:00 UTC
Washington - Just a few minutes spent patting a dog can relieve a heart patient's anxiety and perhaps even help recovery during a visit to the hospital, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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Attention

Suicides linked to Tamiflu - so is only weapon against bird flu safe?

Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor
UK Independent
Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:00 UTC
European medicines regulators have ordered a safety check on Tamiflu after reports that two teenage boys died in Japan in apparent suicides after taking the anti-flu drug.

The link between the abnormal behaviour and the drug could not be ruled out, but at the same time the drug could not be singled out as the sole cause of the behaviour.
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Health

Wrapping up warm to beat a cold is not to be sniffed at

Martin Wainwright
The Guardian
Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:00 UTC
The latest experiment reinforces theories that existing, latent infection can be activated when parts of the body, particularly the feet and nose, get wet and cold.
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Magnify

Mysterious case of the man who claims to have beaten HIV by taking vitamins

Hugh Muir and James Meikle
The Guardian
Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:00 UTC
A spokeswoman said: "I can confirm that he has a positive and a negative test. I can't confirm that he's shaken it off, that he's been cured. Disclosures in his case arose not from medical research or peer review but from legal correspondence relating to an action Mr Stimpson was pursuing against the health trust. He had feared the positive results might have been wrong and had sought compensation. The trust's contention that both sets of blood tests were accurate emerged as it tried to defend itself from litigation.

Experts stress that the complexities of HIV make any one of a number of scenarios possible in this case. Tests usually indicate antibodies rather than the virus. They are usually accurate but one of the number of tests he has undergone may have been wrong. In any event a test for the virus itself is more conclusive.
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Syringe

Documentary: The origins of AIDS - blowback from polio vaccine campaigns?


YouTube
Tue, 02 Dec 2003 11:03 UTC
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Since first being broadcast in 2003 the Origins Of Aids has yet to be aired on UK television. Despite winning many awards and being hotly debated the reason is because of the barrage of legal assaults made on potential screeners by Dr Koprowski (and his legal network), who strongly denies causing the Aids epidemic during his 1950s trials of an experimental polio vaccine in Africa.

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