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Health Benefits of Orange Juice: Good Anti-Fat Neutralizer?

Health Benefits of Orange Juice: Good Anti-Fat Neutralizer? Did you know that drinking orange juice is good for your health? Duh, of course everyone knows that already! Okay, did you know that orange juice can sort of “neutralize” the unhealthy food you’ve been stuffing yourself with every time you go to McDonalds? You didn’t, didn’t you?

Anyhoo, according to some researchers from the University of Buffalo, the “flavonoids in orange juice suppress oxidative stress from high-fat, high-carb meal”.

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Circumcision Benefits: Lesser Genital Warts Infection?

Circumcision Benefits: Lesser Risk of Genital Warts Infection? Proponents of male circumcision will have another research data to back up their claim that circumcision is good for your health. According to researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, circumcision reduces the risk that a man will infect his woman with the human papilloma virus or HPV.

As you may already know, HPV causes cervical cancer and genital warts.

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Stem Cell Therapy for Back Pain: Gothenburg University Research

Stem Cell Therapy for Back Pain: Gothenburg University Research. Can stem cell therapy cure a damaged spine and help relieve you of your troublesome lower back pain? Researchers from the Gothenburg University in Sweden say that they may have found a way for stem cells to help bad back disks to heal.

Reports the Daily Mail regarding this latest development on stem cell therapy for back pain: Continue reading “Stem Cell Therapy for Back Pain: Gothenburg University Research”

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Paracetamol for Babies: Bad Side Effects – Allergies and Asthma?

Paracetamol for Babies: Bad Side Effects – Allergies and Asthma? If you give your baby Calpol or other forms of paracetamol, you are increasing his/her risk of developing allergies and asthma, a recent research from the Otago University in Wellington (New Zealand) suggests.

However, the benefits of the drug far outweigh the risks it poses so this should not stop you from using the medicine if it is what your baby needs to get well.

Some of the findings of this study on paracetamol for babies are as follows (via Reuters): Continue reading “Paracetamol for Babies: Bad Side Effects – Allergies and Asthma?”

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Acupuncture Effective Painkiller or is it Just a Placebo?

Acupuncture Effective Painkiller or Just Placebo: German University Research. Can acupuncture really relieve pain? The result from a recent study by a research team from the University Hospital in Essen, Germany suggests that it does.

More details on the study, which looked into whether acupuncture affects how the brain reacts to electric shocks, from a Reuters report:

Eighteen volunteers underwent sophisticated brain scans at the same time as an electric shock was applied to their left ankle.

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Good Cholesterol Prevents Alzheimers Disease?

Good Cholesterol Prevents Alzheimers Disease? Can good cholesterol or high-density lipoprotein (HDL) prevent Alzheimer’s disease? Researchers from Columbia University in New York have found that “people over 65 who had the highest levels of high-density lipoprotein or HDL were 60 percent less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease over four years than people with the lowest HDL levels” (via Reuters).

The same study found that there is no difference on whether people’s HDL is naturally occurring or whether they took in drugs called statins to increase their good cholesterol levels. In both instance, those with higher HDL levels had lower Alzheimer’s.

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