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Currently, in many western countries, less than 1% of women breastfeed continuously for the first six months of the baby's life. In the UK, the category most prone to breastfeeding was found to be formed of well educated, professional women, older than 30 and mothers for the first time. The fear of ending up wit... |
6 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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You may depreciate creeping creatures like snakes and lizards, but the first mammals, the group which humans belong to, evolved from egg-laying reptiles. By feeding the young with milk, mammals skipped the yolk diet and the egg stage in their development. A new research published in the journal "PLoS Biology" has tra... |
19 March 2008
03:50 GMT |
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These people are said to descend from the soldiers of Alexander the Great, stranded and established in foreign lands. Kalash people call the peak of the mountains with a word that does not require explanations: Olympus. The discovery in the '80s of Greek inscriptions in a former Kalash area in Afghanistan furthe... |
18 March 2008
16:46 GMT |
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Milk is recommended for its significant amount of proteins, calcium and vitamins, but scientists thought to make the most of it. A new research published in the February 2008 print edition of "The FASEB Journal" comes with a breakthrough biotechnology that could bring us therapeutic proteins with the milk. The team a... |
31 January 2008
05:21 GMT |
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You may call pizza any thick mass of dough with added ordinary cheese and, a crime for any real pizza connoisseur, ketchup. But real pizza is made with mozzarella cheese, a delicacy made from the fat rich water buffalo milk. Now, the Italian production of mozzarella is threatened by a deadly disease spreading th... |
18 January 2008
06:08 GMT |
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Nokia N82, the latest from the Nseries family, was released by the Finnish company in November 2007, after a long wait and various leaked images and specs. It quickly became one of the most craved handsets around the world, due to both its look and the features it packs. Originally available only in a metallic silver... |
4 January 2008
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Today, in many western countries, less than 1% of women breastfeed exclusively for the first six months of the baby's life. In UK, the categories most prone to breastfeeding were found to be well educated, professional women, older than 30 and mothers for the first time. The fear of ending up with the saggy boob... |
4 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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This is the solution for healthier toddlers: going naked. At least this is what the team led by John Speakman at the University of Aberdeen, UK, found and presented in the Journal of Experimental Biology: nursing female mice with a shaved back delivered more milk, which enabled them to have heavier litters (11 offspr... |
20 November 2007
07:19 GMT |
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Sun lovers and cheese eaters got it: they will live longer than others. A new research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that vitamin D could act against aging and inflammation. The study made by a British-American team on over 2,100 female twin pairs aged 19-79 showed that higher vitamin ... |
9 November 2007
05:31 GMT |
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A research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found a gene that improves IQ in breastfed children. Having the FADS2 gene made children score, on average, 7 points more in IQ tests if they were breastfed. The study found breastfeeding had no effect on the IQ of children with a differe... |
6 November 2007
05:43 GMT |
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Breastfeeding seems to be orientated just towards the baby, but a team at the University of Chicago has found that pheromones related to breastfeeding boost sexual drive by almost 50 % in... other women! It's like pheromones would signal to other women it's their turn to procreate. When detected, the chemic... |
24 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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You replace your old computer with a new one annually, you do the same with your mobile phone even more often and you still breathe a fresh air. But your gadget wastes go to recycling places where people living nearby load their organisms with gadget toxins you have not even heard of. These include dioxins and furans... |
23 October 2007
06:23 GMT |
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Healthy and cheap milk could come as the result of a new discovery: both in women and cows, the secretion of the milk is stopped by serotonin ("the feeling good" hormone). "Knowing the chemical responsible for inhibiting milk production could help us to improve milk yields in other mammals," said lead researcher Dr. ... |
9 October 2007
05:53 GMT |
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It may already sound weird for you when you hear about people whose diet is based on camel or reindeer or yak milk and the resulting diary products, but what about moose milk? A moose may be familiar to you if you live in a northern area, but more as stew and barbecue, not in your banana shake. In fact, people have b... |
21 September 2007
03:43 GMT |
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Nutritionists promote a large array of basic food as the key to a strong health. So you think you eat good stuff and no wonder that you're surprised to experience various diseases, from cancer to diabetes, and so on. That's because on the way from the farm to the shelves of the supermarket, food experiences... |
8 September 2007
04:47 GMT |
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There is no doubt that breastfeeding is the best food for babies (except in some cases, like infections in moms, especially with HIV, which can increase the risk of virus transmission from mother to offspring). Despite the fact that in many countries artificial feeding is linked with a greater mortality rate caused b... |
20 June 2007
06:11 GMT |
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We do not know when cows will start to produce chocolate milk or strawberry milk (perhaps when they will cross a strawberry with a cow...), but scientists are already on the way to fill the pastures with cows that produce skimmed milk. New Zealand researchers have found that there are cows whose genes enable them to ... |
28 May 2007
05:37 GMT |
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Breastfeeding could become safe in the case of HIV-infected mothers by means of a simple method of flash-heating breast milk.A new research made at the Berkeley and Davis campuses of the University of California gives hope to mothers in developing countries. The easy-to-apply technique consists in heating a glass jar... |
24 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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You know that colostrum, that yellowish milk secreted after birth, boosts life in you, as it is a package of immune factors. And there's nothing better than maternal milk for the newborn. But now, in many western countries, less than 1% of women breastfeed exclusively for the first six months. The Infant Feedin... |
14 May 2007
09:03 GMT |
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You work hard to look like Vin Diesel and you keep on displaying an Adrien Brody look?In this case, you should not miss your milk cups. A new research addressed to bodybuilders signals that milk protein is much better than soy at growing muscles. The study made by a team from McMaster University's Department of ... |
11 April 2007
03:40 GMT |
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For tens of years, specialists advertise that the maternal milk "is the best and healthiest food" for the new-born. Moreover, in poor countries, the risk for the newborn of dying because of diarrhea symptoms is 15 times higher for the babies fed by nipple than by breastfeeding. In fact, United Nations Children's... |
27 March 2007
11:11 GMT |
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Organic food producers and advocacy groups have supported the idea that milk from hormone-treated cows leads to the onset of early puberty as well as cancer risk. U.S. sales of organic dairy products rose from $133 million in 1996 to $1.3 billion in 2001, even if their cost is double than that of conventional product... |
21 March 2007
06:21 GMT |
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