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The Chinese people has been successfully employing acupuncture for over 4 millenia. Now, the western world has also started to discover its benefits. Acupuncture seems to be the best way of relieving hot flushes present in breast cancer patients treated with the anti-estrogen tamoxifen following operation, as reveale... |
22 April 2008
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Enjoying sunbaths and the daily milk cup? That's really good, and if you are a woman, this decreases your risk of developing breast cancer. This is the result of a research led by Sascha Abbas and Dr. Jenny Chang-Claude at the German Cancer Research Center, collaborating with a team at the University Hospitals i... |
19 April 2008
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When trans-fats were made for the first time, they were seen as the solution against artery clogging animal fats. Trans-fats or trans-fatty acids are made by solidifying oily fats by hydrogenization (adding hydrogen atoms into their molecule). Margarine was the best solution for replacing the harmful butter and lard.... |
17 April 2008
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By now, this is the deadliest type of cancer among women. Survival rate is poor, especially in the case of the common and aggressive types. A new research presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, April 12-16, in San Diego, CA, and carried out by a team led by Dr. Susan E. McCan... |
17 April 2008
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Alcohol may boost the libido and remove inhibitions. In the end, this may mean more sex. But there is nothing sexy either in a drunk woman, or in how the alcohol impacts her body. More specifically, her breasts, as revealed by a new research presented at the American Association for Cancer Research 2008 Annual Meetin... |
14 April 2008
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The secret of Chinese health is clearly found in the soy. Studies have shown many effects of a soy diet, including maintenance of a slim figure. But for women, the positive effects of the soy go further. A new meta-analysis carried out at the Georgetown University Medical Center and published in the "British Journal ... |
14 April 2008
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Green tea is highly popular in various diets for its effect of hampering the hunger sensation. But its qualities go much further. Its antioxidant called EGCG (epigallocatechin-3- gallate) impedes the premature aging and harming of the cells. Previous researches had pointed that the green tea could be effective agains... |
7 April 2008
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You may associate eating too many eggs with health issues. But a new research to be published in The FASEB Journal shows the contrary. The dietary consumption of choline, an amine included in the group of vitamins B and considered an essential nutrient, abundant in eggs, has been found to decrease the risk of breast ... |
4 April 2008
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Breasts are part of a woman's femininity. But genes are not the same for all women. And if a woman is not satisfied by the way her breasts look, but cannot undergo surgery, here comes an innovating solution brought by the Spanish Teleno Moda Intima company. It is a miracle bra that increases by two cups the size... |
2 April 2008
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Many contaminants have a more subtle effect than simply killing cells. Some mimic hormones, like sex hormones. A team from Yale School of Medicine has presented at the 2008 Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI) Annual Scientific Meeting held on March 26-29 in San Diego, California, a study detailing how synthet... |
2 April 2008
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Could you imagine a world without plastic? Everything around us is plastic, from the wrapping of our food and beverage bottles to clothes and the mouse you are touching right now. Bisphenol A (BPA) is one of the most common chemicals in plastics, from sunglasses, dental fillings and CDs to water and food containers a... |
1 April 2008
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It's a fatality stalking women. Breast cancer is the cruelest killer cancer in women and radiation therapy is one of the main weapons used against it. It is a delicate procedure: radiation must be strong enough to kill the cancer, but in the right small doses so that normal healthy tissue will not be harmed. Two... |
19 March 2008
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Aspirin goes further than treating your headache and fever. Recently, it has been found to decrease the risk of colorectal cancer. But a new meta-analysis published in the International Journal of Clinical Practice could trigger more interest in this pill from women: aspirin and other anti-inflammatory drugs like as... |
17 March 2008
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Large women may pride on their huge breasts. But size is exactly the cause of their end. A new research published in the journal of "Clinical Cancer Research" shows that overweight or obese women with breast cancer experiencea more aggressive condition and have lower survival rates. "The more obese a patient is, the... |
14 March 2008
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This is an intricate issue. Prostanoids help control blood pressure, fight allergies, and modulate inflammation, but too much of them can also lead to increased pain, swelling, and redness in various tissues. In fact, they may be responsible for severe inflammation in many tissues and organs. Fats from fish and veget... |
13 March 2008
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Have you eaten your vegetables? If not, this may be bad news for your breasts. A new research published in the "American Journal of Clinical Nutrition," and carried out by a team at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and the Shanghai Cancer Institute in China, has found a connection between the consume of certain ve... |
11 March 2008
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This life-threatening danger touches women's health and femininity. In many western countries, breast cancer is already the leading type of cancer. The gradually increasing number of breast cancer cases in the last decades can be explained through a series of factors, like the growing obesity, higher alcohol con... |
10 March 2008
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What you saw in "Total Recall" is beaten by reality. A study published in "Dermatology Online Journal" describes the bizarre case of a 22-year-old woman with a nipple in her sole! At least, the third breast of the mutant woman in the movie was on her chest...The woman went to the doctors for a lesion in the plantar r... |
29 February 2008
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I understand that robots should replace men in tasks that are difficult, boring, discomfort inducing, dangerous or in which they are simply better. But what this robot does should have been a man's pleasure. It's about the Breast Massage Robot. The device is claimed to deliver a comfortable human-free massa... |
28 February 2008
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Unfortunately, insecticides are not toxic only for the target insects, but also for a large array of the fauna, and for humans as well. And the effects in humans go from various symptoms to severe cancers, such as breast cancer. Usually, breast cancers are associated with impairments in the balance of sex hormones. T... |
18 February 2008
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Do you think you're sexy when smoking? Think more. I am not talking about deadly issues connected to smoking, like heart attack, stroke, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and cancers. Smoking can really impair your sex life, cause what's attractive in being impotent, sterile, wrinkled, yellowed skinned and too... |
11 February 2008
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Nature cannot do what a (large) piece of synthetic material can do. Moreover, natural large breasts drop with the age, while the synthetic balloons look like melons well after the menopause. Pamela Anderson imposed a standard in female breast size, firing the minds of many around the world. After she and a countless ... |
2 February 2008
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They hit hard on what represent femininity and fertility. But soon, with just one injection, women would be protected from the devastating ovarian and breast cancers. The vaccine for ovarian cancer would instruct the immune cells to kill the tumor cells. "This trial is a phase I/II trial that is just getting started.... |
24 January 2008
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For long, medical care has been blamed for the racial clinical difference on the disparity of breast cancer between white women and black women, first observed in the '70s in US, with the emergence of the new technique of mammography. But many subsequent researches found that African and American women with Afr... |
17 January 2008
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Your boobs can kill you. In fact, only in Britain, annually over 44,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer and over 12,000 die because of it. This is the leading cancer amongst women in developed countries. Now, a simple and cheap ($ 20) saliva test could detect breast cancer in early stages by... visiting the d... |
12 January 2008
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Having small breasts can turn into an obsession for many women. Losing them, either totally or partially, is a disaster! And this is exactly what happens in many cases of breast cancer. Scientists have tried to take fat from other body parts (breasts are made mainly of fatty tissue) to build up breasts, but often the... |
17 December 2007
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As weird as it sounds, breast cancer affects men as well, as the breast is composed of the same tissues in both man and woman. About 1% of all cases of cancer are male breast cancer and the condition is more severe in men than in women. Moreover, men with gynecomastia (a condition in which men grow female-like breast... |
15 December 2007
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We live in a world of plastic. All we eat or drink touches plastic. We handle plastics all the time. Our clothes can be made of plastic. But the plastic era comes with its toll on our health. Bisphenols, common in plastics, from sunglasses, dental fillings and CDs to water and food containers and shockproof baby bott... |
14 December 2007
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This not only hits hard a woman's femininity, but in the western world it is also the most widespread cancer in women, touching about 30% of them. About 2.7% of the breast cancer patients die annually and 20% in the next 5 years after being diagnosed. But now the secret of healthy breasts of the Oriental women s... |
13 December 2007
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Listen, guys, now we know why Pamela Anderson made her transplants: to make us healthier. "Angels of mercy" like Jordan just prolong our life and Hugh Hefner knows it. A German research published in New England Journal of Medicine and Weekly World News said that men staring at women's breasts in fact prolong the... |
30 November 2007
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Breasts do not differ only in shape and size. It is much more complicated than that. The tissue of the female breast comprises a mixture of fatty and glandular tissues and also connective tissues, like collagen (support fibrous proteins), ligaments and blood vessels, but the proportion of every breast tissue is diff... |
29 November 2007
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Well, we know that healthy food and fresh unpolluted air in the rural areas are the secret of the strong health in the case of people living in the country, but this discovery goes deeper: women living in urban areas have even unhealthy denser breasts, fact that turns them more prone to developing breast cancer, as f... |
27 November 2007
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Cannabis is advertised by many as a pain reliever. But a new research made at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute and published in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics goes much further: a cannabis chemical could impede breast cancer from 'invading' the whole body. Cannabidiol (CBD) could be a... |
20 November 2007
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This is scientifically proven: women, at least in the western world, are getting bigger breasts with each generation. A new report made by Daily Mail states that on average, British women have passed in just 10 years from bra size 34B to 36C. This has forced lingerie companies to come with stocks of GG, H, HH and J-c... |
16 November 2007
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You may say that, in a stable family, children are less exposed to sex imagery and these more protected girls are less prone to early sex. But a new research, published in "Child Development", shows they really turn later from little girls into little women. The research team at the University of Arizona and the Univ... |
16 November 2007
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There's no such thing as perfect symmetry. Indeed, our genes encode for a biological program that should make us develop in a perfectly symmetric organism. But the body has to fight from the very start to achieve the perfect condition, called homeostasis. In this fight, there are many 'obstacles', such... |
13 November 2007
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Fish are advertised as a healthy food, an easy to assimilate protein-rich meat, full of vitamins (like vitamins A and D), calcium, phosphorus and low cholesterol fats. But there are also species of fish which may cause health issues. A new research made at University of Pittsburgh found that channel catfishes coming ... |
12 November 2007
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Besides its deadly or morbid side, breast cancer is disastrous for a woman's sex-appeal. Now one of the most common worldwide breast cancer types, locally advanced breast cancer (LABC), has been linked by a NYU School of Medicine team to a molecular switch in the protein synthesis. LABC represents over 50 % of b... |
9 November 2007
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This time, the Japanese did not come out on the market with talking robots or some weird 'tech-wonder'; this is perhaps one of the most unusual inventions. Those Japanese girls chewing gum are in fact saving thousands of dollars meant for breast augmentation surgeries. The Bust-Up gum is a miracle, since yo... |
7 November 2007
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Breasts are the main sign of feminine beauty: nice, pert breasts make a woman extremely attractive. That's why there's no wonder why there is an industry of billions of dollars around breast caring products, and billions of dollars worldwide go to breast reconstruction or augmentation surgeries (with all th... |
6 November 2007
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A transparent human body would allow researchers to see many biological processes but also how cancer tumor develops, and how the tumor cells would spread through the body. Till the transparent human will be invented, a team at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine used a small, transparen... |
2 November 2007
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Most women fear that their breasts might get sagged after breastfeeding. But a new research shows that pregnancy could decrease a woman's risk of developing breast cancer, since the fetus transmits to its mother cells with protective abilities.The team at the University of Washington in Seattle U.S. Investigated... |
1 November 2007
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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
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Apparently, the undulating hips of a woman can 'establish' the health of her daughter's breasts. This is the conclusion reached by Dr. David J.P. Barker and Dr. Kent Thornburg, of Oregon Health & Science University, after investigating maternity records of over 6,000 women. Wide, round hips, pointing t... |
8 October 2007
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Cancer is an alarmingly increasing danger to the women's health and femininity, threatening their lives. The always higher number of breast cancer cases in the last decades can be explained by a series of factors, like the growing obesity, higher alcohol consumption, the fact that few women nowadays breast-feed ... |
1 October 2007
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Any physician, dietician, or fitness instructor will tell you that two factors are necessary to look good after the age of 20: diet and exercising. But if you're a couch potato aged 40, and your life's centered around alcohol, smoking and white nights, there is one last chance: plastic surgery. Only in 2006... |
29 September 2007
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After small quantities of alcohol have been considered to improve heart health for such a long time, recent researches show that this also can increase the risk of breast cancer. And one of the largest individual researches focusing on the effects of alcohol reveals that it does not matter what a woman drinks: wine, ... |
28 September 2007
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It seems that nice boobs and a nice body don't go hand in hand. The way to sagged breasts seems to pass through fitness rooms and jogging sessions, if women do not wear suitable bras. By exercising without a proper bra, millions of women 'damage' their breasts.A Portsmouth University found that while p... |
27 September 2007
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It strongly affects a woman's feminity, while attempting on her life. And the earlier the diagnosis, the better the chances of survival. But a new "breakthrough" method in the detection of breast cancer developed by a team at the Institute of Human Genetics at Newcastle University could significantly cut the cos... |
22 September 2007
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This is the most widespread cancer in women in the western world, touching about 30 % of them. Only in UK, 44,000 women are diagnosed annually and 1,000 die each month. About 20 % of the patients die in the next 5 years after being diagnosed. The survival chances are decreased by the late diagnosis, as many women do ... |
20 September 2007
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