Coffee Protects Women Against Heart Disease - But Not Men
	About a month ago, I was telling you about a study that concluded that tea consumption is very good news for women – but not for men. Now comes the shocking part: coffee, it has just been revealed, has an equally surprising taste for gender disparity. A recent study pu ... [read more >>]
	19 June 2008, 09:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Anti-Cancer Diet I: The Basics
	The question of whether there really is such a thing as an anti-cancer diet has long been debated by everyone from scientists to adepts of an all-natural healthy lifestyle who firmly believe in the healing powers of natural products, herbs and other organic substances. Most of the times, the compromise in terms of which one of the approaches should prevail – the ones supported by conventional medicine or the more flexible, mind-body or nut ... [read more >>]
	16 June 2008, 08:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Organic Milk Helps Beat Cancer and Heart Disease
	For all of you milk lovers out there, here is some very good news: a recent study indicates that the very versatile dairy product is not only an excellent source of vitamins and calcium for the human body, but also has the ability to cut back on our chances to develop heart disease and cancer. There's one catch, though – experts say that we have to do our best to drink organic milk rather than regular milk, as the organic variety was ... [read more >>]
	13 June 2008, 10:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Brain Can Fight Cancers
	The fact that a patient’s mood can affect the way cancer tumors evolve in time is far from being a myth anymore, it’s a certified fact. Scientific studies showed more than once that patients with an overall calm attitude towards the disease they are fighting have a better chance of decreasing the rate the cancer tumor grows at, probably due to the release of a 'feel good' hormone in the brain, beta-endorphin peptide, associated w ... [read more >>]
	11 June 2008, 05:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Steve Jobs Is Thinner... Again
	Word on the web is that Steve just got a bit thinner. It’s already common knowledge that Apple's CEO is suffering from a rare, but curable form of cancer, which made him lose a lot of weight in the past as well. Jobs has apparently lost more weight, but are we really going into that ... [read more >>]
	10 June 2008, 08:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Truth About Coffee
	When it comes to its health benefits, coffee is one of the most controversial beverages out there. So much has been said about it over the years, so many people have argued pro or against it that ultimately we're all rather confused about which side to take. That’s why we’re going to talk a little bit about coffee, its beneficial and not so beneficial properties, so that we can all ultimately know where we stand before we decide wheth ... [read more >>]
	25 May 2008, 05:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Rosemary in Burgers and Steaks Helps Prevent Cancer
	If you're a big fan of red meat, then let me ask you this: have you ever found yourself craving a rosemary-flavored burger? Well, neither did the vast majority of the population in the fast-food loving modern societies around the world. However, a recent study may very well change our perspective – and we might soon end up demanding that our minced meat contain a great deal of rosemary. Why? Because the precious seasoning ha ... [read more >>]
	23 May 2008, 09:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Carbon Nanotubes May Behave Like Asbestos
	A new study published yesterday implies that carbon nanotubes may behave like asbestos when being inhaled in particular quantities. Similar to asbestos, carbon nanotubes may triggers a form of lung cancer known as mesothelioma, which appears within three to four decades after the exposure. Simply put, the study says that carbon nanotubes looking like asbestos usually behave like it as well. Carbon nanotubes were discovered some two deca ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2008, 08:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Strawberries: Anti-Oxidant Superstars
	Forget diamonds – in spring and summer strawberries are a girl's best friends. These deep-red heart-shaped gems are the superstars of the anti-oxidant world. Think of them as the Superman (or woman) of the fruit and vegetable world – no matter how rough the circumstances and how grim the prospects, strawberries always come through for their loyal fans – which, nutritionists say, should comprise all of us. Strawberries ar ... [read more >>]
	15 May 2008, 05:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Tooth Loss Increases Cancer Risks
	Tooth loss is not only very unappealing, it is also extremely unhealthy: a new research study published in the Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention journal found a tight connection between tooth loss and increasing risks of developing 3 forms of cancer (esophageal, head and neck, and lung). Until now, the team from Aichi Cancer Center in Nagoya and Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan, could only gu ... [read more >>]
	14 May 2008, 16:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Exercise at a Young Age Helps Prevent Breast Cancer
	Remember when you were young and there were days when you just felt you wanted to lie in bed all day and watch TV or just play with your favorite dolls in the privacy of your own little room – and then your parents came and told you to go outside and play? Well, it seems that their advice might have been more than just a gentle incentive to enjoy the early years of your life and get down to as much running around outside as possible. A rec ... [read more >>]
	14 May 2008, 08:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

French Fries and Cancer
	Life without French fries is unfathomable for most junk food addicts. Nevertheless, ingesting them means more than just making one obese (with all the accompanying health related issues): a new Dutch research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that acrylamide, a chemical abundant in French fries, cakes, snacks and coffee, boosts the risk of kidney cancer, especially in smokers. "Ours is the first report ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 17:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Simple Lifestyle Changes Help You Avoid Cancer
	Cancer is among the most devastating plagues of the modern era: last year, the American Cancer Society reported 12 million new cases of malignancy diagnosed worldwide, with 7.6 million people actually dying from the disease. However, thanks to the ever-expanding range of research conducted into cancer, with every month that passes we learn more and more about the origins of this terrible disease and even about how to prevent it, ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 08:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hair Dye Increases Risk of Leukemia
	The price of vanity in the modern, ever-changing era in which we live may be even higher than we can imagine. A study publish a short while ago warns men and women that using hair dye more than nine times a year increases by 60% the risk of developing chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, which is a form of cancer of the blood cells. The same study claims that women who dye their hair in darker shades of black, brown and red are 50 per ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 11:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Do You Want Nice Skin? Tomato Is the Secret.
	Here’s a possible explanation for the fact that Italians are famous for their Don Juan-esque qualities: the pizza and spaghetti sauce makes them look more attractive, granting them a shiny skin devoid of sunburn and wrinkles. A new research presented at the British Society for Investigative Dermatology has discovered that 5 tablespoons of tomato paste added daily to your diet improves your skin's capacity to fight harmful UV ... [read more >>]
	05 May 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Breakthrough in Stem Cell Research and Female Infertility Treatment
	Radiation and chemotherapy employed for stopping cancers often put an end to the function of the ovaries, leading to early menopause, accompanied by osteoporosis, low sex drive and sterility. Nevertheless, a new technique of growing human eggs in the laboratory developed by a team at the Edinburgh University and reported by BBC News improves significantly the chances of young female cancer patients having a baby later in life ... [read more >>]
	22 April 2008, 16:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Acupuncture, Breast Health and Medication
	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 revealed by a new research recently presented at the 6th European Breast Cancer Conference in Berlin. "Breast cancer patient ... [read more >>]
	22 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Vitamin D Is Involved in Brain Development and Activity
	We associate vitamin D with calcium metabolism and bone strength but, in fact, this molecule has many other roles in the organism from which we can enumerate: it controls tissue differentiation during development and immunity. More than 900 different genes can attach to the vitamin D receptor, which is the protein that mediates the effect of vitamin D in the protection against autoimmune diseases (like multiple sclerosis and type I diabete ... [read more >>]
	22 April 2008, 03:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Secret to Healthy Skin: Coffee
	In the vivid debate on whether coffee is good or bad for our health, here comes a new study coffee supporters can always use as a pro argument: in the case of mice, caffeine works like a "sun screen", protecting their skin against the harmful ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation and ultimately against skin cancer. In the study published in Cancer Research, the team of researchers also presents the mechanism behind this protection: caff ... [read more >>]
	21 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Swedish Moist Tobacco Shortens Your Life
	People think that the problem with tobacco consists in the act of smoking and that other methods of consuming tobacco would be less harmful. It seems they are wrong: a 30-year long research on the use of snus, Swedish moist tobacco, revealed that the stuff shortens your life. 30% of the 10,000 male subjects of the study died during the follow-up period. Most of them were smokers and common conditions were heart and tobacco-re ... [read more >>]
	21 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Vitamin D Protects Breasts
	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 in Hamburg-Eppendorf. Unlike previous researches, focusing mainly on nutritional vitamin D, this study analyzed comp ... [read more >>]
	19 April 2008, 03:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Trans-Fats Are Harmful for the Boobs
	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. But now, after researches showed that trans-fats clog arteries just like the animal products, they also have been ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Plant Diet and Healthy Breasts
	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. McCann, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, shows that a plant-based d ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Alcohol, Female Sex Hormones and Breasts
	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 Meeting, April 12-16. Alcohol has been linked to breast cancer by various researches. One of the largest studies revealed that ... [read more >>]
	14 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Soy Consumption and Healthy Boobs
	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 of Cancer" points that genistein, an isoflavone (estrogen mimicking chemicals) in soy, decreases the risk of develo ... [read more >>]
	14 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 10 Viral Infections
	Scientists still debate if they are alive or not, but look what they can inflict in us (and this is just a selection of the most common ones): 1. Flue is caused by a virus transmitted through air. The incubation lasts 1-2 days. The symptoms include fever, cough, loss of appetite, headaches. Ordinary flue can be treated by resting and liquid warm food. The problem that preoccupies the mankind is the possible cross between the virus of or ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2008, 10:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Kylie Minogue Misdiagnosed with Cancer
	Most of you know by now that the petite Australian singer Kylie Minogue was diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago, and successfully beat the terrible disease, making a triumphant return to the big stage and the crazy world of showbiz. The singer has been reasonably open so far about her struggle to overcome her disease and get better; however, during an appearance at comedienne Ellen DeGeneres's TV talk show yesterday, ... [read more >>]
	08 April 2008, 09:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Regional Nuclear War Would Destroy the World
	Global or not, a nuclear war would kill us all. And if nuclear weapons didn't do the job, then the Sun would. According to recent studies, a regional global war would cause the ozone layer of the Earth to be destroyed in as little as a decade, all living beings being at the mercy of the Sun's ultraviolet rays. Ultraviolet light has the ability to alter the human DNA, but other organisms may be at risk as well. 100 Hiroshima-s ... [read more >>]
	08 April 2008, 03:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Green Tea Protects the Boobs
	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 against some cancer types, like breast cancer. A new research made at the University of Mississippi, that will be presented at the ... [read more >>]
	07 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Eat Eggs For Healthy Boobs
	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 cancer with 24%. A 2003 Harvard research showed that women who ate one egg daily during adolescence had a 18% de ... [read more >>]
	04 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Plastic Does Harm the Boobs
	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 and shockproof baby ... [read more >>]
	01 April 2008, 16:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Red Wine Treats You of Cancer
	French are real lover boys thanks to the consumption of red wine. Resveratrol, an antioxidant polyphenol found in red wine, red grapes and pomace (winemaking residue), has been proved by many researches to boost heart health, erection and to impede prostate cancer and tooth decay, while also hampering bacterial infections. A new Rochester study published in the journal Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology explained for t ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2008, 17:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Radiation and the Best Way to Save Boobs
	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 new researches signaled by New Scientist show that the current medical practice uses too much radiation against br ... [read more >>]
	19 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Forget About Knives, Use a Laser
	Most of us regard lasers as some kind of weird devices that came from the future and are restricted only to scientific investigations, when in fact use lasers every day without even noticing. Infrared remote control? Laser powered, so is your compact disk player. Remember that the thin line of light scanning your products when shopping is not a typical beam of light, it is a laser beam! These are only low power lasers that cannot ... [read more >>]
	18 March 2008, 07:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Aspirin Saves the Boobs
	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 aspirin could decrease breast cancer by up to 20 %. "Our review of research published over the last 27 years ... [read more >>]
	17 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Soybean, Male Sex and Cancer
	It is the monster lurking most men: prostate will swell, urinating and having sex will turn painful and the operation may mean not sex at all (impotence). Moreover, the prostate cancer can spread and kill you. But those Chinese, with their tofu, know the secret: a new research published in the journal Cancer Research shows that a chemical encountered in soybean almost completely stopped the spread of human prostate cancer in mice ... [read more >>]
	15 March 2008, 05:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Obesity Strikes the Boobs
	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 more aggressive the disease. We are learning that the fat tissue may increase inflammation that ... [read more >>]
	14 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Inflammation and Healthy Breasts
	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 vegetable oils are transformed into prostanoids through chemical reactions catalyzed by enzymes named cyclo-oxygenases (COX-1 and ... [read more >>]
	13 March 2008, 06:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sex, Marijuana and Cancer
	Sex, drugs and ... cancer, not violence! More specifically, sex, marijuana and head and throat cancer. The human papilloma virus (HPV) has been connected to throat cancers most often in younger, married college graduates by a study carried out by a team at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center report and published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. HPV is sexually transmitted and can induce some cervical (uterus) ... [read more >>]
	12 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Do Vegetables Save the Boobs?
	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 vegetables and a lowered risk for breast cancer. "3,035 women diagnosed with breast cancer were identified t ... [read more >>]
	11 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Does the Stress Harm the Boobs?
	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 consumption, the fact that few women nowadays breast-feed their newborn children and others. Stress has been found by some rese ... [read more >>]
	10 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Patrick Swayze May Be Dying
	I have a feeling that if this is not true, there will be hell to pay for the people at the National Enquirer. The fact is, ever since I read this particular piece of news, I've been telling myself that it's probably not true, that it's all a horrible lie and that the line of decency has definitely been crossed by publishing such a hurtful and deceiving innuendo. In an Enquirer exclusive, it is being claimed that th ... [read more >>]
	05 March 2008, 10:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Jobs Lied About His Diagnosis
	It has recently been revealed that a June 2005 commencement address at Stanford University saw Apple's CEO telling students that "About a year ago," he was "diagnosed with cancer." The moving story would have made the history books, hadn't it bee ... [read more >>]
	05 March 2008, 04:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Oral Sex Is Boosting the Number of Oral Cancer Cases
	This is a little bizarre: while cases of mouth cancers caused by tobacco and alcohol have being decreasing since 1982, due to their lower consume, a new culprit for this type of cancer is causing increasingly more victims: oral sex. More specifically, a human papilloma virus (HPV), which can be transmitted through oral sex, causes tongue, mouth and throat cancers, besides cervical, penile and anal cancers. The number of this ... [read more >>]
	29 February 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Does Smoking Cause Lung Cancer?
	Each year, 4 million people die because of diseases caused by tobacco smoking, one person every 8 seconds. Tobacco smoking is the most important cause of diseases worldwide. If the current tendency is maintained, by 2020 smoking will kill more persons than AIDS, tuberculosis, maternal mortality, car accidents, suicides and murder do. Still, one third of the adults worldwide smoke. About 20% of the American deaths are connected to tobac ... [read more >>]
	29 February 2008, 03:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Cell Phones Can Cause Mouth Cancer!
	The wireless technology has invaded our lives. But do you think this comes with no consequences on our health? Cell phones expose you for long periods to RF (radio frequencies). A recent research has shown that chatting on a mobile phone before bedtime would cause you insomnia. The team from Sweden's Karolinska Institute and Wayne State University, in Michigan, found that mobile phone radiation of 884 MHz provokes insomn ... [read more >>]
	20 February 2008, 06:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Does Chronic Stress Destroy Women's Fertility
	The fact that stress decreases a woman's fertility is known. But a new research published in the "Annals of Behavioral Medicine" shows that daily stress can go much further than that, decreasing women's immune system capacity to defend a common sexually transmitted disease, leaving them vulnerable for developing cervical cancer. This was not seen however in the case of acute, not chronic, stress, like that cau ... [read more >>]
	20 February 2008, 03:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Do Insecticides Destroy the Boobs?
	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. The main chemical resulted from the metabolic breakdown of DDT, one of the most common insecticides, had been connected to agg ... [read more >>]
	18 February 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Working Men Will Have Longer Sex Life!
	A physically active job may lead to more than a better condition: it may lower the risk of developing prostate cancer, as found by a research carried out by a team at UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center and published in the journal "Cancer Causes Control." The study was made on 2,100 men, ex-employees at the Rocketdyne facility in the San Fernando Valley, who had had jobs that exposed them to radiation and chemicals, factors known to bo ... [read more >>]
	12 February 2008, 05:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Smoking Can Destroy Your Boobs!
	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 toothed, having a bad breath, being blind because of earlier age-related macular degeneration, coughing, having decreased taste ... [read more >>]
	11 February 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia