Monthly Archives: August 2009

Drinking Coffee

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Businesswomen drinking coffee.It May Actually Be Good for You. Because it tastes so good, you may assume coffee is bad for you. Maybe you’ve heard rumors that your morning brew causes everything from heart disease to cancer. But researchers are finding that coffee poses little to no health risk for most people. Not only that, coffee drinking might have some health benefits.

Early research hinted that coffee might have some harmful effects. But most of those studies searched for links between people’s habits and their overall health. In such studies, it’s hard to know which effects come from coffee and which just show up by coincidence. Heavy coffee drinking sometimes goes hand in hand with unhealthy habits, like smoking and a less active lifestyle. Continue reading →

KYRGYZSTAN: Food supplement to combat child anaemia

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TALAS, 13 August 2009 (IRIN) – A three-month project is under way in Talas Province, northwestern Kyrgyzstan, to distribute single-use food supplement sachets in a bid to reduce child anaemia and stunting.

According to UNICEF, at the end of 2008 iron deficiency anaemia was present in 50 percent of women and children in Kyrgyzstan; in Talas the figure was 70 percent.

Talas also has the highest level of stunting in the country – 27.3 percent. Anaemia and stunting indicate a lack of micronutrients, and urgent intervention is required, say experts.

“To help solve the problem of nourishment for children in Talas Oblast [province], UNICEF – together with the Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan and in close cooperation with the Kyrgyz-Swiss-Swedish Project – has started distributing nutritional supplement `Gulazyk’ for the fortification of food for children aged from six months to two years at home,” Timothy Shaffter, head of the UNICEF office in Kyrgyzstan, told IRIN. Continue reading →

How Weight Loss Helps the Heart

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Extreme Weight Loss StoriesLosing a lot of coefficient rejuvenates the bodily construction of the temperament, and it makes no number whether the unit is missing by surgery or by fast, a new Land ruminate shows.

The ticker muscles of fill who started with a body body fact (BMI) averaging 40 — a BMI of 30 is the customary symbol of fat — became noticeably thinner and more efficient when they brought their BMI downcast to 32.2 in a only gathering, according to a report in the Aug. 18 issuance of the Ledger of the Land College of Cardiology. Continue reading →