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Offline Ian

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« on: April 09, 2011, 09:52:12 am »
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« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2011, 09:52:57 am »
Heavy beer drinkers who have a specific genetic variant in the cluster of three genes that metabolize alcohol are at significantly higher risk of developing non-cardia gastric cancer, according to research presented at the AACR 102nd Annual Meeting 2011, held April 2-6.

Study results also showed that the same risk is also elevated (but not as significantly) for heavy beer drinkers who do not have the variant, known as rs1230025, and for non-drinkers who have rs1230025 or rs283411.

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« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2011, 09:58:02 am »
It seems we've been getting conflicting evidence about alcohol intake and health for years.  The past ten years however ,have seen new and more reliable methods of research emerge, in which vast tracts of data from previous projects are being correlated and analysed.

In the latest instance researchers concluded that drinking above recommended alcohol limits was likely to be responsible for the majority of cancer cases linked to alcohol, although for some people even a small consumption may increase the risk.

They analysed data from eight European countries, involving more than 360,000 men and women who were aged between 35 and 70 at the beginning of the study.

The research is part of the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer, one of the largest ever studies into the links between diet and cancer.

Some 17 per cent of bowel cancers in men were linked to drinking, as were 4 per cent of cases in women. And 5 per cent of cases of breast cancer in women were also linked to drinking, the study showed. Overall, more than 18 per cent of cancers in men were down to drinking more than 24g of alcohol a day. In women, 4 per cent of cancers were due to drinking more than 12g of alcohol daily.

Essentially, it's cancers of the cancers of the liver, female breast, bowel, and upper digestive tract which are involved, while alcohol also plays a role in the development of oral cancers, including cancer of the pharynx and larynx.  In North Wales, there has been a significant rise in cases of pharyngeal cancers over the past few years.

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« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2011, 10:09:35 pm »
Every time that I read another article about the dangers of drinking, and the health problems that I am storing up..it makes me want to immediately give up......READING!

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« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2011, 08:09:25 am »
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« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2011, 07:52:23 am »
Around 4,000 babies die unexpectedly in the last months of pregnancy or during labour every year in the UK – one of the highest rates of stillbirth in Europe, according to a major new series of reports by the Lancet.

The medical journal also explodes the popular assumption that a stillborn baby had something wrong with it and "was never meant to be". In fact, only 5% of the 2.6 million babies stillborn worldwide in 2009 had a congenital abnormality.

Even in the UK, stillbirth is a risk for healthy women with normal pregnancies, yet it is little discussed. A third of stillbirths are unexplained here, although poor NHS maternity care is thought to play a part in half of these – more than 600 a year.

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« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2013, 10:47:15 pm »
Further to the talk of 'Mother Nature' sorting out the population problem, here is an article from the BBC which warns us exactly how that is already coming about.
Basically, the viruses of this world are now so resistant to antibiotics, that antibiotics themselves are becoming a waste of time.
Little research is being done to create new ones.
Eminent medical people are saying that Global Warming may not be a problem, because the Human Race might not survive to see it's effects!

Here... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21178718
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« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2013, 08:12:13 am »
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Basically, the viruses of this world are now so resistant to antibiotics, that antibiotics themselves are becoming a waste of time.

Bacteria are becoming more resistant, Fester, not viruses; antibiotics have never worked on a virus. That's why the common cold continues to be a nuisance.  Viruses, On the other hand , mutate thousands of times per day, which makes influenza pandemics potentially so deadly.
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« Reply #8 on: January 25, 2013, 11:45:00 am »
Bacteria....viruses....bugs.... call them what you will, they are getting harder to kill, and we are getting easier!
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« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2013, 12:49:34 pm »
Main problem is that we have been over protected for many years and have not built up any natural immunity as our forebears and some of us older ones did.

We didn't have a fridge when I was a lad but never had food poisoning, and food preparation was certainly not as hygienic as the experts now try to teach us.  I, and all my aged friends, rarely get colds and flu or other diseases.  It is just our bodies that start giving up and otherwise we are quite fit and healthy.
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« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2013, 02:23:31 pm »
I agree there Yorkie-- there were no sell by or use by dates either--you used your eyes and nose to determine if stuff was edible. If there was a bit of mould on a piece of cheese you cut it off and ate the remainder.
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« Reply #11 on: January 25, 2013, 07:07:36 pm »
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Bacteria....viruses....bugs.... call them what you will, they are getting harder to kill, and we are getting easier

Er..no;  viruses and bacteria are very different.  Bacteria (singular: bacterium) are huge unicellular micro-organisms. They're typically a few micrometers long and have many shapes including curved rods, spheres, rods, and spirals. They're the ones that cause serious post-op infections, such as MRSA.

Viruses (from the Latin noun virus, meaning toxin or poison) is a sub-microscopic particle (ranging in size from 20–300 nm) that can infect the cells of a biological organism. The danger of a virus (besides the fact that it can't be 'killed' since it's not technically alive in  the first place) is that it tricks your body's cells into reproducing itself, and can cause extremely serious illnesses.  The 'flu pandemic of 1918 was caused by a virus, and that killed more than 28,000000 people around the world.  Viruses can be deadly, and are exceptionally difficult to stop, since antibiotics have no effect on them.

Yorkie's point is interesting:  it's true that older people catch fewer colds, and that's primarily because there are only about 150 strains of the common cold virus, so if you survive to 75+ your body has developed antibodies to most of them.  But to return to the article in question.  That was discussing Bacterial infections, and what it was saying is that the over-prescribing by vets and doctors of antibiotics for years has caused bacteria to evolve which are immune to the effects of most antibiotics.  Most people are unaware for example, that honey is liberally laced with antibiotics, given to bees, or that your typical burger is also heavily laced.  For too long vets and doctors have been administering antibiotics prophylactically, which has encouraged the evolution of bacteria which now present a real risk to health. That's the real cause of the problem and not simply the tendency to over-protect.
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« Reply #12 on: January 26, 2013, 01:50:08 pm »
We spend a lot of time in overheated environments which I think adds to the spread of "bugs" whatever they are and however they may get into the system. I also think that following  thorough hand washing and other basic principles of hygiene is a key way to protect yourself against them.   It also makes me very aware of people when out and about who leave a public loo without washing their  hands, or who cough and sneeze in public places without covering their nose and mouth  :o.

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« Reply #13 on: January 27, 2013, 06:36:30 pm »
I wouldn't call them 'Bugs' if I were you Suepp.

You see Ian is likely to castigate you for using the wrong terminology, thus trivialising and ultimately burying the original and important point you might be making.


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« Reply #14 on: January 27, 2013, 06:49:50 pm »
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