Healthy uses for Tea
We have always heard about tea being one of those natural products, which is both good to drink and has many other healing properties too. However, despite all of the claims there is never a complete list of exactly what tea is good for part from drinking that is.
The list below is just a few [...]
Where the germs are
The very thought of germs for some people is enough to make them feel ill, but what should be considered is that we as in humans are actually covered in germs anyhow. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that everyday things that we come in contact with are also covered in germs.
It should be [...]
The smell of danger
For as long as anyone can remember there have been sayings that go around the fact that humans can smell danger, these may be something like “I can smell danger in the air” and so on. However, this has normally been put down to fear or something similar.
However according to research being conducted by researchers [...]
Medicine or Food the ingredients are the same
For years people have been using natural products for treatment of ill health, however many of these treatments are also foods which has to bring up the question: it someone has all of these foods in their daily diet, should they not be the healthiest person around?
Just in case you have any doubts as what [...]
STD’s on this for middle aged people
In recent research conducted for the Liberal Democrats it has been found that there is an alarming increase in the rate of sexually transmitted diseases amongst those aged over forty five years old.
It is not known why this trend has suddenly appeared, but it is very worrying for many reasons.
Chlamydia has risen from 1,276 cases [...]
A good excuse for not donating blood
Giving blood is great thing, it saves lives and there no getting away with that. But despite all of the good intentions some people are unable to give blood. So if you are one of those people who is being pressured into donating, but would really like a great excuse for not giving a pint, [...]
March 14, 2008Clean homes good for Asthma
You cannot escape the adverts for cleaning materials in the press and on TV, while at the supermarket there is a whole isle devoted to cleaning materials. But could there be a link between the increase in bleaches, paint strippers, carpet cleaners, and all of those other cleaners and the increase of the child asthma.
In [...]
Boosting the body’s anti virus defences
It is a well known fact that the more medicines that you take the less chance there is that your body will produce the natural anti virus defences needed to fight against the different types of Flu and other illnesses that have the potential to kill.
However researchers from the McGill University in Canada have been [...]
Sound destroys viruses
Researchers at Arizona State University have been working on how to destroy viruses, this is a serious venture because a virus can be anything from flu to something even more deadly, and in many cases there is nothing that can be done to prevent a virus from running its course.
However the research team have found [...]
Researchers create DNA structure
Building a synthetic organism could make people think about Frankenstein’s monster but when a research team announced that they had created the largest man made DNA structure, this puts them one step closer to being able to create a synthetic organism but we are only talking about micro organisms here.
But it would seem to be [...]
Cucumbers used to treat malaria
It seem that there could be an unlikely source to a potential treatment for malaria, this source is the weird looking sea cucumber, a prickly orange coloured sea creature that could hold the key to this disease.
The sea cucumber produces various proteins that actually stop the growth of parasites, and it is this protein that [...]
Deadly virus kills ten
There is a new infectious virus doing the rounds in the States, it starts off with all of the symptoms that you find in a cold, but it doesn’t stop there for within a coupe days the patients are struggling to breath and need emergency care.
So far over a thousand people have been affected by [...]
What has the highest germ rates?
There seem to be more germs around these days, more than we have ever seen before, and yet there are actual places that are more germ infested than others, according to research by Dr Charles Gerba PhD, who is professor of environmental microbiology at the University of Arizona.
There is now a list of the top [...]