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Most strokes and heart attacks are associated with atherosclerosis, the disease that deposits cholesterol plaque inside the arteries of the heart and brain. Although several cardiovascular germs have been identified, most of the research has centred on the Heart Attack Germ, Chlamydia pneumoniae. T...
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Making use of an unusually large sample of 23,000 same sex twins born before 1958 and both surviving after 1967, the researchers from Karolinska Institute in Stockholm studied their smoking, drinking, diet and physical activity over a 20-year follow-up period. The aim of the study was to compare th...
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The study concluded that ‘Resveratrol’, which is found naturally in red wine, could help to fight lung diseases such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis.The world Health Organisation estimates Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases (COPD) are responsible, worldwide, for some 3 million deaths annual...
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A recent study carried out by the Epidimiologie de l'Ostioporose (EPIDOS) medical group in France has indicated that drinking one to three glasses of wine per day may have a positive effect on the bone mass of elderly women, possibly reducing the risk of osteoporosis. However, consuming more than t...
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Doctors have long recommended susceptible patients to take plenty of fluids, especially water. The effect of diluting the urine seems to retard the build up of calcium deposits, which can then form into painful ‘stones’. But, it seems, some fluids are better at prevention than others. For example a...
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A recent study has concluded that as a result of the cardio-protective effects of alcohol, it is estimated that there are approximately 2% fewer deaths annually in England and Wales than would be expected in a totally non-drinking population. Northern Ireland could be expected to show similar resul...
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A recent study has concluded that as a result of the cardio-protective effects of alcohol, it is estimated that there are approximately 2% fewer deaths annually in England and Wales than would be expected in a totally non-drinking population. Northern Ireland could be expected to show similar resul...
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People have been saying this for years, and here it is again. There's nothing wrong with a few beers (as long as you are of age).It's also a fact that beer drinkers have been ignored for too long. After all, the wine drinkers have been praised for their healthy habits (the ‘Mediterranean Paradox’ a...
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Researchers at University Hospital in Washington, D.C., started out to test a hunch that alcohol could somehow contribute to this blinding eye disease. Dr Thomas Obesisan and his colleagues looked at data on more than 3,000 men and women who were between 45 and 74 years of age - 184 had evidence of
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It is now well established that alcohol, particularly red wine, can be good for the heart by boosting ‘good’ cholesterol and inhibiting the formation of clots in the blood. Indeed the Spanish government have recently passed a new wine law that encourages the consumption of wine as part of a well-ba...
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