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Parenting & Pregnancy > Pregnancy Smoking and birth defects: Why it's important to avoid smoking while pregnant

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A million babies are born each year in United States who had their moms smoking during their pregnancy. These numbers do not include the passive, involuntary smoking during pregnancy. Not only does smoking have immediate consequences, such as low birth weight, preterm delivery, infant death among others, it also has long term... More..

Health & Fitness > Diet (Other) Effect of Soy products on brain function

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Vegetarians and health enthusiasts have contended for many years that foods rich in soy protein offer a good alternative to meat, poultry, and other animal-based products. Soy contains numerous phytochemicals including isoflavones (three ringed molecules). Soy isoflavones are referred to as phytoestrogens because they like es... More..

Sciences > Ecology & Environment Perchlorate: Environmental contaminate?

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Cabbage diets fed to rabbits by Chesney and his collegues in 1928, had a goitrogenic (suppression of thyroid function) effect due to the presence of cyanide in their leaves. Potassium thiocyanate administered to rats by Vanderlaan and Vanderlaan, caused discharge of iodide from the thyroid glands and prevented the accumulatio... More..

Food & Drink > Tea Green tea and Chinese wisdom

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"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one day", is an ancient Chinese proverb summarizing the wisdom of Chinese in consuming green tea. The significance of this proverb and the habit of drinking tea is now being appreciated world wide after four decades of research on the effects of green tea on human hea... More..

Health & Fitness > Surgery Cryosurgery for prostate cancer explained

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Standard treatment modes for localized prostate cancer includes surgery (radical prostectomy), radiotherapy and active monitoring of the disease. Cyroablation has been gaining popularity as a minimally invasive treatment option for primary and recurrent prostate cancer during the past decade. Cryotherapy (or cryosurgery) is t... More..

Sciences > Chemistry Desoxymethyitestosterone: Designer steriod

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Anabolic androgenic steroids are man made chemicals mimicking male sex hormones. These are muscle building (anabolic) steroidal (a terpenoid lipid that has four fused rings) drugs that also enhance the masculine characteristics (androgenic). These drugs are prescribed to patients with delayed puberty, impotence, AIDS and othe... More..

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1. Perchlorate: Environmental contaminate?
2. Smoking and birth defects: Why it's important to avoid smoking while pregnant
3. Desoxymethyitestosterone: Designer steriod
4. Cryosurgery for prostate cancer explained
5. Effect of Soy products on brain function
6. Green tea and Chinese wisdom

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