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Love adding extra salt to your food? You may be putting yourself at risk of dementia

January 18, 2018 Loknath DasAdding, at, be, Dementia, Extra, Food., love, May, of, Putting, Risk, Salt, to, You, Your, yourself

Love to eat crispy roasted nuts and potato wafers that are high in salt? Beware, besides harming your heart, it may also harm your brain and lead to dementia, researchers have warned. In mice, the high-salt diet reduced the resting cerebral blood flow by 28% in the cortex and 25% in the hippocampus – brain regions involved in learning and memory. This impairment in the blood flow to the brain was caused by a decrease in the production of nitric oxide – a gas generated by endothelial cells – the…

Don’t ignore oral hygiene. Severe gum disease linked to lung, colon cancers

January 18, 2018 Loknath Dascancers, colon, Disease, Don't, Gum, hygiene., ignore, Linked, Lung, oral, Severe, to

Do you have bad oral health? Beware, you may be at high risk of developing cancers of lung, colon and pancreas, researchers have warned. Advanced gum disease, also called periodontitis, is caused by bacterial infection that damages the soft tissue and bone that supports the teeth. The findings, led by researchers from the Tufts University in the US, showed that participants who were edentulous or lacking teeth – a sign of severe periodontitis – had an 80% increase in risk of developing colon cancer. Periodontitis is also linked with pancreatic…

Why is sepsis so hard to spot?

January 17, 2018 Loknath DasHard, Is, Sepsis, So, spot, to, Why

Imagine a condition that causes between 20 and 30 million deaths worldwide each year. A disease that affects over 100,000 people annually in the UK, of which 37,000 will die. That’s more than breast and bowel cancer put together. However, many people have not heard of it, and even fewer understand what it is. The condition is called sepsis and it’s the reason many adults, children and families, including the family of William Mead, are grieving for their loved ones. William was only one year old when sepsis claimed his…

Binge Watching TV May Reduce Your Sperm Count By 35 Percent: Dietary Tweaks To Manage Your Sperm Count

January 16, 2018 Loknath Das35%, Binge, by, Count, Dietary, Manage, May, Percent, reduce, Sperm, to, TV?, Tweaks, Watching, Your

Dear men. Your habit of watching TV more than 5 hours a day could drastically bring down your sperm count by a whopping 35 percent according to a latest study. According to the study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. The findings also revealed that Male TV addicts were found to have 38 percent lower sperm count than those who had a less sedentary lifestyle. TV addiction could be attributable to eating high-calorie junk food and laziness in their impact on the sperm count, said the researchers. …

Face Recognition To Be Allowed To Verify Aadhaar Cardholders

January 16, 2018 Loknath DasAadhaar, Allowed, be, Cardholders, Face, recognition, to, Verify

Around 119 crore people have been issued Aadhaar cards so far. NEW DELHI: HIGHLIGHTS Face recognition won’t need any new reference data Will only work when coupled with another authentication factor Camera already available to capture face without additional hardware Aadhaar users stuck over the verification of biometric data like their iris or fingerprint scan can soon get help from facial recognition. The UIDAI or the agency in charge of the national identity card system announced this in a statement today, with officials saying this would not just add an…

7 drinks you need to stop buying now

January 16, 2018 Loknath Das7, Buying, drinks, Need, Now, Stop, to, You

1. Fruit juice Despite what the packaging may tell you, this does NOT provide an easy and convenient way to get in one or two of your 5-a-day. Most shop-bought fruit juices are pasteurised (essentially boiled), which destroys a lot of the valuable nutrients, whilst concentrating the sugars. The juice is also extracted from the whole fruit, leaving behind the fibrous part of the fruit that helps to slow sugar absorption into the blood. 2. Fizzy drinks This is an obvious one, but did you know that just one can…