Make-up is not safe for young girls – Study found

A new study conducted by the EWG found that most make up used by young girls between the age of 14 and 19, has chemicals that previously linked to cancer, infertility and hormone imbalance.

Some of these chemical are phthalates, triclosan, parabens and musks. These chemicals the study said “Dangerous”.

Stacy Malkan, co-founder of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, told The Sun: “By the time most girls become teenagers many have a daily make-up ritual.

“As the layers add up so does exposure to dangerous chemicals and that’s very bad news for a young girl’s health.”

Mistletoe Extract Could Be The Next Cancer Treatment

Researchers from the German Institute of Immunology and Experimental Oncology found that Mistletoe extract could fight cancer and help people with cancer live longer life.

The study led by Professor Kurt Zanker and published in the Journal of The Society For Integrative Oncology.

Mistletoe is a semiparasitic plant that grows on several types of trees, including apple, oak, maple, elm, pine, and birch. It has been used for centuries to treat medical conditions such as epilepsy, hypertension, headaches, menopausal symptoms, infertility, arthritis, and rheumatism. Cancer.gov

The study found that extract from this plant fights patients with bowel cancer – “Bowel cancer can occur in the small or large bowel (also known as the small or large intestine). Technically, colorectal cancer is cancer of the large bowel, but it’s often referred to simply as bowel cancer”. About.com

The researchers injected the extract directly into 439  patients blood’s stream, and compared them to 370 patients receiving conventional care.

Results: The study found that patients who received the extract had fewer side-effects from toxic chemotherapy and radiotherapy and survived longer than those who did not.

Vegetarians Could Live Longer Life

I have done some research for one of my class this semester regarding the relationship between aging and food consumption. The results came out really surprising. One finding suggested that eating less calories could slow your aging process. Second, less food could reduce your of risk of developing major health problems such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and memory loss.

But a recent study conducted at the Institute of Healthy Aging at University College London, found that eating less “protein” could slow your aging process and make you live longer life. These are new findings, and scientists have always thought that “calorie restriction” is the key to longer life. But the study still believe that reducing calories by as much as 30 per cent could reduce risks of developing heart disease or cancer by half and increase lifetimes by nearly a third.

The study leader, Dr Matthew Piper said ” vegetarian diet could be one way to achieve the effect”.

Dr. Matthew has also said that eating protein is necessary, but you have to balance your intake.

So, What does all that mean?

That means that by reducing foods that contain the protein – such as meat, fish and certain nuts – people should live longer without the need to cut down on meals.

Source - Telegraph

Medicinal Ice Cream Combat Cancer

Over 2 Million dollars spent on cancer project that might help cancer patients cope with their disease. The research study results was revealed last week at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

With the assistance of dairy giant Fonterra, the researchers developed whats called “medicinal ice cream” which has shown encouraging signs in combating the side-effects of chemotherapy in cancer sufferers. The Daily Telegraph reported today.

ReCharge, the name of the ice cream, shown to relieve diarrhoea, anaemia and lack of appetite in people undergoing chemotherapy. Participants ate 100 100 gram of strawberry-flavored ice cream each day. “The two bio-active milk components developed for ReCharge have the unique potential to assist the body in coping with the side effects of chemotherapy,” Fonterra’s chief technology office Jeremy Hill said in a statement.

There was not much information regarding the study, but the bottom line is that this kind of ice cream “ReCharge” helps cancer patients combat the side effects of chemotherapy treatments.

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