Cell phones not linked to tumours

Mobile phone users can take heart. A new British research, part of a worldwide study initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO), has found that there is no link between cell phones and brain tumours.The study conducted at the Institute of Cancer Research involved researchers from several universities. The experts looked at links between mobile use and the incidence of glioma, the most common kind of tumour found in the head. The study looked...

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Children and Television

Children between the ages two and 11 spend an average of one full day per week watching television. This is a very familiar scenario in many Indian homes today. With both parents away at work, in the urban, middle class families this trend is very common. Even when parents are at home, watching television is still the favoured family pastime. Research shows that on an average, a typical Indian household has the television set turned on for about...

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Contact Lenses

Contact lenses When light rays enter the eye, they are absorbed and converted into electrical signals by retinal nerves. These signals are subsequently sent to the brain where they are interpreted as visual images. In a normal eye, light rays enter the eye through the cornea (window of the eye) and are focused with the help of a crystalline lens behind the pupil at a point directly on the retina (the light sensitive nervous tissue at the back of...

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Suicide

Suicide is a complex behaviour. Many medical, psychological and social factors such as depression, substance abuse, personal crisis, and the availability of firearms or a lethal supply of drugs can put a person at risk of suicide. Response to these risk factors varies dramatically from person to person. It is impossible to predict with certainty who will kill themselves, or attempt to do so. A suicide attempt is a clear indication that something...

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Causes of Cancer

Smoking is very often the main cause of cancer. It kills us silently and drains money from us quietly. There are 4000 harmful chemicals(though in diluted form) in one stick of cigarette. Taking one puff is 600 times worst than inhaling the exhaust fumes from vehicles. Some Food that causes cancer are: > Barbecued Food > Deep Fried Food > Overheating Meat > Food that is high in fat causes our bile to secrete acid that contains a chemical...

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Danger of Soft Drinks

The average pH of soft drinks is pH 3.4. This acidity is strong enough to dissolve teeth and bones! Our Human body stops building bones at around the age of 30. After that it'll be dissolving about 8-18% of the bones each year through the urine, depending on the acidity of the food intake( acidity does not depend on the taste of food, but on the ratio of potassium/ calcium/ magnesium/ etc. to phosphorus). All the dissolved calcium compounds accumulate...

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