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03 January 2008, 00:46
Tired Tamil heavenly body pep themselves up with Ayurveda! : Down South : Tamil News : ApunKaChoice.Com
NEWS DOWN SOUTH : TAMIL Done in Tamil celestial pep themselves up with Ayurveda! 02nd January 2008 13.00 IST By P.
Sreekumaran Pothencode was a non-descript village near the Kerala capital of Thiruvananthapuram till the other day. The village boasts an ayurvedic middle that offers a quick 15-day treatment, which has become immensely popular with south Indian stars. Pothencode acquired celebrity importance when top Tamil heavenly body Rajnikant visited it for improving his health.
Next to tarriance the ayurvedic centre was another Tamil hero, Vikram, according to the grapevine. So impressed is Vicky schoolboy with the treatment he had there that he is recommending it to his co-stars. Even heroines corner come calling, to restore the tissues, as PG Wodehouse would hold put it!
The first heroine to grace Pothencode with a holiday was no person other than top Tollywood heroine, Trisha Krishnan. Welcome' breaks document in UAE, UK and Ireland Bringing the cuddly back - the masculine way!
From http://apunkachoice.com/scoop/downsouth/tamil/20080102-0.html
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02 January 2008, 15:31
The Alarming Increase In Twin Mastectomies
John F. Montalvo, Jr. ND, DNM, MH Printable version Key concepts: NewsTarget) A recent study that was released in October alongside the Journal of Clinical Oncology stated that there was a 150% increase in the number of Double Mastectomies between the oldness 1998 to 2003.
In an age where medical body of laws is looking else in relation to bust conservation.
There is a part of the populace that is electing to not only amputate the cancerous bosom but further the healthy breast.
Now let me sling absent some statistics that were used by this study. They identified 152,755 women with stage I, II, or III cancer - of that number, 4,969 patients chose contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (meaning that these women chose to amputate their in good breast along with the cancerous breast).
The rate was 3.3% for all surgically treated women; 7.7% for patients undergoing mastectomy. The overall rate was a significant increase from 1.8% in 1998 to 4.5% in 2003.
And during the same margin of 1998 to 2003, the contralateral prophylactic mastectomy rate for patients undergoing mastectomy significantly increased from 4.2% in 1998 to 11.0% in 2003. What was also surprising was that younger women were making this decision and women who had stage one cancer were making the end far more frequently than those in advance stages.
The women who were mostly white, with a preceding cancer diagnosis, were more likely to opt championing a contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, the study found, as were women who had lobular histology, meaning the cancer started in the lobules or milk-making glands of the breast. The study's lead author, Dr. Todd M.
Tuttle, chief of surgical oncology at the University of Minnesota Medical School, stated in a report that was published by the Associated Force and in USA Today on October 23, 2007:
I'm afraid that women believe having their opposite chest removed is somehow wealthy to improve their breast cancer survival.
In fact, it probably testament not perturb their survival." Tuttle went on to explain, "The primary tumor already may have sent outside seeds that have spread to key organs."
1) The Other Off-putting Trend The other upsetting trend was young women who had genetic testing representing the mutation of gene BRCA 1 or BRCA 2.
I read in a New York Times article published on September 16, 2007 of a thirty-three year old woman agonizing over if she should have a banal mastectomy because she was found with the mutated gene, but not yet with cancer. Her 63 year-old mom was a breast cancer survivor.
Yet, a Cochrane Review published in 2004 on women with BRCA changing concluded: By only estimate, most of the women deemed high risk by kindred history (but not necessarily BRCA 1 or 2 altering carriers) who underwent these procedures would not bear died from breast cancer, even without prophylactic surgery..
Of the psychosocial outcomes measured, target image and feelings of femininity were the most adversely affected." 2) What is disturbing about this tendency seems like the more "enlightened" the medical community is, the further we are successful back to the dark ages.
Breast cancer is the most studied affliction in the world. Back in the 1950's and 60's, radical mastectomies (where both breasts were removed with part of the chest wall) were the trend.
And then in the closest part of the 20th Century, we construct elsewhere that that type of treatment was not increasing the life span of a woman any also than partial emigration or lumpectomy.
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02 January 2008, 12:10
On a Remote Method to Cures - Contemporary York Times
To Mr. Kilham, the offering - an appeal to the gods for a bountiful reap of maca, a local tuber - is just another day at the office. Belongings David Attenborough, part Indiana Jones, Mister
Kilham, an ethnobotanist from Massachusetts who calls himself the Medicine Hunter, has scoured remote jungles and highlands representing three decades for plants, lubricant and extracts that can heal.
He has eaten bees and scorpions in China, fired breathe guns with Amazonian natives, and learned traditional war dances from Pacific Islanders. But behind the colourful tales lies the prospect of money, lots of money - for Western pharmaceutical companies, impoverished indigenous tribes and Mr. Kilham.
Products that once seemed exotic, like ginseng, ginkgo biloba or aloe vera, now roll out the tongues of Westerners. Kilham credence in multinational narcotic companies underutilize the medicinal properties in plants. They pack pills with artificial compounds and sell them at huge markups, he says.
He crave Westerners to application the unmixed tree medicines that indigenous peoples acquire used for thousands of years. People in the U.S. Kilham said.
I want human beings using safer medicine. And that means plant medicine." Easy going and earnest, Mr. Kilham, 55, caught the plant bug after beguiling an herb walk at an organic farm in Natick, Mass., 1971. A self-described hippie, he was already into "yoga, natural foods and meditation" and the discovery that plants had medicinal properties had a profound effect.
He created a course in holistic health at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he is now on the faculty, and made his first overseas trip - to India - to track down exotic flora. These days he can identify unusual shrub by their Latin names and he proudly regales the uninitiated on their individual properties.
Presently after leaving Lima on a trip taking French businessmen to the Peruvian Andes, he stopped the vehivle and enthusiastically explained how the tropane alkaloids in a dusty vegetable he spotted by the side of the method are cast-off close to ophthalmologists to dilate pupils championing eye examinations.
Such properties are often well known by indigenous peoples.
So-called bioprospectors can build their fortunes by bringing those advantages to the attention of fellowship who identify the plant's full compound and use it as a example ingredient for new products that they patent.
Latin American nations, mainly Amazonian nations, have extremely rich and diverse flora, so the potential for commercial applications appears great," said Tony Gross, a Brazil-based researcher at the university. They say that in one in 10,000 you get something interesting.
So it is not a gold mine, however when you do hit on something that does become a mart leader you can constitute enormous adds up to of bucks from it." In Peru, Mr.
Kilham is betting on maca, a small seat vegetable that grows here in the central highlands - "a turnip that packs a punch," he says, adding "it imparts energy, sex drive and stamina like nothing else."
That belief is supported next to studies carried out at the International Potato Center, a Lima-based research center that is internationally financed and staffed. Studies there show maca betters stamina, reduces the risk of prostate cancer and increases the motility, volume and quality of sperm.
Some peer reviewed studies published in the calendar Reproductive Biol and Endocrinology backed up those findings. For centuries, maca has been a revered crop in this austerely beautiful territory 155 miles northeast of Lima.