A study published in the medical journal Gut by a group of scientists Netherlands, reveals that alcohol raises the risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, a tumor located in the upper esophagus.

The report also claims that smokers also have an increased risk of cancer of the esophagus and stomach, much higher. A study for 16 years over 120,000 people between 55 and 70 years confirms that smoking increases the likelihood of gastric cancer and esophageal cancer.

The risk varies between 60% and 263% among cigarette smokers compared to nonsmokers. Alcohol also affects, to a lesser extent, the study said.

People who drank the equivalent of about two or three glasses of wine a day were five times more likely to develop tumors than abstainers.

A person who has multiple family members with pancreatic cancer is six times more likely to develop the disease. The study shows that this risk is even higher, nine times the general population, if a family member developed cancer before age 50.

The cancer that starts in youth is a feature of many familial cancer syndromes but do not know if the family members of patients with familial pancreatic cancer at an early age had a higher risk than those of patients who later suffered his life. (more…)

Explains I-Hsin Lin, head of the study, “Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality in Taiwan. The tea, especially green tea, has received much attention because tea polyphenols are strong antioxidants and Tea preparations have shown an inhibitory activity against tumorigenesis. ”

Previous studies on green tea have not been taken into account by the shortcomings of the epidemiological model and its inherent biases.

The researchers enrolled 170 patients with lung cancer and 340 healthy patients as controls. The researchers administered questionnaires to obtain demographic characteristics, smoking habits, consumption of green tea, fruit and vegetable consumption, cooking practices and family history of lung cancer.

The authors also performed a genotyping-like growth factors and insulin polymorphisms in IGF1, IGF2 and IGFBP3, which has been associated with cancer risk. (more…)

Although science has failed to demonstrate any link between stress and suffering with the onset and worse prognosis of cancer, both feelings themselves are direct or indirect cause of other pathologies.

From low to high severity, the first disease that can be attributed to a psychological event is the common cold. Several studies have shown that an adverse event may not only cause a psychiatric depression, but also affect the immune system and make the body less able to fight when viruses and bacteria.

Affirms A.I. in Public which is accepted by the scientific community that sad or depressed people suffer more colds.

Psychosomatic medicine is the discipline that deals with the relationship between emotions and organic diseases. The term psychosomatic was coined in 1918 and has enjoyed a mixed reputation until relatively recently. According to the doctor and psychoanalyst Alejandra Menassa specialist in this field, people find it hard to believe that mental processes “in their insistence, may produce somatic crisis.”

However, the expert relies on something as common as flush to explain the evidence. “The process is very clear in our face blushes upon hearing a particular phrase,” he says. (more…)

A new portable handheld device that sends magnetic pulses to the back of the head, could function as a non-invasive and non-pharmacological in patients with migraine.

Experiments conducted in the past focused on much larger devices and expensive that could be used exclusively in hospitals, but this new device has a mechanism to use it at home easily.

Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, tested the safety and efficacy of the device, in an experiment involving 200 volunteers, half of whom also received a placebo treatment.

The experiment showed that 40% of patients had no pain after two hours of using the device and found that did not cause any serious side effects. Transcranial magnetic therapy did not cause nausea or symptoms of photophobia or phonophobia.

This new device could be a promise for the treatment of migraine, as it reduces the progression of seizures in some individuals, the authors, who also indicated that it might benefit mainly to patients in whom current drug treatment is ineffective , is poorly tolerated or is contraindicated.

Stress is an experience of psychological instability in response to environmental factors. This disease is a source of disease and impacts at short, medium and long term. Additionally, you can damage the brain at the molecular level and from there, extending its damage to the body.

Anxiety and stress are disorders that involve a huge social burden in terms of disability and social costs. It is estimated that between 25 and 40 percent of the population has an episode of anxiety over his life.

Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent psychiatric disorder among the general population. Anxiety and stress appear as two sides of same coin. “Anxiety is the psychological aspect of stress and this is the somatic aspect, the biological side, anxiety,” says José Luis Carrasco, section chief of the Psychiatry and Director of the Unit Personality Disorders Clinical Hospital San Carlos, Madrid, Spain.

“Normally, anxiety and / or stress allow the individual to interact with their environment, but when they become pathological can be generated in the individual suffering, disability to cope with everyday life and an increased risk of suicide and fall into addiction . In this sense, stress and anxiety related to family and work are most concerned about, “Carrasco points. (more…)

Search for eggs during the Easter Day can be fun, but also dangerous if used perishable foods like eggs.
The Department of Agriculture United States offers the following tips for
# If you are planning to eat the boiled egg has set, make sure you use a color assigned for use in food.
# Some people make two sets of eggs, one for decorating and hiding, another for eating. Or you can use plastic eggs to hide.
# Do not break the egg shell when you use them for Easter egg hunt. If the shell is broken, bacteria can enter and contaminate the egg.
# Also, try to hide the hard-boiled eggs in places where land is protected, pets and other sources of bacteria.
# Keep boiled eggs in the refrigerator until just before the time of use for the egg hunt.
# The total time for hiding and hunting eggs should not be more than two hours. Be sure to refrigerate immediately then “found” eggs to eat them.
# Should be discarded Eggs found hours later or the next day. Do not eat!

Protecting our environment starts at home. The following recommendations are designed to reduce air pollution through simple measures you can implement in your home.

Replace the five most frequently used lights in your house with light bulbs with the ENERGY STAR. In this way you will use less energy and do your part to reduce pollution from power plants. There are over 40 products with the ENERGY STAR label, including lights, electronics, air conditioner and heating appliances.

Improving the performance of your air conditioning system. Contact a licensed contractor for annual maintenance and recalls regularly clean or replace air filters. Use an ENERGY STAR certified programmable thermostat.

The windows and doors with slots, cold walls or ceilings and high energy bills are all symptoms of air infiltration (usually in the attic and basement) and poor insulation. Seal air leaks, add insulation and choose ENERGY STAR qualified windows when replacing old windows. Thereby improve the comfort and durability of your home, save energy and help protect our environment.

Talk to your friends or relatives, colleagues or members of the association of parents of school. Talk about how energy efficiency is good for their homes and good for our environment. Let them know five people and together we will help our homes help us all.

Those who perform outdoor sport for sport know that there are few excuses. Usually, however, we deceive ourselves into believing that planets are not aligned to come out and exercise them. Bad weather is one of the favorite excuses.

Running in the rain is, however, a totally cope. There is no reason intimidated by some drops of rain, and these can not be a limiting physical activity. Today we tell you how not to stay home in the rain with some tips that will be of help.

For example, to avoid a sack soaked corridor, choose nylon and synthetic clothing that makes the rain run off. The cotton should be avoided, as trapped water pockets and not letting go. You can also use waterproof creams on exposed parts of your body to keep them dry.

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Hair loss is a condition in which strength is lost in the hair roots, causing the fall of it.

In fact it is normal to lose 50-80 hairs daily, if it intensifies it becomes a condition that will cause a hair loss problem when it is unable to turn to regenerate, thus stopping the normal process of hair restoration.

The causes of hair loss in women can be very different from hereditary factors, stress, diet, products that are used for cleaning the same, infections, fungi, trauma, age, etc. In the case of women, this problem will be assessed according to their causes, as though a small percentage suffer from baldness, alopecia or a similar condition, it is possible to develop due to preventable factors and conditions that we can delete.

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