Cancer: the Eight Nutritional Factors Involved

March 15th, 2012 . No Comments »

Based on the collective expertise of exposure data the most recent, ANSES estimated eight factors identified by the National Cancer Institute (INCA) have levels of evidence convincing or probable relationship to cancer.

For ten years, messages from various sources, citing the risks or benefits of certain dietary factors on cancer are increasing and often contradictory. Therefore, since 2007, the relationship between nutritional factors and cancer are analyzed by the handles (Agency of Health Security and Food). A collective appraisal report has identified the factors that link with cancer.

On alcoholic beverages, the level of evidence is compelling for several cancers (mouth, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, colon-rectum in men, breast), some of which are common (colorectal, breast), and it is likely for liver cancer and one colorectal cancer (in women). The effect is marked for cancers of the mouth, pharynx, larynx and esophagus. Regarding the red meats and cold cuts the level of evidence is convincing for colorectal cancer, but the effect is moderate.

On salt and salty foods, the level of evidence is considered likely for stomach cancer.

As for dietary supplements containing beta carotene, the level of evidence is convincing for lung cancer in smokers.

Finally on overweight and obesity, the level of evidence is compelling for several cancers (esophagus, endometrium, kidney, colorectal, pancreatic, breast after menopause), but the effect is moderate for these cancers.

When you know that in France 358 000 new cancer cases were registered in 2010 and a third of the most common cancers could be prevented through nutritional prevention… information note.

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How to Stop Thinking About My First Love?

March 11th, 2012 . No Comments »

Question:

I had a relationship with a girl for 5 years, but, unfortunately, was unsuccessful, two years ago. Since I am unable to restart, I knew several girls, but each time the memory of my first love resurfaced. However, when I am alone, I feel no desire to revisit my first love or to resume our relationship. What is my problem and how can I fix this? Nicolas, age 31

The answer to Catherine Marchi

A sentimental break requires a grieving process that takes time. In general, past the shock and sadness of being separated, it is slowly returning to enjoy life and love. Your lock, your inability to overcome the loss of first love, which occurred two years ago already, suggests that this injury resonates with a painful past.

Any separation, whether in the sphere of emotional or professional, reactive separations old who made us suffer, mourning that have not been resolved, the gaps that we have not exceeded. You seem to live in love this failure as a narcissistic injury. Losing the love of this girl resulted in a loss of self-esteem, a feeling of being unworthy of being loved, unfit for happiness.

It would be interesting for you to dig into your childhood memories, the pain to go search, separations, ruptures, mourning that are reactivated by the current situation. What we experience in this can always be understood in the light of what we experienced in the past. Each new situation is played on a current scene is replayed and, unconsciously, on a stage long since forgotten, but still current.

Play the detectives, made a survey in your personal history, go back to basics and you will succeed in overcoming this difficult separation.

Catherine Marchi, clinical psychologist, is a graduate of the University René Descartes Paris V.

…. Syria: the rebel city of Homs again bombed, UN speaks of crimes against humanity

The Syrian regime has again Monday bombed the rebel city of Homs, ignoring the call of the Arab League at a joint peacekeeping force with the UN, an idea that divides Europeans and to which Russia, an ally of Damascus, poses conditions.

The United Nations said in turn that Syrian forces had”probably” committed crimes against humanity by suppressing eleven months since the popular anti-regime protest, at a price of more than 6,000 deaths, according to activists.

Already deeply divided on the Syrian crisis, the international community seems to be more on the proposal for a peacekeeping force put forward by the Arab League: Paris warned against any action”military character”, Moscow demanded a cease -fire Washington and stressed that without peace, such a move was complicated.

Deaf to calls to stop the repression, the Syrian regime continued the shelling Monday of Homs (center), now affected by a humanitarian crisis, activists denouncing a bread shortage.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who said it was”unfortunate that the regime has intensified violence (…) using artillery and tank fire,” he assured that the United States worked to”meet humanitarian problems”and help” those who are injured and die.”

The Syrian Red Crescent said distributing food and medical aid to thousands of people in the”capital of revolution,” where, according to a statement from the UN, over 300 people have died since February 4 in a”indiscriminate attacks against civilian areas.”

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said that”the nature and extent of abuses by Syrian forces indicate that crimes against humanity were likely committed” since March 2011.

In a telephone interview Monday, U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron reiterated their condemnation of the violent crackdown by the Syrian regime against its own people.”They have agreed on the need to coordinate closely to increase the pressure on the regime of Bashar al-Assad and to support a transition to democracy”, the statement from the White House.

On the ground, the violence continued with clashes between soldiers and deserters who killed 11 people in the ranks of the regular army. But fire from security forces, which have killed 18 civilians Monday across the country, including two teenagers, did not discourage the demonstrators.”The revolution continues as long as a baby living with us,” could be read on a placard during a protest in the province of Deraa (south), birthplace of the dispute, according to a video broadcast by activists.

Faced with this crisis, the Arab League, who had already tried to pass a UN resolution condemning the crackdown – blocked by Beijing and Moscow – has decided to ask the Security Council the formation of a joint force and provide political and material support to the opposition.

Burhan Ghalioun, head of the Syrian National Council (CNS), the main opposition coalition, told Al Jazeera to see in these decisions”first steps” toward the regime fell.

Damascus, however, said they would not prevent the government”to shoulder its responsibilities” in”the restoration of security and stability”, according to the official SANA news agency.

The idea of ​​a peacekeeping mission does not, however, unanimously supported by the European Union, London wants to”discuss urgently”, but France has launched a warning.”Any external military intervention in nature would only aggravate the situation, especially since there will be no decision of the Security Council,” said the French foreign minister Alain Juppe.

Moscow said it was investigating the proposal, while holding that a cease-fire was necessary first. Such a mission, noted the White House would begin if there was”a peace to keep. Unfortunately, we know that there are none.” Beijing has refrained from deciding.

The Secretary General of Arab League Nabil al-Arabi will meet Tuesday in Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel. According to analysts, the Arab proposal is promised to failure.”I fear it is very difficult to find member states ready to send troops,” he told AFP Salman Shaikh, director of the Brookings Doha.

Father Paolo Dall’Oglio, founder of a monastic community in Syria Syriac-Catholic, said the Vatican could play”a pivotal role.”“The conflict is already confessionnalisé” lamented the Italian Jesuit, explaining that Christians were”the middle”.

Arabs and Westerners have this week launched a new attempt to condemn Damascus, this time at the UN General Assembly – a consultative body where the veto does not exist. Moscow and Beijing would again oppose this project, prepared by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, very similar to the text blocked by their double veto on February 4.

Another step to the calendar: the”Conference of Friends of Syria”, that Tunis has proposed to organize 24 February and on Monday received strong support from Clinton and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu visit to Washington.

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Agriculture: France Wants to Ban a New Less Polluting Fertilizer

March 8th, 2012 . No Comments »

Since June, the French government asked farmers to stop using the phosphite, a substance much less polluting than the commonly used pesticides. Misunderstanding prevails in the agricultural community.

For some fruit and vegetables, the pill does not. The Ministry of Agriculture, under one pretext regulatory, wants to prohibit use of Sémafort, a substance much more environmentally friendly products that phyto chemicals used daily.

Conflicting messages sent to organic farmers

This mixture made from seaweed, plant extracts and nutritional products is expected to strengthen the natural defenses of plants with a less toxic impact on the environment than conventional materials. It is still very present on French territory except Alsace, where a group of 460 producers called ”Planet vegetables”, the tests successfully since 2007

The warning from the Department of Agriculture sent in June to the producers concerned, noted that products containing phosphites (acid compounds

phosphorous) may be marketed only as ”plant protection products”. If they are as a fertilizer – this is the case in France Sémafort they must be ”immediately withdrawn from the market.”

But the dilemma is daunting for gardeners in the East: since the new regulations required by the Grenelle Environment, all farmers must move towards more environmentally friendly methods of cultivation and halve their use of pesticides, by 2018.

Germany continues to use this product

The farmers are particularly angry that the product is still permitted in some European countries, including Germany, which is the source of manufacture.”This creates an additional distortion between France and Germany,” explains Fabien Digel, director of Planet vegetables.”The Germans have more weapons to fight against parasites because many licensed products at home are not in France.” Some growers are already mobilized to address this unfair competition.

An expert from the Ministry explained the controversial decision to AFP:”We have no basic opposition to the use of phosphites, which are also authorized at European level. Simply, any product containing phosphites can be marketed unless they have obtained an authorization to market.”

Problem: the permission that can be time consuming and costly, according Diget Fabien,”beyond the reach” of the manufacturer Sémafort. Organic farmers do not appear at the end of their sentences.

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Female Sexual Desire at Half Mast: Hormone Therapy?

March 4th, 2012 . No Comments »

The absence or decrease in sexual desire is the sexual disorder most frequently encountered in women. It represents 41% of these sexual disorders according to the survey on sexual behavior of the French. New avenues of treatment are emerging? …

The decline in female sexual desire is hormonally

If the decline in sexual desire is common in women, it is even more common in women whose ovaries have been surgically removed. This seems to correlate with a decrease in testosterone in the blood.

Testosterone is involved in the loss of female sexual desire

The testosterone is a hormone considered the hormone ‘male’, as it makes hair grow, moult voice, makes oily skin? … However, this testosterone is also present in small amounts in women, and small amount of this hormone appears to play an important role in sexual desire . Thus, when a woman is made ??for an oophorectomy (removal of the ovaries by the surgeon), it is surgically menopausal. Hormones previously produced by the ovaries will then fail, hormones that contribute to testosterone circulating in the blood. These women without ovaries are therefore more problems of sexual desire than women.

HSDD: treatment available in patch

Based on this observation, studies have shown that supplementation with drug testosterone could restore the sexual desire in oophorectomized women. A treatment (Intrinsa ®) is available to these women to find great sex. This is a patch treatment, self-adhesive stamp. This treatment is reserved for those women operated … This type of research also opens the door to other, more extended, taking into account women still having their ovaries and estimating their sexual desire very low or absent. Their testosterone levels , it is very humbled, could be involved. But one should keep in mind that as decreasing testosterone levels is far from the only cause of low sexual desire. There are, of More reasons to feel little desire : other hormones may be involved (increase in the hormone prolactin, for example), medicine (causing an inhibition of sexual desire ), but also concerns personal or psychological difficulties torque … Even if the search for understanding new things, a single drug alone will not solve the riddle of all desires lost.

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Labeling “No GMO” Victory!

March 1st, 2012 . No Comments »

It will finally be able to identify clearly on food labels from qualified courses “GM free” thanks to a new decree which has just appeared in the Official Journal.

So far the regulations provided for the mandatory labeling of GM presence when used voluntarily by the operators, but did not define the terms of consumer information channels for “GM free”. It does not allow to distinguish between meat from an animal fed with GM and meat from one sector to guarantee a GM-free feed . This lack of clarity, desired and maintained by the food industry, but regularly denounced by consumers, was inadmissible.

The decree has just appeared in the Official Gazette of 31 January 2012 will finally allow those who do not want GMOs to make their choice clear.

This decree lays down rules for labeling of products for operators wishing to develop a GMO-free production and provides different criteria depending on the nature of ingredients in foods:

The ingredients of plant origin (eg, flour, starch or lecithin) can be labeled “GM free” if they are from raw materials containing more than 0.1% GMOs.

The labeling of ingredients of animal origin (eg, milk, meat, fish or eggs) will specify “fed GM-free (<0.1%)” or “fed GMO-free (<0.9%) “.

The ingredients of Bee (such as honey or pollen) may be labeled “GM-free within 3 km”.

This information will appear most often in the list of ingredients or the ingredient highlighted more than 95% of the commodity, in the principal field of vision of the package.

“This new labeling will apply from 1 July 2012,” said Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Minister of Ecology.

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Setting the Biological Clock Involved in Diabetes

February 24th, 2012 . No Comments »

Sleep disorders increase the risk of developing diabetes: the responsibility of a gene that plays a key role in setting biological clock, has been established in the most common form of the disease, according to a Franco Columbia.

In recent years, we know that poor sleep increases risk of developing diabetes, but it was not clear why.

The team led by researchers at Lille (Professor Froguel, Institute Pasteur-CNRS/Imperial College London) has established the responsibility of a key gene of synchronizing our biological clock in the most common diabetes, diabetes Type 2 (90%).

This work, published Sunday in the journal Nature Genetics, could lead to new drugs to treat or prevent this metabolic disease, researchers said.

They were interested in the receiver of a hormone called melatonin, produced by a small gland in the brain (the pineal) when the light decreases. Melatonin, also known as hormone at night, plays the role of “guardian” of the biological clock that synchronizes with the dark, says Professor Froguel.

The researchers sequenced the gene “MT2″ which controls the synthesis of this receptor in 7600 diabetic and normal subjects. They found 40 rare mutations that alter the protein structure of melatonin receptor found in the pancreas and brain.

Among these mutations, 14 neutralizes this receptor.

The carriers of these mutations that make them insensitive to melatonin have a risk of developing diabetes by almost seven times higher than the other, ensures Professor Froguel.

However, it evaluates “to between one and two percent the proportion of type 2 diabetes” affected by this genetic disorder. “That does not explain all cases,” he told AFP, recalling the diversity of genetic causes of diabetes.

Concerning therapy, rather than using melatonin which is used against jet lag, we could test drugs that activate these receptors failed, as some drugs used against seasonal winter depression (eg agomelatine), pre-t it.

Antidepressants, however, require such precautions.

Type 2 diabetes affects over 300 million people worldwide, including 3 million in France. A figure expected to double in coming years due to the epidemic of obesity and sedentary lifestyles accompanied by a diet too rich in fats and carbohydrates.

Some genetic factors may also favor its appearance.

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Aluminum: a Toxic Additive in Our Food

February 21st, 2012 . No Comments »

Aluminum is one of the most dangerous heavy metals for our health. Yet it is present in many foods. And many other consumer products.

Aluminum is found in our food as’ food additive . It is used to improve conservation, the texture, but also the color of products.

The marketing of these products cannot be made ??without the approval of health authorities that define an acceptable daily intake calculated from an average pattern of consumption. However, this dose is often outdated because it is an average. Elsewhere by many consumers have monophagiques trends, that is to say, they tend to consume much of the same product thus increasing the toxic dose absorbed. “And if several types of additives are absorbed during the same meal some people can become much more active and toxic by a simple association of molecules. ” (Dr. Laurent Chevallier …….)

According to EFSA (European Food Safety), some consumers can absorb 2.3 mg / kg per week, or more than 2 times the tolerable intake by humans! And EFSA stresses that this dose is already exceeded in a significant proportion of the European population.

Multiple use

products aluminate are variously used in particular for water treatment, the manufacture of food additives and dyes or of pharmaceutical products, but also of cosmetic , utensils, and packaging materials for food products. The major route of aluminum exposure for the population, however, is that of food. proven toxicity

Since 2003, InVS, the Institute for Public Health, published a report stating that “many studies show that aluminum can be toxic to plants, animals and man.”

After absorption, aluminum is distributed in the tissues in animals and humans and accumulates in some of them, particularly in the bones. Aluminum can enter the brain, or reach the placenta and fetus. The aluminum-containing compounds may affect the male reproductive system. They are still embryotoxic, that is to say, they can affect the nervous system of the fetus.

Aluminum can persist for a long time in various organs and tissues before being excreted in urine.

The Aluminium has also neurotoxicity may cause Alzheimer’s disease (including one finds a greater presence of aluminum in the brains of these patients) and other neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s disease.

Aluminum can also cause: nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, gastritis, stomach ulcer.

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Alert Bisphenol A in Cans!

February 18th, 2012 . No Comments »

A study, presented as “one of the first to quantify the rate of bisphenol A in humans after ingestion of canned food “, was published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association by researchers at the University of Harvard. The verdict is alarming: People who consumed five days in a row of canned soups in their urine had a rate of bisphenol A chemical component of more than 1200% compared to consumers of fresh soup.

“We have known for some time that consuming beverages that have long been in some hard plastic containers increased the presence of bisphenol A in your body ” , explains Jenny Carwile, one of the co-authors of the study. “But our study suggests that canned food could be a concern even more important, especially because of its widespread use ” , she adds.

The BPA is suspected to increase the number of hormone-dependent cancers, especially breast and prostate. In France, this component has been banned in all food containers in 2014, following the vote of the Assembly took place on October 12, 2013 and for food containers of products for children under 3 years.

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Tozeur, Near the Desert

February 15th, 2012 . No Comments »

Near the Algerian border and 450 kilometers from Tunis, the city of Tozeur is an oasis near the desert of Sahara.

Known to the Romans and Carthaginians, the small town of Tozeur offers visitors an authentic architecture in the streets of the fourteenth century.

But what made the reputation of Tozeur is the immense palm grove that surrounds the city, about 400,000 palm trees irrigated by 200 water sources on over 1,000 acres and offering their dates known worldwide.

While staying in Tozeur you visit Bled El Hadher, a small village built on the ruins of the ancient Roman city. You will see a mosque in the eleventh century and the tomb of Ibn Shabbat marabout, a horticulturist hydraulics of the thirteenth century of the palm.

A site of Tozeur is called Paradise. This is a beautiful garden with hundreds of varieties of flowers where you will make a pleasant stroll to escape the heat of summer.

While strolling through the streets of the Quartier Ouled Hadef admire the zaouias (Muslim religious buildings) and beautiful mosques built of brick.

Tozeur is for many tourists the starting point for excursions to the Great Southern Desert, exploring the Sahara desert, its magnificent dunes and Ksour, beautiful fortified villages.

These trips do them by camel across the dunes of the Sahara. This will be an extraordinary experience for you on the back of it that will advance one step and swaying that would give you almost seasick

Tozeur you can join Nafta, 23 kilometers. Nafta also has a palm grove, smaller, in a basin of 30 meters is called the Recycle Bin.

In the region of Matmata and Tataouine you will discover the beautiful landscapes that have been the setting for Star Wars films of George Lucas. You’ll see the cave dwellings of the Berber population has found a way to protect themselves from extreme desert temperatures.

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The Japanese Music Group: The Golden Bomber

February 12th, 2012 . No Comments »

The Golden Bomber, abbreviated as Kinbaku, Bomber or GB, is a visual kei band under the indie label Euclid Agency.

They call themselves “Hyper Hybrid Super Giga Subculture Visual Rock”, born in 2004 just as a parody of visual kei bands, but actually making fun of a little all, artists j-pop, j-rock, anime, manga, the world of entertainment Japanese in general and, more recently, the K-pop is done under their viewfinder.

The group is formed by the Vo-Karu (singer) Shou Kiryuuin, the Gita-(guitar), Yutaka Kyan, the Be-on (bassist) Jun Utahiroba and Doramu ( drummer) Kenji Darvish. Shou is really just Kiryuuin singer (and composer of all their songs), performers and others are only pretend to play, also the particular way they define their roles is not random, in fact, make fun of English pronunciation Japanese rock bands.

How Doramu before Kenji Darvish, there were in 2009 Riku Toriaezu, also in 2009 Tenkujou Dankichi and before that in 2007 was part of the band Teppei Chimatsuri, drummer and professional keyboardist. The arrangement of their music is mainly the result of work of Tatsuo Everset and collaboration of many artists such as Leda of DELUHI, shuji of Janne Da Arc, Ikuo, HIROKI, etc. SHUSE of La’cryma Christi.

The popularity if they are won mainly thanks to their live music videos and insane, where they enjoy a little teasing everyone. Their first single “Dakishimete Shwarz” he released ‘May 1, 2008 but it is with “Memeshikute” of October 21, 2009 also beginning to climb the charts. From October 6, 2010, releasing the single “Mata Kimi ni wo Bangou Kikenakatta”, managed to place all their singles in the top 4 dell’Oricon chart with an average of 80,000 copies sold single.

7 Ben majors have offered them a contract, promptly rejected by the band that prefers to go alone. In 2011 they held their first concerts aldifuori Japan, France in July and August in South Korea.

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