What Hidden Dangers Of Energy Drinks (energy drinks);

With Americans consuming more and more energy drinks are increasing voices in the U.S. those who advise caution in their consumption. These drinks contain a large dose of caffeine, sugar and dietary supplements such as vitamins and herbal essences, whose action is not clear.

In a new report was published on Monday, pediatricians from Florida to cases of people who experienced seizures, hallucinations, heart problems and kidney damage and liver, having consumed one or more energy drinks.

"Throughout the world there are indications that some people who consume these drinks, there are side effects," said Dr. Steven E. Lipsoultz, who heads the pediatric department at the University of Miami, "Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine". As the drinks are classified supplements are very much control and restrictions in relation to food and medicines. The manufacturers claim that their products enhance both mental and physical performance.

For example, the website of Red Bull, indicating that the energy drink increases the concentration and reaction speed and improves alertness and emotional state.

"Operation Red Bull's estimated worldwide by top athletes, busy professionals, active students and long distance drivers," the website. Only in 2010, the company, said Reuters, sold more than four billion drinks. The energy drink is now available in over 160 countries. But according to researchers from Florida, who reviewed the statistics on this issue, the statements of industry on the beneficial properties of the drink is debatable.

Even Marijuana Causes Schizophrenia!

New Australian research has confirmed the results of previous investigations that the use of marijuana increases the chance to show some psychological problems, including schizophrenia, in the future.

The Australian researchers from the University of Sydney Hospital and Prince of Wales, studied over 20,000 patients and concluded that marijuana users had a 41% higher chance of developing psychosis and symptoms such as hallucinations, compared with those without had ever used. Indeed, the psychoses such exhibit, according to the study, two and a half years earlier than those who have not used marijuana and symptomatic psychoses. "The risk is very high especially for young children whose brains still developing," said head group of researchers, Dr. Matthew Lartz. It also stressed that the risk increases the longer the use, adding that marijuana use is associated with the appearance of symptoms associated with schizophrenia: users can hear voices or see things lacking.


As stated by M. Lartz, the findings of the survey are alarming because, even temporarily, 33% of the Australian population uses marijuana and 18% of high school students.

Quit Smoking During Pregnancy

Women who smoke in the first trimester of pregnancy are more likely to give birth to children with some of the most common types of genetic problems, according to new research.

Specifically, women who smoked in early pregnancy were 30% more likely to give birth to children with obstruction to the flow of blood from the heart to the lungs and almost 40% more likely to give birth to children with openings in the upper compartments of the heart. The Dr. Adolfo Correa, the Center for testing and recruiting diseases, (CDC) said that women planning to conceive should stop smoking if they are smokers.

The findings reinforce previous indications suggested that smoking might increase the risk for certain congenital cardiac lesions.

The research team reviewed information collected from 2,525 mothers of infants with congenital heart disease and 3,435 mothers of babies born with healthy hearts.

The researcher and his team focused on 2 types of cardiac lesions that are already associated with smoking in pregnancy-blocked the flow of blood from the right side of the heart, lungs and openings between the upper compartments of the heart.

If women smoke during pregnancy, the rates of increase, women who smoked in early pregnancy were 35% more likely to deliver a child with abnormal openings and 32% more likely to deliver a child with this type of blockage of blood flow to the lungs .

Smoking in the second and third quarter might put the risks to the unborn child, says a researcher, but the team focuses on the first quarter because it is time to grow more organs and the fetus is more vulnerable to environmental impact statements. It is also time that might not know about women that are pregnant, which makes it even more imperative to stop smoking before conception occurs.

What Foods Should I Choose For My Child?

The usual questions parents have tried to answer researchers from Yale University, USA. Main objectives of this research was to examine whether children will eat breakfast cereals with low sugar and still results in consumption of high compared with low-sugar cereals. 91 children were in summer camp were divided randomly into two groups: one was for breakfast cereals high in sugar and the other foods low in sugar. In the morning there was still all children low-fat milk, orange juice, bananas, strawberries and sugar cubes. Respondents chose whatever they wanted from these for breakfast and filled out questionnaires after eating. The researchers looked at what they ate and estimated the number of calories taken in each child.

All children, not only those who ate cereal with a lot of sugar, reported that they liked the breakfast. Children who ate cereal with a little sugar took an average amount of one serving of cereal (35 grams), while those who ate cereal with a lot of sugar consumed significantly more, nearly twice as much (61 grams). The group with high sugar consumed almost twice as much sugar (24 grams versus 12.5 grams).

The total calories consumed at breakfast were not different between the two groups. It also varies the amount of milk received. However, there was a large difference in fruit consumption: a group of children who ate cereal with a lot of sugar they put fruit in their cereal to just 8%, while the group of children with a little sugar 54% put fruit in their breakfast. The percentage of calories derived from fruit was 13% for children who ate fresh foods, compared with 20% for children of the second group.

The scientists concluded that compared with low-sugar cereals, breakfast cereals high in sugar increase the total sugar consumption in children against consumption of more healthy options like fruit.

They concluded that children will eat fun foods without a lot of sugar, if their offer, that will have to do as parents to offer a superior choice breakfast.

Alcohol In Moderation Is Beneficial To Heart

Two new Canadian scientific studies have come to confirm that moderate alcohol consumption on a daily basis benefits the heart and general circulation.

The first study (meta-analysis), which is bench

marked medical research 30 years on the subject, concluded that daily but moderate drinking (about one cup a day) decreases 14% to 25% the risk of heart disease , compared with those who do not drink at all. The second study, by the same team at the University of Calgary, led by Professor William Ghali, found that moderate alcohol consumption (up to 15 grams a day for women and 30 grams for men ) increases the "good" cholesterol and thus also benefits the circulatory system and heart. According to the researchers, the beneficial effect seems to stem from all forms of alcohol.

The two studies, published in the British medical journal "British Medical Journal", according to the BBC and AFP, indicating that the overall risk of death is lower for those who drink small amounts of alcohol (2.5 to 14.9 grams) and reduced to 25% risk for any cardiovascular disease, while reducing the risk of stroke.

But experts pointed out that there is no reason to start to drink deliberately to do good in his heart as "preying" always the risk of drinking more alcohol, with all its negative consequences. Similar benefits with moderate alcohol, one can achieve with exercise and proper diet.

Childhood Obesity

We often hear the view of scientists or not, that children in Greece are thicker than in Europe. But is this correct? What has changed in recent decades and contributed to this increase?

Latest statistical data presented at medical conferences on talking for about 4 in 10 obese children under ten years. From this fact again 4 to 10 have at least one obese parent, while the vast majority have both. In particular, data from northern Greece showed that obesity is more common in children than adolescents. The INKA said in a report that "I have the most uneducated, untrained and obese (or overweight) children. It is certainly an extreme and shocking view, but unfortunately, the latest figures show at least the last two features, since the children in our country are nowadays less and eat more and worse fashion.

The following facts are important and require immediate attention as the 1 / 3 of obese children become obese adults, while the remaining risk from complications of obesity more than the normal weight adults, even if these children somehow lose weight in adulthood.

INKA-Consumer Institute characterizes childhood obesity and rapid growth as a "time-bomb" and not mistaken.

Obesity is an epidemic of the season and the serious problems it creates (coronary heart disease, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, etc.) must be effectively addressed by the responsible agencies. According to the World Health Organization obesity is one of the three leading causes of death for people in "developed countries" of the Western World.

The Unhappy People Watch More TV

The unhappy people see 30% more television than happy
People do not feel happy, seeing on average 30% more television than their happy, according to researchers at the University of Maryland, USA.

The survey, based on statistics from some 30,000 American adult citizens in the period 1975-2006 shows that happier and happy people view TV 19 hours a week over 25 hours to see who they feel pretty much miserable. This conclusion is particularly true regardless of educational level, income level, age or marital status.
Additionally the happier appeared more socially active, more religiously active, more frequent voters and frequent readers of newspapers.
The researchers said that the television-related psychological condition is unclear, but it is unclear whether suffering leads to more television viewing, or if, conversely, the more hours of TV do a most unhappy. To clarify this, they said, further investigations.
On the other hand, people generally say that they like to watch TV and when they do, enjoy it. Satisfaction on a scale from zero to ten, watching TV an average of eight is in accordance with what stated by the respondents.
According to sociologist John Robinson of the University of Maryland, "These conflicting data suggest that television viewers might offer a short-term pleasure, but at the cost of a longer-term bad mood."


According to the researchers, perhaps this is because little by little, the more television expels other activities that bring more real pleasure, such as physical exercise, sex, friends, etc. Previous studies have shown that people evaluate average lower than the average television compared with other leisure activities.
On the other hand, according to the researchers, the TV because it is not critical, nor requirements of any kind, may well be a refuge for people already unhappy. As reported, "the chronic misery may prove to be socially and personally debilitating and create barriers to work and most social and personal activities of some, but even the most unhappy people can click a button on the remote control and passively entertained by television .