المشروبات الكحولية تسبب سرطان الحلق والمريء


المشروبات الكحولية (الخمر) تسبب سرطان الحلق والمريء

أخصائي إدارة سلامة وجودة الأغذية

م. أيمن قاسم الرفاعي

07.08.2010

كتبها: خالد شمت – برلين

حذرت دراسة لمؤسستين ألمانيتين للبحوث الصحية من وجود علاقة وثيقة بين الإصابة بسرطان الحلق والمريء ومعاقرة وإدمان الخمور.

وذكرت الدراسة التي أصدرتها الهيئة الألمانية لمكافحة الإدمان ومركز بحوث أضرار الخمر بهايدلبيرغ, أن واحدا من كل ثلاثين إصابة بالسرطان في العالم ناشئة عن إقرأ المزيد

The Most Dangerous Person in the World


The Most Dangerous Person in the World

By JOHN GOEKLER

March 24, 2009

A significant majority of Americans, polls repeatedly tell us, list terrorism as one of their greatest fears. Like most of our media-inspired interests and worries, however, this one has little basis in reality.

In actual fact, unless you’re serving in a war zone, the most dangerous person you’re ever likely to encounter – by several orders of magnitude – is the one you see in the mirror every morning.

Not some shadowy arms dealer peddling second hand nukes. Not some dusky Jihadi with a song on his lips and a suicide belt around his middle. Not some mad scientist, bribed by the forces of evil to cook up a bio-bug capable of ending life as we know it.

Here are the hard facts.

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Obesity: The killer combination of salt, fat and sugar


Obesity: The killer combination of salt, fat and sugar

By David A Kessler

Friday, Apr 2, 2010

Almost two-thirds (about 66%) of U.S. adults age 20 or older are overweight — about 62% of women and around 71% of men. Nearly one-third (about 31%) of American adults are so overweight that they are considered obese

For years I wondered why I was fat. I lost weight, gained it back, and lost it again – over and over and over. I owned suits in every size. As a former commissioner of the FDA (the US Food and Drug Administration), surely I should have the answer to my problems. Yet food held remarkable sway over my behaviour.

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