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Twenty small minutes of exercise per day would be sufficient to improve the memory of the 50 years and more, reveal an Australian survey published in the Newspaper of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

The researchers of the university of Melbourne recruited 138 volunteers, men and women of 50 years and more, that complained about memory losses, but that were not for affected as much by the illness of Alzheimer nor any other shape of craziness.

They proposed half among them to take to 150 minutes of exercise curbed per week (what is equivalent to three weekly sessions of 50 minutes, or about twenty minutes per day). The walk, the swimming or the social dance were part of the activities practiced.

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Compared to the classic treatment and the massage, the Technique Alexander. who puts the accent on better postural habits - would relieve people enduring pains of back, according to a survey anglaise1, more.

The researchers of the Bristol board university led their survey by 579 topics that, during the clinical test of an one year length, have all received the classic medical treatments against the lombalgie.

The patients have been distributed in four groups:  care medical classics only (group witness), massage therapy, six individual lessons of Technique Alexander and 24 sessions of the same technique. Besides, each of these groups has been divided in two subgroups:  the first saw itself prescribing sessions of physical exercise (the most often of the walking) while the other didn’t receive any instructions to this effect.

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The men seem to feel less concerned that the women by the present speech surrounding the growing problem of overweight in the population. How are the nutritionists and the authorities of the public health able better to take into account the masculine preoccupations?, wonder Joost Van Mast der, researcher in nutrition to the university of Montreal.

" According to the scientific data, the man has an opinion positive of his/her/its health. Paradoxically, he/it is less convinced than the woman that he/it can influence his/its health by personal actions. What can explain his/her/its lack of interest to occupy" itself/themselves of it, he/it explains.

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The recent cases of food poisonings to the bacterium Listeria monocycle brings back to the first plan the idea to turn toward the irradiation of food to warn the apparition of it. But this technology is she securities? What is his effect on food and, ultimately, on the health of the consumers?

The irradiation of food in Canada

To Canada, the irradiation of food is governed by several organisms, of which Health Canada and the Canadian agency of inspection of food (ACIA)1-2.

Since the years 1960, Health Canada permits the irradiation of the potatoes and onions, essentially to slow down once their germination picked. In 1984, this authorization has been spread to wheat, to flour, to the dehydrated foods and to the spices, to treat them against the ominous bacteria and the bugs.

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Health Canada has just Thrown, on his / her / its Web site, with new data on the basis of natural health products whose sale has been allowed at the country.

The Canadian government says itself "conscious that more and more Canadians use of natural health products, and that the demand for this type of products increases extraordinary" at a rhythm.

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Several physicians advise their patients suffering diverticulitis from to avoid
the walnuts and the corn blown. Mistake, according to a survey led by American
researchers who show that this recommendation is non founded.

The diverticulums are the small pockets that form themselves on the partition of
the intestine when she/it is submitted to pressures, because of the constipation,
for example. When some bacteria accommodate themselves inside, these diverticulums
can become infected. follow Themselves the diarrheas, the nauseas and blood of it
in the stools. It is what one calls the diverticulitis. One presumed a long time
that the food that lets abrasive residues in the intestine, as the walnuts or the
corn blown, would accelerate the bleedings.

The American researchers followed more of 40 000 men aged of 40 years to 75 years,
on one period of 18 years. They noted that actually, the participants who ate the
walnuts or the corn blown regularly were less often affected by diverticulitis
that those that avoided this food. Among the subjects that endured diverticulitis,
the consumption of the two food didn’t have any impact on the complications and
the bleedings.

These results rejoice the Québecois experts. " He/it arrives that some patients
arrive to my office while telling to me that they don’t eat walnut or corn soufflé
anymore because their family’s physician advised against it to them", affirm the
Dr Mickael Bouin, gastroentérologue to the hospital Saint-Luc of the CHUM. "
However, no survey never showed any tie between this food and the diverticulitis.
One has business to a popular belief rather than to a scientific fact. "

Helen Baribeau, nutritionist, increases. " That makes a long time that I denounce

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