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The flavonoids, one of the numerous their pigment that gives color to the to the fruits and vegetables, are recognized for their antioxidant powers. However, a food rich in two types of flavonoids would reduce the risk of cancer of the ovaries, reveal a survey italienne1.

It would be the flavonols - particularly abundant in the apples, the bays, the onions and the broccoli - as well as the isoflavones, especially one that recovers in the soy, that best protect against the cancer of the ovaries.

Two groups of women of various regions of Italy participated in the survey: 1 031 women at whom one had diagnosed a cancer of the ovaries and 2 411 women hospitalized for reasons that were not joined to the cancer or a gynecological problem.

According to the results of the survey, the women who had a food rich in flavonols had 37% less risk to be reached of a cancer of the ovaries that those that consumed the less of them. And at the participants who consumed more of the isoflavones, this risk was reduced of 49%. These results have been gotten regardless of the use of oral contraceptives, of the number of pregnancies or the domestic antecedents of cancer.

The participants filled a questionnaire retailed on their consumption of different types of food during the two years preceding their admission to the hospital or their diagnosis of cancer of the ovaries. These data have been converted in daily consumption of six different classes of flavonoids: the FLAVANOLS the flavanone, the flavonols, the flavones, the anthocyanidines and the isoflavones.

According to the national institute of the cancer of Canada, 1 500 Canadians die every year, of which 360 in Quebec, of the cancer of the ovaries.

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The battle against the cancer is sowed of ambushes. A team of research Swiss esteem that the patients who receive the radiotherapy to treat a cancer of the prostate would increase their risks to be reached of a colon cancer.

The researchers scrutinized the medical files of the men that received a diagnosis of cancer of the prostate between 1980 and 1998 in the region of Geneva. Among the 1 134 chosen patients, 264 had received the radiotherapy. However, eight among them have been reached of a colon cancer in the five to nine years that followed the treatment. a sufficient time to allow a tumor led by the radiotherapy to form itself/themselves.

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The meditation of full conscience (mindfulness) could have beneficial effects at the people who endure bipolar unrests, according to exploratory results of a small clinical test led to the Douglas institute in Montreal.

" The commentaries that one had on this day are very encouraging. Besides a reduction of their anxiety, the patients mentioned to have a bigger conscience of their body. Some mention to be also more in contact with their physical sensation when they live a pleasant or unpleasant" event, indicate Nancy Peartree, psychologist and searcher to the Douglas institute.

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Even though the world of Health organization (WHO) puts forward that the irradiation of food is without danger for health, the majority of the consumers is cold to the idea that this technology is used on a big scale.

Such is the tendency that clears itself of the answers of the readers of to an unscientific poll. To the question would Consume yourselves of the radiated foods, more than eight people on ten (80%) answered by the negative.

"Stop to the natural and potentially dangerous products for health. Receding What does one have to spread the exposure to food products? Public health or profits of the sales?", One can read among the comments sent.

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These results first explain themselves, according to Philippe Bastard of Crisnay, president of the SEVN, by the importance of the piracy. Every day, he/it says, the number of entries in rooms of movies is equivalent to the one of the downloading’s illegal of movies on Internet, a sport to which the French are champions of the world. "That kills the market of the video and impacted heavily the financing of the movies", he/it underlines, since the video contributes non negligible way there.

The maladjustment of the legislation on the chronology of the media’s - other French specificity that fixes the delays of exploitation of the movie in every support or middle of diffusion, video, television, after his/her/its exit in rooms - constitutes to the eyes of Jean-Yves Mirski, general delegate of the SEVN, the other reason of the stagnation. A movie cannot be marketed on DVD that six months after his/her/its exit on the French screens - the longest delay in Europe. Warner could not take the last Harry Potter for example before January 2008, missing the feasts of Christmas therefore. "An economic ineptitude that was worth us 20% of sales in less", affirm M. Bastard of Crisnay, also vice-president of Warner Home Video.

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Since the beginning of the years 1990, the inequalities of incomes became more pronounced in a majority of country in spite of a very strong increase of the employment. Bound intimately to the "financial internationalization", the phenomenon risks to worsen with the crisis of the banking sector and the downfall of the Stock markets, according to a report of the international organization of work (ILO) returned public Thursday October 16. His/her/its findings are going to weigh in the proceedings that appear about the reform of the international financial system.

It is the first time that the ILO achieves a survey as complete on the sharing of the fruits of the growth, to statements of his/her/its authors. In 51 countries (on the 73 for which of the data were available), the part of the wages in the "total income" moved back during the last two decades. The strongest reduction occurred in Latin America and in the Cribs (13 points in less), consistent of Asia and the region of the Pacific (- 10 points).

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