A cup of tea not only boosts your mental alertness it also boosts your memory. In an article published in the BBC says that this may lead to the development of a new treatment for Alzheimer ’s disease. This is good news to all the tea drinkers out there and more so to the patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and their carers. Developing a medicinal tea as treatment for Alzheimer’s disease for which there is no cure found yet, sounds very interesting.

The article claiming that “drinking cold water after a meal causes cancer” has no evidence as back up and such a connection has not been documented in any reliable cancer health resources.

An e-mail has been circulating around with the article containing the false information, containing no external references to back up its claims. The article says that, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. Once this “sludge” reacts with the acid; it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.

Did u know that TEA is one of the best drinks you can have? Drunken cold or warm, coloured green, black or white it is proven to be one of the healthiest drinks you can have.

Considering the amount of tea drunk around the world especially here in Sri Lanka every day, the news that the drink can be good for you is welcome indeed!

Tea is made from the plant Camellia sinensis and there are at least about 6 varieties of tea

Well studies have not shown a connection so far, however what scientists say regarding this is that additional research and more time is needed to observe a direct connection between mobile usage and cancer before conclusions are made.

. TMR (Targeted Muscle Reinnervation) is a method which helps amputees to use their prosthetic arms effectively to do their daily activities. This method was developed in the rehabilitation institute of Chicago and the Northwestern University. In Wikepedia (they describe TMR as a method by which a spare muscle (the target muscle) of an amputated
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Vitamin C also known as Ascorbic acid is found naturally particularly in citrus fruits such as oranges and also in vegetables. For example foods that tend to have highest sources of vit C are green peppers, strawberries, tomatoes, broccoli, turnip greens and other leafy greens, sweet and white potatoes, papaya, mango, watermelon, cauliflower, cabbage, and pineapples.  Vit
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Then you have to start way before you conceive… Most of us may or may not have heard of preconceptual folic acid supplementation which is the intake of folic acid at least a month before you get pregnant. This prevents the development of neural tube defects in   the baby. What is the neural tube? It is
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It is quite common and most of us have had this experience which probably freaked you out at the time it happened you…In most cases it is trivial and easily controlled but it may also be very severe and life threatening.But what’s important is knowing the right thing to do in such a situation…

It is important that you identify the type of chest pain which comes in a heart attack or what doctors refer to as Myocardial infarction that needs immediate attention as the time you lose is also an indication of the cardiac muscle you lose due to the thrombus( blood clot) totally occluding the blood supply to an area of cardiac muscle. Therefore the more time you lose in getting medical attention will widen the area of muscle which is going to die due to the lack of blood supply for the hearts function.

photo: Misserion We talk about everything under the sun while having our regular social drink at home or at the local pub but have we ever talked about the “safe level” of alcohol consumption or have you ever been told about that? It seems that many of us are unaware of the safe limits of alcohol
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