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     The average person needs need about 2.5 liters of water a day. That amount obviously differs by what people eat, where they live, how big they are and what they are doing. But researchers ignored that the most of this quantity is contained in prepared foods.
     Prospective studies fail to find benefits in kidney function or all-cause mortality when healthy people increase their fluid intake. Randomized controlled trials fail to find benefits as well, with the exception of specific cases — for example, preventing the recurrence of some kinds of kidney stones .
     Anyway, Plain water is better than a drink, if we speak about sweet drinks.

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     Researchers from the University of Toronto (U of T) have found that the theory behind the popular blood type diet--which claims an individual's nutritional needs vary by blood type--is not valid. Now be confident in saying that the blood type diet hypothesis is false. There is found no evidence to support the 'blood-type' diet and called for properly designed scientific studies to address it. It only gypotes written by naturopath Peter D'Adamo.

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     Still, there is a dispute about this. And alkalization is different: using natural alkaline foods and aggressive - soda intake. By personal experience, I can say that neither one nor the other way makes absolutely no effect on my body. Alkaline foods are no fear to harm your body*, but with soda have to be careful.

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     There was no difference between treatment with fermented milk containing probiotics or acidified milk.(ncbi) Most manufacturers do not measure how much beneficial bacteria contained in each package. In addition, they make no effort to keep the bacteria "alive", as stated in the advertisement*. So we eat and drink probiotic placebo* - products with a certain amount of useful, but, dead bacteria.(journalofdairyscience)

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     The Harvard Health Letter recently concluded that microwaving may be preferable* to other methods of heating food. The cooking method that best retains nutrients is one that cooks quickly, heats food for the shortest amount of time and uses as little liquid as possible. 1 The Russian Academy of Sciences concluded* that cooking on the plate is decomposed up to 60% of vitamin C, and under the influence of microwaves - 25%. WHO in 2015 concluded* that microwave oven influence does not adversely affect for human or food. Make a simple experiment: put the mobile phone in a microwave, close the door (do not turn the microwave!), the signal level of Wi-Fi network or the mobile signal must be strongly reduced or even completely disappear.
     In any case, the choice is yours.

Used: nytimes

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    Currently e-cigarettes for sale in Hong Kong & all over the world* are labelled as nicotine-free. However, the council said they contain other toxic chemical substances (Flavoring*) – like propylene glycol, aldehydes, glycerin, formaldehyde* and acetaldehyde – which can bring health risks to human. Some e-cigarettes contain chemicals and heavy metals such as tin, chromium and nickel, which might harm a fetus during pregnancy*. Study* published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives suggests that 70-75 per cent of flavoured electronic cigarettes contain toxic chemical (diacetyl) linked to deadly 'popcorn lung' (bronchiolitis obliterans). Diacetyl is known to cause inflammation, scarring and constriction of the tiny airways in the lung known as bronchioles, reducing air flow. Smoking an e-cigarette makes you less likely to cough*, even when coughing would benefit your health, according to research by Peter Dicpinigaitis, professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Coughing keeps you from choking and removes agents that may cause infection.

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     A House of Commons science committee* and Australia’s top medical researchers with the National Health and Medical Research Council conducted a review of published studies on homeopathy and report that they could not find any good quality evidence to support the claim that homeopathy works any better than a placebo*. Homeopathic remedies contain no active ingredients, but homeopaths believe the tinctures retain a "memory" of the original substance and are thus effective.
     06.02.2017 The Commission of pseudoscience of Russian Academy of Sciences has published anti homeopathic Memorandum and expert opinion about homeopathy as a pseudoscientific discipline (RAS*).

Used: ctvnews.ca