WORLD: RESEARCH INTO HEART DISEASE AND BEER
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Beer offers protection against heart disease in excess of the beneficial impact of the inherent alcohol content, say scientists at the Dutch-based TNO Nutrition & Food Research Institute. Research focused on the impact of water, spirits, red wine and beer on the blood levels of the amino acid called homocysteine which may be a factor in strokes and heart attacks. Levels of the amino acid increased after wine and spirit consumption but not after consuming beer, scientists found after studies involving 11 males.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2000
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US: STUDY OF COFFEE AND PARKINSON'S DISEASE
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US research has discovered that coffee could help avert brain deterioration in the first indication that the leading beverage's benefits may be long term. Data covering 8,000 males by Department of Veterans Affairs researchers found that the chances of contracting Parkinson's disease diminished in line with the rise in consumption of coffee and other beverages containing caffeine. Of the men who registered in the mid-1960s with the Honolulu Hear initiative, 102 had contracted Parkinson's by the mid-1990s. Researchers noted that those who consumed hardly any or no coffee could possess an intolerance to caffeine that may be linked to a greater tendency to contract the disease. The other possible explanation is that frequent consumption of caffeine could offset the degenerative processes linked to ageing that results in the loss of the brain pathology, known as dopamine neurons, related to the disease.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2000
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UK: SEASONAL PATTERNS IN HEART ATTACKS
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Doctors at the department of public health medicine at the Greater Glasgow Health Board have found that people who suffer a heart attack were 19% more likely to die in the winter than in the summer. They attribute the difference to the cold weather, which causes average blood pressure to be 5% higher, but also point out that the lack of sunshine results in higher cholesterol levels, but lower vitamin D levels. All these factors increase the body's vulnerability. The research is published in the Heart journal.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1999
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