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Breast-feeding
raises IQ, again: "Children who are breast-fed
are smarter... and children who nurse longer and more intensely
(not very long, we're talking monthas, not years, and by intensely they simply
mean more, less bottle supplement) are smarter still. ...
an average of 3 to 5 IQ points smarter. ... (started with) 17000
... Belarus ... (IQ scored at 6.5 years there were 14000 left in the study.)
Archives of General Psychiatry
May 2008. Toronto Star, 6 May 2008 | ||
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Bipolar
Soars As Diagnosis For the Young: "...
American children and adolescents treated for bipolar disorder increaased 40-fold
from 1994 to 2003... treated with powerful psychiatric drugs that have few proven
benefits in children and potentially serious side effects like rapid weight gain." New York Times 4 Sept 2007 | ||
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Pollution,
plastics affest boys more: "...
the incidence of asthma, autism, childhood cancer, learning disabilities and behavoural
disorders, among others, is higher in boys, sometimes startling so: autism, for
instance, ... four to one. | ||
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The article on filaggrin in Dr. Allan'sNewsletter:
May 2008 is worth looking at: Filaggrin
pulls together the keratin protein filaments in the skin’s outermost layer.
The molecule also holds water in, Without filaggrin, the usually impervious barrier
formed by the skin is compromised. It
turns out that a large proportion of people with rashes have a filaggrin gene
problem. | ||
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Norman Allan's Newsletter, February 2005: snippets from newspapers, various,
which I hope are of interest - and a discussion of "C Reactive Protein"
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From vol 3 no 1: An interesting clipping that
I've stumbled on since the last letter concerns vibration:(Globe and Mail, 13
June 2006) "SCIENTIST GETS VIBES TO BUILD BONES. Device to help space travelers
approved to treat sufferers of osteoporosis." The device is a machine that
generates vibrations - vibration implies acceleration/deceleration, and is therefore
somewhat like gravity - therefore in theory, and it seems in practice, good for
maintenance of bone mass in zero gravity (it was designed for use in space). On
earth, the article says, "a person who stands on [the platform of the vibration
device] for 20 minutes a day can build bone density an average of 2 percent a
year. ... By sending small vibrations through the body - moving about 50 micrometers
(or the thickness of a few human hairs) up and down and repeating at a rate of
34 cycles per second - the platform triggers musculoskeletal stimulations that
naturally occur... the vibrations from the platform are set to a frequency that
[generates acceleration that] is one-third that of gravity... and is therefore
safe. Other devices (exercise machines) which generate 4 to 15 gravities are dangerous,
we are told. The thing that I find interesting here is that a relatively subtle vibration is having an appreciable (positive) effect on body metabolism and function. I am therefore wondering what the vibrational effects of chanting, OM, for instance, are? We'd need an engineer to tell us about the difference in order of magnitude between that devise and the vibrations that are set up in your body by, a) a rock band in a bar, b) by chanting, OM for instance. However, orders of magnitude might or might not be of relevance here. Subtle vibrations may be having physiological effects. One would have to look and see. Meanwhile, the safe course would be to do the chanting. It's bound to have salubrious effects at many levels (if not bone mass and muscle mass - muscles, that too was in the article). ("Salubrious" = health promoting - forgive the use of a relatively obscure word.) "Over all the bone density of the controlled group (the reporter has got this wrong - he means "experimental group" as compared to the control group) increased by 3 percent during a year, and muscle mass improved by 4 percent." So
get chanting, OM (or what you fancy). |
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