Drink coffee to cut liver cancer risk
Drinking three cups of coffee daily can reduce the risk of developing liver cancer by more than 50 per cent, a new study has claimed. Coffee consumption also reduces risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of liver cancer, by about 40 per cent, according to an up-to-date meta-analysis published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, a journal of the American Gastroenterological Association. liver cancer is the sixth most common cancer in the world, and the third most common cause of cancer death. HCC is the main type of liver cancer, accounting for more than 90 per cent of cases worldwide.
Music can reduce nagging pain
Music has long been said to soothe a troubled soul, but now it appears it can also alleviate physical pain. Four out of 10 people who suffered persistent pain said listening to music helped relieve their symptoms. Among 16 to 24-year-olds in the survey of 1,500 people, the figure was 66 per cent. Fittingly, the song that helped the most was Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water, followed by Angels by Robbie Williams, Fleetwood Mac’s Albatross, Elton John’s Candle In The Wind and Easy by The Commodores. Pop was the most popular type of music — helping 21 per cent of people — followed by classical music at 17 per cent, and rock or indie music at 16 per cent, according to a UK survey of over 1,500 people conducted by lloydsPharmacy.
Red wine key to battling Alzheimer's
Researchers including an Indian-origin scientist have discovered a link between ApoE4 and SirT1, an “anti-aging protein” targeted by resveratrol, present in red wine. The major genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), present in about two-thirds of people who develop the disease, is ApoE4, the cholesterol-carrying protein that about a quarter of us are born with. But one of the unsolved mysteries of AD is how ApoE4 causes the risk for the incurable, neurodegenerative disease. The Buck researchers found that ApoE4 causes a dramatic reduction in SirT1, which is one of seven human Sirtuins. Researchers founding CEO of the Buck Institute, say the reduction was found both in cultured neural cells and in brain samples from patients with ApoE4 and AD.