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First, here's some news for all you chocolate lovers.
Libido linked to love of chocolate
November 15, 2004
November 15, 2004
Women have compared chocolate to sex for decades. Now doctors have discovered a scientific link between the two. According to Italian researchers, women who eat chocolate regularly had the highest levels of desire, arousal and satisfaction from sex.
Urologists from Milan's San Raffaele hospital questioned 163 women about their consumption of chocolate and their sexual fulfillment. "Women who have a daily intake of chocolate showed higher levels of desire than women who did not have this habit," the study found. "Chocolate can have a positive physiological impact on a woman's sexuality."
Dr Andrea Salonia, author of the study (funded by a university, not by the confectionery industry) said women who had a low libido could become more amorous after eating chocolate. "Chocolate is not like a food, it's like a drug," Dr Salonia said.
The research also looked at smoking and coffee consumption, but found no links with sexual enjoyment.
Next, there is more good news about hormones from the Women's Health Initiative Trial (WHI). Studying a very large number of women (15,000+), they found that hormones reduced the incidence of diabetes by 21%.
Effect of oestrogen plus progestin on the incidence of diabetes in postmenopausal women: results from the Women's Health Initiative Hormone Trial.
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Studies examining the effect of postmenopausal hormone therapy on concentrations of glucose, insulin and diabetes incidence have been inconclusive. We examined the effect of oestrogen plus progestin on diabetes incidence and insulin resistance. The study compared the effect of daily PremPro with that of placebo during 5.6 years. The participants were 15,641 postmenopausal women enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative Hormone Trial, aged 50 to 79.
RESULTS: The cumulative incidence of treated diabetes was 3.5% in the hormone therapy group and 4.2% in the placebo group (hazard ratio 0.79, 95% CI 0.67-0.93, p=0.004). During the first year of follow-up, changes in fasting glucose and insulin indicated a significant fall in insulin resistance in actively treated women compared to the control subjects.
INTERPRETATIONS/CONCLUSION: These data suggest that combined therapy with oestrogen and progestin reduces the incidence of diabetes, possibly mediated by a decrease in insulin resistance.
Diabetologia. 2004 Jul;47(7):1175-87. 2004 Jul 14.
And for you church goers out there, you better not sit too close to all those candles.
Spending too much time in church could be hazardous to your health
BY MIGUEL BUSTILLO
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Going to church may be good for the soul, but some Dutch researchers say it may not be so healthy for the lungs. The candles and incense regularly burned during religious services emit high levels of particulate matter, tiny airborne flecks that are considered one of the most harmful forms of air pollution, according to a new study by scientists at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
The researchers measured air quality at a small chapel and a large basilica in Maastricht, and found the air in both places contained particulate matter at levels up to 20 times higher than what is considered safe to breathe under European air pollution standards. The levels were similar to those found in the air beside roads traveled by 45,000 cars a day. The researchers cautioned that the pollutants should not affect the well-being of most churchgoers, but that priests and especially devout congregants who spend long periods inside poorly ventilated chapels could be endangering their health.
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