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| Fruity drinks, diabetes fiends |
Sweetened fruit drinks have long been marketed as healthy and a better alternative to soft drinks. However, recent studies have shown that they are just as likely to cause weight gain and increase diabetes risk. +Findings by Julie Palmer and colleagues at Boston University looked at nearly 44,000 black women in the US through 1995 to 2005. Those who drank two or more sweetened fruit drinks per day had a 31% increased risk compared to those who drank fewer than one. |
| Paving the way to block potentially harmful arsenic from being absorbed in Asia's staple food, scientists in Japan may have discovered a mechanism from which rice absorbs the harmful element from the soil. Two proteins in rice appear to transport arsenic from the soil to the plant. Using mutant padi without the proteins, a decrease in arsenic was detected in the staple. |
| ONE of the world's most powerful magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners will start up this month at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg , Germany . The heart of the machine is a 32-tonne superconducting magnet, generating a magnetic field strength of seven tesla, about 140,000 times greater than that of the earth. The higher field strength will help researchers gain new insights into the origins of cancer, to date only structures larger than one millimetre have been visible in images of the inside of the body.
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