Painkiller may double miscarriage risk

Taking painkillers such as ibuprofen during pregnancy may double a woman's risk of miscarriage , a new study said.

Researchers at the University of Montreal who looked at a group of painkillers called Non-Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDS) found that women who took them just before they conceived until the 20th week of pregnancy were 2.4 times more at the risk of miscarriage.

The NSAIDS drugs included over-the-counter naproxen . Aspirin is also in this category but it was notincluded in the study, while paracetamol is deemed safe, the Daily Telegraph reported. Researchers surveyed over 47,000 women aged 15 to 45 years. They were asked whether they had taken the painkillers at any time in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Quit fruits to lose those pounds

Quit vegetables and fruits and exercising - that's the new mantra for losing weight, according to a nutritionist.

Zoe Harcombe has said that everything that people thought was good to stay healthy - fewer calories and more exercise - only packs on the flab.

"It's a myth. It's the carbs that pile on the pounds," The New York Post quoted Harcombe as writing in her book 'The Obesity Epidemic: What Caused It? How Can We Stop It?'

She said Americans must go back to older dietary rules calling for red meat, fish, eggs, cream and butter, all virtually carbohydrate free.

"You've got to go back to sticking a pork chop on the grill," she said.

Here are a few myths she busted in her book:

1. Veggies and fruit are more nutritious than any other food: Greens are good only if they are slathered in butter in order to deliver the fat-soluble vitamins they contain. Sugar in fruit gets stored as fat in the liver.

2. Losing weight is about reducing calories: "If you cut 500 calories from a 2,000-calorie daily diet, you will lose weight at first."

But the body will compensate and turn down its metabolism to reduce energy and use fewer calories.

3. Starchy foods should be the main part of our diet: Pasta, bread and grains turn into sugar in the blood, which is unhealthy. It forces the body to release insulin, which stores fat, in order to get the glucose levels back to normal.

4. We should exercise to combat obesity: "It will only cause you to get hungry, and your body will crave carbohydrates, which causes weight gain."

5. Fat is a definite no-no: "Real fat from natural foods is good. Eat only what nature grows."

"Stop grazing and snacking. Go back to eating three good meals a day and manage your carbs if you want to lose weight,"
Soon, a tool to measure pain

Scientists from the Stanford University School of Medicine claim to have taken the first step towards developing a diagnostic tool which could measure the presence or absence of pain.

The new tool would use patterns of brain activity to give an objective physiologic assessment of whether someone is in pain, say the scientists who used functional magnetic resonance imaging scans of the brain combined with advanced computer algorithms to accurately predict thermal pain 81 % of the time .

"People have been looking for a pain detector for a very long time. We're hopeful we can eventually use this technology for better detection and better treatment of chronic pain," said Sean Mackey, the lead scientist.

The scientists stressed that future studies are needed to determine whether these methods will work to measure various kinds of pain, such as chronic pain, and whether they can distinguish accurately between pain and other emotionallyarousing states, such as anxiety or depression.

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