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LUNG CANCERS

Saturday, February 20, 2010

RISK HIGH FOR GAS STATION ATTENDANTS

(5% Lung Cancers in men are job related)

New york : Certain occupations can increase the risk of lung cancer for men with Italian researchers finding five percent of male lung cancers are job related although smoking remains by far the greatest cause of the disease.

Dario Consonni of the Foundation IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico in Milan and colleagues found that about 5 percent of lung cancers in men are job-related with chemicals and other on the job hazards "play a remarkable role" in lung cancer risk. Their study looked at the link between lung cancer and jobs either known or suspected to increase the risk of the disease in 2,100 people diagnosed with lung cancer and 2,120 healthy people matched by age, gender and residence. For men, about 12 percent had worked in occupations listed as known lung cancer risks, such as mining, metal working, and certain types of construction deemed risky were 74 percent more likely to have been diagnosed with lung cancer.

The strongest associations were seen for ceramic and pottery jobs and brick manufacturing, as well as for those working in manufacturing of non-iron metals. The same percentage of cancer patients and healthy individuals, about one i five, worked in the occupations suspected to be associated with lung cancer, indicating no overall increased risk. But the researchers did find a "marked elevated risk " for gas station attendants and for people working in leather tanneries, glass workers, and welders.

Bad for health But chips cheer you up

CHIPS CHEER YOU UP

London: Having chips might be considered bad for health for its high carb content, but a new study claims that it improves a person's mood and makes him or her calmer and more cheerful.

Researchers who led the study concluded that the mood - swing could be either due to the carbohydrates in chips, or simply because the taste and smell are associated with happy times, such as seaside holidays.

For the study, commissioned by the Potato Council and carried out by Aston University in Birmingham, 60 persons were shown a five minute film which graphically depicted the fall -out of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War ll. At the end of the movie, half of the subjects were given a magazine to hep them get their mind off the film , while the other half were given a plate of chips.

Mike Green, from the University of Aston, said: "The psychological data showed that the participants who were feeling down after watching the films felt better after eating chips. "In fact, calmness was restored in the subjects after just 20 minutes.

Researchers concluded that the mood-swing could be either due to the carbohydrates in the chips, or simply because the taste and smell are associated with happy times, such as seaside holidays

MAMMAMIA:HEMAMALINI AND ESHA DEOL

No Size Zero for Hema

The original dream girl of Bollywood. Hema Malini, is quite averse to the size zero trend. The actress, who is re-launching Esha Deol in her home production, says, "Your body structure is God given," She also feels that an actress's figure should be good, "If you are going to be in the public eye, you got to look fit and maintain yourself, But you shouldn't be very thin or very fat." When asked about Esha, the caring mother quips proudly, "I tell her, 'Don't be very thin.'she doesn't need it, she has an athletic body like her dad, Dharmendra. She was very good in sports all through her schooling years,"

HAIR SCARE: SAIF ALI KHAN

Some Mane Issues

Saif Ali Khan is in a strange dilemma. He currently wears his hair long. And he loves his long locks. In fact, we saw this star and his hairdresser Aalim Hakim engrossed in an hour-long discussion on hair maintenance before shooting for a commercial at a suburban Mumbai studio. Saif was over heard asking Aalim whether he should keep his hair long for Agent Vinod where he will play a suited - booted spy, a la James Bond, or whether he should sport a crew cut.

Saif says, "I'm going to do a look test before I decide whether my hair will stay long or cut really short for Agent Vinod. Actually, I like my hair long, but if director Sriram Raghavan insists,. then I may have to leave my hair on Aalim's salon floor."

That. then, is the long and short of it !

Faith Hope Love

Be Friendly

Every person is a potential friend. Every individual can be your friend.

Three attitudes are necessary for friend ship:

Faith

Hope

Love

Good himself has shown you the way. He took the first step to make you his friend. When he created you he gave you these three gifts. You are to share them with others by making friends.

Whether or not you have friends depends upon you.

HANDLE CARE

Give Rare Gifts

Who said you need money to give rare gifts ? Maybe you don't have much money. Maybe you don't have any. You don't need to. Don't think the rich have a corner on things to give.

No one can outmatch you in giving rare gifts !.

Conversation, attention, approval, insights, time, energy, cooperation, and especially love: these are rare gifts. They are far more valuable than mere things. They are gifts that you can give.

Even at a great distance you can send good wishes.

Gift is Your Life

Give - - -

and Receive

Graciously

It's lots of fun to give money and the things that money can buy at the time when your family and friends can use them. and the poor ! the homeless! the sick !

If your heart feels rather harsh and dry, giving will make it satiny soft. and when you give to someone, you'll find you are able to love tha person more, and you will love other people more, too.

When someone offers you a gift, take it gladly. Don't refuse. Gifts need receivers - happy receivers.

Ask Yourself

Ask Yourself Questions !

Questions cry for answers. Ask yourself:

Who am I ?

Why was I created ?

How am I in touch with my Creator ?

What do I want most in life ?

What is my most valuable possession ?

What small thing can I do to make the world a better place because I am here?

If I walk ahead and look back at myself, what do I see ? Am I pleased with what I see ? Am I willing to change if necessary ? What do iI have that I could give to others ?

It is giving to others that you find answers to most of your questions.

What is Your Aim To Goal ?

JUMP INTO LIFE

Just because you're breathing out and breathing in doesn't mean you are full of life. Fife is an exciting affair. do you feel fully alive ? How do you visualize yourself five years from now ? What do you want to become ? What are you eating , drinking, thinking, saying, doing, and hoping that will bring you to your goal ?

Have you really jumped into life, or are you still shivering on the shore ? what have you planned for today, tomorrow, next week? How will these things that you are planning affect your future ? The future of others ? and maybe the future of the world ? Do you ever think about how your presence has an impact onb the world ?

How Much Sleep You Need

LET YOURSELF

GROW

Experiment with how much sleep you need, and be sure to get that amount. But don't sleep your life away. take naps if you need to. Otherwise, don't

And if you wake up at 3 A.M., so what ? don't let that annoy you. Surprise the earthworms and walk in the garden. Or do your exercises, pray, write a letter, make up your grocery list, paint a picture, plan a party, invent something, start writing a book. Even counting sheep isn't a bad idea.

Constructive wakefulness beats worrying about insomnia and pill popping.

AMARTYA SEN - Indian Nobel Prize

INDIAN NOBEL LAUREATES

AMARTYA SEN

(b 1933)

He was born in Shantiniketan and educated at Presidency College in Calcutta (Kolkata). For further studies he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. Degrees. Prof. Sen has taught economics at a number of universities in Inida and England, including Delhi University, the London School of Economics, the University of London and the Oxford University, before moving to Harvard University. In 1998 he was appointed master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is best known for his work on the nature of poverty and the cause of famine. He devised methods for measuring poverty. His economic theories led to the development of practical solutions for preventing the shortage of food during a famine. His interest in famine was may be, from personal experience. As a nine year old boy, he witnessed the Bengal famine of 1943, in which three million people perished. HE has authored several books and essays on various aspects of social welfare and development. He was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics for his contributions to selfare economics. He is the first Asian to receive a Nobel Prize for Economics. He received the Bharat Ratna in 1999.

SUBRAMANIAM CHANDRASHEKAR - Indian Nobel Prize

INDIAN NOBEL LAUREATES

SUBRAMANIAM

CHANDRASHEKAR (1910-1995)

He was born in Lahore (now in Pakistan). He was the nephew of sir C.V. Raman. He was educated at Presidency College, Madras. and at Trinity College, Cambridge, From 1933 to 1937, he held a position at Trinity, Later he joined the University of Chicago and became a US citizen in 1953. He developed a theory on white dwarf stars known as 'Chandrashekhar Limit,' which determines the minimum mass of a dying star which enables it to survive. He authored several books on astrophysics. He also attempted to develop the mathematical theory of black holes, describing his work in The Mathematical theory of Black Holes (1983). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics with William Alfred Fowler in 1983.

HARGOBIND KHORANA - Indian Nobel Prize

INDIAN NOBEL LAUREATES

HARGOBIND

KHORANA
(1922-1996)

He was born into a poor family in Raipur, Punjab (now in Pakistan). He attended Punjab University at Lahore and the University of Liverpool, England, on government scholarships. He obtained his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Liverpool in 1948. HE began his research on nucleic acids during a fellowship at Cambridge University in 1951. He held fellowships and professorships in Switzerland at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the universities of British Columbia, Canada and Wisconsin, USA. His major breakthrough in the field of medicine was interpreting the genetic code and analysing its function in protein synthesis. He shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1968 with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley. Working independently of one another, all three made contributions to the understanding of the genetic code and how it works in a cell.

SIr Chandrashekar Venkataraman - Indian Nobel Prize

INDIAN NOBEL LAUREATES
Sir CHANDRASHEKAR

VENKATARAMAN (1888-1970)

He was born near Tiruchinapalli in Tamil Nadu. He earned a master's degree in physics at Presidency College, Madras, in 1907. Later he became a professor of physics at the University of Calcutta in 1917, In 1933, he moved to the Indian Institute of Science, at Bangalore (Bengalooru), as head of the department of physics. He founded the Indian Journal of Physics and the Indian Academy of Sciences. He contributed to the building up of, Physics and the Indian research institute in his time, He received many honours and awards, including the title of "Sir. He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930. He proposed a theory relating to the scattering of light known as 'Raman Effect' His theory, discovered in 1928, explains the change in the frequency of light passing through a transparent medium. HE received the Bharat Ratna in 1954.

Rabindranath Tagor - INDIAN NOBEL PRIZE

INDIAN NOBEL LAUREATES
RABINDRANATH
TAGORE (1861-1941)

He was born on May 7, 1861 in Calcutta (Kolkata). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in recognition of his work Gitanjali (S0ng Offerings) in 1913. Gitanjali is a collection of 103 poems, originally written in Bengalli and translated into English by Tagore himself in 1912. He was the first Indian to receive a Nobel Prize and the first Asian to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature. Popularly known as Gurudev, he founded a small experimental school at Shantiniketan (Abode of Peace), a place 150 km from Calcutta (Kolkota), in 1901. Which later came to be known as the Vishwabharati University. The poet, dramatist, novelist, painter and philosopher is also the author of our National Anthem. The British Government knighted him with the title :Sir" which he returned in 1919 in protest against the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.

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