HEALTH ISSUE: SHORT CUTS

SHORT CUTS: A Euro 7,500 porn room tohelp patients take sperm tests      British health chiefs have installed hi-tech gadgets worth Euro 7,500 on a room that has been assigned specially for patients towatch porn. The suite, which was built by the Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust to helpmen produce sperm samples, boasts of computer equipment worth Euto 4,625, flat scren TVs costing Euro 2,225, plus Euro 500 of blue movies. Other fertility centres provide a similar service by spending less than Duro100 a year on magazines to stimulate patients. Women more fertile in 40s, says study:        The study from the University of sheffield shows that previously women would marry early and if widowed was too old to remarry thus favouring early childbirth in women, The Daily Telegraph reported. But today's reluctance to settle down and reproduce untiol lager in life could lead to fertility beginning to favour older women, those that wed wealthy husbands were married at a meaning family sizes were bigger but with an increased risk of widowhood.

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Health Issue: Citamic C

Vitamin C can curb cancer growth, say researchers Wellington: Vitamin C can help curb the growth of cancer cells, according to New Zealand scientists who claim breakthrough research to provide the first real evidence of a connection between the vitamin and the development of tumours.         "Our results offer a promising and simple intervention to help in our fight against cancer at the level of both prevention and cure," Associate Professor Margreet Vissers, of the University of Otago's Free Radical Research Group, said.           She said the role of vitamin C in cancer treatment had been the subject of debate for years, with many anecdotal accounts of the vitamin's beneficial role. While her previous research had demonstrated the vitamin's importance in maintaning cell health and hinted at its potential for limiting diseases such as cancer, the latest sutdy looked at whether witamin C levels were lowered in patients with endometrial tumours.          She said the study found that tumours were less able to accumulate  vitamin C compared to normal tissue and this related to the ability of the tumour to survive and grow. "Tumours with low vitamin C levels had more of a prtein called HIF-1 which allows them to thrive in conditions of stress," she said, "The findings show a direct relationship between HIF-1 and vitamin C levels in tumours and suggest it would be beneficial for people with cancer cells to have more vitamin C."

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Health Issue: Running might not be the ideal form of exercise

Jogging may not always be the right exercise to shed weight London: Running might not be the ideal form of exercise, especially if you want to lose weight. Says Greg Brookes, a London-based personal trainer. "Lots of people start running to lose weight and it doesn't always work - and this is why."Fat is one of our body's favourite sources of energy," says Brookes. "The more you run, the more your body prepares itself for your next run. You will actually start to holod on to more fat," the Daily Mail auoted him as saying.        Brookes, with a clientele that includies celebrities, high fliers and housewives, suggests why you won't get leaner is that the body is an amazing machine and will adapt to anything.        "The more time you spend running, the better you become at running and the more efficient you get, the less energy you use and the fewer calories you use and the fewer calories you burn," says Brookes, Running is also bad for joints, he says, "When you run, tow-and-ahalf times your body weight is transmitted through your joints," "If that is repeated over and over, evernthually your weakest joint will give out. Usually the ankles  or the knees are the first to go."

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