LUNG CANCERS

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.

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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

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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,"

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