Measuring body fat, rather than body mass index, appears to more accurately identify people who need lifestyle interventions to lose weight, a study suggests. Excess body fat is a risk factor for many major health problems such as heart disease and diabetes, researchers note in the Nutrition Journal. When evaluating individuals for lifestyle recommendations to minimise such health risks, body mass index (BMI) under identifies risk, say researchers at the University of Pavia in Italy. “The use of BMI alone does not discriminate between fat mass and fat-free mass, nor reflects the fat mass distribution,” says the study. Taking more than one painkiller is risky People who use two or more non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) to help control pain have a worse health-related quality of life than their peers who use only one, results of a study suggest. Prior research has established a strong link between multiple NSAID use and gastrointestinal problems, but it was unclear if this practice affected health-related quality of life. To investigate, researchers interviewed 138 patients from a large regional managed care organisation who had filled one or more NSAID prescriptions. Overall, 26 per cent of subjects used two or more NSAIDs, the report indicates. These patients scored lower on the physical component of a quality of life questionnaire than did single-NSAID users, suggesting a poorer health-related quality of life. Alcohol harmful for the foetus Children exposed to alcohol in the womb have impaired eye blinks compared with their unexposed peers, researchers found in a recent study. Children exposed to alcohol before birth may develop fetal alcohol syndrome—a collection of birth defects and developmental problems that can include delayed growth, significant learning disabilities and abnormal facial features. However, not all children with fetal alcohol syndrome are born with the distinctive facial anomalies of the condition. Writing in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, researchers say their findings indicate that deficits in eye blink conditioning, or EBC, can identify children with probable fetal alcohol syndrome. Group Moderator for [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Connect your World with Us join Now - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dimpill_gang/join Affiliated group from dimpill_gang for Only Adult Mails - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fantazies/join Affiliated group from dimpill_gang for Only Health and Food Mails - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Health_and_Gourmet/join Explore your hobbies and interests. Go to http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups
