The problem of being over weighed has been associated many times with the government officials especially the cops and the Mexican authorities have sorted out a very good solution for this problem.

The Mexican authorities have brought a new eating plan for the cops according to which their daily food menu will be offering 4000 to 2500 calories.

The Mexican city is one of the most populous cities in the world that requires a police force of 70,000 officers and according to some estimates three quarters of whom are overweight. The task for monitoring the food menu has been given to Dr. Alfredo Peniche, who heads the police department’s medical program and now he will monitor the number of calories these cops are taking in their daily routine.

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From our childhood we have been hearing this thing from our elders that brushing the teeth twice a day is good for teeth and health but the British researchers have shown another great benefit of this activity and according to that People who brush twice a day have lower risks of getting heart diseases.

This report was published in the in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and over a decade we have been seeing that doctors are linking heart diseases with the gum diseases. The clotting in any area of body has always being connected with the heart but this is happening for the first time that the brushing of teeth has been linked with the occurrence of heart problems.

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A recent study has been carried out on the impacts of brain injuries on the sleeping behaviors of humans and it has been find out that brain injury can disturb the production of the hormone melatonin that is potentially leading to the sleeping problems.

An earlier study was carried on the same issue and its author Shantha Rajaratnam of Monash University in Victoria, Australia while discussing about that study said that “We’ve known that people often have problems with sleep after a brain injury, but we haven’t known much about the exact causes of these problems”.

In the new study that was published in the May 25 issue of Neurology, the researchers analyzed 23 people who have suffered severe traumatic brain injuries and also 23 normal people of the same age. All of these people were monitored for 2 nights in the sleep laboratory and after that it was found out that levels of melatonin were higher in the normal people at the evening and that shows the signs of thinking about sleeping.

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The diabetes is one of those diseases which always welcome some other dangerous health problems like kidney problems, blood pressure and others, recently a new drawback of Type 2 diabetes have been found.

A large study has been taken in Sweden on almost half of the Type 2 patients of the country and it was found that these people are at higher risks of developing number of cancers as compared to the people who don’t have this disease.

The study was led by German Cancer Research center in Heidelberg and the findings have been published online in the 17 May issue of the Oncologist.

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The study of allergies related in America has revealed through the research in the Allergy Capitals 2010.

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The studies have shown the different places that are most challenging with allergies. The Allergy Capitals is a research project that spots out some of the most intense annual research project coming through the Allergy Foundation of America or the AAFA.

These have the 100 most allergy affected areas of States being pinned down so that greater safety and awareness as well as allergy control means are present in such areas.

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