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Citrus juice, vitamin C give staying power to green tea antioxidants
13 November 2007, 21:48:25 BJS
To get more out of your next cup of tea, just add juice. A study found that citrus juices enable more of green tea's unique antioxidants to remain after simulated digestion, making the pairing even healthier than previously thought. The study compared the effect of various beverage additives on catechins, naturally occurring antioxidants found in tea. Results suggest that complementing green tea with either citrus juices or vitamin C likely increases the amount of catechins available for the body to absorb.
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World's Smallest Double Slit Experiment
09 November 2007, 14:57:11 BJS
The big world of classical physics mostly seems sensible: waves are waves and particles are particles, and the moon rises whether anyone watches or not. The tiny quantum world is different: particles are waves (and vice versa), and quantum systems remain in a state of multiple possibilities until they are measured — which amounts to an intrusion by an observer from the big world — and forced to choose: the exact position or momentum of an electron, say.
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Modest gain in visceral fat causes dysfunction of blood vessel lining
05 November 2007, 22:08:35 BJS
When lean healthy young adults gained about 9 pounds, the functioning of their blood vessel lining became impaired -- but shedding the weight restored proper functioning, according to a Mayo Clinic research report.
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/////////////////////Token resuscitation attempts on hopelessly ill patients prolong suffering
01 November 2007, 13:52:31 BJS
Resuscitating hopelessly ill patients too slowly to save their lives can be an invasive and undignified procedure that prolongs death and suffering, according to the November issue of Journal of Clinical Nursing.
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////////////////Vaginal reconstruction not needed for most inter-sex females
28 October 2007, 01:45:23 BJS
Dispelling a common myth, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center say vaginal reconstruction should be a matter of preference for most teens or adult women born with a type of inter-sex condition marked by the presence of both female and male genitals.
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/////////////////////Benefit of buying a home tumbles by 75%Simon Lambert, This is Money14 November 2007
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The financial benefit of buying a home rather than renting over a 25-year period has tumbled by 75% over the past year – with tenants better off than owners in half the UK's regions.


Rent vs Buy: Abbey says the 25-year saving from buying a home rather than renting has fallen by 75% over the past year
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The latest annual Rent vs Buy index compiled by High Street bank Abbey shows the 25-year saving from buying rather than renting has fallen from £24,000 last year to just £5,811 today.
Rising house prices and higher interest rates have left Abbey's theoretical homebuyer worse off in six of the 12 British regions surveyed.
Abbey says its research calculates the cost of home ownership based on a person taking out a 90% loan-to-value, 25-year repayment mortgage, at 6.5%, and assumes essential home maintenance costs. In the 2006 survey the average mortgage rate was 5.5%.
Rental costs are inflated over the time period in line with the rental cost element of the retail price index.
The study shows the average cost of buying a home over 25 years would be £437,925 compared to £443,736 for those renting. While the study does not take into account potential house price inflation which would help leave homeowners better off, it also does not factor in any potential price falls for those buying now, with some experts claiming this is the peak of the market.
The homebuyer would own their property at the end of this period and according to the study they would be almost £6,000 better off than if they had rented.
The diminishing financial cost difference between renting and owning for the average UK resident continues a pattern that has seen the advantage of buying slip from £135,000 in 2001.
Nici Audhlam-Gardiner, Abbey's head of mortgages, said: 'A number of factors have come together to cause rent over 25 years and a mortgage for the same period to converge across the UK.
'But while on a month-to-month basis in some areas it is cheaper to rent rather than buy, at the end of the 25 years a homeowner actually has a house whereas a renter has nothing. In addition, homeowners benefit from any further house prices rises as the value of their equity increases over time.
'So despite the convergence, we believe that people are still better off owning a property. The people who really struggle however are first-time buyers who find it difficult to get on the property ladder.
'We think it is the role of mortgage lenders to come up with new initiatives so that more people can achieve their dreams of owning a home.'




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