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'Tall People More Prone to Cancer

A Stockholm study helmed by Dr Emelie Benyi and her team at the Karolinska Institute of 5.5 million records of Swedish people born between 1938 and 1991 suggest that after a baseline of one meter the risk of cancer is increased by about 18% for every extra 10cm to a woman's height. The risk is lower for men at around 11% for every extra 10cm.

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'Proof that Carrier Bag Charge has Caused English Public Meltdown

In a latest tally over carrier bag antics, the English have definitely surpassed themselves in protesting against the 5p charge being enforced in stores for these shopping bags.
'Banana Extinction is in the Horizon Once More

Until 50 years ago, the world's export banana was Gros Michel. Said to taste better, last longer, this cultivar of bananas was resilient and did not require artificial ripening. In 1965 this species became commercially extinct because of a fungal disease, the Panama disease, that started in Central America and spread across the world's commercial plantations. The disease affected the vascular system so that banana plant is unable to absorb water. With no other alternative but to burn the infected, the banana industry was thrown in a quandary until it found the new cultivar for world export.
'Brain Immune System Linked to Schizophrenia Prevention

Increasing evidence suggest that inflammation and the immune system have significant impact on the risk of schizophrenia and other psychiatric conditions. According to the BBC, studies show the correlation between an overactive immune system and schizophrenic patients as well as those who are at high risk for schizophrenia. By calming the brain's immune system, schizophrenia may possibly be prevented.
'Pregnancy Smoking: Ambition to Reduce Needs Intervention

In the UK, an estimated 2,200 premature births, 5,000 miscarriages as well as 300 stillbirths yearly are linked to pregnancy smoking.
'Research Discovers Colon Growths not Prevented by Calcium, Vitamin D Pills

In the latest setback to efforts on disease prevention through vitamin supplements, a major research determines that neither calcium pills nor vitamin D pills have any benefit to colon cancer patients who have had growths in the past.
'Marmoset Couples Display Enhanced Bonding with Love Hormone, Oxytocin

The hormone oxytocin, which is naturally produced by humans and by other mammals, is found to cause couples of the monkey species marmoset to display more attentiveness and affection to their partner.
'Research Indicates Physical Therapy May have No Long-term Benefit to Back Pain

Although physical therapy may ease lower back pain at the early onset, research suggests that therapy has not been found to provide any long-term change to patterns of recurrence to this esperience
'Fossil Human Teeth in China Indicate Successful Diaspora Out of Africa to be 20,000 Years Earlier

The long-accepted narrative oncerning mankind's spread throughout the globe from Africa is now being challenged by fossils discovered in China.
'Leicestershire Woman Billed £150 by Police after She Finds Her Car through Facebook

Hairdresser turned temporary detective Kirsty King had her home in Leicestershire, England broken into and her Audi A1 stolen. She immediately took to social media to post a plea for help to her network. Her Facebook post included a photo and registration of her car.
'Moon Cracks Open from Pull of Earth's Gravity

High resolution images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) revealed 14 lobe-shaped fault cliffs. Such cliffs or scarps are normally formed when the heated interior of the moon cools and contracts allowing the solid crust of the moon to 'fold'. These tectonic features of the moon are typically dozens of yards or meters in height and less than 10 kilometres in length. Yahoo News reports that with the LRO images, scientists may have identified that the pull of the Earth's gravity is possibly opening up faults in the moon's crust.
'What Drives Anorexia, Key Aspect Unlocked by Research

A group of researchers based in New York may have found a significant link between the activities of two regions in the human brain that play an important role in the decision-making process among individuals who have anorexia nervosa. Individuals with this psychological illness suffer from extreme fear of weight gain. Scientists are familiar with the habits that characterise this disorder but, until recently, know very little about the how and why of an anorexic person's food choices.
'Physical Health Neglected among Mental Health Patients

While previous study indicated that mentally ill individuals in England are five times more likely to require emergency assistance in hospital admissions, findings determined that only 20% of these admissions likely to be explicitly related to mental issues.
'The Forest: Shedding Light on Japan's Suicide Forest

Although beautiful and at times poetically referred to as a 'sea of trees' with a boast of ice caverns hidden away in volcanic rocks, the Aokigahara forest is sought after not as a destination of beauty but as the dark keeper of lost souls.
'Vietnam's Amazing Native Architectures that are Worth Discovering

Little known extraordinary native architectures can be found in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. These lands bordering Laos and Cambodia are home to three of Vietnam's 53 ethnic minority groups: the Ede, Bahnar and Giarai.