Health absracts;27 February 2009

40% of the most common cancers could be prevented if everyone followed a healthier liestyyle(myself included!).

67% of mouth,pharynx and larynx could be prevented.

Alcohol is implicated in 40% of mouth and throat cancers.

Gonorrhea is growing resistant to antibiotics.
They may be only one way,either use a condom or say no

Being obese at age of 18 and smoking at same time increases possibility of early death five-fold.

Mountains found under Antarctica ice

Scientists have found a mountain range as large as the Alps under Eastern Antarctica up to 2 miles under the ice, the range's peak are up to 3,000 feet above sea level.
First detected 50 years ago,there are named after grigoriy Gamburtsev.
Aircraft fitted with radar and sensors revealed the range to be about 500 miles long and 250 miles wide as well as valleys 1,000 feet below sea levels.

Origins of silk

Strand of silk, dating back to about 2000BC have been discovered in Harappa and Chanu-daru in Pakistan,this is only a hundred years younger than finds in china.

The harappan finds appeared to have been reeled.

Silk comes from moths.

New test for prostate cancer

A new test has been developed which detects a molecule sar????

Darwin's 200th anniversary

Today is 200 years since charles darwin was born.

He married emma (wedgewood?)
He wrote on the origin of species

He died in 1882.

cannabis raises risk of testicular cancer

Young men who smoke marijuana are more likely to develop nonseminoma, a fast growing form of testicular cancer.

The testes are one of a few organs that contain receptors for the main psychoactive substance in marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinol(THC)

Giant boid fossil found in Northeastern Colombia

Found in the Cerrejon formation, it was about 13 metres(42 feet) with average temperatures of 30-34+ C.

Ecology was similiar to that in which anacondas lived.