Dispensary Corner 02 Sep 10
September 2, 2010
RUSSIAN citizens have been
urged to increase their smoking
rates and consumption of alcohol
in a bid to boost the country’s
finances.
Finance minister Alexei Kudrin
said higher revenues from taxes
would enable more spending on
community services.
“If you smoke a pack of
cigarettes, that means you are
giving more to help social
problems such as boosting
demographics, developing other
social services and upholding
birth rates,” he said.
“People should understand:
those who drink, those who smoke
are doing more to help the state,”
he told the Interfax new agency.
Currently 65% of Russian males
smoke, while the average citizen
consumes more than 18 litres of
alcoholic beverages a year.
TELL your patients to get out
pounding the pavement!
The World Cancer Research
Fund has issued a report which
estimates that about 10,000
cases of breast and bowel cancer
could be prevented each year in
the UK if people did more brisk
walking.
“There is now very strong
evidence that being physically
active is important for cancer
prevention,” said spokesperson Dr
Rachel Thompson.
She said that other activity
including gardening, cycling,
swimming, vacuuming and even
dancing would also help.
BAD breath from garlic can be
cured by drinking a glass of milk,
according to a report published
recently in the Journal of Food
Science.
The authors said that in tests
with both raw and cooked garlic
cloves, milk “significantly
reduced” levels of the sulphur
compounds which give the herb
its pungent odour.
Water and fat in the milk was
said to deodorise the breath, with
the trial finding that the optimum
effect was achieved through
sipping the milk at the same time
as eating the garlic.
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