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Welcome to our Chinese medicine and acupuncture research news pages. We add to the content of these pages continuously as more research news comes in. Browse through the complete archive below or use the category links on the right.

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Beer may cut prostate cancer risk

Categories: Lifestyle research

A German study has found that xanthohumol, a compound found in hops, can block the stimulating effect of testosterone on prostate cancer cells, raising hopes that it may one day be used in cancer prevention. The researchers found that xanthohumol binds directly to androgen receptors on the cancer cell's surface, preventing the receptor from translocating to the cell nucleus, and thus inhibiting it ...

Drinkers exercise more

Categories: Lifestyle research

According to an American study people who regularly drink alcohol are more likely to exercise than teetotalers, and the more they drink, the more likely they are to work out. The authors of the study analysed data from a phone survey of 230,000 Americans, and found a strong association between alcohol use and moderate to vigorous exercise. The authors suggest that people who consume alcohol recogn ...

Official: Whiskey hangover worse than vodka

Categories: Lifestyle research

A US study confirms - as drinkers have long maintained - that drinking whisky results in a worse hangover than vodka. However, the study also found that drinking vodka all night instead of whisky did not improve performance the next day. Ninety-five volunteers, all healthy heavy alcohol users, had one 'acclimatisation' night, before drinking either whisky or vodka the following night (enough to pu ...

Big bum protects against heart disease and diabetes

Categories: Lifestyle research

Unlike abdominal fat, which is known to be harmful, it appears that fat stored on the thighs actively protects against heart disease and diabetes. UK authors have reviewed the evidence and potential mechanisms for a protective role of gluteofemoral body fat on metabolic health. Recent publications have reported that gluteofemoral fat and a larger hip circumference have been shown to promote health ...

Exercise can overcome genetic obesity

Categories: Lifestyle research

A study by Swedish researchers has revealed that with regular exercise, teenagers genetically predisposed towards obesity can lose weight and keep it off. The study was carried out in ten European countries over 14 months and involved 753 teenagers. The A allele of a gene called FTO (fat mass and obesity associated gene) is known to be linked with high body mass index (BMI), such that possession o ...

Being good or bad increases physical endurance

Categories: Lifestyle research

Two US studies suggest that performing actions that have a moral implication, whether good or bad, may increase people’s capacity for willpower and physical endurance. In the first study, participants were given a dollar which they could either keep or donate to charity. They were then asked to hold up a 5lb weight for as long as possible. Those who donated to charity held up the weigh ...

Clean smells promote clean living

Categories: Lifestyle research

A US study has revealed that people behave in a more ethical manner in an environment that smells clean. The study was designed to test levels of honesty and charity in a group of volunteers who were exposed to citrus-scented window cleaner, compared with a group that was not. All the volunteers were asked to perform the same variety of tasks; some were in rooms sprayed with the cleaning product, ...

Liver yang rising? Anger causes blood to rush to the head

Categories: Lifestyle research, Hypertension

The popular belief that anger provokes a rush of blood to the head has been proved by new research. Experiments in an American lab showed that blood flow to the brain increased significantly in people experiencing mental stress. Fifty-eight volunteers, half healthy and half suffering from high blood pressure, were put through a series of tasks designed to cause mental strain, including recalling m ...

We knew we were right all along and now they finally believe us! western link between ear and bone conditions

Categories: Lifestyle research

Chinese medicine links the health of the bones and the ear via the Kidney organ system. Now Western medicine is making this link. Sufferers of osteoporosis (low bone density) and its preceding condition, osteopaenia, are more likely to also develop vertigo, according to new Korean research. Benign positional vertigo (BPV) can result from ear surgery or head trauma and can be caused by crystals of ...