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Renal and excessive consumption of cola drinks
Bad news for lovers of cola drinks. It seems that their excessive consumption (equivalent to two cans a day) predisposes to the development of chronic kidney diseases. This, at least, is the figure emerged from a study conducted by a team of researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and published in Epidemiology. The analysis of the dietary habits of more than 400 people suffering from kidney stones, have allowed scholars, including the Italian biologist, Olga Basso, to determine, after excluding the existence of other possible risk factors, that there is a link including renal disorders, first of all calculations, and the consumption of cola.
A cause kidney problem is phosphoric acid present in large amounts in such beverages. Phosphoric acid would have the power to bind (and subtract) the calcium in bones making them weaker and thus promote the formation of crystals by attaching become kidney stones. Already in 2003, Katherine L. Tucker, the Congress of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, presented researches from which similar results were obtained that were then linked to the deficit of bone mineralization in women who constituted the sample.
Other studies had already identified the negative effects of excessive consumption of cola on health, represented by an increase in the level of cholesterol and the risk of hypertension and diabetes. Furthermore, the ever-present specter of the obesity even if you are taking diet drinks. But this is the first study that relates renal disorders with cola, but it seems that you do not run a particular risk, at least for the development of this type of disease, consuming other types of soft drinks. In any case, better to limit consumption and prefer healthier drinks like water, juices and, at worst, a glass of red wine.
Bisexual women is not a simple transition
Bisexuality in women appears to be a distinctive sexual orientation and not an experimental or transitional stage that some women take in their journey towards lesbianism. At least that seems to indicate the data in research published by the American Psychological Association.
The study, conducted on a sample of 79 women no longer straight by at least 10 years, found that women bisexuals maintained a stable pattern of attraction to both sexes. Addition, research seems to have reversed the stereotype that bisexual women are uninterested or unable to commit to long-term monogamous relationship type.
“This research provides the first empirical examination to make assumptions about the nature of bisexuality, understood as a sexual identity label and as a model of nonexclusive sexual attraction and behavior,” says psychologist Lisa M. Diamond, a psychologist from the University of Utah who led the study. “The results show a remarkable fluidity of the attractions of lesbians toward a bisexual orientation, and also contribute to assist researchers in understanding the complexity of minorities with sexual behavior that goes beyond the cycle of life.”
Diamond used the method of the interview took place in cycles of five sessions and has collected data from 79 women who claimed to lesbians and / or bisexual at least a decade.
The age of test subjects varied between 18 and 25 years. Here are the main findings from the investigation of Dr. Diamond:
- The bisexuals were more likely than lesbians to change their identity during the study, but tended to shift from a bisexual identity is not defined, rather than to solve lesbian or heterosexual.
- 17% of respondents went from a bisexual or straight to an identity not defined during the study but more than half of these women switched back to bisexual and or not defined by the end.
- In the ten years under investigation, the majority of women were involved in relationships of long duration (e.g., more than a year) monogamous type: 70% of self-identified lesbians, 89% of the bisexuals, 85 % of heterosexual women and 67% of non-labeled, and came to join the ranks of heterosexuals.
- 15% of women who identified themselves as lesbians, at the last session of talks reported having had sexual contact with a man over the past two years.
In contrast, none of the women who were recognized during the ‘heterosexual reported having had sexual contact with a woman, in the two previous years.
“This provides further support for the idea that female sexuality is relatively fluid and changing, and that the distinction between lesbian and bisexual women is not a rigid classification, but flexible and capable of change,” he said in his opinion the Diamond .
Half of the single is so good
Italian women are felling well. 52% of “single”, in fact, said he voluntarily waive their married life. Well over half, however, does not live on own, preferring to stay still at home with parents. The “single” are generally little sex and one in five does not do it at all. But what are the consequences of this reduced sexual activity?
Several studies have pointed out that poor sexual activity has a negative impact on mood and overall health by generating aggression, increasing receptivity to painful symptoms and weakening the immune system. 65% of single women surveyed in the abovementioned study, but not waiting for Prince Charming is willing to make sacrifices for a man just for this one in three would prefer to have a child alone.
Are convinced of their choice, but there’s only one thing I envy the couple relationships: love. It’s a growing phenomenon emerges from the survey of’ research institute SWG Trieste, commissioned by the weekly “Grace” on a sample of 500 women, aged between 25 and 45 years. The phenomenon of “single” is on the rise across Europe, where, on average, a family of three there is only one component.
In Italy, the average is slightly lower but there are areas, such as Milan, where a nucleus is composed of two a person. And sociologists already talk of “cultural revolution single”. But are we really sure that most of the single is so good?
In reality they are increasingly prey to neurosis: live reports that often fall below the threshold of a few months are not capable of handling even the simplest of romantic relationships. Replaces emotional loneliness, often masked by the super work, without breathing better not think! Individuals do not seek relationships and long-term relationships and, indeed, tend to run away from them. Here then is that as soon catch on stories that are able to develop, are brutally truncated. After all this you are really convinced that he all right?
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